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Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com)
It's official: Donald Trump has won the 2016 presidential election. Slashdot reader Xenographic writes: Google's map of results is now calling the race for Donald J. Trump. This is something that Nate Silver jokingly predicted back on May 10th when he wrote "Reminder: Cubs will win the World Series and, in exchange, President Trump will be elected 8 days later." The House and Senate are also under Republican control. In other news, the Canadian immigration site has crashed under heavy load.This is how The New York Times, America's top newspaper reported the news:The surprise outcome, defying late polls that showed Hillary Clinton with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mr. Trump's unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold. The triumph for Mr. Trump, 70, a real estate developer-turned-reality television star with no government experience, was a powerful rejection of the establishment forces that had assembled against him, from the world of business to government, and the consensus they had forged on everything from trade to immigration. The results amounted to a repudiation, not only of Mrs. Clinton, but of President Obama, whose legacy is suddenly imperiled. And it was a decisive demonstration of power by a largely overlooked coalition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters who felt that the promise of the United States had slipped their grasp amid decades of globalization and multiculturalism. Update: The New Yorker's Editor-in-Chief David Remnick, described the Election outcome as "an American tragedy." The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said, "Trump will bring global recession." BBC has an article on how the media worldwide has described Trump's victory. The Guardian captured the thoughts of world leaders on the matter. Hillary Clinton addressed the nation this morning and told her supporters that they all should keep an open mind and give Trump the chance to lead.
Editor's note: this story has been updated with more details, and also moved to the top of the front page because of its importance.
Editor's note: this story has been updated with more details, and also moved to the top of the front page because of its importance.
1. Barbra Streisand 2. Bryan Cranston 3. Miley Cyrus 4. Lena Dunham 5. Amy Schumer 6. Jon Stewart 7. Cher 8. Chelsea Handler 9. Samuel L. Jackson 10. Whoopi Goldberg 11. Neve Campbell 12. Keegan-Michael Key 13. George Lopez 14. Ne-Yo 15. Rev. Al Sharpton 16. Raven-Symoné
Don't let the door hit your rears on the way out you babies!
For anyone who doubts the parent post, read the PDF attached to this email and look at the list of names of "Pied Piper Candidates" the DNC hoped to face.
Maybe they should dump the superdelegates and let the people choose their own candidate next time?
1) Markets are tanking.
2) News about how to immigrate to Canada floated from #5 to #3 on the Google "Top News" list.
At this rate, I'm glad I woke up. I'll go get my passport, pack my bags, get in line early to withdraw all my savings from the bank, and drive north.
Extra Republican votes? He got several million fewer votes than any R or D candidate since 2000. Like I said in another post, Republicans have a minimum guaranteed turnout, Democrats don't. Trump got the minimum, Hillary got less.
Hillary is an expert politician and would have made an excellent president, but she didn't have the charisma to break Democrats out of 8 years of complacency and idealism.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Presidents do not ratify treaties, Congress does. So no, he didn't.
Trump is coming into office in the midst of yet another bubble from the Fed. That bubble's going to burst sooner or later, and they can make it happen tomorrow if they want, simply by stopping inflation. The correction that follows is necessary, but you can bet that the left will try to blame it on the Republicans.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
But wait! Hes going to fix all that right? Our growth sucks we need 10% GDP growth per year which he will deliver! He said it during a presidential debate! America, land of 4.9% unemployment, S&P500 and dollar index record highs, and new this month, wage increases WILL BE GREAT! Right?
Dump did say were in a bubble but he will fix it. RIGHT!?!?!
Oh, just about literally everything he has said in public since his campaign started.
Eat the rich.
Well you should be sorry. All those whiny regressive liberals are threatening to come to Canada. We've got enough of those up here already trying to destroy the country and make sure you can't even afford electricity.
Om, nomnomnom...
> what part of 'Eventually, the court dismissed the Paula Jones harassment lawsuit' do you not understand ?
That's not even half the story...
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> Dear Media: Thank you so much for turning a relatively banal email screwup that had zero actual consequence into the biggest campaign scandal in decades and turning an otherwise likeable candidate into a pariah.
They didn't even cover half of what was found and discussed on /r/wikileaks, just a few banal items like the VP list (which was silly, because she actually promised it to Kaine a long time ago so that DWS would control the DNC), or how Donna Brazille got booted from CNN for leaking all the debate questions (several other people, however, were also complicit and didn't go anywhere...).
> Dear Director of the FBI: Thank you for possibly breaking the law by dropping an election bombshell and tanking Clinton's poll numbers over absolutely nothing.
Hillary was under investigation long before that (still is, allegedly, but that might just be a rumor). And frankly, I don't think this did it. If anything dumped her numbers, I'd say it's the creepy as hell #spiritcooking that the media never touched, but which went viral.
> Dear GOP: Thank you for you massive voter suppression efforts and the SCOTUS for enabling them. Together you were able to obstruct the ability of minorities to vote.
Too many stories to know which things you're talking about specifically. I did hear about a few things that I'm not happy with, though.
> Dear Wikileaks: Way to go! You just handed a global superpower to a comically corrupt bozo who is so non-transparent he didn't even release his taxes!!
Send them some leaks next time? Though I think you could more easily just leak that sort of thing to CNN/ABC/etc. In fact, I seem to recall that someone did exactly that for some older tax documents. Here's their response to that, incidentally:
http://europe.newsweek.com/jul...
Pick any speech he has ever made.
His gaffes are too numerous to list, when literally everything he has ever said has been deplorable.
Eat the rich.
The US congress has declared war 11 times the last one in 1942.
