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I would like to sum up the election with this ; Thanks Obama.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 05:53 |
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# ? May 6, 2024 03:16 |
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milk milk lemonade posted:Yah, no, the republicans are culpable you South Park libertarian "Least worst" isn't going to put people in the booth on election day. The scary thing is, there may be nothing that can be done for low skilled labor. Jobs aren't coming back, and things will never be the same for them as they were for their parents and grandparents, and are likely going to be measurably worse for their children. They're part of an increasingly large group of superfluous people in the first world western democracies who consume resources but have nothing to contribute to a society where manufacturing can be done with fewer and fewer people and information technology is displacing any job based on specialized knowledge or pattern recognition. Like mine. But you need to offer them something. A way to feed their families, and not die of disease, and live with a little dignity in their own homes. "Your way of life is hosed, bro. Anyway, vote for me and I'll totally bring new jobs, after I get rid of the last vestiges of your old ones. Promise, this time." People who voted for Trump didn't give a poo poo about his scandals, his unsuitability in foreign affairs, his racism, or any of the other poo poo that should have sunk him. He promised to give them their lives back. It isn't true. He can't. But Clinton's counter-offer was "more of the same," and that hadn't been working.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 05:55 |
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Vasudus posted:until the new and improved trump-brand DEA comes in and says 'lol no' Not so fast. I have been working on this all day since Florida's medical weed amendment passed. The one thing the GoP has been trying to do for decades is strip away federal power and leave it to the states. If they gently caress up, which given the GoP and their love of not thinking poo poo through (like Mike Pence's religious freedom laws being used by muslim prison inmates to sue and win discrimination cases) when they gut the power of the DEA and ATF, all the state weed laws take over. Also, if the banks get their hands on the weed business and bring it into the banking industry instead of all cash, its going to take about 2 seconds for them to unload a dump truck full of Weed laws actually may be in much better shape than they would have been under Clinton. I hope.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 05:56 |
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Republican belief in states rights has never extended to gays, weed, socialized healthcare, really anything at all outside their narrow range of chosen social wedges. They may well gut the ATF but the DEA are the good guys to them and need more power to peek into everyone's lives.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:22 |
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The libertarian states rights poo poo ends with anything that might offend the godbotherer busybody bloc which is loving frustrating. Basically I hope it hurt A LOT when Jerry Falwell's bloated rear end keeled over. Scalia too. Only comeuppance those fucks will get.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:27 |
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so i just looked up the MA law. Weed is legal as of 12/15 this year, but no shops are opening until 2018 also the only reason the GOP took back the senate this election was Trump. McConnell knows this. Ryan knows this. The kowtowing that's already occurring from them is going to be a sign of how it's going to go. Also the fact that they will vote to take away filibustering.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:38 |
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Should we pass laws that prevent jobs from being replaced by robots? Should things like self driving ubers be legal?
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:42 |
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I just read Hillary's concession statement on Facebook, and I'm still kinda in disbelief. poo poo's kinda unreal.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:46 |
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Uber already isn't legal in a bunch of places.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:48 |
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:53 |
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Reverand maynard posted:Should we pass laws that prevent jobs from being replaced by robots? Should things like self driving ubers be legal? No but we should offer technician vocation schooling to anyone that is displaced by said robot jobs to fix robots.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 07:32 |
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If someone made a drink right now called Liberal Tears™ it'd sell so well.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 07:35 |
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Suicide Watch posted:If someone made a drink right now called Liberal Tears™ it'd sell so well.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 07:49 |
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Bacon-scented gun lubricant might be the most American thing ever.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 07:52 |
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VikingSkull posted:at the very least, we're entering some type of new golden age of comedy Unless there is a war. At the very least one of you fucks in here is gonna be his ISIS solution. How well do you think an egomaniac easily provoked president is going to perform with the worlds largest military at his command? After a month in office a lot of comedy is gonna stop. Hell at least our chances of destroying North Korea are much higher with Trump. When Kim runs his mouth at the US when we got a potential madman at the red button it's gonna be a literal blast. Have fun at work guys with years left in their contracts.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 09:27 |
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MurderBot posted:I dunno about you guys but I've always enjoyed orchestra type music, from the classical to whatever they play on NPR these days. Old post but all of my nostalgia feels, jesus.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 09:48 |
Dead Reckoning posted:That dog don't hunt anymore. For too long, Democrats have been counting on "but Republicans are worse!" to deliver voters. Objectively, it's true. But realistically, Hillary didn't give a single gently caress about the people in the rust belt or coal country except as a means to an end. People voted for Obama for hope & change, and their lives have not measurably improved in his 8 years in office. Blame Republican obstruction if you want, he had a majority in Congress for his first two years. "You didn't give us enough power to do the job." Fine, what was on the table, exactly? Job re-training that was supposed to make up for jobs lost overseas never materialized after NAFTA or Bill Clinton favoring trade with China. Rein in Wall Street? Kind of a hard sell when the candidate the Democrats picked was giving closed door speeches to investment bankers about how the recession wasn't all their fault. The economy is expanding when you look at the DJI, but individual purchasing power has not kept up. Why does that have to do with a false equivalency wrt infrastructure spending?
