2016 Presidential Election Thread

Yeah, more than half the US is poorer than they were in 2000.

And American the Mediocre, our new national anthem, after eight years of the Obama book-licking world tours, more regulations and bigger government than ever before in history, and The Donald is somehow the fault of the GOP.

You people are crackers. The Donald and all the implications his popularity entails lies squarely at the feet of the Shithead in Chief, aka President Obama. Well, that and a GOP that is mostly RINO, which is causing a reckoning.

WTF is up with Rudy Giuliani? Dude is getting senile or maybe he's sleep deprived or something - he was babbling about how Obama is doing in the election!

When he was on ABC earlier, he sounded like somebody was hitting his reset button every 30 seconds or so.

What is his role in this race? I see him on TV daily but does he have an official job with the Trump staff? Does he even have a job of any type anymore?

Well it's starting too look like I'm going to be happy that my prediction was wrong.

you probably won't be happy about the wreckage - "blow it up real good" might make for a winning campaign but it ain't worth a shit if you have no idea how to put something back together.

Go fuck yourself.

Trump doesn't need to - he will have a staff for that. That said he will have to really listen to (and trust) his handlers. And Donald - when you get any briefings about security procedures, listen the fuck up.

NY Times says 95% chance that Trump wins POTUS.

That'd be very out of character for him.

He'll catch on quick enough - he's smarter than he seems. Then again his success depends on how much cooperation he gets from the other branches of government. It's not a one-man show.

No, he isn't.

which he has routinely done the exact opposite of that ever since he got into the race.

Fox calls WI for Trump. :&

He might be smart enough to beat Hillary in a few minutes here.

Wisconsin for Trump? I used to live there - way to go Wisconsin!

Trump only won 4% in Washington DC. Panem really hates him.

I've been to Washington DC - let's just say the demographic doesn't really lean Trump.

Save for the fact that winning a popularity contest has nothing to do with intelligence. Him going up against Hillary is akin to going up against a Bush, both have tainted "brands." The problem is that folks thought that the Clinton was the better brand, despite the volumous evidence to the contrary beforehand.

I guess the Dems have no choice but to nominate Oprah Winfrey next time

he seems to have been elected on the power of "Fuck everything!"

I wonder how many of those folks even know exactly what they want from him, let alone how to tell whether or not they get it.

They probably should have run her in 2016.

Seriously how could the Democrats who themselves are not fans of Clinton have let her get this far. She should have been squashed long ago.

Anna Navarro is making solid points on ABC right now - Every Democrat in America, including Clinton, knew she was the presumptive 2016 nominee and the Clintons COULD have spent that 8 years leading a spotless life above reproach so that there was nothing but old news to throw at her...and they didn't.

The DP has to accept the guilt for nominating maybe the only member of their party that could lose to this guy.

But that said, it's also true that any sane country wouldn't have given a guy like this that many votes if he'd been running against a turnip. So it's pretty fucked up all around.

^ Stay cool - this is not nearly as bad as your worst fears have led you expect, I promise you.

[this guy was a lifelong Democrat practically]

I will not gloat. Leftists are simply brainwashed - at the end of the day, you are still our brothers and sisters.

Now bow to your new overlord. Please rise, for the President of the United States of America: Donald Trump

so being "sane" means to vote for someone that doesn't keep their nose clean (and that's quite an understatement) than to vote for "a guy like this"? Sorry I guess the rest of the country doesn't seem to share your values of choosing a known criminal over giving someone new to the game a chance.

Predictions for 4 years from now with Trump presidency:
*there will be a conservative justice in Scalia's seat
*there will not be any significant legislation to restrict abortion (they will pass some symbolic stuff outlawing stuff that ain't happening
*no major trade agreement will be changed
*no wall will be built beyond what is already planned
*the deficit will go up considerably
*whatever they do regarding the ACA will not make the health care situation better, millions will lose their insurance, premium rates will continue to rise just as they were rising under Bush
*the market will drop badly, possibly crass
*unemployment will be significantly higher
*refugees will be turned away (you can count that as one point his supporters will get what they hope for)
*we will have troops on the ground in battle somewhere
*there will be no decrease in terrorist attacks
*there will be tons of examples of Trump voters who not realizing their hero is responsible for the negatives will act out against the "others" blaming them for their continued problems
*ADF and other "Christian" legal groups will blow up state legislatures with anti-LGB/T laws faster than the courts can knock them down
*Congress will move to pass the First Amendment Defense Act (i.e. "The License to Discriminate Act") which will need to be litigated to SCOTUS and with the fresh appointment, may stand up.

If you are black, Latino, Muslim, Jewish or any other "Other" people group, gird up your loins - the candidate of the KKK has been elected and batten down the hatches and try to survive the next 4 years.

If you are LGB/T, hug and kiss the legal rights you have (in my case, basically none) because you'll be damned lucky to keep them and you sure as fuck won't be getting any more, maybe not for the rest of your life if any more Supreme Court seats come open.

The world - and this country - is a much darker place than I'd have liked to believe.