The Many Faces of US Politics...

[seafoid]

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37985967

The local Mayor responded: 'Just made my day Pam'

If she's not trailed through some sort of judicial process for that then you may just be right.  The place is f**ked!

She has been fired, but claims she is suing everyone who called her a racist for slander.

New whiney bigotry

[Franko]

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37985967

The local Mayor responded: 'Just made my day Pam'

If she's not trailed through some sort of judicial process for that then you may just be right.  The place is f**ked!

She has been fired, but claims she is suing everyone who called her a racist for slander.

Ah yes, the good old hatred of the perennially offended liberals being 'PC'.

But don't ever call a racist a racist, that's offensive to them you know.

[seafoid]

David Brooks in the NYT had a very good point

"Populism of the Trump/Le Pen/Brexit variety has always been a warning sign that there is some deeper dysfunction in our economic, social and cultural systems. If you want to take that warning sign and dismiss it as simple bigotry you're never going to understand what's going on and you'll never know how to constructively respond"

[seafoid]

Bannon is not a conservative. He is a Nazi.Anyone who voted Trump got free Nazi. Watch as they reorder the media.

And that's why I didn't even protest vote for Trump....these people are truly cvnts, but in their view thats what you need to fight the cvnts at CNN and The NY Times

Yes because Fox and Breitbart has got the balance just right. 

We have seen this before, as lots of people have been saying.

The 'elite' in Germany were so paranoid about the Commies that they gave power to the Nazis.


Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Yep....rigging debates is very good for democracy-lol

Rigging debates? You keep saying this as if it mattered. It didn't. The real rigging was done by the Russians (via Wikileaks) and the FBI. But you are OUTRAGED at a story, that Hillary apparently got help in an arena that Trump was totally incompetent in anyway.

Lol...Democrats outraged by Wikileaks "rigging" the election, because Wikileaks released emails showing that Democrats were rigging the election. Irony doesn't get any sweeter

Wikileaks rigged the election because the Russians gave them emails from only one side. You can be absolutely sure they have all of the Trump campaigns emails too. But the Russians wanted him to win, because they obviously have some sort leverage over him. How scary is that? But who cares, let's keep bashing Hillary.

I know it is difficult to change the habit of a lifetime, but the GOP's 30 years of bashing Hilary is over. She doesn't matter anymore. You won. And it is time you woke up to your new reality.

Fox News it is from now on. Lies, abuse, insults and everything else you voted for, is your new reality. It is what the people voted for.

Muppet elections are complicated. It wasn't just one thing  . And it was very close.
Matches aren't won on one play.

Completely irrelevant now. Trump won and we are now about to enter the Trump era.

Nothing else matters.

You can take the man out of Mayo but you can't take the fatalism out of the man.

This must apply to the Galweigans also.  I've lost count of the number of times you've signed off a post with a

"XXXX is fucked/dead/finished/gone/over/"*

*delete as appropriate for uber-dramatism.

Franko maybe it is a big dramatic at times but the economic system is collapsing.
It is very hard to get through Groupthink  as well.

I had a meeting with a company recently and I told them they had a serious problem with the junk bonds on their balance sheet
and the guy laughed and said I was talking nonsense.

I went to a pensions conference in September. all the big asset managers are selling Junk bonds to pension funds.

A lot of things are going to come to an end unless we get change before it blows up 

[seafoid]

Gideon Rachman ‏@gideonrachman  5 h


With Bannon in White House reaching out to Le Pen, Afd etc, the US govt moves from supporting democracy in Europe to actively undermining it

[sid waddell]

David Brooks in the NYT had a very good point

"Populism of the Trump/Le Pen/Brexit variety has always been a warning sign that there is some deeper dysfunction in our economic, social and cultural systems. If you want to take that warning sign and dismiss it as simple bigotry you're never going to understand what's going on and you'll never know how to constructively respond"

Deeper dysfunction in economic, social and cultural systems begets simple bigotry.

[muppet]

David Brooks in the NYT had a very good point

"Populism of the Trump/Le Pen/Brexit variety has always been a warning sign that there is some deeper dysfunction in our economic, social and cultural systems. If you want to take that warning sign and dismiss it as simple bigotry you're never going to understand what's going on and you'll never know how to constructively respond"

Deeper dysfunction in economic, social and cultural systems begets simple bigotry.

Let's make bigotry great again.

[muppet]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-mccain-russia-putin_us_582b4d86e4b01d8a014abd5b

[sid waddell]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-mccain-russia-putin_us_582b4d86e4b01d8a014abd5b

Trump is amazing, really. He manages to simultaneously embrace both fascism and appeasement.

[muppet]

This is the 'news' outlet edited by Bannon:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/15/hillary-clinton-screaming-obscenities-and-throwing-objects-in-election-night-meltdown/

I can imagine White House press briefings from now on.

[sid waddell]

The really scary thing about all this is how Glenn Beck is suddenly coming across as a reasonable liberal, although to say I'm suspicious is an understatement. He's doing it again on CNN now.

It's like years ago in the WWF when a heel suddenly turned face.

I've no freaking idea what's going on.

[whitey]

One thing came up in conversation today that I hadn't even thought of before

Remember during the election we heard that Trump had all of his support coming from "non college educated white people".

How fvcking condescending can you get.....I know plenty of trades people over here.....electricians, diesel mechanics, HVAC guys .....who spend years at trade schools, learning trades and doing apprenticeships . They are just as smart and equally, if not more informed as many of the smarmy fvcks looking down their noses at them

[seafoid]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-mccain-russia-putin_us_582b4d86e4b01d8a014abd5b

Trump is amazing, really. He manages to simultaneously embrace both fascism and appeasement.

I think Caligula was another narcissist with a short attention span.

There are few surviving sources about the reign of Emperor Caligula, although he is described as a noble and moderate ruler during the first six months of his reign. After this, the sources focus upon his cruelty, sadism, extravagance, and sexual perversity, presenting him as an insane tyrant. While the reliability of these sources is questionable, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor, as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate. He directed much of his attention to ambitious construction projects and luxurious dwellings for himself, and initiated the construction of two aqueducts in Rome: the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus. During his reign, the empire annexed the Kingdom of Mauretania as a province.
In early AD 41, Caligula was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy by officers of the Praetorian Guard, senators, and courtiers. The conspirators' attempt to use the opportunity to restore the Roman Republic was thwarted: on the day of the assassination of Caligula, the Praetorian Guard declared Caligula's uncle, Claudius, the next Roman emperor.

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[dec]

Remember during the election we heard that Trump had all of his support coming from "non college educated white people".

No we didn't hear that.

[Declan]

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/trump-voters-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-king-county/