Calax Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Also, lol at the idea California would leave the US. You don't just let the biggest agriculture provider in the country walk away.Meh, as Ross Perot said, you don't have to own the cow to get the milk. And it would be cheaper to buy your produce in pesos once you rejoin Mexico. I'm sure you'd be happy for higher costs for Entertainment, Food, Air Travel and a grossly deflated GDP in the US once the 5th largest economy in the world went independant or joined another nation. A part of me is wiling to bet that somethings gonna happen that'll get trump removed from office and/or he won't even be sworn in. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Wrath of Dagon Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Also, lol at the idea California would leave the US. You don't just let the biggest agriculture provider in the country walk away.Meh, as Ross Perot said, you don't have to own the cow to get the milk. And it would be cheaper to buy your produce in pesos once you rejoin Mexico. I thought you disliked globalization and wanted to get production and jobs back in America. "Buy American" or whatever. But I'd like to increase our exports. I'd like to export Californians. 3 "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Hiro Protagonist Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people that a Chinese monkey turned out to be a more accurate predictive tool than almost every US poll. 2
aluminiumtrioxid Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Its not really wrong. There was strong social pressure to vote against Trump. Yupp, so strong he barely got any votes wait that's totally not what happened. Well, the pressure is only good for shaming in social groups and influencing weak willed people. But in the voting booth you're free to give them all the middle finger. Which is what happened. Its not illogical that there really was pressure and that it also backfired. Those can go hand in hand. Sure, but Chilloutman probably wasn't talking about "your social circle thinks ill of you" levels of 'persecution', and I strongly question that anything beyond that exists outside of the heads of the paranoid. "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says."
Gfted1 Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Crazy that Clinton didn't even carry Wisconsin. They haven't voted Red since 1984. Not even the Simpsons saw that coming! http://www.sloganizer.net/en/image,Gfted1,black,red.png
Darkpriest Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) Well technically you might get in trouble if in a round of affection you will call someone a dirty N- even if that person stole from you. Heck, you even have police officers being lynched by media even when they had right to act the way they did. - or that's the impression i get from some of the stories. EDIT: anyone recall T-shirt drama and similar stuff? Edited November 9, 2016 by Darkpriest
Calax Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Crazy that Clinton didn't even carry Wisconsin. They haven't voted Red since 1984. Not even the Simpsons saw that coming! From what I heard that could be attributed to Paul Ryan never actually pulling his endorsement (he's from there and quite popular) Source, 538 Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Namutree Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) I don't know which one, that's why I phrased it as a question. False rumor or not, my point is it's only a matter of time before they find one on Donald "grab her by the ****" Trump that sticks. Bill Clinton got impeached over a blowjob, I expect Donald Trump's sexually assaulted enough women to get the same thing to happen. I seriously doubt Trump has sexually assaulted anyone. Prepare for disappointment. Also, lol @ people attributing this Obamacare. Republicans do everything they can to mangle Obamacare before it even gets off the ground and then platform about how mangled Obamacare is. Shovel **** into Republicans mouths and they chew dutifully. Whenever I think nobody's as dumb as US democrats (because only US democrats are dumb enough to think Hillary is a liberal), the republicans come in and prove me wrong. Obamacare's problems have NOTHING to do with republicans. It's main issue is that young people don't want to pay higher insurance for old people with pre-existing conditions. Thus they don't pay for their insurance. This makes premiums go up which makes even more people refuse to pay it. That makes premiums go up. The process is repeated until no one is paying for it. Republicans opposed it because it was fundamentally unsound and not a viable program. Obamacare's failing is 100% on the authors of the bill and the idiot democrats that voted for it. Many career politicians and especially leftists don't understand that when a demand is unreasonable; people won't cooperate, even if not cooperating is against their personal interest (which is why increasing the fine for not being covered won't work). Ironically, a lot of the people refusing to pay and dodging insurance are young Obama voters; see, coercive government programs are cool until it's your turn to be pushed around. The Dems were so busy shoving their new healthcare system down our throats they never really considered if it should be shoved down our throats (seriously, many of the dems had no idea how the new system worked). Also, don't give me any BS bemoaning a lack of a "public option" either. If the bill would have included that, insurance companies would never have allowed it to pass. It was a doomed system and republicans were 100% correct to oppose it. Edited November 9, 2016 by Namutree 1 "Good thing I don't heal my characters or they'd be really hurt." Is not something I should ever be thinking. I use blue text when I'm being sarcastic.
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 What if I told you Trump under performed when compared to Romney, and it was Clinton that lost the election all by her lonesome. Then I'd just spam Bernie and tell you it didn't have to be like this. 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
Drowsy Emperor Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 I wonder if Bernie secretly voted for Trump after being shafted so bad during the campaign. И погибе Српски кнез Лазаре,И његова сва изгибе војска, Седамдесет и седам иљада;Све је свето и честито билоИ миломе Богу приступачно.
