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Nuclear Tourist posted:The only comfort I'm taking out of this election is that Massachusetts voted to legalize recreational weed until the new and improved trump-brand DEA comes in and says 'lol no' remember that the islamic shock himself had to rule by decree and tell the DEA to stop loving around with medical MJ
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Goddamn guys I honest to God thought the hate for Clinton was just a thing that had no real merit. She is no poo poo hated upon by a lot.
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My goal for this election was for dems to get at least the house, senate, or presidency, and no more. I wanted the GOP to fail hard so they could have time to reflect on some social issues as a whole. It is way easier to talk to people from within for change when failure like that happens. Instead we got this and I really wonder how the party platforms are going to change.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Goddamn guys I honest to God thought the hate for Clinton was just a thing that had no real merit. Relevant article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-white-house-hillary-clinton-liberals
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yeah i dont see at all how the DEA doesn't go hog loving wild on weed now
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holocaust bloopers posted:Goddamn guys I honest to God thought the hate for Clinton was just a thing that had no real merit. I didn't like her since the 90s, thanks to my republican parents. I didn't vote for her in the 2008 primary, and I didn't vote in the 2016 primary. I did vote for her in the general because I'm not a loving moron but I totally 100% get the hate.
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Vasudus posted:until the new and improved trump-brand DEA comes in and says 'lol no' Until that happens I plan on spending as much time as possible stoned.
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Third World Reggin posted:My goal for this election was for dems to get at least the house, senate, or presidency, and no more. Politics are so polarized now that this election was make or break for either party. Unfortunately for us, it was the democrats that broke. I can tell you what though, the next winning democratic president won't ignore a huge swath of the voting electorate.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Goddamn guys I honest to God thought the hate for Clinton was just a thing that had no real merit. the vast right wing conspiracy quote is extra hilarious now quote:Thatcher-era Britain produced its own crop of paranoid left-liberal films. ... All posited a vast right-wing conspiracy propping up a reactionary government ruthlessly crushing all efforts at opposition under the guise of parliamentary democracy. who knew paranoid delusions of a vast left wing conspiracy with her at the head would bring her down
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Nov 10, 2016 03:35
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With how fractured the GOP primary was, it really just seemed that the democrats had everything in line. Comparatively.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:These people have happily voted for policies actively harmful to themselves for decades. What in the world makes you think theyre going to stop now. I don't disagree with your assesment, you're completely right and I'm more than likely going to be wrong, but it would be the one thing that would immediately affect about 20 million people. It'd almost (but not quite) be on the same level of just scraping Medicare or Medicaid overnight just because. It's not something like effective tax rates or slashing SNAP funding over five years which is delayed and people ignore because they don't feel the pinch right away. Time will tell.
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My brother texted me right after the results. He's far more conservative than I am, and in my defense of Clinton I said "it was never about Clinton. It was about holding steady and maybe going forward an inch." A few minutes later is when I made sense of that statement. That's a large part of why she lost. Because a lot of us were completely fine with status quo while everyone else was mad as hell for reasons I didn't entirely get. Their story wasn't mine and it didn't make sense.
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Pretty interesting read: https://samkriss.com/2016/11/09/how-you-lost-the-world/ quote:Clinton all but outrightly told vast swathes of the American working classes that they were irrelevant, that she didn’t need them and they would be left behind by history, and then expected them to vote for her anyway. Clinton was playing at politics; it was a big and important game, but it could be fun too; it was entertainment, it was a play of personalities. Her campaign tried to reproduce the broad 500-channel swathe of TV: an intrigue-riddled prestige drama and a music video and the 24-hour news; they forgot that trashy reality shows always get the highest ratings.
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Handsome Ralph posted:I don't disagree with your assesment, you're completely right and I'm more than likely going to be wrong, but it would be the one thing that would immediately affect about 20 million people. It'd almost (but not quite) be on the same level of just scraping Medicare or Medicaid overnight just because. I really don't think anyone is seriously going to consider the ramifications. The GOP base wants Obamacare gone and they want it gone now. That there is going to be hilariously bad consequences over it is not a concern, especially since so many others won't face them. This is why John Roberts saved the ACA; he didn't want the court to be the GOP's hatchet man.
