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[Mr. Roboto]

I think Trump's brand has taken a big hit and it will hurt him for a while to be honest. But he will probably cash in with his new network after the election (unless he wins.) 

 

I like those Kermit memes too. 

[Adolf Hitler]

Is he going to shock the world?!?

 

He really has a shot at this. I wasn't even going to follow any of it tonight as I thought it was already in the bag but its now interesting. Very interesting. Cant wait to see who wins Ohio. If he takes that, he'll have the momentum to get himself to 270.

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And everything of any note Obama achieved will be erased within the first 100 days. He'll be remembered like Carter.

[Adolf Hitler]

It's truly history in the making. The establishment just got its wake up call. If they keep up the partisan games, a bunch of independents may run in the mid terms and remove them from power. Trump has proved that its no longer a pipe dream.

[Adolf Hitler]

This post from Sludge is right on the money....

 

 

I'm not a Trump supporter, but it is supremely satisfying to see Rachel Maddow fighting back tears and screams because Hillary lost. Then she proceeds ludicrously compare half of the country who voted for Trump to the British Union of Fascists from the 1940s. She doesn't realize that idiotic unhinged accusations like that is what helped Trump win.

[Mr. Roboto]

I don't see how anybody could celebrate this. The stock market is tanking for a reason. We've just elected an ego maniac who sexually assaults women and probably couldn't even tell you how a bill becomes law. 

 

Trump on the campaign trail making insane promises that will never be kept is hardly going to yield some Reagan administration. Be realistic. He has no idea of how government works and was a reality TV star before this. I can't imagine how anybody in the world could think this is a good thing. Palin may have been better. 

[Mr. Roboto]

I mean, do you guys think he is going to come into office and behave like a Republican? He's going to get into office and act the same way he always has. 

[Adolf Hitler]

It's change. The country finally wants it...for real. The dems should've run a different horse in the race and the repubs should've responded differently to the rise of Trump.

 

I don't know what he's going to get done but I think a huge culture shift is on the way. The destruction of the PC/SJW era is probably the one thing guaranteed to happen on his watch. People are fed up having all that garbage force fed to us.

 

The dems have to change course. The hispanic vote appears to be irrelevant and the black vote not much better. They gotta stop painting white people who don't attend blacklivesmatter rallies as racist and stop painting people who don't want tranny bathrooms on every street corner as homophobes. It doesn't work.....obviously.

 

Did you notice on the exit polls the older the voter the more likely a vote for Trump? In hindsight that was an early sign that she was in trouble.

[Mr. Roboto]

Well dude...it's always about change.

 

I still can't get over those states he took. PA? Are you kidding me? That's nuts. But when thing I noticed in the last ten days of polling, almost all of those firewall state leads, fell into MOE. She had big solid leads 5-8+, but that last week they just vanished. I didn't know what to make of it, especially since I'd never seen that happen before and those states are consistently blue. Not pink...but BLUE. So in that sense, the polls were actually right. I just decided to ignore the swing states the last week because she had big leads prior. 

 

Between Wikileaks and FBI though, I certainly think that hurt her. I figured it was kind of cooked into the equation however. 

 

I just don't understand the PC stuff you guys always talk about. Nobody I know acts like that, I certainly don't. I feel like that's more of a fringe element reporting on idiots here and there to get people worked up. Professors I know say they never see shit like that on campus either. I'm sure it happens, but it sure seems like a minority to me. 

 

Well I can tell you that my folks live in a retirement community here in town (55+) and the Trump signs to Hillary were probably 5:1. No surprise there really. 

 

More than anything I'm shocked that none of the things he said/have done disqualified him. Any of these actions would stop an average person of getting a normal job. Even an hourly job wouldn't allow a person to act like this. 

[artcinco]

I think the polls have been not very accurate for a variety of reasons, some trying to influence for Hillary and some not capable of quantifying the Trump movement.


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[VOR]

I imagine President-elect Donald Trump feels like this:

 

 

 

I imagine all of the self-interested rats in the Republican party feel like this:

 

 

 

College-educated - check.

Hard-working - check.

Successful - check.

Sick of being fed lies by politicians lining their pockets -check.

Sick of being taxed to support others who refuse to support themselves - check.

Sick of watching this country turn into a something less than it could be - check.

Gleefully voted for Trump with no apologies - check.

 

The 'hidden Trump vote' seems to have only been hidden from those in the media who didn't want Trump to win. The signs were everywhere, both literally and figuratively.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[VOR]

 

More than anything I'm shocked that none of the things he said/have done disqualified him. Any of these actions would stop an average person of getting a normal job. Even an hourly job wouldn't allow a person to act like this. 

 

Would this also apply to the election loser Hillary Clinton?

 

For example, if she worked at McDonald's:

 

Would she be fired for lying to her boss and/or customers?

 

Would she be fired for taking home corporate secret sauce recipes and mishandling them?

 

Would she be fired for telling the public that a Big Mac e coli outbreak was caused by a video as opposed to rotten meat?

 

If Donald Trump was the CEO of McDonald's, I can ASSURE you she would be fired.

 

And, I think the American people just fired her according to the shocked and awed media.

[freedom78]

First, this:

 

 

The political scientist in me is most interested to know why the polls were so wrong.  I can see three reasons and I'll be interested in knowing what combination of them is true.  Reason #1 is if he turned out "unlikely" voters.  All these polls are based on likely voters and that usually means they favor Republicans, but in this case it may not be so.  Reason #2 is self selection.  We have to choose to participate in polls.  Given the bitter paranoia that seems to run rampant through your average Trump voter, I can see this playing a role as more of them choose not to respond, leading the polls to favor Clinton.  Reason #3 is the third party vote.  Johnson peaked at about 9%, but he ended up with a bit over 3% of the vote.  I'm betting that a good chunk of that went back to the GOP, or at the very least was a net gain for them.