Hiro Protagonist Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 A new phenomenon has hit the country - The Triggering is in full swing.
HoonDing Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Only Kanye can save the Democrats now. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
floredon Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 too bad the media didn't give jill stein a chance to make her case. she would most certainly be president right now because everyone is reasonable right?
Volourn Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Except Jull Stein isn't reasonable. 2 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
Malcador Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 A new phenomenon has hit the country - The Triggering is in full swing. Wonder why people are so bothered by this kind of thing. Other than some generational hard man grousing Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Hurlshort Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 It was just interesting how quickly Aleppo killed of the slight momentum that Gary Johnson was starting to build, and Stein never really got any attention at all. It was like Trump had plugged in the konami cheat code at the start of his campaign and any damage that would normally take down a candidate was shrugged off. 2
Gorth Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 It was a choice between the Creep and the Creepy, take your pick. Both the Republicans and the Democrats seems to have grossly underestimated peoples resentment against the political "elite" all the way from the first nominations taking place until last night. Similar to the sentiments in Denmark in 1992 when the majority of people rejected the Maastricht treaty with a No result, despite the political elite campaigning for a Yes, Brexit showed (amongst other things) that people don't trust politicians as far as they can throw them, the less they have to say, the better. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Darkpriest Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 A new phenomenon has hit the country - The Triggering is in full swing. Wonder why people are so bothered by this kind of thing. Other than some generational hard man grousing Because it's silly to say the least... so suddenly you will stop your obligations at work as well?
Malcador Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) A new phenomenon has hit the country - The Triggering is in full swing. Wonder why people are so bothered by this kind of thing. Other than some generational hard man grousing Because it's silly to say the least... so suddenly you will stop your obligations at work as well?Well university isn't like the glorious work environment to begin with, but in this case an exam was cancelled, not seeing a ditching of obligations. But meant in general, seems people get amusingly wound up over this stuff. Funny enough this is usually a bad thing as the weight shifts to another part, which can be sucky. Edited November 9, 2016 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Zoraptor Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) What if I told you Trump under performed when compared to Romney, and it was Clinton that lost the election all by her lonesome. Nearly 12 million less people voting overall than in 2008. Fewer black voters (that one is understandable) and also fewer hispanics voted for Hillary than Obama. More white women voted for Trump. Those were all meant to be Hillary's strengths and the reason they didn't pick Bernie. Barely scraped home in Virginia despite Kaine being from there. Poor- albeit improved just not enough- results in the House/ Senate elections. There really aren't much in the way of positives to be found for the dems at all. They even spent around 2/3 more for each delegate won than Trump did- supposedly stripping funds from down ticket candidates to do so too. It's interesting going through the democratic primary results. In retrospect Bernie winning Michigan and Wisconsin looks like an ignored warning, while Hillary winning in the south looks irrelevant. With any luck it will be the death of Correct The Record and similar. Nothing quite like making sure the enthusiastic supporters you did have got tarred with the brush of your very obvious- and frequently obnoxious- astroturfing campaign. Somehow I doubt it though, the lesson learned will probably see the next democratic candidate having a green frog mascot and heaps of forced memes. Edited November 9, 2016 by Zoraptor
Namutree Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) What if I told you Trump under performed when compared to Romney, and it was Clinton that lost the election all by her lonesome. What if I told you that Trump's main strategy was to get people NOT to vote for Clinton rather than trying to get people to vote for him. This is why a LOT of his rhetoric was attacking others (hence the bully claim) rather than promoting his ideas (hence lack of substance in most of his rhetoric). Hillary's low turnout was not just due to her being awful; it was Trump's exploiting of the Sander's wound, her pro-war history, ect. Trump won this. Hillary did NOT lose on her own. EDIT: This also why Sanders would have defeated Trump easily. People respected Sanders, and most his serious flaws are complicated (thus hard to attack), or are flaws he shares with Trump (thus the attacks would be ineffective). EDIT 2: Also Trump campaign had way less funds than Romney campaign had. Imagine if Trump had those resources (which he will in 2020). AND republican establishment undermining him (won't be a problem in 2020). Edited November 9, 2016 by Namutree "Good thing I don't heal my characters or they'd be really hurt." Is not something I should ever be thinking. I use blue text when I'm being sarcastic.
Hiro Protagonist Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 A new phenomenon has hit the country - The Triggering is in full swing. Wonder why people are so bothered by this kind of thing. Other than some generational hard man grousing You'd have to ask the students why they are so bothered by it. Maybe you'll get your answer then.
Malcador Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 Well they are or the prof sees it (and bought some students attempt to push it back, I suspect). Just not seeing why it's worth your notice. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Hiro Protagonist Posted November 10, 2016 Posted November 10, 2016 Well they are or the prof sees it (and bought some students attempt to push it back, I suspect). Just not seeing why it's worth your notice. Why do I need to give a reason what I post? I'm not going to give a reason on 'why it's worth my notice'. Try again. 1
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