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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
@conspiracy: I resent the implication, because quite frankly I am all about the data and the data is insane. Every model, every projection, every single poll was wrong and Donald trump was right. He has been saying since he got the nomination that he would get out the uneducated and angry white vote in record numbers and he did.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Given the amount of fascist overtones his campaign had? Yeah, I'm not calling the Hitler references a slippery slope just yet.
Comey: I wonder if he really had the foreknowledge that his little "revelation" would turn the tide enough for him to evade the Hatch Act.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotSimple majority to get rid of the filibuster. A supermajority is what is needed to end a filibuster if one is attempted under the current rules - ergo, if they had a supermajority they wouldn't talk about getting rid of the filibuster because they already have the means to defeat it.
I'm fairly convinced this is correct, because the Democrats got rid of the filibuster for lower court justices after a session of pure obstructionism from the Republicans after the Democrats lost their supermajority.
Someone please tell me that I've only been having a nightmarish daydream in which Trump won the presidency. Or that the current results aren't final; I distinctly remember it was said yesterday that today's results is just exit polling, with the final count possibly taking a few days to finish.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Nah, it's over. Hillary already conceded.
If that's true that's a silver lining because Trump isn't doing shit for them.
edited 9th Nov '16 7:58:00 AM by Draghinazzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQueaSlvjCw&index=39&list=PL0hKMB1-xkc_5ES_PEDgr8VjMpQ5haPD6
To make it a little bit easier to find the information, since nowadays some people seem to be unable to do proper research on their own....the first one is especially good, because it listed all the lies Trump told during his campaign. But the later ones he did concerning his plans to deport countless people as well as his reaction to the FBI stunt is pretty good, too.
They already drank the Kool-Aid. They're not gonna turn on him. Remember, Trump is held to a much lower standard than any other politician we ever seen.
If my thinking is correct, Trump will actually only have 2 years, because there is no way the Republican Super-Majority is going to last longer then 2018. As long as Ginsburg can also survive those 2 years, then the Supreme Court should also be safe (albeit still leaning Conservative).
Also, I'm not going to call Trump Hitler or Mussolini yet, despite how he campaigned. We'll have to see how he governs before we can claim that. I'm more worried about the Alt-Right and Klansmen he empowered then I am about Trump.
And the 2018 map doesn't look so good. We'd need an Iraq war level unpopular move to see the democrats keep the senate from being a super majority.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?I don't think Trump intends to hand power over to someone else in four years.
As I don't live in America, I would be rather relieved if he just ruined America, to be honest. I worry that he has plans for world domination.
He apparently plans to ruin the climate, but I hope he can't do much worse than the US has already been doing. Sometimes I wish some tropes were something one could count on in real life.
edited 9th Nov '16 8:11:38 AM by Gowan
@Hodor 2: Developing a new game plan doesn't have to mean giving up on hitting the same goals at the end of the field. Right now, one of the lessons I'm seeing from this incredibly blatant failure of the Democrats is that you can't sell liberal policies to white people on the basis of negative reinforcement-based identity politics. With Occupy, with Sanders, with Warren, we're seeing again and again desire by millennials to reframe the political conversation in terms of finance and economics. And that doesn't have to mean ABANDONING pro-minority legislation, that just means you have to describe and push the agenda in a way that looks good to everyone instead of using the negative reinforcement of -ism accusations (even, and this is important, if they're true). Carrot over stick.
If there's anything we have to learn from this election, it's that what your actual platforms or legislative goals are as a politician don't matter NEARLY as much as how you say them.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.With regards to Trump, given how people are negatively reacting to his win, I personally think that at the very least voter turnout will swing to the Democrats next time around. Anger got him to the position he's in right now, anger towards the idea of him being President can likely get him out in 2020. They just need to pick the right candidate for the job that time around.
Your works are one trope short.

To those who think that we are panicking too much when it comes to Trump...I recommend the excellent the Closer vids of Keith Olbermann. He really has a knack of extracting from all the posturing Trump does the truly important news hidden within, his attacks on the American democracy as well as the underlying dangers of what he proposes.
edited 9th Nov '16 7:55:25 AM by Swanpride