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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.
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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?
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."
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).
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
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.'"