Time to get on the TRUMP train

Wall Street seems really shook about all the talks about taking down the elite and globalists. Dow closing in record highs with banks, big pharma and manufacturing leading the rally.

Talks have already started for Wall Street to get their man in being US Treasury secretary. Good times.

Now if you know half the story about manufacturing in US then you would think that manufacturing doing ok would mean more jobs, right?



Well not really, because for the last 40 years manufacturing industry has been doing just fine. Workers not so much. Technology took down the factory jobs, not the decline of the industry. There never was a decline in the long term.

Ps. You can say what you want about EC system, but changing the rules changes how the game is played. So it's pointless to say anything about the popular vote when people campaigned and voted under EC system.

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btw hilarious percentage of the bookies in uk have lines on whether or not he gets assassinated in office apparently.

http://i.imgur.com/M7PS3Vo.jpg

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Now that Trump is in I sure hope he stays healthy and finishes his term.

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Wall Street seems really shook about all the talks about taking down the elite and globalists. Dow closing in record highs with banks, big pharma and manufacturing leading the rally.

Talks have already started for Wall Street to get their man in being US Treasury secretary. Good times.

Now if you know half the story about manufacturing in US then you would think that manufacturing doing ok would mean more jobs, right?



Well not really, because for the last 40 years manufacturing industry has been doing just fine. Workers not so much. Technology took down the factory jobs, not the decline of the industry. There never was a decline in the long term.

Ps. You can say what you want about EC system, but changing the rules changes how the game is played. So it's pointless to say anything about the popular vote when people campaigned and voted under EC system.

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What about from 2011-2016 ? Is that available?

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btw hilarious percentage of the bookies in uk have lines on whether or not he gets assassinated in office apparently.

http://i.imgur.com/M7PS3Vo.jpg

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Now that Trump is in I sure hope he stays healthy and finishes his term.

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If Trump gets assasinated, there's a good chance it would be by some "Christian" nutjob who wants a "true Christian" to sit in the Oval Office.

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Now that Trump is in I sure hope he stays healthy and finishes his term.

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If Trump gets assasinated, there's a good chance it would be by some "Christian" nutjob who wants a "true Christian" to sit in the Oval Office.

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Yes of course.Trump is 100x better than one of those dickheads.
I hope he stays healthy

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Originally Posted by gimmick

Wall Street seems really shook about all the talks about taking down the elite and globalists. Dow closing in record highs with banks, big pharma and manufacturing leading the rally.

Talks have already started for Wall Street to get their man in being US Treasury secretary. Good times.

Now if you know half the story about manufacturing in US then you would think that manufacturing doing ok would mean more jobs, right?



Well not really, because for the last 40 years manufacturing industry has been doing just fine. Workers not so much. Technology took down the factory jobs, not the decline of the industry. There never was a decline in the long term.

Ps. You can say what you want about EC system, but changing the rules changes how the game is played. So it's pointless to say anything about the popular vote when people campaigned and voted under EC system.

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What about from 2011-2016 ? Is that available?

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They always lag behind a few years. From 2011-2014 the industry and the employment both went up a bit. How the economy as a whole does effect both. No point in making a new car if there's no one to sell it to. That pretty much explains the latest dip in output.

The Great Swindling (as it will likely he called by future political historians) has commenced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-qF...ature=youtu.be

Pictoral highlights of greatest interest:





P.S. Did I mention that it was reported today that Trump aides reached out to Dimon to offer him the job as SecTreas?

 

("Make America Greater For The Banksters Again")

Two names that have appeared for US Treasury Secretary so far have been Jamie Dimon JPMorgan CEO and Steven Mnuchin finance chair of Trumps campaign.

Steven used to work for Goldman Sachs where his father had worked for 3 decades. Just for FPS_Russia he also worked in Soros Fund Management. For Druff he founded a production company that produced the X-Men franchise and Avatar. For all the antisemites his parents just had to be jewish out of spite. And just for funsies he's the chairman of Onewest. The bank that bought Indymac. Onewest is all about questionable foreclosures that you have to settle in court.