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Guys, what if Trump appoints his sister to the supreme court? She was originally appointed by Bill Clinton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry PookBear fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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holocaust bloopers posted:My brother texted me right after the results. He's far more conservative than I am, and in my defense of Clinton I said "it was never about Clinton. It was about holding steady and maybe going forward an inch." That's the real post-mortem takeaway for both parties IMO. I hope that the DNC can come up with somebody more compelling, but I get worried that the more youthful members of the party are just going to scream about racism and misogyny, which are problems, but aren't the whole problem, but they make convenient scapegoats. The GOP needs to do some soul searching, but I have a feeling that when everybody bends the knee to the gold and orange they are gonna forget how far they have sunk, and we are going to have more of the circus freak sideshow poo poo we've had for the last few election cycles. TED CRUZ 2.0 FOLKS!!!! Maybe the 3rd parties will come up with more compelling candidates and throw some (bigger) money behind down tickets races in the future, but lol, that's not gonna happen. Green Party especially needs to think about changing their message, because pandering to the far left with their anti-vax and whole health bullshit is completely off message from where they were 20 years ago, and they could pick up momentum by focusing more on environmental policy when the R's have gone and hosed things up so bad that Florida and California sink into the ocean. EDIT: JESUS CHRIST THE FORMATTING 
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Nov 10, 2016 03:49
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Nothing's going to improve for the trumpenproles. I don't dispute that the democrats royally screwed the pooch by completely ignoring them but manufacturing isn't coming back and the coal fetish isn't going to materialize into anything because who the gently caress is going to build new infrastructure in the USA in 2016 lol. I hope malignant gridlock keeps anything too stupid from happening internally and maybe the isolationist streak saves us some cash that would otherwise be burned in worthless toilets like the Middle East. We'll probably bomb Iran and I'm sure we're collectively stupid enough to invade it but I don't see the latter happening.
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Potential BFF posted:Nothing's going to improve for the trumpenproles. Would 922(o) repeal count?
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Potential BFF posted:Nothing's going to improve for the trumpenproles. I don't dispute that the democrats royally screwed the pooch by completely ignoring them but manufacturing isn't coming back and the coal fetish isn't going to materialize into anything because who the gently caress is going to build new infrastructure in the USA in 2016 lol. Man, if the government just comes in and fixes some god drat roads and bridges and maybe creates some decent paying construction jobs in the rust belt it would be a start. As it is now, the left looks at them, rightly figures that the old economic model is dead, and they've shrugged and walked away.
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VikingSkull posted:Man, if the government just comes in and fixes some god drat roads and bridges and maybe creates some decent paying construction jobs in the rust belt it would be a start. Are you delusional? The 'left', as it were, consistently proposes infrastructure projects that are killed by Republicans who insist that government spending is an intrusion on our collective freedoms.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Would 922(o) repeal count? I'd be pretty jazzed with a bunch of dumbfuck ATF regulations disappearing myself. I don't know if it would be an improvement for the despairing poor unless Keltec begins making GBS threads out $300 polymer MGs (they would). VikingSkull posted:Man, if the government just comes in and fixes some god drat roads and bridges and maybe creates some decent paying construction jobs in the rust belt it would be a start. Yea, no one's going to spend any appreciable amount of money on infrastructure and if they do I will be utterly amazed and pretty pleased. I don't disagree with your second point. bij fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Are you delusional? The 'left', as it were, consistently proposes infrastructure projects that are killed by Republicans who insist that government spending is an intrusion on our collective freedoms. it's almost as if the brick that got tossed passed through two windows here wonder why
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VikingSkull posted:Man, if the government just comes in and fixes some god drat roads and bridges and maybe creates some decent paying construction jobs in the rust belt it would be a start. Lol, the funny thing is Mike Pence is a piece of poo poo that sold Indiana's highways. Pretty easy to balance a state budget when you sell off the loving infrastructure. I realize Mike Pence isn't president but I have to drive an extra 10 minutes there and back to get gently caress loving groceries or take a loving toll road. And I live in the loving boonies where it took a loving year to get god drat internet.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Pretty interesting read: I love when that article says the word fascist is simple and accurate, unless you try to define the drat thing. I do wonder how hillary feels though with so many people upset with her.
