You're applying traditional political analysis to Trump, when it should be clear by now that his situation is very different from that of just about every candidate of the past 50 years, and perhaps much longer than that.
We need to look at the 1920's, especially if Donald Trump loses in double digits and takes the Republican Congress with him.
But victory can be a fleeting thing. In 1928, Republicans won 270 seats in the House. They were on top of the world. Two years later, they narrowly lost their majority. Two years after that, in 1932, their caucus shrunk to 117 members and the number of Republican-held seats in the Senate fell to just 36. To borrow the title of a popular 1929 novel (which had nothing whatsoever to do with American politics): Goodbye to all that.
All they'd really show is that he's an amazingly successful business man with far more real-world experience in running successful enterprises than any other candidate left, which everyone already knows.
If that was so, why didn't Mitt Romney released his tax returns in 2012. I'm still curious as to how he got $100M into an IRA account.
Are you one of those people who still plays the race card in order to avoid dealing with the fact that half the country doesn't agree with the other half about some pretty serious philosophical matters, mostly when it comes to the nature of the relationship between the people and the government that works for them?
Nope. I'm one of those people who talk about race because that's America today. As a white male conservative in a minority-majority state (California), I have no problems living as minority among minorities. My neighbors are black, Latino, Indian and Asian. We're all one people. We're Americans.
But no, you'd rather call them all racists.
If it makes your feel better, you can call me an asshole. You won't hurt my feelings. I work in IT.;)
Says the person who apparently can't remember it was only recently Ben Carson dropped out, a widely respected candidate who was surgeon... and oh by the way happened to be black.
I would have loved to vote for Ben Carson but he dropped out after Super Tuesday.
It never boggles the mind how someone intelligent enough to type can confuse being against a persons ideal rather than the color of his or her skin
I voted for Barack Obama because he had better VP pick then John McCain did in 2008. I would have voted for McCain if he had picked Joe Lieberman as he originally planned. Unfortunately, the party leadership told the "maverick" to pick someone else who less qualified, and, worse, mostly for gender rather than her ideal. That boggles my mind.
Combine those extremes for averages for each, and not only is he most likely to LOSE, he will lose VERY badly.
Somehow the Republican Party forgot that they needed to do better than Mitt Romney in 2012. Alienating every voting bloc in America to appeal to the party base is not a sound strategy.
The demographics don't favor the Republicans either.
By combining presidential election exit polls with mortality rates per age group from the U.S. Census Bureau, I calculated that, of the 61 million who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, about 2.75 million will be dead by the 2016 election. President Barack Obama's voters, of course, will have died too—about 2.3 million of the 66 million who voted for the president won't make it to 2016 either. That leaves a big gap in between, a difference of roughly 453,000 in favor of the Democrats.
[...] they're going to have to accept that Trump is very likely going to be the next President of the United States of America.
If the Republicans can't accept a black man in the White House, what makes your think that the Democrats will accept a talking hairpiece in White House?
These normal Americans are going to elect President Trump.
As a moderate conservative, I can tell you that the rest of America aren't going to elect Donald Trump. In fact, the numbers are indicating that he will lose the election to Hillary by double digits and endanger the Republican majorities in Congress.
Yeah, the reason you are a fucking fat ass is genes, not because your fat fucking ass is planted all day and you constantly shove high fat food in your fat fucking mouth.
Uh, no. I was fairly active and ate the same kind of foods that my parents ate. When I got into my teens, I rode my bike 36 miles each week. As a young adult, I rode my bike 100 miles per week to a restaurant job three towns over.
I learned about genes in the early 80's in school. Where did you live? The south?
Silicon Valley. My parents were skinny ass rednecks from Idaho.
I started converting my older WordPress websites into static websites. My main website used to get 4,000+ script kiddies per day from Russia and Asia. After it became a static website with no PHP or SQL calls, they went somewhere else.
I was commenting on the Devops Is Dead article when it disappeared. Was this article so embarrassingly bad that the Slashdot editors felt embarrassed enough to pull the article?
I consider you a loser because you have unresolved issues with your brother's success.
