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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.
We wouldn't have survived another Clinton.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
You Americans had the opportunity to prove you're smarter than the Brits once and for all and you blew it, great work.
Interesting times ahead for sure....most immediately the new global recession you've just triggered.
I wonder how many WW2 vets lived to see this day.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
We've always had one party. The Repubcrats and the Demolicans. The same people fund both of them. I don't see why everyone's upset. Obama bombed the fuck out of people, expanded predator drones, bombed some weddings, bombed funerals for those weddings, killed US citizens overseas without trials and passed Romney care which, although helping the poorest get something resembling crappy healthcare, has pretty much tied the middle class to the same shitty system they had before, except prices went up.
Trump is no better or worse than Hillary, or even Sanders for that matter (did people not hear him say he wanted to arm Jordanians? Did people forget he voted yes to make provisions of the patriot act permanent? Did we...did we watch the same debate?)
The last president that tried to change things in a meaningful way was shot to death in Dallas. Everyone else has been a puppet.
Yet you fail to list one.
Women don't need "their turn" they're perfectly capable of competing for top jobs.
Really? How many women are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies? How many women have been president? Vice president? How is it that over half the population is women and yet they account for only 20% of congress? If you honestly think it is a level playing field then you are either delusional or sexist.
Firstly you have nothing to back that claim up. Secondly, that's not remotely relevant to what I said. Clearly - if you vote for a racist, sexist bigot then at the very least you are saying that something else was more important to you than sexism, racism and bigotry. That by itself DOES make you all three.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
Social Security: little chance of saving it. Retirees can live with their kids if they were unable to save enough. That is if they have kids, otherwise keep working.
Age Discrimination: no chance of Medicare expansion, healthcare is too expensive to hire older people.
Woman's right to choose: Overturning of Roe v Wade. Abortions will be illegal in many states. They will still happen, likely more abortions but they will be illegal.
Environment: Climate change aside, more pollution in our air, rivers & lakes. It's in the Republican Platform, read it.
Marriage equality
Outsourcing of jobs
Wage equality
Ran outa time, but the list goes on. The majority of the Trump voted fucked themselves & don't even know it . But don't worry, your guns are safe, like they ever were in any danger. Idiocracy was a documentary
SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT
So without leaching off the taxes my quarter million income pays, she can't survive?
Perhaps I worked so much harder than her to make this kind of money so I could *keep* it and apply it towards my newborn baby girl rather than your sister.
Is your sister paying for my newborn? No of course not, I'm a horrible successful person thus I should be robbed some more. But I should continue paying for your sister who still needs even more help (parents on top of my tax gift)?
I work to provide for *my* family not yours. No one helps me out because I work hard. And I'm a high school drop out who never attended college, I've always noticed no one is there to help me and I'm always had to work harder than you gifted types born into money.
Frankly I'd rather walk over your sister's corpse than take away money for *MY CHILD* that *I EARNED FIRST* in a one-way agreement that never flows back to myself. Screw you.
The Trump University scam alone is enough to impeach Trump and there are plenty more items that also justify impeachment. The ideal would be to impeach him before he takes office. The republicans practiced obstruction. It is now time for the democrats to amplify obstruction and make certain that the congress and senate accomplish absolutely nothing.