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It's been a long road. Its been a tough election season, physically, mentally, emotionally. America, or rather, the Electoral College system has spoken and chosen Donald Trump as the 45th President. Americans actually choose Hillary Clinton by around 200,000 more votes. But what happened has already happened. It's done. So the question is, what to do now?

To all those people who are considering moving to Canada, don't. They will not take you for the simple reason they prefer to help Syrian refugees rather than disillusioned Americans. The same can be said of much of Europe. Angela Merkel actually said that Donald Trump getting elected is not a good thing and that we are going into a period of uncertainty. The Dow Jones certainly reflected this as it fell by 750 points, and Asian markets fell by about 5% on average. Trump has just gotten elected and he is already about to cause a recession. This is probably not going to happen, as markets will stabilize over the week. However, it does say a lot about the trust our own capitalistic system has in the person we just elected to lead it.

Dubai and it's surrounding areas might seem like a good place to move. However, they are all Muslim-majority areas which possibly hate Trump for spreading Islamophobia more than Mexico hates him for his anti-Hispanic rhetoric. Talking about Hispanics, Latin America is also off the table. Australia and New Zealand might be good options along with the Far East. However, they have more restrictive policies about immigration than Trump ever proposed. Unless you have a few million lying around that is.

So where does that leave us? Antarctica. There is no one there to complain about Americans doing stupid things and screwing everyone's lives up. It is a bit cold there, so anyone going might have to pack warm.

Another thing we need to understand that Orange Is really the new Black. I heard a while ago that a town in Alaska elected a cat as their mayor. Well, as a country we just elected a pumpkin as our President. I understand that we all miss Pumpkin Spice Latte, but maybe putting a Pumpkin into the White House was a step too far. And a sexist, misogynist, racist one? That's just overkill.

All jokes aside, we need to realize that he did get elected. He is going to be the President. And while during Obama's presidency, Republicans failed to respect the office, we should not do the same. We should hope that the moderates that surround him can ensure that the damage is not lasting. To ensure that the spirit of nativism that has reared it's ugly head does not last long. Because we all know that Trump has made a lot of promises that are impossible to deliver on. Al we can do it wait, and be ready for the mid-terms.

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