Let's consider my brother's success. Neither he nor his wife can retire because the mortgage is underwater and they can't sell the house. They're still paying off the down payment borrowed from his wife's 401K. They lease one car and own two trucks. Their credit cards are maxed out from buying designer jeans. They're not happy despite having it all.
Let's consider my success. I'm socking away 20% or more of my income into savings by living a modest lifestyle by not having it all.
Conclusion: The appearance of success is not the same as being successful.
...are you telling me you can be successful without a STEM degree?
How do you define successful? I consider myself to be successful by living a modest lifestyle in Silicon Valley. My brother, 30 miles away in Morgan Hill, considers me a loser because I don't have a big house, multiple cars and designer jeans.
I know Amazon at least does the majority of their development in Seattle.
Amazon Lab126 is located in Silicon Valley.
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Since then, we have worked to produce hardware and software for devices like Fire tablets, Kindle Voyage, Amazon Fire TV, and Amazon Echo.
[...] a community of the most uptight libertarian hipsters to ever exist.
You confusing San Francisco with Silicon Valley. The two communities are 50 miles apart. Alas, the news media always show a picture of San Francisco when talking about Silicon Valley.
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You're one of those people who use the race card because "race is america today" or because you're all americans.
We're all Americans. We all have race problems. We all need to deal with it.
You're applying traditional political analysis to Trump, when it should be clear by now that his situation is very different from that of just about every candidate of the past 50 years, and perhaps much longer than that.
We need to look at the 1920's, especially if Donald Trump loses in double digits and takes the Republican Congress with him.
But victory can be a fleeting thing. In 1928, Republicans won 270 seats in the House. They were on top of the world. Two years later, they narrowly lost their majority. Two years after that, in 1932, their caucus shrunk to 117 members and the number of Republican-held seats in the Senate fell to just 36. To borrow the title of a popular 1929 novel (which had nothing whatsoever to do with American politics): Goodbye to all that.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/1928-congress-last-time-republicans-had-a-majority-this-huge-112913
What about your tax returns?
I'm not running for POTUS.
They're a private matter between Trump and the IRS.
Hillary disagrees.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/tax-returns/
All they'd really show is that he's an amazingly successful business man with far more real-world experience in running successful enterprises than any other candidate left, which everyone already knows.
If that was so, why didn't Mitt Romney released his tax returns in 2012. I'm still curious as to how he got $100M into an IRA account.
You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
This is what the Republican Party had to say about the 2012 election. Read it. Educate yourself.
http://goproject.gop.com/rnc_growth_opportunity_book_2013.pdf
And you demonstrate your ignorance every time you post, yet like the idiot you are, you just keep at it.
I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot.
Are you one of those people who still plays the race card in order to avoid dealing with the fact that half the country doesn't agree with the other half about some pretty serious philosophical matters, mostly when it comes to the nature of the relationship between the people and the government that works for them?
Nope. I'm one of those people who talk about race because that's America today. As a white male conservative in a minority-majority state (California), I have no problems living as minority among minorities. My neighbors are black, Latino, Indian and Asian. We're all one people. We're Americans.
But no, you'd rather call them all racists.
If it makes your feel better, you can call me an asshole. You won't hurt my feelings. I work in IT. ;)
Says the person who apparently can't remember it was only recently Ben Carson dropped out, a widely respected candidate who was surgeon... and oh by the way happened to be black.
I would have loved to vote for Ben Carson but he dropped out after Super Tuesday.
It never boggles the mind how someone intelligent enough to type can confuse being against a persons ideal rather than the color of his or her skin
I voted for Barack Obama because he had better VP pick then John McCain did in 2008. I would have voted for McCain if he had picked Joe Lieberman as he originally planned. Unfortunately, the party leadership told the "maverick" to pick someone else who less qualified, and, worse, mostly for gender rather than her ideal. That boggles my mind.
Combine those extremes for averages for each, and not only is he most likely to LOSE, he will lose VERY badly.
Somehow the Republican Party forgot that they needed to do better than Mitt Romney in 2012. Alienating every voting bloc in America to appeal to the party base is not a sound strategy.
Of course, I'm only citing statistics.
The demographics don't favor the Republicans either.