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Potential BFF posted:I'd be pretty jazzed with a bunch of dumbfuck ATF regulations disappearing myself. I don't know if it would be an improvement for the despairing poor unless Keltec begins making GBS threads out $300 polymer MGs (they would). Also I'm sure HI Point would make a $125 FA carbine for the even worse off.
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The Rat posted:Relevant article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-white-house-hillary-clinton-liberals I really like this article. Third World Reggin posted:With how fractured the GOP primary was, it really just seemed that the democrats had everything in line. Comparatively. This was a mega-combo of Hardcore Republicans, anti-Clintonians, and nukers of the establishment. Godholio fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/796511855959310336 Read his previous tweets in his thread and a couple afterwards as well
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Godholio posted:I really like this article. I knew I liked it when I saw "the fourth estate"
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Reverand maynard posted:Lol, the funny thing is Mike Pence is a piece of poo poo that sold Indiana's highways. Pretty easy to balance a state budget when you sell off the loving infrastructure. I realize Mike Pence isn't president but I have to drive an extra 10 minutes there and back to get gently caress loving groceries or take a loving toll road. And I live in the loving boonies where it took a loving year to get god drat internet. Yeah, both parties are culpable in regards to infrastructure, but then again this election was a punch in the jaw aimed at both sides in my estimation.
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VikingSkull posted:Yeah, both parties are culpable in regards to infrastructure, but then again this election was a punch in the jaw aimed at both sides in my estimation. Yah, no, the republicans are culpable you South Park libertarian
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I forgot all the bipartisan support the ACA had and that it wasn't rammed through by sheer force of will my mistake
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This thread is worth a read as well: https://twitter.com/gatorgoat/status/796381134875725825
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/796511855959310336 A lot of his from last night are golden. e. Can we dump the south? https://twitter.com/DerrickQLewis/status/796449067723345922 Syrian Lannister fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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The Rat posted:Relevant article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-white-house-hillary-clinton-liberals Yeah, pro-click right here. Oh this is the dude that wrote What's the Matter with Kansas? Makes sense.
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VikingSkull posted:Yeah, both parties are culpable in regards to infrastructure, but then again this election was a punch in the jaw aimed at both sides in my estimation. Whats kinda insane is that a lot of things in Trump's 100 day plan are solidly against a lot of Republican party ideals. What if we live in an insane timeline where Trump is the catalyst that forces the Republican's to stop actively loving the lower and middle class? I mean the Democrats got blasted but Trump destroyed the Republican party in the primaries. Taking a sledge hammer to lobbyists is pretty loving funny, as is term limits.
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Reverand maynard posted:Whats kinda insane is that a lot of things in Trump's 100 day plan are solidly against a lot of Republican party ideals. What if we live in an insane timeline where Trump is the catalyst that forces the Republican's to stop actively loving the lower and middle class? No link but McConnell's response to the 100 Day Plan already says they're not touching infrastructure. I can imagine the cabinet turnover rate will be yuuuge and when DT realizes he can't fire Congress he could be cuckholded as president, like a post-Watergate Nixon. Republicans have a golden opportunity to run this country for a good long while if they seize the populist fervor but they'll ruin it like they always do, just this time they'll have no one to blame. Maybe they'll start a war.
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Godholio posted:Goddrat do I want a Trump vs McConnell throwdown. You're in luck my friend! Maybe Obama was upbeat because he knows Trump and the GOP are gonna smash their dicks against a wall for the next 4 years.
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Suicide Watch posted:No link but McConnell's response to the 100 Day Plan already says they're not touching infrastructure. Lol, get hosed McConnell. I can't believe I'm I'm agreement with Trump about infrastructure spending g and of course McConnell is being a poo poo heel about it.
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