Election Day 2016 vs 2017, What a Year It’s Been!

Election Day 2016 was a day of hope and then great despair for a lot of people. The year that followed didn’t get much better. Ok, let’s be honest, it got A LOT worse. We had another election this week, and while we didn’t get to pick a new president, some good stuff happened around the country. Ralph Northam was elected governor of Virginia. Also in Virginia, a huge win for the transgender community: Danica Roem defeated bigot and homophobe Bob Marshall. In a particularly delicious bit of irony, Marshall an original proponent of the anti-trans bathroom bill. While things started looking up on Tuesday, it’s been a helluva year for a whole lot of people. They took to Twitter to share their election day 2016 vs 2017 before and afters, and we’re laughing and crying along with them.

Me on election day 2016 vs 2017

https://twitter.com/lyzl/status/927914461737963520

Ripley has seen some shit. She’s faced the beast head-on and taken it down. We should all be more like Ripley.

Me on election day 2016 vs 2017

Maybe the GOP is realizing that bucket of blood disguised in a baggy orange skin suit wasn’t such a good idea?

Also me on election day 2016 vs 2017

https://twitter.com/lindsaydevon/status/927931060029132800

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches.

Election day 2016 vs election day 2017

Molding young minds one day, punching Nazis in the face the next.

Election day 2016 vs election day 2017

https://twitter.com/lyzl/status/927915581986230274

“I’m staying right where I am!” Fighting the man!

Election day 2016 vs 2017

Tfw you realize there probably was enough room on the door, but you had to do what you had to do.

Election day 2016 vs 2017

We’ve all aged 20 years in the last 365 days.

Election day 2016 vs 2017, good vs evil version

Listen, sometimes your transformation takes you from one side to the other. We’re not saying Reagan was better off after, but she got shit done.

Election day 2016 vs 2017

Pensive and hopeful to full-on leader of a gang. When you’re trying to get people to call their representatives, you do what you have to do.

It’s been a helluva year, guys. But election day 2017 gave us back something we’d all lost a bit of over the course of the year: hope. And some really great memes.

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(Image: Twitter/Mikel_Jollett)

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