2016 USA Presidential election thread II: And. Here. We. Go!

[Krandor]

Member when Election Day was supposed to be the death knell of the GOP?

And instead we got to watch the DNC commit sudoku on national television.

[Byrthnoth]

~2 minutes until trading opens and ~5 minutes until the first articles hit the press about the massive drop post-Trump election.

Edit: Or apparently not. It looks like the outcome Wall Street was dreading last week was a Hillary win with inelegant Trump concession and armed insurgency.

[Kincard]

You know, I'm one of the few here that was fine with watching CNN during this whole thing, don't think I'm going to be able to for a while now though. I'm sure that so many of their anchors will talk about it like it's so exciting because it's just so unexpected.

where's your intellectual curiosity
i thought dems had all the college grads

[Quicklet]

Member when Election Day was supposed to be the death knell of the GOP?

And instead we got to watch the DNC commit sudoku on national television.

The GOP as it is existed is dead. They did the worst possible thing they could for their party. Now they get all the consequences of Trump.

[Fiye]

The last thing I want to see is Kellyanne conway's dumb smiling face.

[Aerin]

Member when Election Day was supposed to be the death knell of the GOP?

And instead we got to watch the DNC commit sudoku on national television.

Think you mean seppuku. Lol.

[Fiye]

I want to punch Jimmy Dore so god damn hard in the fucking face.

Edit: The more I watch this video the more I want to go Negan on it.

[Aerin]

where's your intellectual curiosity
i thought dems had all the college grads

I know you're just being an ass for the luls, but there's lot of ways to satisfy that curiosity. I draw the line at watching people being giddy over what I think is a massive mistake.

[Twilight Sky]

Are you trying to imply policy mattered for this election?

I think that's primarily what lead to her defeat. Playing too much into Trump's game of one-up - as it wasn't about policy anymore after the second debate, imo.

[Quicklet]

I think that's primarily what lead to her defeat. Playing too much into Trump's game of one-up - as it wasn't about policy anymore after the second debate, imo.

Hard to talk about policy when none of the news outlets want to talk about policy.

The American media as an institution bears some of the responsibility for this.

[Gryffes]

Hard to talk about policy when none of the news outlets want to talk about policy.

The American media as an institution bears some of the responsibility for this.

Which president passed the law allowing media ownership consolidation?

Lol.

[Galkaeater]

I want to punch Jimmy Dore so god damn hard in the fucking face.

Edit: The more I watch this video the more I want to go Negan on it.

Cenk 'The Armenian Butcher' Ugyr bullycided by the nobel waterfilter salesman Alex Jones

[archibaldcrane]

The Dow is flat today, no panic 17 minutes into trading.

[Byrthnoth]

Hard to talk about policy when none of the news outlets want to talk about policy.

The American media as an institution bears some of the responsibility for this.

The media makes money by talking about what people want to hear about, so they keep watching and the media can sell commercials. In a sense, it's a mirror.


Also yeah, no change in the Dow. It took over a month to crash following Reagan's election. I was assuming that last week's downwards drift and last night's futures panic would translate into a change in our market, but apparently not.

[Quicklet]

The media makes money by talking about what people want to hear about, so they keep watching and the media can sell commercials. In a sense, it's a mirror.


Also yeah, no change in the Dow. It took over a month to crash following Reagan's election. I was assuming that last week's downwards drift and last night's futures panic would translate into a change in our market, but apparently not.

My guess: day traders trying to make a quick buck and people in denial about Trump not being as bad as he's going to be.

We'll see how markets react once reality sets in.

[Rooney]

'Murica fucked up my good man as with their british cousins instead of looking at fixing the problem they go for the biggest idiot once again and it will bite them in the arse down the road. Theres certainly problems with the system, legitimate ones but the problem is when people decide on feelings instead of their head it ALWAYS ends badly and I only expect this k8nd of crap to break the US even more.

That being said the democrats have a chance to regroup and come up with someone who can relate to people better. If trumps history is anything to go by by the time hes up for reelection he might have screwed up so bad hell be the one destroyed. Thats unless he doesnt either get impeached first or assasinated as the kind of crap he put out is the kind of bull that brings out the worst in people and when feelings overtake reason stupid people will do stupid things. As the old saying goes karma is a bitch and unless he changes tact after getting in things will end badly down the road.

I know, it was more of a statement that even Texas realizes it fucked up. I've heard a couple people already that say something to the effect of "I didn't like Hillary, but I didn't think he'd actually win..."

[Fiye]

Trump doesn't go into office until January.

[Day]

Media and Social media has such a major hand in this. It's so easy now to wrap your self up in an echo chamber of the views you align with and constantly be re-enforced you are 100% right. The DNC and campaign knew this and worked with media and a super pac for social media to further push the divide. I watched it happen, it was most easily noticed on reddit. There they pushed too hard, too far, and pushed a lot of people away. In the primary they pushed too hard against Sanders and splintered their base, I guess they would have lost otherwise. You literally had to go to fox news or something to see what kind of support Trump had growing, most people here thought it was going to be a landside and I can't really blame you. They worked hand in hand with CNN, Huffpo, Wapo, Vox, all of them, to cover up her flaws, and to bury any reasonable coverage of the opposition. I literally had to sort r/politics by new every day and just wade through tons of bias information to get any facts, and when I started doing that is when I realized how much support was growing against the DNC and their actions.

I really, really hope the media is held accountable for this. I put them and DNC around 75% to blame as I stated earlier, and the rest is on Hillary who just wanted it so bad, country be damned. They downplayed Sanders, propped up both Clinton and Trump, and tried to hoodwink all of the American public into thinking Clinton was doing much better than she was. There was a massive anti-hillary movement on twitter and reddit if you chose to step into those areas. I have to laugh a little at the DNC plan to prop up a "pied piper" candidate like Cruz or Trump so they could win, bold strat cotton.

[Quicklet]

Trump doesn't go into office until January.

Putin's not going to wait until January. Watch how quickly Aleppo gets razed, Iran starts acting, etc.

[Byrthnoth]

Naw, it's really that there's no good way to define a "probable voter" before the election hits.