 

Anyway, I'm choosing to be an optimist.  On my Xmas list, I got my wish of defeating oligarchy and not having Hillary Clinton ever be a candidate again.  Back in July I posted:

 

If Democrats lose to Trump, it's what they deserve for refusing to move on from a divisive political figure in Hillary Clinton. 

 

Granted, he may have tapped into something that goes beyond even that, but I do hope the Democratic obsession with the Clintons is now over.  She lost.  She lost to Obama.  She lost to Trump.  She only narrowly beat Bernie, who is a socialist in a country where "socialism" is a dirty word.  Time to move on from her.  Also, I'm not sure electing a supposed billionaire is the way to defeat oligarchy.  We'll see.

 

Of course, I also chose to be an optimist when the GOP won big in 2010, and I posted:

 

At this point, I'm choosing to be optimistic about this election. You have to find the opportunities where they arise and, while we've elected a bunch of radicals who believe the free market can do no wrong, one thing I can get behind is the idea of working on the deficit. I agree with Republicans that government is far too obtrusive (though we disagree about where such problems exist). There are so many damned silly laws that, assuming we pay to regulate/enforce them, could really add up if we dealt with them. Of course, the sooner we stop paying for our overseas military adventures, including Cold War style troop placements in bases around the globe, the better. That's area #1 where we could save big. I could also get behind a bipartisan immigration reform, provided it's not done in the way of demonizing brown people as the problem with our country. If we work to secure the borders, provide a reasonable path to citizenship, and provide local law enforcement with what it needs to combat the infiltration of the cartels, then I'd be open to most things that accomplish that.

 

Not sure how this all applies, now.  Trump ran, in anti-GOP fashion, against the free market.  I'll certainly root for him to be successful in addressing crony capitalism, though given his recent past as a crony capitalist, it doesn't strike me as likely.  The notion that you elect a person to fix a system in which they are emblematic of the problem is kind of retarded.  It's like electing a drug dealer to fight the herion epidemic (speaking of which, did all those states that legalized weed know what was going down?  Smart time to legalize if you want to zone out for four years).

 

Trump HAS to deliver something on immigration or he's toast, but his plans were so ludicrous that there's no way they get done.  Not at all sure what to expect here.

 

So, the party with a disdain for Hollywood has now elected both an actor and a reality tv star as president.  America has officially jumped the fucking shark.

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First, this:

 

 

The political scientist in me is most interested to know why the polls were so wrong.  I can see three reasons and I'll be interested in knowing what combination of them is true.  Reason #1 is if he turned out "unlikely" voters.  All these polls are based on likely voters and that usually means they favor Republicans, but in this case it may not be so.  Reason #2 is self selection.  We have to choose to participate in polls.  Given the bitter paranoia that seems to run rampant through your average Trump voter, I can see this playing a role as more of them choose not to respond, leading the polls to favor Clinton.  Reason #3 is the third party vote.  Johnson peaked at about 9%, but he ended up with a bit over 3% of the vote.  I'm betting that a good chunk of that went back to the GOP, or at the very least was a net gain for them.

 

Anyway, I'm choosing to be an optimist.  On my Xmas list, I got my wish of defeating oligarchy and not having Hillary Clinton ever be a candidate again.  Back in July I posted:

 

 

Granted, he may have tapped into something that goes beyond even that, but I do hope the Democratic obsession with the Clintons is now over.  She lost.  She lost to Obama.  She lost to Trump.  She only narrowly beat Bernie, who is a socialist in a country where "socialism" is a dirty word.  Time to move on from her.  Also, I'm not sure electing a supposed billionaire is the way to defeat oligarchy.  We'll see.

 

Of course, I also chose to be an optimist when the GOP won big in 2010, and I posted:

 

 

Not sure how this all applies, now.  Trump ran, in anti-GOP fashion, against the free market.  I'll certainly root for him to be successful in addressing crony capitalism, though given his recent past as a crony capitalist, it doesn't strike me as likely.  The notion that you elect a person to fix a system in which they are emblematic of the problem is kind of retarded.  It's like electing a drug dealer to fight the herion epidemic (speaking of which, did all those states that legalized weed know what was going down?  Smart time to legalize if you want to zone out for four years).

 

Trump HAS to deliver something on immigration or he's toast, but his plans were so ludicrous that there's no way they get done.  Not at all sure what to expect here.

 

So, the party with a disdain for Hollywood has now elected both an actor and a reality tv star as president.  America has officially jumped the fucking shark.

 

Trump and Congress can remove citizenship for illegals born on our soil their first day in office.  That alone dramatically reduces the ability of illegals to get a foothold.  Rather than capture illegals once they cross and put them in a detention facility, we just take their bio metric information and drop them right off at the spot they crawled from.  Enforce E-Verify while offering a path to get a work visa.  People that don't speak English and continually violate our laws should never become citizens.  This election just ended 50 years of importing Democratic voters.

 

Work with Russia to annihilate ISIS and let them see the full power of the American Military.  The DNC created this.  You guys called anyone who didn't think men can magically become women every name but a white man.  When people called out BLM on their stupidity and outright lies, they were branded a racist.  In 2008 we were told the GOP was out of the white house for a generation.  This is the death of PC culture and people vying to be the biggest victim.  Trump will put at least 2 judges on SCOTUS and give the court a 6-3 slant towards original intent.  

 

Times, they are a changing.

[freedom78]

In other words, let the war on brown people begin.  The GOP finally gets their way on that.  Got it.