The swamp is getting drained. No brakes on this train.

Oh and could some of the Trump supporters explain what you mean exactly with the word globalist. When you invent new words it's not always immediately clear what's the best way to ridicule you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNGyFRjGC3Y

If your a democrat and are looking for people to blame...

http://prntly.com/wp-content/uploads...na-300x293.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VAzPd8yy7...0/dws-meme.JPG

DNC Staffer Screams At Donna Brazile For Helping Elect Donald Trump
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...on=us_politics
Democrats’ nerves are raw in Washington after Tuesday’s stunning loss.

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WASHINGTON ― On Thursday, Democratic Party officials held their first staff meeting since Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to Donald Trump in the presidential race. It didn’t go well.

Donna Brazile, the interim leader of the Democratic National Committee, was giving what one attendee described as “a rip-roaring speech” to about 150 employees, about the need to have hope for wins going forward, when a staffer identified only as Zach stood up with a question.

“Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?” he asked, according to two people in the room. “You backed a flawed candidate, and your friend [former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz] plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself.”

Some DNC staffers started to boo and some told him to sit down. Brazile began to answer, but Zach had more to say.

“You are part of the problem,” he continued, blaming Brazile for clearing the path for Trump’s victory by siding with Clinton early on. “You and your friends will die of old age and I’m going to die from climate change. You and your friends let this happen, which is going to cut 40 years off my life expectancy.”

Zach gathered his things and began to walk out. When Brazile called after him, asking where he was going, he told her to go outside and “tell people there” why she should be leading the party.

Two DNC staffers confirmed the exchange.

Asked for comment, Brazile said in an email, “As you can imagine, the individual involved is a member of the staff and I personally do not wish to discuss our internal meetings.”

A DNC spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Brazile, a seasoned Democratic strategist, is the DNC’s interim chair until March 2017, when party officials hold a full DNC meeting to elect a new chair. Brazile has been filling in since July, when then-chair Wasserman Schultz stepped down after WikiLeaks released internal DNC emails showing party officials trying to help Clinton win the Democratic primary.

Brazile ran into her own bit of trouble in October when Wikileaks released emails showing that, in her role as a CNN strategist, she shared questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events in advance with friends on Clinton’s campaign.

Neither of the DNC staffers who spoke to HuffPost knew Zach’s last name, or much about him. They noted that he wasn’t alone in his sentiments. Some in the room nodded as he spoke, they said, and after he left, some talked about him being right on some points (perhaps not his claims about imminent death by climate change).

A third attendee told HuffPost that, despite Zach’s blow-up, there was “overwhelming” support for Brazile in the room. Her motivational words “had some staffers in tears,” per this attendee, and Brazile spoke to Zach’s concerns after he left.

“If he had stayed, he would have heard that,” this person said.

Brazile could move to stay on as chair after March, but Thursday’s meeting shows at least some party officials want fresh blood at the top.

“The party is at a crossroads. They have been using the same playbook for decades, and now, they won’t let anyone else come in and change it up,” said one former longtime DNC staffer, who requested anonymity to speak freely. “The fact that Democrats just sat through a devastating defeat and now have to trust the leadership that not only contributed to Clinton’s loss, but the crushing 2014 midterm losses, well, what do they expect?”

This article has been updated to include comment from a third DNC meeting attendee.

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Also about last few pages...



...she really was fond of regurgitating Russian propaganda. What was that about?

Ps. Not an actual dead animal on her neck. She just likes the look and what it represents to the Green Party. Oh and batshitcrazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYHEmzIJwo


LOL, Funny thing is that Keith Olbermann lives at Trump Tower.

Gimmick you have been wrong this entire thread and your failure in assessing this current political climate hasn't even stopped you from questioning the bubble you obviously live in. You just continue to pollute this thread with even more psyco babble.

A vote for Hillary was a vote for business as usual, but a vote for any other candidate other then Donald Trump would have been a vote for business as usual aswell.

