Cheering in the Streets

I am all for fireworks right now! YAY!

Fucking assholes, I should quit trying to save money. I wouldn't have to put up with this shit in Manhattan

Comfortably Smug wrote: Fucking assholes, I should quit trying to save money. I wouldn't have to put up with this shit in Manhattan

FYI, Kings County went 79% for Obama. New York County went 85% for Obama. Maybe you'd better move to Staten Island.

Fucking assholes, I should quit trying to save money. I wouldn't have to put up with this shit in Manhattan

:roll:
I walked through manhattan on the way home and it sounded like New Years.
I imagine Alaska is pretty quiet around now... you should look into it.

It was New Year's and the Yankees AND Mets winning the World Series all rolled into one here in Brooklyn!

Forgive me for quoting a cheesy pop song from the '90s but...

"I was alive / and I waited...waited / I was alive and I waited for this / right here, right now / there is no other place I wanna be"

Idlewild wrote: Washington Ave. was a pretty cool scene last night. This whole election was pretty exciting no matter who you were voting for. In all my 24 years of voting I haven't seen or felt some thing this great until yesterday. I don't think we'll see some thing like this again for quite awhile.

Unless you happen to be gay, in which case this election is definitely bittersweet. California, Arkansas, Florida, Arizona... full of bigots.

LadyLibertine wrote: Don't even have to be gay to feel stabby over that Arkansas measure. No "unmarried sexual partners" can adopt or foster children. WTF.

So disappointing, but I do feel hopeful.

Given the bloodbath we went through on LGBT issues four years ago, when the anti-gay side won in the 60-80% range, it's encouraging that our side did as well as it did in Arkansas, Florida, Arizona, and California last night -- not as encouraging as winning, of course, but still. The constitutional convention was rejected in Connecticut, at least, so gay people will be able to marry there starting November 12. I would never have imagined ten years ago that we'd have marriage for same-sex couples in ANY states, much less two.

Growing up in Arkansas, where the n-word was commonplace and racism was a given, where I *still* have other white people make racist remarks to me when I go back there because they just assume that I'm going to agree with their views, I also didn't think I'd ever see a black person elected president in my lifetime. Nice to be proven wrong there, and being able to say "President Obama" gives me hope about marriage and other LGBT rights issues.

We'll get there. This sucks, but we'll get there.

I slept like a baby on my cold meds!

Woke up this morning to a new prez-o-dent! lol

Subject: Re: Cheering in the Streets

veets wrote: It is 1 AM and I am still up because the cheering in the streets is invading my bedroom and keeping me awake.

What an amazing VICTORY.

If you are out there celebrating... cheer on!!!!

I heard the crazy 1am celebrating folks... woke me up... I smiled, and went back to bed!

scottb2k wrote: What's so bad about Staten Island?

Comfortably Smug claimed that people wouldn't be celebrating this historic win in Manhattan, but in fact Manhattan went even more strongly for Obama than Brooklyn. I said that s/he might feel more at home in Staten Island, since it's the only borough of New York that went for McCain (52%). Whether it's bad or not is a matter of opinion, but I never said it was.

MichaelKeys wrote: [quote=Carnivore]Manhattan went even more strongly for Obama than Brooklyn.

Yes, indeed. Manhattan was, I believe, 82% for Obama to Brooklyn's 79%. This despite the fact that Brooklyn (pop. 2, 465,236) has over a million registered Democrats and, if I'm not mistaken, Kings County is one of the 3 most Democrat-heavy counties in the country.
Actually over 85%.

Comfortably Smug wrote: I didn't claim any sort of proportion of support for Obama in Kings County vs Manhattan you self righteous prick.

What I mean was, people like my friend who lives in Sutton Place didn't have to put up with inconsiderate idiots honking their horns and setting off fireworks and shouting at unreasonable hours.

Cool it with the personal attacks or you'll get a time out.

YouTube is full of videos of people celebrating on the streets all over Manhattan.






Are there enclaves within Manhattan where there wasn't celebrating? Sure, as there undoubtedly were in Bay Ridge or Bensonhurst. It's not a Brooklyn vs Manhattan thing.

Comfortably Smug said:

It is disgusting that those same sex laws did not pass, I am honestly very disappointed. I am also disappointed in the non married sexual partners can not adopt measure in arkansas. As a true Republican, I think the last place the government needs to be involved is in people's private lives. Who the hell are they to judge people's relationships? Kindly spend your time worrying about the economy and the two wars.

It is the Republicans that put these kind of things on the ballot. I do wish that we had a President who supported gay marriage, but while Barack Obama does not support it, he will not fight against it.

But we should all just chill out..this is an amazing time in our history - I am so proud of this country. And the cheering is no different than when the Yankees win the series, or the Giants win the super bowl. Yes, I was trying to go to sleep but I kept smiling at the screams of joy!

oh for pete's sake. it's a pretty damn special occasion. get some ear plugs.

My grandmother lives on Sutton Place. And if she could stand up on her own for more than 90 seconds at a time, she'd probably have been yelling in the streets at 1 AM, too.