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"Vote Hillary Clinton 2016" is dead. Long live "Vote Hillary Clinton 2016"! (pg. 15)
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| Zharen |
So much butthurt today, and I'm not just talking about on here. I come back from a 9 hour shift and about 2/3rds of my FB feed are all full of angry rants about rigged elections, demands to secede from the union, people saying they're going to leave the country, etc.
I'm not even all that worried about the results, and before you accuse me of it-no I didn't vote for Trump. Third-party protest vote. But what I am happy about is Prop 64 in CA passed and we'll be joining the other handful of states in weed legalisation. With that in place, I can handle whatever bull Trump turds out. But that said, it was amazing to see how wrong virtually everyone was on this election. Y'all really didn't see that coming (I didn't either).
I'll be staying optimistic of the future despite all of this. 2008 kept me down long enough. Not trying to return my mindset down into the sewers again.
And why that other thread get deleted? Butthurtness much? |
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| planetaryplayer |
| the biggest issue with this election was that only 11000 people penciled in Harambe |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
Things tend to move a bit faster when one party controls all three branches of the government. |
Not when they only have 52 seats and you need 60 for a filibuster.
The telling thing is the GOP who used the filibuster in unprecedented frequency are today, asking for Trump to abolish it.
They know the biggest block in history is about to ensue, and they're worried that their own party members might not follow trump on every vote. |
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
How did I stay on the sidelines here? Throughout the whole thread I repeatedly said I wanted Clinton to win over Trump. I made some pretty detailed posts explaining why. In the last few days before the election, particularly the night before, I had a bad feeling about it and I tried to play down the premature predictions that Clinton was going to win easily.
I also resented the smug tone of Woony and RANN when they opined that "smart people" always suspected that Clinton would win by 4% and the poll uncertainty was just a media circus, so I'm taking what grim satisfaction I can out of this -show by pointing out that my fears were bang on the money, and that sticking up for Nate Silver over the bull Huffington Post was also bang on the money.
Do you mean I "stayed on the sidelines" because I didn't fall into the parameters of your angry little strawman of the "smug liberal elite" posting in this thread, and instead remained fairly realistic despite my partisan stake in the outcome?
You sound like a bell end because your little rant is just a mess of clumsily stuck-together clichés about liberal elite SJWs on their smartphones, etc. etc. You sound like someone's angry grandparent. What are you seriously suggesting? That it wasn't deep rooted economic and sociological problems in American society shaped by enormous historical currents that lead to white working class alienation and anger? That Trump really won because we made some posts in this thread you found too hi'falutin? Perhaps if we'd just gone out to the rust belt and explained that Trump's policies were utter and obvious nonsense that couldn't be implemented and didn't solve any of the real problems, these people would go "Gee, thanks for being so humble and pointing that out! You've totally changed my world view"?
The funny thing is the guy who comes closest to fitting the SJW political profile is wotyzoid, who was giving it the whole "struggles of the working class nigga" shtick back in the primaries. In other words, the SJWs would actually stick up for the working class guys over the elite. You'd know that if you actually had a ing clue about the left-wing political discourse, rather than just letting it all blur into one ing stupid haze of stereotypical guff. |
Wow I made you write more than a one liner. Triggered.
It's amusing that people here applaud your brand of smug, self righteous trolling just because you do what every pompous internet does and wrap your particular brand of -spewing with decent grammar.
Hifalutin, wow. Is there any limit to your arrogance? Really, if I looked in your browser history would I see several thousand visits to thesaurus.com mixed in with the increasingly shameful pornography and a full cart of fedoras from Amazon?
Try and sound smarter in your next post, your insecurities sustain me. You . :rolleyes: |
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| Lira |
Haha, I've just heard a Mexican expat being asked why he voted for Trump. And it's probably the most bittersweet laugh I've had on the campaign:
Interviewer: "You voted for Trump?"
Mexican: "Yes, I want more jobs"
Interviewer: "Do you think he can do it?"
Mexican: "I hope he creates more manufacturing jobs"
Interviewer: "Yeah, but the wall..."
Mexican: "I hope he hires me to build the wall"
There are no limits to the human gift of seeing opportunities everywhere :p |
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| Lira |
It must be weird to be American, though.
Trudeau became Prime minister and no one outside Canada knows what the non-adorable options were. Theresa May substituted David Cameron, and we just wanted to know where the guy with the funny hair went. The Brazilian president was impeached and only BBC announcers could pronounce her name.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face each other in the presidential election, and suddenly the whole world is picking the right one or the orange one. I can't imagine what it would be like if you were like this about Dilma Rousseff, Aécio Neves, and Marina Silva last year :p |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Raising tariffs and anti free trade sounds good to the common person but they don't want to consider that even if the President could force them to be manufactured in the USA the prices would skyrocket. They want the jobs and those low Walmart prices but you can't have both. |
exactly right. the thing that always s me about the populist tariff agenda is none of its fans ever seem to take responsibility for their own contributions to sending jobs offshore. they absolutely want their cake cheap and to eat it on company time too. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | [i][b]Originally posted by Lira
the orange one. |
So racist.
The correct term is Citrus American. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Alex
Wow I made you write more than a one liner. Triggered.
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Word to the wise: The "triggered" gambit doesn't really work when you wrote the multi-post anger parade first. Crawl back to the periphery, because some quips about thesauruses and fedoras won't mask your evisceration. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Sorry, but trying to dumb down the numbers to "1 in 3" may make it seem like it was of course a possibility, but that's not actually the case here:
He had Hilary at 73% the day before and by 8pm when only 30% of the results were in she was down to 20%.
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You keep saying this. I'm starting to wonder if you actually understand how probability works. |
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| TranceElevation |
| Hillary Clinton made history anyway. She became the first female president to LOSE a presidential election! |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceElevation
Hillary Clinton made history anyway. She became the first female president to LOSE a presidential election! |
What. |
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