No one is opposed to trade or globalism, it's just that the current trade policies aswell as the ones that have been in place, don't benefit the middle class, a class that is seizing to exist. Our trade deficits continue to grow every year.

All Donald Trump has to do is replace obamacare with a single payer system. Allow vouchers for parents to choose which school they want their kids to attend. Get rid of the federal reserve. Renegotiate trade deals to favor america or atleast even trade, not where we have a deficit every fucking year. Reduce ridiculous regulations that only favor major corporations. Reduce the capitol gains tax. Encourage small businesses by giving them better access to small business loans. Invest in infrastructure, especially in the inner cities, and send Hillary Clinton to jail just to send a message to these communist bastards that think they can infiltrate this country and get away with it.

He does that and he will be the GOAT.

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Don't fool yourselves: Soros is everything Trump wishes he was. An actual billionaire and a bonafide financial GENIUS.

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Soros-funded groups organize bullshit "liberal" protests specifically to co-opt and destroy radical leftist movements that actually want to change shit and not just bitch about it. He's a "liberal" capitalist; which is like calling a wolf a "good boy" just because he wags his tail while eating the sheep.

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Gimmick you have been wrong this entire thread and your failure in assessing this current political climate hasn't even stopped you from questioning the bubble you obviously live in. You just continue to pollute this thread with even more psyco babble.

A vote for Hillary was a vote for business as usual, but a vote for any other candidate other then Donald Trump would have been a vote for business as usual aswell.

No one is opposed to trade or globalism, it's just that the current trade policies aswell as the ones that have been in place, don't benefit the middle class, a class that is seizing to exist. Our trade deficits continue to grow every year.

All Donald Trump has to do is replace obamacare with a single payer system. Allow vouchers for parents to choose which school they want their kids to attend. Get rid of the federal reserve. Renegotiate trade deals to favor america or atleast even trade, not where we have a deficit every fucking year. Reduce ridiculous regulations that only favor major corporations. Reduce the capitol gains tax. Encourage small businesses by giving them better access to small business loans. Invest in infrastructure, especially in the inner cities, and send Hillary Clinton to jail just to send a message to these communist bastards that think they can infiltrate this country and get away with it.

He does that and he will be the GOAT.

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I'm sure you can easily cite everything i have been wrong about. That shouldn't be too hard. I doubt i have assessed the political climate all that much in this thread.

Ever since the brexit it became evident that the political climate is very much ripe for populist conmen. Opportunists that are fine rising in to power with slightly polished neo-nazi rhetoric. Pitting broke fuckers against broke fuckers with a sprinkling of non specific NWO mysticism. But no worries uberman Trump got your back. That dude's magical. He appears to be completely different things to different people.

Trump is very much for more of the same. I'm sorry if you fuckers thought he wasn't going to play ball. That should have been clear to everyone that wasn't drinking the kool aid. Adelson support should have been a pretty clear sign that there's no end to crony capitalism.

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AMERICANISM NOT GLOBALISM WILL BE OUR CREEDO!!!

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...did you change your mind in two days?

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Gimmick you have been wrong this entire thread and your failure in assessing this current political climate hasn't even stopped you from questioning the bubble you obviously live in. You just continue to pollute this thread with even more psyco babble.

A vote for Hillary was a vote for business as usual, but a vote for any other candidate other then Donald Trump would have been a vote for business as usual aswell.

No one is opposed to trade or globalism, it's just that the current trade policies aswell as the ones that have been in place, don't benefit the middle class, a class that is seizing to exist. Our trade deficits continue to grow every year.

All Donald Trump has to do is replace obamacare with a single payer system. Allow vouchers for parents to choose which school they want their kids to attend. Get rid of the federal reserve. Renegotiate trade deals to favor america or atleast even trade, not where we have a deficit every fucking year. Reduce ridiculous regulations that only favor major corporations. Reduce the capitol gains tax. Encourage small businesses by giving them better access to small business loans. Invest in infrastructure, especially in the inner cities, and send Hillary Clinton to jail just to send a message to these communist bastards that think they can infiltrate this country and get away with it.

