Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby MoBettle » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:36:57

Soren wrote:What I'm excited for is having all these conservatives policies enacted, having a repeat of the crash in 08, have the poor and middle class get crushed and then having those two groups turn around and feel the need to trend even further to the right.

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby Grotewold » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:38:57

Bill Simmons with some surprisingly cogent analysis on today's pod. It is kind of funny with the way that Trump won that people dismissed Bernie for fringe beliefs and platitudes

Also we do seem to be in a pattern of people wanting significant change every eight years (with George H.W. Bush as the exception). She sure isn't that.
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:40:08

Grotewold wrote:Bill Simmons with some surprisingly cogent analysis on today's pod. It is kind of funny with the way that Trump won that people dismissed Bernie for fringe beliefs and platitudes


eh?

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby JUburton » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:44:06

saw wasserman tweet if the panhandle was AL/MS and the UP was in WI, we'd have president clinton. feels bad, man. shes gonna win by 1.5 million votes.

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:44:31

thephan wrote:pacino's posting is one of the more important things revealed in weeks.

Calvinball wrote:Pacino was right.

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby JUburton » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:46:45

so parts of obamacare are going like...immediately. they can't repeal but they can reconcile. ryan's tax plan probably going through pretty quickly? can't we just filibuster everything for 4 years and make them use the nuclear option whenever they can?

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby Slowhand » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:50:51

"When [Trump] talks, I actually understand what he's saying," a young Pennsylvanian named Trent Gower told me at a Trump event a month ago. "But, like, when fricking Hillary Clinton talks, it just sounds like a bunch of bullshit."


Well,Trent, that's because you didn't graduate the 8th grade.
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:51:40

JUburton wrote:so parts of obamacare are going like...immediately. they can't repeal but they can reconcile. ryan's tax plan probably going through pretty quickly? can't we just filibuster everything for 4 years and make them use the nuclear option whenever they can?

They're going to go after birth control immediately. It's one of the biggest successes.
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby TenuredVulture » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:56:11

I think our first political donation is going to be to Planned Parenthood.
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby Gimpy » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:56:19

JUburton wrote:saw wasserman tweet if the panhandle was AL/MS and the UP was in WI, we'd have president clinton. feels bad, man. shes gonna win by 1.5 million votes.


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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby Monkeyboy » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:56:57

jerseyhoya wrote:
Soren wrote:regardless of the value of your insights it's going to be a long time before I can disassociate you with Trump.

Well I haven't exactly gone out of my way to support or defend him to this point, and have pretty much just shit on him. I am hopeful he is not a complete trainwreck in the next four years, and might even advance some decent public policy by accident, and will probably defend him if he does so. So the association will probably only get worse if you're already having trouble at this juncture.



and also that you are most likely very happy in private.
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby JUburton » Fri Nov 11, 2016 09:57:59

Gimpy wrote:
JUburton wrote:saw wasserman tweet if the panhandle was AL/MS and the UP was in WI, we'd have president clinton. feels bad, man. shes gonna win by 1.5 million votes.


If my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle
except balls are real and state lines are man-designed intangible objects (that have obviously been there for hundreds of years). just sort of another way of saying a whole lot more people voted for hillary clinton than donald trump.

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby Gimpy » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:00:55

If we ran our elections based on the popular vote, Gore would've been president in 2000. It is what it is.

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:02:19

The CFPB will be on the chopping block.
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby JUburton » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:02:47

its great to see zuckerberg taking responsibility for his platform that almost encourages the spread of misinformation. its called a news feed but they're not in the business of media, no way!

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby Gimpy » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:08:07

What are the odds that Trump's pal will extradite Snowden?

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:10:50

Kids in a Lehigh County school were chanting 'cotton picker you're a nigger' the day after the election
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:11:29

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏@realDonaldTrump
Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!


presumably someone else tweeted this for him. cant imagine compromising myself so much to work under this vile human.

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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:24:42

Megyn Kelly sat on it until now when she is preparing to make money off a book but Trump got debate questions and also lavished reporters with plane rides, dinners, etc

That explains Mark Halperin.
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Re: Your New President Donald J trump Politics Thread

Postby heyeaglefn » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:26:49

I know it isn't a priority, but how can a state like Michigan not know who they voted for yet?

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