2016 Presidential Election Thread

It's not so much Republicans switching to vote for Democrats, it's status quo establishment politicians and political consultants siding with the status quo to maintain their power, perks, and privileges. They are the defenders of the rigged system.

The way the reporter made it, 'the tide' wasnt just politicians but supporters, society, media. Suggests a bit of a backlash at Trumps gaffs/brain farts

It's just an excuse their using, and virtue signalling. There's no way to be upset about what Trump said about Khan's attack without being horrified by what the Benghazi parents said about Hillary, or without noting that Hillary voted for the war that got Cpt. Khan killed, a war which Trump opposed.

And Khan has just deleted his immigration services website off the Internet. He's from Pakistan and specialized in getting visas for rich Muslims, so he was speaking at the convention to keep his lucrative legal practice from drying up.

I'm fairly skeptical of everything right now since the media has cranked the blatant anti-Trump propaganda up to eleven post DNC convention. It's even leaking over to Canadian news. I'm mostly waiting to see what the polls are at in two weeks once that convention bump would normally start to fade.

Endorsements are essentially meaningless any more.

It's seriously ridicouolus that CNN thinks we won't see the truth.

The whole Clinton/Kaine bus tour has been a huge flop. There are pictures everywhere of the small crowds.

Who the fuck dose CNN thinking they are fooling? Other then idiots like @gul?

Third richest person on the planet endorses Hillary Clinton for President.

Whatever happened to that 1% dealio that was all the rage awhile back last week?

The Koch brothers won't run ads for Trump, either. They're not going to buck the 0.001% that Hillary represents.

Kirt Schlichter knocks it out of the park at Townhall, addressing the conservative elites who don't get Trump.

The primaries are over and Trump is the nominee, and instead of whining about it like a Millennial faced with having to get a job we need to step back and ask ourselves if we have learned anything from this bizarre turn of events. The GOP – our GOP – has nominated someone who is not a traditional conservative. He’s not even an untraditional conservative. Hell, there’s probably not even a “c” or a “v” in whatever he is. So we can either try to figure out what happened or keep rending our clothes and gnashing our teeth about how our own voter base took one look at us and rejected us like any sober, sighted guy in a bar at 7 p.m. would reject Lena Dunham.

What have we learned from this? We can’t answer that unless we get beyond the natural tendency to assume that the problem is that everyone else is wrong: “Gosh, if the voters weren’t so stupid they would have totally fallen in line with our commands and right now we’d be watching Jeb Bush being fitted for a gimp suit by Hillary instead of seeing Trump [checks current polls] uh, cleaning her clock. Wait, what?”

Did we ever actually listen to our people? I mean all our people, not just the people who went to the same colleges as us and who hang with us at the same awesome restaurants and read National Review. I mean the actual voters out there in wherever actual GOP voters live. Did we pay attention to them and their concerns? Did we listen to them about illegal immigration, about the impact of free trade, about the wars we supported? And did we fight? I don’t mean just give lip service to how bad and unwashed liberals are, but really get in there and stand up to these flag-hating, gender-inventing, God-booing jerks? Or did we look down on the very people we were depending on at election time?

In short, did we completely screw up? Nah, it’s clearly everyone else who’s wrong. They’re just too stupid to understand that they need to obediently fall in line. After all, their real interests are actually – and super conveniently – our interests.

Seriously – is that where we are at? Because I’m hearing a lot of such nonsense from people horrified at Trump and, by extension, the GOP voters who nominated him fair and square. Can we really blame them for voting for the one guy who actually paid attention to what they were saying?

Did we listen about illegal immigration? Heck, illegal immigration is just wonderful for us. We get cheaper restaurant food, cheaper houses, cheaper maids, and if we own companies we get cheaper workers. So what’s not to love, right? Except maybe you didn’t go to a university and wanted to work with your hands and found that you can’t get a job because all the companies are hiring cheap illegal alien workers. Or your truck got hit by an uninsured illegal. Or your daughter got killed by an illegal who should have been deported. Well, if you have concerns about these things, clearly you’re a racist.​

He goes on, and it gets even better.

UK media still going on this tide turning idea.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-36962942

Source

In typical Democrat fashion this year Dacey already has a new job at Squared Communications, a Democratic consulting firm.

Nice parade. Like the float.



Strangely enough, it was built by an independent and a Democrat.

It would have been more funny if they'd had Trump in there too. Cage match. With water balloons of course.

I'm not sure how this fits in with the fire department's 100 year celebratory parade.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html

Trump is asking why we can't use nuclear weapons. Repeatedly.

http://nypost.com/2016/08/03/trump-getting-nuttier-and-nuttier-campaign-insiders-say/

The most interesting bit, IMO:

I'm all for electorally purging the congressional leadership, but so that Trump can have yes-men in there instead? Hell no!

And I've never heard a good answer as to why we can't. We paid for them. We have a right to use them.

Hillary says she'll raise taxes on the middle class. Hillary supporters cheer wildly.



If they want far less spending money, why don't they just give their money to the Clinton Foundation like all the foreign oil companies and Arab dictatorships do?

We CAN do damn near anything.

The question is whether it's a good idea, and that kind of higher-order reasoning seems to be beyond Trump and his supporters.

Disengage, do not feed the gturnerbot. No good can come from that. Just neg him and move along.

It's from some unnamed source of course. So we might as well just file that under hearsay.

Besides. Even if true as presented. It's not like the President is the only one that makes the decision to use nuclear weapons.

The second person required is a Presidential appointee. Trump's in the habit of picking "yes men." If this story is true, I'd be willing to bet that one of the questions asked by Trump of any Secretary of Defense candidates would be, "If I order that we nuke ISIS, will you carry that order out?" I'm also willing to bet that anyone who attempts to dissuade Trump of doing such a thing wouldn't get the job.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-if-nuclear-weapons-them.html

Tuckerfan, if the stories are to be believed you may be closer to the truth than you think.

He's not the only one who's said such things. Remember what Ted Cruz said?

the mushroom cloud will be huuuuuge!

Cruz was crazy enough but maybe, just maybe, you could dismiss it as trying to be macho for voters during a primary he was losing. Kind of like a hail merry pass. The most scary part of this report about Trump was it was not for public consumption. He was saying "if we have nukes why can't we just use them" over and over in a one hour meeting with foreign policy experts.

But consider this: President Cruz is coming up on re-election in 2024, his poll numbers are down, way down, amongst his core demographic, nuking ISIS is something he can deliver without Congressional interference.....

http://www.ajamubaraka.com/the-char...-in-paris-a-celebration-of-western-hypocrisy/

Some of the writing of Jill Stein's VP pick. Icky.