He does that and he will be the GOAT.

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replace obamacare with a single payer system? liberals have wanted that for years. it's republicans that said that socialized medicine would be the same as approving "death squads."

trump would become a liberal icon and considered by the left to be the greatest president since lincoln if he even hinted that he supported single payer. it's the republicans -- each and every one of them -- that would 100% be against it. will be interesting to see what his plans for healthcare are though.

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Don't fool yourselves: Soros is everything Trump wishes he was. An actual billionaire and a bonafide financial GENIUS.

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Soros-funded groups organize bullshit "liberal" protests specifically to co-opt and destroy radical leftist movements that actually want to change shit and not just bitch about it. He's a "liberal" capitalist; which is like calling a wolf a "good boy" just because he wags his tail while eating the sheep.

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If you mean moveon.org they got money from Soros in 2004 when they were against Bush's re-election. In 2016 moveon was supporting Bernie in the primaries and Soros was supporting Hillary. I didn't find any mention of Soros funding them after 2004, but right really loves to keep calling them a Soros funded group.

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Soros-funded groups organize bullshit "liberal" protests specifically to co-opt and destroy radical leftist movements that actually want to change shit and not just bitch about it. He's a "liberal" capitalist; which is like calling a wolf a "good boy" just because he wags his tail while eating the sheep.

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If you mean moveon.org they got money from Soros in 2004 when they were against Bush's re-election. In 2016 moveon was supporting Bernie in the primaries and Soros was supporting Hillary. I didn't find any mention of Soros funding them after 2004, but right really loves to keep calling them a Soros funded group.

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Again don't know if you mean moveon, but i think that's the latest smear (anti Trump protests) against Soros so i'll just assume so.

I did found this regarding funding...

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/ar...into-2016-race

...from the earlier Chicago protest smear job.

"In fact, MoveOn hasn't gotten funding from Soros since 2004, according to both Vachon and MoveOn spokesman Brian Stewart."

I guess there's just more zing in the phrase "Soros funded group" than "a group that got money from Soros 12 years ago to a completely different campaign".

Sign outside a coffee shop in London yesterday



Harsh.


https://static.independent.co.uk/s3f...y-an-adult.jpg

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btw hilarious percentage of the bookies in uk have lines on whether or not he gets assassinated in office apparently.

http://i.imgur.com/M7PS3Vo.jpg

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That looks like the American spelling to me.

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Gimmick you have been wrong this entire thread and your failure in assessing this current political climate hasn't even stopped you from questioning the bubble you obviously live in. You just continue to pollute this thread with even more psyco babble.

A vote for Hillary was a vote for business as usual, but a vote for any other candidate other then Donald Trump would have been a vote for business as usual aswell.

No one is opposed to trade or globalism, it's just that the current trade policies aswell as the ones that have been in place, don't benefit the middle class, a class that is seizing to exist. Our trade deficits continue to grow every year.

All Donald Trump has to do is replace obamacare with a single payer system. Allow vouchers for parents to choose which school they want their kids to attend. Get rid of the federal reserve. Renegotiate trade deals to favor america or atleast even trade, not where we have a deficit every fucking year. Reduce ridiculous regulations that only favor major corporations. Reduce the capitol gains tax. Encourage small businesses by giving them better access to small business loans. Invest in infrastructure, especially in the inner cities, and send Hillary Clinton to jail just to send a message to these communist bastards that think they can infiltrate this country and get away with it.

He does that and he will be the GOAT.

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replace obamacare with a single payer system? liberals have wanted that for years. it's republicans that said that socialized medicine would be the same as approving "death squads."

trump would become a liberal icon and wildly considered by the left to be the greatest president since lincoln if he even hinted that he supported single payer. it's the republicans -- each and every one of them -- that would 100% be against it. will be interesting to see what his plans for healthcare are though.

