Senate The US Politics discussion

A protest vote that allowed Trump to be President.

 

Juliet, there are levels of morality.

 

The blame for Hillary not winning lies squarely on Clinton and her campaign.

 

I would argue a broken system given far too much credit through masturbatory self-reverence did that for you.

 

The Devos family hard at work destroying retirement

Damn those police and firefighters and teachers.

 

Vivec I dare you to disagree.

 

Lmao, talk about tribalism.

 

BTW, congrats anakinfansince1983 and all the other citizens of North Carolina on their new Governor.

 

I can list what I approve of in Trump. Here goes:

His anti global capitalist rhetoric and promises.
His anti-lobbying rhetoric and promises.
The theme tune to The Apprentice.

Pretty much everything else is despicable. God, just look at him.

 

I largely blame candidates for not winning elections because I despise the "attack/blame the voter" response. It's Hillary's fault for losing. It's Bernie's fault for losing. It's Cruz's fault for losing. At the end of the day, it's the candidate and their team's job to win the necessary votes in the right places in accordance with the rules of the election that they agreed to beforehand, and no one is owed a vote from anybody. Is our system broken? Yes. If you know anything about me you know I support large changes in how the American government works, including things liked preference voting (ranked choice). But this was a system that needed to have been changed before the election, and we can't just heap blame upon it for two weeks after an election result we don't like and then never do anything about it (hello 2000).

What's ender going to do, kill my Watch Dogs character if I disagree?

 

Fixed.

 

Liked even though I don't know what Watch Dogs is

 

I wonder if the Apprentice theme will be changed now that Arnold is taking over?

 

SuperWatto I don't know any of the video game characters he uses.

 

I'm the opposite. It's not HRC's fault that so many people in America are complete ****ing ****s.

 

So what do you do about it?

In other news, Trump is looking at Jon Huntsman Jr. for Sec. of State. That would be the best choice so far out of all the candidates currently being looked at.

 

Vivec assumes that somewhere there is an effective counter-method to dealing with populists. I don't know, maybe Austria has the key?

 

They just dealt with it effectively because they are more mature and better educated. They also have a history dealing with rampaging populists.

 

Obviously there is a counter method. Bernie Sanders lost, no?

It's this smugness that lost Clinton the election.

 

Americans are terrible and consistently make poor decisions.

But this loss is on Clinton. Her team made major miscalculations in terms of attacking Trump(focusing oh him being a terrible person, instead of a corrupt, free-loading business man) and ignoring the Rustbelt. A charlatan like Trump should have never been able to shape-shifted into some sort of populist. Obama and even her husband would have destroyed that narrative.

 

The Democratic party is trying to reach out to the young people by electing a party leadership in Congress whose average age is SEVENTY-SIX.

 

44 did it: we're talking about Clinton

 

I keep telling you Ben Affleck or Matt Damon. Ignore me at your peril. I don't care, I am not being ruled by an oompa loompa on steroids.