Lady Gaga was #WithHer, and Gaga even campaigned for and with Hillary Clinton in the last days of the campaign. Personally, I don’t think Gaga was as active with the Clinton campaign as someone like Katy Perry, but Gaga did do her part and there was never any question that Gaga was NOT going to support Hillary. Gaga was actually scheduled to perform at what would have been Hillary Clinton’s victory rally. Gaga, Katy Perry and Cher were all backstage at the event. And as the returns came in, this happened:
Lady Gaga is crying backstage, source reports
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) November 9, 2016
Cher is also backstage crying, source reports
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) November 9, 2016
Katy Perry was supposed to sing the national anthem at Hillary Clinton victory party. Someone else took her place.
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) November 9, 2016
After that, Gaga did a one-woman protest outside of Trump Tower.
❤️🇺🇸I want to live in a #CountryOfKindness where #LoveTrumpsHate pic.twitter.com/Eni145YgW1
— #CountryOfKindness (@ladygaga) November 9, 2016
Gaga also tweeted this:
🙏say a prayer America
— #CountryOfKindness (@ladygaga) November 9, 2016
In a room full of hope, we will be heard. Nothing can stop us. @iamderay #blacklivesmatter Stand up for kindness, equality, and love. pic.twitter.com/tYFJG7R7Ql
— #CountryOfKindness (@ladygaga) November 9, 2016
I’m so numb. I might never feel anything again. Although one nice thought did occur to me, however bittersweet: we won’t have to spend the next four years dissecting the Clinton marriage and whatever right-wing conspiracies they would have shoved onto a Pres. Hillary Clinton. Now she and Bill just get to sit on a beach, drink margaritas and play with their grandchildren. Hillary will be fine. It’s the country that’s screwed.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Girl, I cried too. All night. Then I took a shower and cried some more. Last night was easily one of the worst nights of my life. No House. No Senate. No Presidency. No Supreme Court for DECADES maybe. Obama’s legacy is completely erased. He’ll never be anything but the First Black President who couldn’t get anything done that wasn’t immediately destroyed after he left office.
This is dark. We’re in for very rough times.
I share your pain. I’ve been up all night too, crying off and on. I’m so hurt and crushed by this outcome. I hope we can all come together and support each other.
Couldn’t sleep at all last night. Thinking about how this will impact the rest of the world. The polls were misleading. Obviously people didn’t want to admit they were going to vote for T.
The Canadian website for immigration crashed last night after the election results were announced 🙂 Obama said last night that: “No matter what happens, the sun will rise tomorrow morning.”
Going to miss our cool president.
I live in Eastern Europe and even I cried. I’m horrified for my friends who are all exactly the sort of people Trump, Pence, and their followers loathe. I feel this sort of funereal, silent, defeated kinship with all of the people who will suffer under those leaders. And I weep for the world, because we all know Trump’s stance on climate issues.
I wish I could be there for the people who will spend today and the rest of this presidency in fear. What broke my heart is a dear friend of mine, a mother of a 10-year-old. She herself is not straight, and is also very dependent ACA due to her illnesses. She told me that she has no idea what to tell her son come morning.
Me too and I’m in ireland. I was so proud and excited to see the first female president of the USA. I woke up this morning and I cried and cried. It genuinely never occurred to me that there was such disdain and hatred for women that they would rather any man at all before they would trust a woman to lead them. It’s just so shocking.
Im in scotland and im crying too. Im a 19year old bisexual woman and ive been on tumblr all day messaging some LGBT bloggers who are already contemplating suicide and trying to comfort them. Some of them are only 12-13 years old and their conservative families are ridiculing them and laughing at their pain and they are scared for their life and its breaking my heart. Ive been researching suicide hotlines and support for them to reach out to cause i am genuinely terrified for them. Its such a horrendous kick in the face to every bit of progress that developed in the last decade. Some of the younger ones have never really encountered an anti-lgbt country – obviously homophobia exists but the progress of marriage equality and representstion that american lgbt community got in the past decade is all about to be undermined and the little rights that we have are going to be taken if pence and trump have their way. Its horrifying and terrifying and i am honestly still in shock that this is happening.
My university is very multicultural and nearly everyone was on the verge of tears about this. My lecturer – a 60+ white upper class english woman – was so heartbroken that she could barely speak and she forgot all of her notes and couldnt focus on anything the whole lecture. Everyone i have encountered today is just devestated about it – this rise in right wing politics in the west cannot lead to anything good. First brexit now this? We are all f*cked.