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:this


lol at single-payer


I'd put a Trump poster on my wall. I'd start a Trump superpac.

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Sign outside a coffee shop in London yesterday



Harsh.


https://static.independent.co.uk/s3f...y-an-adult.jpg

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lol serously tho

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Gimmick you have been wrong this entire thread and your failure in assessing this current political climate hasn't even stopped you from questioning the bubble you obviously live in. You just continue to pollute this thread with even more psyco babble.

A vote for Hillary was a vote for business as usual, but a vote for any other candidate other then Donald Trump would have been a vote for business as usual aswell.

No one is opposed to trade or globalism, it's just that the current trade policies aswell as the ones that have been in place, don't benefit the middle class, a class that is seizing to exist. Our trade deficits continue to grow every year.

All Donald Trump has to do is replace obamacare with a single payer system. Allow vouchers for parents to choose which school they want their kids to attend. Get rid of the federal reserve. Renegotiate trade deals to favor america or atleast even trade, not where we have a deficit every fucking year. Reduce ridiculous regulations that only favor major corporations. Reduce the capitol gains tax. Encourage small businesses by giving them better access to small business loans. Invest in infrastructure, especially in the inner cities, and send Hillary Clinton to jail just to send a message to these communist bastards that think they can infiltrate this country and get away with it.

He does that and he will be the GOAT.

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replace obamacare with a single payer system? liberals have wanted that for years. it's republicans that said that socialized medicine would be the same as approving "death squads."

trump would become a liberal icon and wildly considered by the left to be the greatest president since lincoln if he even hinted that he supported single payer. it's the republicans -- each and every one of them -- that would 100% be against it. will be interesting to see what his plans for healthcare are though.

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I think you mean "death panels" not "death squads." Death squads were what Reagan illegally funded in Central America in the 1980s using money from drug sales and sales of arms to Iran.

I see much similarity between the arc of politics & economics in Britain and the US. This might account for the interest guys like LordoftheFraud have in our story. It resonates with them.

The disaffected insecure white working class (precariat) in the US. Instead of the socialist leap they chose to turn their back on the Democrats who failed to give them a handout. Everyone else gets something but not them.

So they give the middle finger to the status quo and took a shot from half court with Trump. He will disappoint as he cannot change that chart. Post Trump, America will continue its socialist trajectory with discussions of single payer insurance etc.

You gotta smile if you consider Germany in the early 30's. Can't win a war. National pride slipping. When the stock bubble finally bursts the pin might be completely pulled.

If you think that this election was just some crazy anomoly - and I think everyone does - then you still don't get it. If you, like Druff, hold out hope for a rebuilding of the Republican Party then, again, you don't understand what you witnessed.

First step, even with Trump, will be a liveable minimum wage for the service economy crowd. It's a backwards socialism.

The country is in the throes of change. Of course, what you end up with is the inexorable march toward Britain. Germany would be fine but we are too fucked up and recently they fucked up their good run.

Giving the public the right to vote. It was a fine experiment.

I will tell you this, democracy took a black eye. As the world witnessed our crass election they had to laugh. China and Russia gotta be feeling pretty smug right now

In a nod to FPS, Cruz, Rubio, Killary and Trump you detect that it might be time to give fascism a chance. Carpet bomb them all into oblivion

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DNC Staffer Screams At Donna Brazile For Helping Elect Donald Trump
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...on=us_politics
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first time i heard about this was some black complaining that a white person shouldnt be yelling at a black woman after what "we" did to this country by electing trump

christie told to take a knee, pence will now organize trump's cabinet.

i think trump recognizes that hes going to get impeached, im just not sure if he understands that the first and last dagger will likely come from conservative republicans.

also and im 100% not being snide; when was the last time a conservative government actually did something to benefit working class whites?

thats not a trolljoke, im asking to be educated here.