You went to fucking Vietnam without congressional approval. Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. There's no need for congressional approval for the president to deploy military force, and since this precedent has long since been established I don't think for a second Trump will even try to get congressional approval if he wants to play war-games in the mdddile-east or wherever.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
You need to look more carefully. There has been substantial inflation over the past few years:
1. Bond prices
2. Stock prices
3. Housing prices
4. Food prices (look at the price per unit quantity)
5. College tuition
6. Medical care/medical insurance (Depending on where you live in the U.S., how do you like that 33% increase in insurance premia for the coming year?)
The only place you don't see inflation are energy and wages (wage inflation is what the Federal Reserve does *not* want to see because it is "bad" inflation).
You should do your homework first, to avoid making false claims. Libertarians (large or small "L") aren't philosophically against protecting the environment, they just believe there's a better way to do it.
- LP Platform
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
The problem is BOTH candidates have displayed a great deal of racism, sexism, and bigotry.
You need only look at many of the positions Hillary held while she ran for senate. How she stood up in front of large crowds and told us all about remorseless super predators, her friendships with clansmen like Byrd that she never disavowed, how many of her former staff claim to have been treated by her and say she even used racial slurs, how the campaign e-mails show she cynically divided people and sought to do so along racial and gender lines. The woman was no saint she just set herself up as the anti-bigot and a complaint media went along with it. They never bothered to ask how can Trump be so sexist when he gives some of the most important positions in his campaign and companies to women? Remember too Bill ultimately settled out of court with at least some of his accusers, because he knew they would prevail if it went to trial therfore we can assume she knew as well. Standing by your man and giving him the benefit of the doubt is a perfectly reasonable thing for a wife to do, but when you really don't have doubt it is it really right to try and destroy those women publicly the way she did?
I did not put that last thing in to apologize for Trump I merely put it in to suggest that you and I have been feed a very biased portal of both of these people. Both of these candidates decided to make this election about name calling because neither was long on substance. Clinton was simply not really a good advocate for women she just put on the mantle thinking it would be politically useful. The only way to spin things for H being any less sexist and bigoted than Trump is to suggest she treated everyone more equally badly. Oh boy that sure is a win.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
With all sincerity, next time, yes, vote your conscious. I, a white male small-el libertarian, voted for Jill Stein, and will get shit for it. Already have gotten shit for it. My wife is a liberal non-white female who voted for Hillary, hoping to see a female President. She's disappointed, I'm glad Hillary didn't win, but we both know we voted for us, for our own reasons. Voting against your conscious isn't worth the mental issues later.
In fact, the next election, when someone tells you to vote to disrupt "the other guys", smack them as hard as you can. :^)
Next election? Do you think a moldy old piece of paper is going to stop Trump? For fuck's sake, this is straight out of Mussolini's Italy. The republicans have total control. Political redistricting happens in 2018. It's likely multiple supreme court vacancies will be filled. And with Giuliani as attorney general and Comey or someone worse as head of FBI, the only elections we'll be having is a choice between Dear Leader Trump and Great Leader Trump.
We always think "It can't happen here". It can, and it has. We've elected Biff Tannen as president, a despotic demagogue who has made it abundantly clear what he intends to do with those that oppose and/or insult him. We've elected the living embodiment of every negative stereotype the world has of Americans. All that's needed now is a Reichstag moment and our democratic failure will be complete.
~X~
You should do your homework first, to avoid making false claims. Libertarians (large or small "L") aren't philosophically against protecting the environment, they just believe there's a better way to do it.
You should take your head out of your ass, to avoid talking stupid shit. Libertarians are against any meaningful environmental regulation; they want injured parties to have to sue through the courts and suffer years of ongoing damages to the environment which cannot be repaired before the case is settled and someone is asked to pay a handslap fine.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
At 9:50am EST, S&P 500 is roughly even; Dow is up 0.3%; NASDAQ is about even.
That, and the fact that Hillary comes across so generally unlikable.
I think that and the FBI statements 12 days ago might have had something to do with it. There should be some head-rolling going on in the FBI. No reason for a lame-duck president or congress. Obvious Hatch Act violations occurred. At the very least take down the assholes that illegally influenced the election. They should be able to accomplish that in the next 60 days, but I doubt that will happen.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
I know a lot of very upset Indians who were promised easier immigration for skilled workers (mainly chefs) and spouses after the referendum.
Well just add it to the pile of amazingly blatant lies that the exit side told. Brexiters keep telling me that remain was "just as bad", but whenever challenged they can never come up with anything quite as blatantly counterfactual as the Brexit camp.
Plus, you know, Remain didn't knowingly splatter a massive lie on the side of a bus, use it as the cornerstone of their campaign then drive round the country exposing as many people to the lie as possible.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
You say that Trump is a caricature of the worst stereotypes...aggressive, irrational, uneducated, greedy, and violently racist...
Those can be used to describe Hilary as well - including racist - and you can add the adjectives corrupt, immoral, criminal, and incompetent.
No one should be happy with this election. The two candidates put forward by their respective parties were both awful. I wasn't planning on voting; I planned on abstaining, but my wife begged me to vote. Ultimately, I voted for Trump because he can't do WORSE than Obama or Hilary. He might do a terrible job, but he can't do worse, and to my knowledge, he's not a happy criminal whose family has anyone who airs their laundry killed.
I am anti Trump, openly liberal and I own guns. Lots.
My wife used to be anti guns until she watched W ruin the economy in 08. At that point she believed that if America elected another moron, rising unemployment/poverty would cause people to turn to crime to survive.
So you are a hypocrite who supports liberals who are anti-gun and believe that only people like you should have rights and freedoms. Do you know what we used to call those kind of people? Nazis. National "SOCIALIST" Worker Party. Interestingly, your democrats has become anti-worker and globalist.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.