By combining presidential election exit polls with mortality rates per age group from the U.S. Census Bureau, I calculated that, of the 61 million who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, about 2.75 million will be dead by the 2016 election. President Barack Obama's voters, of course, will have died too—about 2.3 million of the 66 million who voted for the president won't make it to 2016 either. That leaves a big gap in between, a difference of roughly 453,000 in favor of the Democrats.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/the-gop-is-dying-off-literally-118035
How about speeches to Wall St. and Clinton Foundation donations. Also, what about the running of the private email server.
What about Donald Trump's tax records?
http://static2.politico.com/dims4/default/739614e/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F04%2Ff7%2Ff20a98ff4804bd684ea9f53e250b%2Fwuc160406-1160.jpg
[...] they're going to have to accept that Trump is very likely going to be the next President of the United States of America.
If the Republicans can't accept a black man in the White House, what makes your think that the Democrats will accept a talking hairpiece in White House?
These normal Americans are going to elect President Trump.
As a moderate conservative, I can tell you that the rest of America aren't going to elect Donald Trump. In fact, the numbers are indicating that he will lose the election to Hillary by double digits and endanger the Republican majorities in Congress.
I have never had php installed on my server because I am not an incompetent fuckwit.
Every ISP and web hosting company that I ever used had PHP installed by default for the LAMP stack. Sometimes you don't have a choice in the matter.
Afaik Slashdot is written in Perl.
You would think after all these years that the Slashdot plumbing would have gotten rewritten into a modern language.
Yeah, the reason you are a fucking fat ass is genes, not because your fat fucking ass is planted all day and you constantly shove high fat food in your fat fucking mouth.
Uh, no. I was fairly active and ate the same kind of foods that my parents ate. When I got into my teens, I rode my bike 36 miles each week. As a young adult, I rode my bike 100 miles per week to a restaurant job three towns over.
I learned about genes in the early 80's in school. Where did you live? The south?
Silicon Valley. My parents were skinny ass rednecks from Idaho.
I started converting my older WordPress websites into static websites. My main website used to get 4,000+ script kiddies per day from Russia and Asia. After it became a static website with no PHP or SQL calls, they went somewhere else.
Had some unicode issues. It's back now.
Python 3 has native support for Unicode, so stop using Python 2. ;)
I was commenting on the Devops Is Dead article when it disappeared. Was this article so embarrassingly bad that the Slashdot editors felt embarrassed enough to pull the article?
I consider you a loser because you have unresolved issues with your brother's success.
Let's consider my brother's success. Neither he nor his wife can retire because the mortgage is underwater and they can't sell the house. They're still paying off the down payment borrowed from his wife's 401K. They lease one car and own two trucks. Their credit cards are maxed out from buying designer jeans. They're not happy despite having it all.
Let's consider my success. I'm socking away 20% or more of my income into savings by living a modest lifestyle by not having it all.
Conclusion: The appearance of success is not the same as being successful.
...are you telling me you can be successful without a STEM degree?
How do you define successful? I consider myself to be successful by living a modest lifestyle in Silicon Valley. My brother, 30 miles away in Morgan Hill, considers me a loser because I don't have a big house, multiple cars and designer jeans.
Stand-up philosophers (comedians) are BS artists. Microsoft needs plenty of those.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082517/quotes?item=qt0445853
In other words, fat.
Many fat engineers are not that well-rounded.
I know Amazon at least does the majority of their development in Seattle.
Amazon Lab126 is located in Silicon Valley.
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Since then, we have worked to produce hardware and software for devices like Fire tablets, Kindle Voyage, Amazon Fire TV, and Amazon Echo.
http://www.lab126.com/
[...] tangible, real-world value in a liberal arts education [...]
It's called being a well-rounded human being.
[...] a community of the most uptight libertarian hipsters to ever exist.
You confusing San Francisco with Silicon Valley. The two communities are 50 miles apart. Alas, the news media always show a picture of San Francisco when talking about Silicon Valley.
Are you aware how racist and ignorant this comment makes you? If you actually believe this nonsense, I feel sorry for you.
Two Google Android articles in one day. This is too much!