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christie told to take a knee, pence will now organize trump's cabinet.

i think trump recognizes that hes going to get impeached, im just not sure if he understands that the first and last dagger will likely come from conservative republicans.

also and im 100% not being snide; when was the last time a conservative government actually did something to benefit working class whites?

thats not a trolljoke, im asking to be educated here.

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He really is working hard to fuck this up. Like getting Florida AG Pam Bondi to his transition team. Best known from accepting a 25k donation from the Trump Foundation when her office was considering joining the lawsuit against Trump University and then chose not to. Notice the pay connected with the play. The icing on the cake was Trumps use of his own tax exempt charitable foundation to pay for the donation, something that's completely illegal and requires no effort to prove (yay slushfunds).

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christie told to take a knee, pence will now organize trump's cabinet.

i think trump recognizes that hes going to get impeached, im just not sure if he understands that the first and last dagger will likely come from conservative republicans.

also and im 100% not being snide; when was the last time a conservative government actually did something to benefit working class whites?

thats not a trolljoke, im asking to be educated here.

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You really are spending too much time on Facebook in your bizarre virtual life. Clinton lost, Trump won, get the fuck over it. Piece of advice: Go to one of those $100 a plate sushi places you claim to frequent and sit down at the bar and talk to someone from the opposite sex. Your whole world can potentially change.

You are totally unhinged.

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I see much similarity between the arc of politics & economics in Britain and the US. This might account for the interest guys like LordoftheFraud have in our story. It resonates with them.

The disaffected insecure white working class (precariat) in the US. Instead of the socialist leap they chose to turn their back on the Democrats who failed to give them a handout. Everyone else gets something but not them.

So they give the middle finger to the status quo and took a shot from half court with Trump. He will disappoint as he cannot change that chart. Post Trump, America will continue its socialist trajectory with discussions of single payer insurance etc.

You gotta smile if you consider Germany in the early 30's. Can't win a war. National pride slipping. When the stock bubble finally bursts the pin might be completely pulled.

If you think that this election was just some crazy anomoly - and I think everyone does - then you still don't get it. If you, like Druff, hold out hope for a rebuilding of the Republican Party then, again, you don't understand what you witnessed.

First step, even with Trump, will be a liveable minimum wage for the service economy crowd. It's a backwards socialism.

The country is in the throes of change. Of course, what you end up with is the inexorable march toward Britain. Germany would be fine but we are too fucked up and recently they fucked up their good run.

Giving the public the right to vote. It was a fine experiment.

I will tell you this, democracy took a black eye. As the world witnessed our crass election they had to laugh. China and Russia gotta be feeling pretty smug right now

In a nod to FPS, Cruz, Rubio, Killary and Trump you detect that it might be time to give fascism a chance. Carpet bomb them all into oblivion

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Flying under the cover of course is "Wall" Street. Trump should start off with a good look at the untouchables. Banks, Wall Street, the insurance industry, conglomerates who profit from their profits while minimum wage is the golden calf. These areas are typically given a pass despite their wealth and therefore their influence on who can make that possible.

I'm starting to think this Trump thing may just be the ticket.
If he sticks to half of what he said he's just the guy to call out the string pullers mentioned above. I'm sure every president is give long list of "friends we don't bother"

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so, buckle up, because none of this is official until the actual electoral votes get cast on december 19th.


pro tip: the casters of those votes are not obligated legally to honor their states results.



:popcorn


#cashingoutmytrumpbetsimmed

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You want a Civil War? Because that's how you get a Civil War.







Dude...seriously

I...I really hope you were joking, because, well I hate to say this, but that's really one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.


Time to step out of your bubble and join the rest of us on Earth.

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so, buckle up, because none of this is official until the actual electoral votes get cast on december 19th.


pro tip: the casters of those votes are not obligated legally to honor their states results.



:popcorn


#cashingoutmytrumpbetsimmed

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You want a Civil War? Because that's how you get a Civil War.







Dude...seriously

I...I really hope you were joking, because, well I hate to say this, but that's really one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.


Time to step out of your bubble and join the rest of us on Earth.