Well if Cher and GaGa did, at least I’m in good company with my tears.
I’m horrified, nauseous and terrified, and I haven’t slept at all. This is not one of those circumstances where things will look better in the light of day. It’s daylight here, and it’s as if we’re just beginning to assess the damage after a catastrophic natural disaster.
I watched pretty late, then gave up and went to bed when I saw what was happening. Then I woke up at 3 AM feeling absolutely nauseous and heartbroken. I’ve pretty much been up ever since, crying. I see people who are scared, friends who don’t know what to tell their children.
I don’t know if Hillary will be fine. In the beginning I thought she just wanted to win POTUS, but over the last couple of weeks I’ve come to think she really does care, and i’ve learned so much about how long she’s been fighting. To lose to someone so very, very wrong, it’s just sickening. I will understand if she’s done, and has to walk away, but I think we still need her. I know it’s not fair to ask, but we do.
I’d feel so awful if I were Hillary. I never considered her a “good” candidate, but Trump is as bad as it can get.
This election was all about the lesser evil, about who you hate less. It must feel bad to hear you’re more hated than a proudly racist and incompetent mysoginist.
I barely got any sleep last night and can’t stop crying (alternating between this and feeling numb). I slept for about an hour then woke up to them calling it and that’s when I started shaking. I’m so scared about what’s next.
@Grace– funny, I just said the same thing below. Numb, sobbing, repeat
I read the news a few hours ago and I’m so worried. My country (like many other developing countries) is EXTREMELY dependant on the USA and the UK. History has proven everytime either of those go through a crisis, we face harsher consequences from that than them. And look where we are now.
We have our elections next year. I hope we look at Trump’s win as something that has to be avoided at all costs instead of an example to follow. But…. knowing my country, the chance of the latter happening is very high.
What a horrible time to be a human being.
hey – are you Kenyan by any chance? I’m horrified by this outcome.
This is what the rest of the world believes that ‘MURICA is… It is so much more. There are so many intelligent people… Trump is the MURiCA archetype materialized this is for sure.
I understand that maybe humans will never be completely unbiased, non-racists, non-homophobic bunch. Social Identity Theory claims that we are inclined to form groups and defend them even when those groups are unimportant, even when we actually know that those groups are unimportant. On the other hand there is also evolutionary advantage in being altruistic and generous. What is happening?
It does feel like fear and hate won over altruism.
well it was about time, we showed them they were right, huh?
I’m so depressed today i can barely do a thing. I’m working from home and attempting to get something accomplished but I alternate between zoning out and sobbing. What a mess.
I’m with you, honey. My heart is broken.
I also have gone between being numb and crying. But Republicans have full control now when things don’t work out they won’t be able to blame the Democrats(they’ll still try to blame Obama). It’s all on you now Rebulicans.
The people have spoken, and that is more terrifying than Trump himself. Roll up your sleeves. The hard work is just beginning. Get ready.
I agree with you. People are now going to have to get up and not only follow how their representative votes on the issues but volunteer for the issues that are important to them. People are going to have to get personally involved to change this.
That’s how I feel too. A vote is not enough.
As an outsider, I’m at the same time baffled and not surprised.
I can’t believe someone who is so insensitiv, politically incorrect, corrupt and a discriminator (and ignorant!) is actually elected as a president of US. I know of some poiliticans which were arrested and found guilty of corruption that sounded smarter, saner and more symphathetic than him.
On the other hand, the stance about Syrian refugees (and Syria), LGBT population, the hard-core quiverful/”christian” demographic, the racism in the police-those are all the things that are primarily in our news when we talk about USA. I always thought those are just the loudest, not the majority. I was obviously wrong, it seems? Or? How did he win otherwise?
I totally agree, it amazes me that anyone voted for him, he’s virtually a figure of fun here, like we see Nigel Farage, but 10 x worse! I keep hoping that there’s a news broadcast that theres been a massive miscount or something.
Folks protested here in Portland, Oregon as well. I drove home from school near 10 pm, made a mega rum cocktail in a mason jar and downed it while partaking in some high end Obama Kush and crying my eyes out while watching the returns. I’m with Gaga, super stunned and sad here in the PNW.
I’ve never been one to shy away from a riot, though my bones are brittle. I guess I could still wreck some stuff. You guys call me if you need a hand.
Good on ya GaGa
Seriously? crying? Literally? Bit OTT. All politicians are narcissistic assholes. She played her game, he played his. Life goes on.