2016 Presidential Election Thread

Your head trauma is a bigger concern - being a blue stater your head is probably being squeezed by your sphincter muscles. It's probably pretty common up in your neck of the woods!

check this out - a movie scene I would like to see: Hillary is indeed indicted, found guilty, and is in handcuffs about to get loaded into the police van. Suddenly BOOM! A cannon shot rings out - trumpets (no pun intended) blare - out of the fog a white horse appears - it's TRUMP and he's wielding a hacksaw! He jumps off the horse, punches out the police, and cuts off Hillary's
handcuffs......no wait - he throws away the hacksaw and chews through her handcuffs and frees her! Then he makes an epic, inspirational, tear jerking speech then pardons Hillary!

Nah. He'll let her rot.

He has been very conciliatory, but the question is whether he'll throttle the hundreds of agents who continue to investigate her because that's what they do. They're like bloodhounds who know their quarry is nearly theirs, and it would destroy their morale if corruption won the day, along with destroying their faith in Trump to root it out.

They don't seem to have a problem with other female world leaders.

There is a lot of talk about Trump pardoning Assange.

I agree Trump should drop all involvement in charging Hillary - he has way bigger fish to fry, and has already got started on his transition training. He doesn't have time for her triflin' ass now.
Whatever classified shit she mishandled has already done it's damage or will due it's damage. Let her go reap millions in speaking engagements since the US has an unlimited supply of idiots willing to hear her babbling bullshit.

Perhaps, but the US is "the real deal" AKA "the big Kahuna" of world powers, like it or not. Having her actually calling the shots (quite literally!) would really get under their skin. And you think US citizens are a main target for terrorism now, imagine the turned up to eleven hate with the US being led by a female! Granted I think it would be awesome pissing on their Wheaties but not with Hillary - any other female president though and I would fucking love it. Actually a gay female Jew would be the ultimate president!

They had to deal with her directly when she was secretary of state.

Another racist backing conspiracy theories? Here is a fact, Trump won because regular people liked him better than Hillary not because of 5000 KKK members in a country of 320 million.

I read his post and I just think, typical Air Force, and move on. When the Army took him, well, they were hurting for people I guess.

No mention of Hitler, or death camps, in my post.

Piss off.

he did, more than tripled his vote, still nothing of consequence. The third option idea is well and truly dead.

So far, and this is two days in, we know that Trump has a "First Day Agenda" specifically noting all the things Obama did that Trump can reverse via an immediate EO. On that list is every single item that was LGB/T positive.
Moreover, he is literally appointing FRC bigwigs to his transition team to pre-screen all potential appointments. Essentially, the nation elected a Tony Perkins sock puppet. It doesn't take a genius if one pays attention to the issues relevant to us.

A lot of y'all just enjoy the comfort and security of not being targets so you don't have to worry about such nitpicky things.

Gingrich already admitted today that the whole "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" was in, in his words, "nce campaign device" that ain't gonna happen.

He played the fools for fools - it is, after all, Trump's superpower

No, not in camps, nor do I expect to be. Just a despised minority living in a country where the bigots are feeling their oats and think their hatefulness is now cool and legitimate. I don't worry about Trump (other than his giving a blank check to the Pharisees) nearly as much as I do the people he's drug out into the daylight and legitimized.

And so did Donald, during the debates- I mean by pretty obvious implication.

if those folks were actually capable of analyzing real world results...nah, not worth it. What's done is done.

yet millions of people voted for him with great confidence that he was going to do exactly that.

We're talking about a man who directly and boldly lied to his people from the stump the same day about the protester at the Obama speech - basically proving he had such contempt for them that he could tell ANY lie and they would follow him anyway...and they did.

So be it.

gosh! sure is a good thing we didn't elect one of THOSE!

it's not the KKK (et al) legitimizing Trump that's at issue, it's Trump legitimizing THEM.