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There have been faithless electors before, but only a handful and never more than 1 or 2 a year. It would take nearly 40 of them to hand the election to Hillary. So it's not even a possibility worth discussing.

But in Bush v Gore, it would only have taken 3. Another potential failure point in a needlessly complex and ridiculous system.

Taken from Mike Rowe's Facebook, currently "trending"






As per usual, he nails it:


Off The Wall

Hey Mike. You’ve been very quiet. Everything OK? I just wanted you to know that I voted for you. I was also hoping you might explain what the hell happened on Tuesday, and say something to make me feel better about my fellow man. Thanks,
Carol Savoy

Hi Carol

Last Friday, my dog posted a video that featured a man licking a cat with the aid of a device that’s designed for the specific purpose of making it easier for people to lick their cats.I’ve been silent ever since, because frankly, I couldn’t think of a better way – metaphorical or otherwise - to express my feelings about this election cycle. The entire country it seems, has been preoccupied with finding a way to lick a cat without actually putting their tongue on it.

Too oblique? Too weird? Ok, how about this analysis:

Back in 2003, a very unusual TV pilot called Dirty Jobs, Forrest-Gumped its way onto The Discovery Channel and found an audience – a big one. For Discovery, this was a problem. You see, Dirty Jobs didn’t look like anything else on their channel. It wasn’t pretty or careful. It took place in sewers and septic tanks, and featured a subversive host in close contact with his 8-year old inner child who refused to do second takes. Everyone agreed that Dirty Jobs was totally “off-brand” and completely inappropriate for Discovery. Everyone but the viewers. The ratings were just too big to ignore, so the pilot got a green-light, and yours truly finally got a steady gig.

But here's the thing - Dirty Jobs didn’t resonate because the host was incredibly charming. It wasn’t a hit because it was gross, or irreverent, or funny, or silly, or smart, or terribly clever. Dirty Jobs succeeded because it was authentic. It spoke directly and candidly to a big chunk of the country that non-fiction networks had been completely ignoring. In a very simple way, Dirty Jobs said “Hey - we can see you,” to millions of regular people who had started to feel invisible. Ultimately, that’s why Dirty Jobs ran for eight seasons. And today, that’s also why Donald Trump is the President of the United States.

I know people are freaked out, Carol. I get it. I’m worried too. But not because of who we elected. We've survived 44 Presidents, and we'll survive this one too. I’m worried because millions of people now seem to believe that Trump supporters are racist, xenophobic, and uneducated misogynists. I'm worried because despising our candidates publicly is very different than despising the people who vote for them.

Last week, three old friends – people I’ve known for years - each requested to be “unfriended” by anyone who planned on voting for Trump. Honestly, that was disheartening. Who tosses away a friendship over an election? Are my friends turning into those mind-numbingly arrogant celebrities who threaten to move to another country if their candidate doesn’t win? Are my friends now convinced that people they’ve known for years who happen to disagree with them politically are not merely mistaken – but evil, and no longer worthy of their friendship?

For what it’s worth, Carol, I don’t think Donald Trump won by tapping into America’s “racist underbelly,” and I don’t think Hillary lost because she’s a woman. I think a majority of people who voted in this election did so in spite of their many misgivings about the character of both candidates. That’s why it’s very dangerous to argue that Clinton supporters condone lying under oath and obstructing justice. Just as it’s equally dangerous to suggest a Trump supporter condones gross generalizations about foreigners and women.

These two candidates were the choices we gave ourselves, and each came with a heaping helping of vulgarity and impropriety. Yeah, it was dirty job for sure, but the winner was NOT decided by a racist and craven nation – it was decided by millions of disgusted Americans desperate for real change. The people did not want a politician. The people wanted to be seen. Donald Trump convinced those people that he could see them. Hillary Clinton did not.

