The Election Autopsy
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EVERYTHING that made America great and different from the rest of the world... is under attack.
If we don't remain vigilant and are not prepared to fight back, the America we've known will cease to exist.
If we don't remain vigilant and are not prepared to fight back, the America we've known will cease to exist.
google can solve their own captcha
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/16/5621538/google-algorithm-can-solve-recaptcha-almost-every-time
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/16/5621538/google-algorithm-can-solve-recaptcha-almost-every-time
'bama just said being pres forces him to focus and be serious.
might be the dumbest thing any president has ever said.
might be the dumbest thing any president has ever said.
It's a good question. I see two answers. One, there are people like the elderly who need mobility but cannot drive safely any more. For a variety of reasons, public transportation , Uber and the like don't work for them.
The other answer is that progressives deeply loath automobiles and they associate car lovers with redneck gun owners and the like. They want us to be herded into central city Soviet style apartment bocks because that will lessen the environmental impact. Private vehicle ownership and use is a major impediment to all their plans for us. If cars are autonomous, they will be able to shut them off at will or limit areas into which you can venture, just like a golf cart that shuts off if you get too close to the green. Plus, they will have data detailing where you went when.
The thing is, the transition period will be a lot of fun for us. They will have collision avoidance systems, so we can just take our SUV or big block Chevelle and cut them off at will, run them off the road, tailgate them mercilessly, hahaha.
I've been waiting for one of our resident lefties to bring up one of their favorite axioms, occam razor. This is no where near as complicated as solving the mystery of creation. This is truly easy. Shit candidate equals losing election. Apparently they learned nothing from the 2000 cycle. This is what happens when you adopt an attitude of coronation rather than nomination.
People have to accept that Trump has been elected. If they want, there are legal processes to impeach, demote, etc. But the Law must be respected.
Also the Trump supportes should remember they won with less than 25% of registered voters. That should be what they have to worry about. Should these 75% decide that they want Trump out, Trump will be out. It is better for Trump supporteres to remember that they did not win by 99%, but by 0.6%; and respect the Law, the constitution.
Also the Trump supportes should remember they won with less than 25% of registered voters. That should be what they have to worry about. Should these 75% decide that they want Trump out, Trump will be out. It is better for Trump supporteres to remember that they did not win by 99%, but by 0.6%; and respect the Law, the constitution.
Thanks Trump!
Well, he blew it up, didn’t he?
After all the sound and the fury, after all the dancing-on-a-razor-blade rhetoric, and the “true existential threat” to our government, and the sheer, desperate seaminess of the last year and a half, there is one thing—maybe the only thing—that can be said for Donald J. Trump: He kept his promise. He blew up our existing system of political campaigns. And in the end, that might be the only valuable thing to emerge from the whole degrading spectacle that was the 2016 presidential race.
The Trump campaign, ugly as it was—and democracy is often an ugly, messy business—served as a social X-ray for our stultified political system. It revealed just how the swelling confluence of big donors, news media as entertainment, and our rancid consulting class has so appalled and disgusted much of the electorate that they were willing to vote for almost anyone, anyone at all, if he would “blow things up,” as one Trump supporter after another kept telling reporters. And in doing so, it compels us to examine how our system of political campaigns came to be, and how it might be upended yet.
Not one but two candidates ran directly at the establishment this year, with breathtaking results. A more unlikely pair of political challengers could not have been imagined: Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed socialist from a tiny, virtually all-white New England state, who with his followers very nearly succeeded in winning the Democratic nomination, and who refused to give up even when they were beaten. And Donald Trump, a blustering reality TV host, long ago reduced to something of a joke in his home city, a sort of camp icon, no more to be taken seriously than the Naked Cowboy, or the latest revival of Cats....
https://newrepublic.com/article/138020/what-donald-trump-got-right-american-democracy
Well, he blew it up, didn’t he?
After all the sound and the fury, after all the dancing-on-a-razor-blade rhetoric, and the “true existential threat” to our government, and the sheer, desperate seaminess of the last year and a half, there is one thing—maybe the only thing—that can be said for Donald J. Trump: He kept his promise. He blew up our existing system of political campaigns. And in the end, that might be the only valuable thing to emerge from the whole degrading spectacle that was the 2016 presidential race.
The Trump campaign, ugly as it was—and democracy is often an ugly, messy business—served as a social X-ray for our stultified political system. It revealed just how the swelling confluence of big donors, news media as entertainment, and our rancid consulting class has so appalled and disgusted much of the electorate that they were willing to vote for almost anyone, anyone at all, if he would “blow things up,” as one Trump supporter after another kept telling reporters. And in doing so, it compels us to examine how our system of political campaigns came to be, and how it might be upended yet.
Not one but two candidates ran directly at the establishment this year, with breathtaking results. A more unlikely pair of political challengers could not have been imagined: Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed socialist from a tiny, virtually all-white New England state, who with his followers very nearly succeeded in winning the Democratic nomination, and who refused to give up even when they were beaten. And Donald Trump, a blustering reality TV host, long ago reduced to something of a joke in his home city, a sort of camp icon, no more to be taken seriously than the Naked Cowboy, or the latest revival of Cats....
https://newrepublic.com/article/138020/what-donald-trump-got-right-american-democracy