Well, ya gotta hand it to the press... they gave us this mess... they made money off of it... and in the end... well... we get it in the end.  Ungreased.

Hillary is a brand out of it's time, old school feminists who weren't smart enough to realize that they won the battle they needed to win and tried to convince an enlightened generation to vote on sexist lines with overtly sexist slogans like:  "I'm for Her"

Christ on a crutch we just want a decent President we don't want to hear about their particular genitalia.

And so they gave us Trump?

Fuck me.

I knew I wasn't going to be happy either way this morning but I find myself full of mirth, this should be one hell of a ride.

I think that the biggest fallout of this election is that political party machines don't have the snuff to work against social media and entrenched fan basis. Also, pollsters are shitty at getting people to admit to supporting a publicly unpopular candidate, even if they end up voting for them.

Here is also a great breakdown of spending by both campaigns up through June, 2016, when the campaigns shifted from individual to party driven for the final run to the election. Any campaign whose second highest donor occupation is "Homemaker" is just admitting that they are having 1%er spouses donate to hide the real source of the moolah.

The PAC spending breakdown is also another good indication that a few large donors washed their sizable contributions through PACs to stay under the limits (see "Homemakers" again). Trump donations were much more spread out and came in from a whole bunch of B-list business owners in the flyover states who are tired of being ignored. One thing the media never bothers to admit is that it's not the total $ value of donations that really matter, it's the number of donors. I would rather have 1 million $10 donors than 20,000 $1000 donors.

The real losers here are the networks. They were as shocked by the Trump win as anybody. Watching the anchor's faces as Ohio and Florida went to Trump was priceless.

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George Orr wrote:

Strip away the punditry an symbolism and the rest of the nonsense, and you're left with this:
This year's election was a referendum on bigotry in America, and bigotry won.  Enjoy your parade.

It was also a big "Fuck You" from the moderates, swing states, and independents to the media.  New York and California no longer decide elections.  The Ohios of the country decide elections.

It's the vice president elect youse need to worry about. What's his name? Pence? He's an evil fucker.

Day One

and here we go; deregulation, repression of state rights and abandonment of non-revenue generating subscribers.  Obviously the Roe-Wade charade is a bone to Pence but hopefully they never push it as those divisions run deeper than their support does.

Trump = money play all the way

Emmeran wrote:

George Orr wrote:

Day One

OK, Twitter BS from teenagers
Thanks for that George.  Please alert us when you decide to come up for air.

Won't be this week.

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Emmeran wrote:

I sincerely doubt he will manage Obama's greatest accomplishment which was ZERO Scandals and ZERO National embarrassment.  I'm going to miss the Obama Presidency even if he did  pump more oil, loosen more firearms regulations and expel more immigrants than any other modern president.

I tried to explain to a gun nut about President Obama's horrible record on gun control but these people live only for the Fox News rhetoric pumped into their heads.  Shit, you'd expect Trump to be anti-gun since somebody is liable to shoot him.