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 12:18 |
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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. Right candidate wrong election is my take away. I really wish I could make that Keepin it 1600 podcast required listening.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 13:04 |
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Firstkind posted:Unless there is a war. the chickenhawk lost hth milk milk lemonade posted:
sooner or later you'll get that no one cares about what the Republicans or Democrats used to do, this election was solely about "gently caress you guys here's a brick" so you can keep saying "but the other side did THIS!" and a whole bunch of people are gonna say "gently caress off" Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Nov 10, 2016 |
# ? Nov 10, 2016 13:33 |
Well... I assumed Clinton would win because yeah she sucks but trump is worse. I think it's time to reevaluate for the entire democratic party because 90% of the people I know assumed the exact same thing I did. What I would like to see in four years regardless of who is running or who wins is something like 55-60% voter turnout. America likes to tout itself as the best democracy in the world but lmao we really suck at it statistically.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 14:36 |
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Michael Moore had a good takequote:Morning After To-Do List:
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 14:36 |
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So something that came up in Maine during this election. https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_Ranked_Choice_Voting_Initiative,_Question_5_(2016) They voted for instant run off voting and it passed. Also ballotpedia is dumb and saying more people voted than live in maine or actually voted. So instant run off voting lets them put candidates in a numbered list and after a the first round of counting, the lowest performing candidate gets removed and they do another round of counting until there are two left and one wins.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 14:37 |
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TBeats posted:Well... I assumed Clinton would win because yeah she sucks but trump is worse. We had Edited with updated numbers. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Nov 10, 2016 |
# ? Nov 10, 2016 14:40 |
Mr. Nice! posted:We had 53.1% voter turnout this year. AP reported 49.6% Regardless, 53% is low and I only says 55 because I just want improvement. If like 70% of voters voted that would rule.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 14:44 |
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TBeats posted:AP reported 49.6% That's wrong and lower than any other source I've seen. Got a link? According to everything I've seen turnout was around 55% of the voting population. http://www.electproject.org/2016g Typically 55-60% already vote in presidential elections. You gotta remember that everyone in the country isn't eligible to vote. Trump only received a total of 25% of eligible voter's votes and around 19% of the total population of the country. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Nov 10, 2016 |
# ? Nov 10, 2016 14:48 |
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Ever notice that the moment the democrats lose they want to start purges to their party while when the republican lose they want to purge the democrats, too?
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 15:09 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:That's wrong and lower than any other source I've seen. Got a link? This is my favorite bit since an even smaller number voted in the primaries. When people say that their vote doesn't matter, it really does if you get in early enough.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 15:14 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PUtvNUSpHw
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 15:14 |
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cspam ownsElephant Ambush posted:Please tell me how everyone secretly knew she was a bad candidate before election night. Because literally nobody was posting that until Wednesday morning when all of a sudden we had this massive influx of i-told-ya-sos who were conspicuously quiet for the last year.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 15:37 |
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Third World Reggin posted:This is my favorite bit since an even smaller number voted in the primaries. When people say that their vote doesn't matter, it really does if you get in early enough. I know a ton of people here in Florida that despite my insistence still did not vote or voted stein/johnson. Clinton lost by 120,000 votes. There were 260k third party votes cast.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 15:48 |
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Third World Reggin posted:cspam owns I'm pretty sure her being a poo poo candidate especially compared to Biden was very common refrain here at least.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 15:53 |
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secret socialist
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:02 |
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Third World Reggin posted:cspam owns You could argue it's because some of the mods there had a nasty habit of running people out, prob'ing and banning people who were saying that
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:04 |
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Third World Reggin posted:cspam owns No, there was a lot of that but it was shouted down by "lol shut up bernout berniebro." Anyone daring to say she was unlikable in the CE thread was poo poo on pretty hard since the primaries.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:08 |
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MazelTovCocktail posted:I'm pretty sure her being a poo poo candidate especially compared to Biden was very common refrain here at least. I know I said it in the CE thread but loving lol how that turned out
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:10 |
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yeah plenty of people pointed it out here but DnD went full echo chamber mode on her and its quickly returning to that about her. nothing was learned. Hillary 2020, she won't take no for an answer!
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:51 |
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Proud Christian Mom posted:yeah plenty of people pointed it out here but DnD went full echo chamber mode on her and its quickly returning to that about her. nothing was learned. Hillary 2020, she won't take no for an answer! I would bet money that Hillary won't be the Democratic nominee in 2020.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:51 |
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VikingSkull posted:I know I said it in the CE thread but loving lol how that turned out It was not a friendly thread for a while.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:53 |
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You won't see HRC in politics ever again. Which I'm glad for, but not at the cost of big red taking all three branches.
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:53 |
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Godholio posted:It was not a friendly thread for a while. This is a pretty good summary of the election as a whole tbh
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 16:54 |