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| Trump wins White House in astonishing victory | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 9 2016, 04:11 AM (1,054 Views) | |
| Hughmac | Nov 9 2016, 04:18 PM Post #21 |
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I think that Trump-President will be a very different beast to Trump-Candidate, so I think it is best to reserve further judgement until his first 100 days have transpired. Cheers Hughmac |
| H4T wrote: [Global] nuclear annihilation is preferable to the pre-Trump immigration/refugee policies. | |
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| BuckFan | Nov 9 2016, 05:17 PM Post #22 |
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Good luck with most of this: The military is not weak and a major investment will have budgetary impacts. He will find it hard to spend much more on the military and balance the budget. My guess is that deficits will continue at their pace. ISIS is being snuffed out as we speak. Obama's policy on Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan (and ISIS in general) will continue as is but will be "repackaged" as Trump's new policy. What Obama has been doing is pretty much what Trump said he would do. That is unless Pence and the Republicans get to him and we re-invade with significant ground forces. Trump differs greatly on Republican policies like trade. He will not have an easy time in Congress going after policies favored by Republican Congressmen. He will have to get his Supreme Court nominees through the Democrats in the Senate. He needs 9 Democrats to vote with all 51 Republicans to get anything through Congress. |
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| clone | Nov 9 2016, 05:26 PM Post #23 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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To Mexico – Check’s due at the end of the month. Make it out to the United States of America. DON’T make us come down there. |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| George Aligator | Nov 9 2016, 07:38 PM Post #24 |
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Once again we have an election in which more people voted for the loser than voted for the winner. Clinton won the popular vote, not by a landslide, but she won. Trump won the Electoral College decisively. That is how the American system works and, as common sense will tell you, it is a system in which some voters have more power than others. This is the second Republican victory in a row in which the winner had fewer citizens' votes. Who are those more powerful voters? Well, they are white guys and they don't live in big cities or on the coast. Go figure. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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| grannyhawkins | Nov 9 2016, 09:54 PM Post #25 |
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I say that big talk's worth doodly-squat
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Thank Gawd yur still with us Mac, I wuz gettin worried aboutcha!!! I thought you wuz gonna eat a buncha haggis and drown yurself with cheap scotch inna sorta brexit self immolation, just at the thought of a Trump Presidency!!! Cheers!!!
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| Endeavor to Persevere!!! | |
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| grannyhawkins | Nov 9 2016, 09:59 PM Post #26 |
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I say that big talk's worth doodly-squat
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I feel yur pain thar Peabody!!! It must be hard, this come ta jeebus realization of the yankee ivy league blueblood insignificance!!! |
| Endeavor to Persevere!!! | |
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| StillCrazy1 | Nov 10 2016, 01:27 AM Post #27 |
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The people decided and they get the opposite of what they wanted. Only in the US does the person who gets more votes lose an election. Murica! |
| Ever notice the only 2 people Trump refuses to speak ill of are Stormy Daniels and Vladimir Putin? | |
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| ringotuna | Nov 10 2016, 04:13 AM Post #28 |
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Seems pointless to bicker about it now. Polls, like light poles are for support, not illumination. |
| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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| ringotuna | Nov 10 2016, 04:35 AM Post #29 |
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Indeed Hughmac. We really have little other choice. Trump's divisive campaign rhetoric has been the focus of media attack as well as the spark behind the angry right voter upheaval. Boring campaign policy speeches don't get the voter's juices flowing. Sensational and outrageous promises do. Any good cowboy knows ya gotta stir the ashes to get a flame. I don't think any of Trump's bombastic claims, as stated, will come to fruition. Instead something quite less crazy may evolve. Hughmac > The most interesting man in the world. He speaks Russian..In French.
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| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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| ringotuna | Nov 10 2016, 04:41 AM Post #30 |
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To Mexico: jk
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| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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| Robert Stout | Nov 10 2016, 04:58 AM Post #31 |
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Never underestimate angry white guys or overestimate social justice warriors, in northern New Hampshire..........
Edited by Robert Stout, Nov 10 2016, 04:59 AM.
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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