As for me, I’m flattered by your support, but grateful that your vote was not enough to push me over the top. However, when the dust settles, and The White House gets a new tenant, I’ll make the same offer to President Trump that I did to President Obama – to assist as best I can in any attempt to reinvigorate the skilled trades, and shine a light on millions of good jobs that no one seems excited about pursuing. http://bit.ly/2fG1SxI

Like those 3 million “shovel ready” jobs we heard so much about eight years ago, the kind of recovery that Donald Trump is promising will require a workforce that’s properly trained and sufficiently enthused about the opportunities at hand. At the moment, we do not have that work force in place. What we do have, are tens of millions of capable people who have simply stopped looking for work, and millions of available jobs that no one aspires to do. That's the skills gap, and it's gotta close. If mikeroweWORKS can help, we're standing by.

If not, I suppose we'll just have to find another way to lick the cat.

Mike

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so, buckle up, because none of this is official until the actual electoral votes get cast on december 19th.


pro tip: the casters of those votes are not obligated legally to honor their states results.



:popcorn


#cashingoutmytrumpbetsimmed

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You want a Civil War? Because that's how you get a Civil War.







Dude...seriously

I...I really hope you were joking, because, well I hate to say this, but that's really one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.


Time to step out of your bubble and join the rest of us on Earth.

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Despite the track record you can tell when someone is talking out of their ass when they type a dramatic, "I....I", as if he's acting. When you're truly dumb, as you show every indication of being, you don't have the facilities to judge what isn't dumb.

dumbo

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So, are you gonna just post every mindless meme that insults Donald Trump? The guy won the election, get over it.

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You want a Civil War? Because that's how you get a Civil War.







Dude...seriously

I...I really hope you were joking, because, well I hate to say this, but that's really one of the dumbest things I've ever heard you say.


Time to step out of your bubble and join the rest of us on Earth.

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Despite the track record you can tell when someone is talking out of their ass when they type a dramatic, "I....I", as if he's acting. When you're truly dumb, as you show every indication of being, you don't have the facilities to judge what isn't dumb.

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You tried


You still get a participation trophy

For the good of the country let's all just hope that Mike Pence gets shot or dies in some type of accident.
Im sure this is the one thing this entire board can agree on.

why is everyone freaking out? it will be revealed before the end of the month that russia hacked the voting machines

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I see much similarity between the arc of politics & economics in Britain and the US. This might account for the interest guys like LordoftheFraud have in our story. It resonates with them.

The disaffected insecure white working class (precariat) in the US. Instead of the socialist leap they chose to turn their back on the Democrats who failed to give them a handout. Everyone else gets something but not them.

So they give the middle finger to the status quo and took a shot from half court with Trump. He will disappoint as he cannot change that chart. Post Trump, America will continue its socialist trajectory with discussions of single payer insurance etc.

You gotta smile if you consider Germany in the early 30's. Can't win a war. National pride slipping. When the stock bubble finally bursts the pin might be completely pulled.

If you think that this election was just some crazy anomoly - and I think everyone does - then you still don't get it. If you, like Druff, hold out hope for a rebuilding of the Republican Party then, again, you don't understand what you witnessed.

First step, even with Trump, will be a liveable minimum wage for the service economy crowd. It's a backwards socialism.

The country is in the throes of change. Of course, what you end up with is the inexorable march toward Britain. Germany would be fine but we are too fucked up and recently they fucked up their good run.

Giving the public the right to vote. It was a fine experiment.

I will tell you this, democracy took a black eye. As the world witnessed our crass election they had to laugh. China and Russia gotta be feeling pretty smug right now

In a nod to FPS, Cruz, Rubio, Killary and Trump you detect that it might be time to give fascism a chance. Carpet bomb them all into oblivion

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Resonates indeed. We have both made similar leaps despite FIERCE protest from at least half of our populations.

People here felt they needed to take a chance. Mainly for economic and migration reasons. But the people taking on the most risk were not the people who wanted out.

This is what happens when politicians take only half the country with them when setting out and implementing their policies.

A wound animal is not predictable. That's why nobody predicted Brexit or Trump other than the wounded animals themselves.