Trump General Discusion II

[BigMacPhisto]

Gore, Kerry, Clinton

It's almost as if the establishment is purposefully attaching themselves to candidates who either have no actual policies or can be easily manipulated into doing whatever their donors tell them.

This Armageddon is on you, Clintonistas.

 

[BVS]

This Armageddon is on you, Clintonistas.

Trying to have it both ways I see...

 

[Mack_Again]

This Armageddon is on you, Clintonistas.

I somehow used made up term Sandernistas and you are creating word Clintonistas.....i think we should stop

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Clearly enthusiasm for Clinton was way down, as she received more votes than any presidential candidate not named Barack Obama in the history of our nation, and is approaching Barack's 2012 number.

So yes... clearly people just didn't want to vote for her. Should have picked Sanders! People would have come out!

 

[corianderstem]

This Armageddon is on you, Clintonistas.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[gump]

To get back to the earlier discussion, I wish the ignore buttom would allow me to ignore quoted posts as well.

 

[corianderstem]

Much like Armageddon, that quoted post is on me, too.

Oops, my bad.

 

[LemonMelon]

Pretty sure no one in this thread works for the DNC

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Diemen Wasserman Schultz did, but he was thrown out for his obvi bias.

 

[gump]

Much like Armageddon, that quoted post is on me, too.

Oops, my bad.

You were not the first one to quote it! Or the second.

 

[bono_212]

I wish I could ignore on my phone

 

[Diemen]

Diemen Wasserman Schultz did, but he was thrown out for his obvi bias.

Huh?

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Huh?

Me makie joke about you.

I'm trying to be inclusive, okay?

 

[Irvine511]

if there's one thing rural white americans want, it isn't guns and Jesus but Democratic Socialism -- small town America is crying out to be more like Denmark.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

Clearly enthusiasm for Clinton was way down, as she received more votes than any presidential candidate not named Barack Obama in the history of our nation, and is approaching Barack's 2012 number.

So yes... clearly people just didn't want to vote for her. Should have picked Sanders! People would have come out!

People didn't want to vote for her. Hence the drop in percentage of the vote and the rise of the third party candidacies. She racked up so many votes thanks to killing Trump in the irrelevant blue states where turnout has jumped thanks to easier access (early voting, vote-by-mail, etc.)

I'm not saying Sanders would have won (although he was very, very strong with white voters that don't lean liberal in places such as Michigan), but I'm saying there was absolutely no point in nominating Hillary Clinton just as there will be no point in again relying on what The Nation refers to as the mixture of big money and identity politics. It's time to look forward, not back, win or lose.

Sadly, whether the front-runner for the Progressives is Ellison, Gabbard, Warren, etc. I'm sure we'll see the same condescending behavior in this thread about how their policies can't be implemented, how wealthy Interference users would be harmed by their high tax rates, how someone like Cory Booker is the sensible option and he gives good speeches, etc. It's the same predictable melody that's given us three uninspiring losers this century and will surely bring about a fourth.

And I expect Trump to be an even tougher candidate next time around due to incumbency and a willingness of Republican donors to get him reelected.

 

[Vincent Vega]

He's also (somewhat successfully) making people overlook the huge stories about conflicts of interest over the last two days.

This is going to be the big challenge for media and the public alike: To withstand the temptation to highlight and disect his smoke screens and keep focussing on the bigger stories, that simultaneously develop and get swept under the rug. So far, it hasn't worked that well, even though his strategy is pretty blatant and has been discussed by each paper at least once.
A fact that keeps amazing me: A news page brings a story discussing a politician's or company's strategy to deflect, pointing out which trap not to fall into, only for the very same news page to continously fall for it.

 

[Mack_Again]

Donald is very good at smoke screening and avoiding being accused of so many things in election season (I think Stephen Colbert said that while ago as well, where he said that Donald basically said countless batshit insane things continuously that we basically forgot what he had said before).

 

[mama cass]

Me makie joke about you.

I'm trying to be inclusive, okay?

why do you keep talking weird to Diemen? it's a bit disconcerting

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Unfortunate that you feel that way.

 

[BVS]

Unfortunate that you feel that way.

She's not the only one.


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[BVS]

This is going to be the big challenge for media and the public alike: To withstand the temptation to highlight and disect his smoke screens and keep focussing on the bigger stories, that simultaneously develop and get swept under the rug. So far, it hasn't worked that well, even though his strategy is pretty blatant and has been discussed by each paper at least once.

A fact that keeps amazing me: A news page brings a story discussing a politician's or company's strategy to deflect, pointing out which trap not to fall into, only for the very same news page to continously fall for it.

This will definitely be a challenge.


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[LuckyNumber7]

She's not the only one.


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Oh look, here comes BVS doing his typical condescending bullshit. Go away.

 

[mama cass]

Oh look, here comes BVS doing his typical condescending bullshit. Go away.

ahh there it is!

 

[LuckyNumber7]

ahh there it is!

Do you have anything to add? Why are you doing whatever it is you're doing?

 

[BVS]

Oh look, here comes BVS doing his typical condescending bullshit. Go away.

Whoooooah, slow it down. I was just trying to let you know she's not the only one making this observation.


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[LuckyNumber7]

Whoooooah, slow it down. I was just trying to let you know she's not the only one making this observation.


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Thank you for piggybacking with someone who routinely trolls my posts to share your views of looking down at me.

How about that president-elect Trump?

 

[mama cass]

Thank you for piggybacking with someone who routinely trolls my posts to share your views of looking down at me.

How about that president-elect Trump?

err dude, i don't routinely troll your posts - i just disagree with some things you say, sometimes take offence at how you say it, and so find it difficult to talk to you as you can get pretty mean fast

i believe we have had quite constructive convos in the past, about your move to the UK, so there's that

re. your comments to Diemen - well i genuinely found it amusing

 

[Hewson]

So with all this recount talk, we're 3 weeks out from election day, and Michigan still can't figure out who won their state?
What the hell is in the water there?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

The President-elect of the United States just suggested that anyone who burns a flag, an act protected by the first amendment, should be stripped of their citizenship and/or put in jail for a year.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Yay nationalism and universally instilling values in objects.