THEY think that their boy getting elected validates White supremacy as a legitimate political movement - and there are a LOT of latently racists white folks out there who can see views they had been conditioned to keep to themselves now permissible in the public conversation. Social media is awash this week with examples of people, from old gray-hairs to school children, blatantly taunting minorities in ways they would have never have had the courage to do a year ago.

No, the modern left is doing that more than anyone else by pretending that boogeyman is anything notable or has any power what so ever all while they play racist games morning, noon, and night.

Dems lost the middle class because starting with Clinton they went corporatist, ignored the normal working people, and now are little more than Republicans with different colored ties. Trump won the middle class vote and the lower class vote by daring to speak about issues the special interests didn't want to talk about but which are killing the middle class. Mass immigration (both legal and illegal) driving down wages for blue colar workers, corporate friendly trade deals which kill unions and result in outsourced jobs, a general dislike for politicians who all seem to sell regular people down river, and a feeling that the system is rigged.

You know what? It is the dems that abondoned the working men for 30 years and then ignored all of their concerns or, worse, told them they were evil racists if they dared to advocate for policies which were good for themselves. The Dem elites ignored the populist ground swell for Sanders and then rigged the primary system for the worst candidate imaginable because they knew she'd keep the special interests on the gravy train (and thus the elites on the gravy train) while secretly laughing at their gullible voters during the $10,000 a seat cocktail parties.

We saw that with Hillary admiting to Goldman Sacks that what she said in public wouldn't effect how she really felt and that was just lies to keep the serfs quiet. People hate being lied to so blatantly so they decided to stick it in the elite's eye.

My honest guess is Trump will not have the skill, knowledge, or ability to concentrate long enough to get anyrhing meaningful passed. He will be another U. S. Grant who doesn't know how the government works much less how to get things done and worse he isn't interested in learning. As a result he will appoint whomever he is told by the special interests and then ignore them and let them run things no matter how corruptly.

That is my guess. He will cause a masdive deficit, not actually accomplish anything, and will cause the economy to go down as he copies Republican dogma like in Kansas because the Congress urges him to because the special interedts desperately want it. The only ones to lose will be the rest of the country .

Good point. So maybe they can tolerate a powerful female. But specifically would having a female in the ultimate position of power crank up the "death to America!" extremist crowd and make the world (especially the U.S.) more unstable? We'll never know I guess. Granted I say fuck extremists anyway and we shouldn't even try to appease them and gender shouldn't be a factor in who we elect or how we run our own country - I'm just wondering if a female president would affect or incite the muslim extremists.

Is anybody surprised that Dinner is defending the KKK?

True we don't know if Trump won't be a corruptible, negligent president in the future - but we already know Hillary is.

Your disconnect from reality is now complete, Gul. No, I am not defending the KKK, you half wit, I am saying Dems are barking up the wrong tree in their desperate attempt to find excuses for why they lost. No, it was not the 5000 KKK members nor any white supermacists who got Trump elected, you stupid mongoloid, but the votes of millions of pissed off regular people.

Antagonizing them and claiming their concerns do not matter or calling them names will not get them to vote your way, you slack kawed simpleton. Having the Dems more back to the left and championing polivies for the working man instead of corpiratists just might though. Why do you think states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania switched sides, fuckwit? Hint: It isn't, as the idiots would have you think, because they are all KKK members.

Gul, I realize you are too lazy, and far too stupid to figure out anything beyond a sound bite but there is a cracked article and a Michael Moore article which would explain much and more if you would bother to read it.

The truth is an ideologue such as yourself doesn't like uncomfortable truths and that is why you latch on to ideologically pure claptrap like crying racism nonstop.

I don't know, but it sure looks like a Trump president is affecting and inciting the muslim extremists. ISIS is positively giddy.

Well if you aren't pissing off ISIS you must be doing something wrong or maybe doing nothing at all.

Trump isn't pissing off ISIS. They LOVE him.