Election 2016 Thread

[Animavore]

Australians FTW!

[Tero]

You lefty/liberals don't get it do you. This is the first Internet election. Hillary and the democrats has Wall Street, the big donors, and the corrupt paid for biased media on its side. Yet The Donald is drawing level and even moving ahead of crooked Hillary by just shitposting on Twitter and Facebook. She has spent 60m on attack ads alone yet she has nothing to show for it as Trump is ahead in all of the swing states bar one which he is level in. The old days of big money playing a part in US politics is gone and good riddance. This is a revolution in American politics, it is a game changer and good thing too. The left/liberals are the establishment now and the common people are rebelling against it and it is wondrous to behold.

You and all the Trump voters think there is some kind of revolution coming? Ha. Nothing will change, Trump is just saying all this shit as it is the only way he could be president. What you will get: a Republican president with little experience.

Little experience as what, President? Nobody comes to that job with experience and every President gets intensive OJT from his cabinet and advisors, which is why we have cabinets and advisors. Or did you mean little experience in the actual working world earning a living and creating jobs, in which case Obama had "little experience", having never held anything other than a minimum wage job and which Hillary has also no experience whatsoever in.

Trump, on the other hand, is one of the most experienced and successful CEOs in American history. He knows how to run a company and that translates directly into knowing how to run the country administratively, which is the Presidents primary job. All the rest he'll learn just like every other President has.

Well, yes, Trump does have experience. Experience with being a crooked businessman:
...jabbed Trump with his own business failings, saying he “ran up mountains of debt, as well as losses, using other people’s money, and you were forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice—four times."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... r-ceo.html

[pErvinalia]

The guy is an utter loser. He would have made more money investing daddy's money in the S&P500 than what he did bankrupting businesses. He claims to know more about ISIS than military intelligence. He claimed that he'd made sacrifices too in answer to the father of a Muslim American soldier who died on the battlefield protecting his mates. He insulted POW's. In any normal year he would be toast in Merka from trashing the military that much. What's funniest about it all is the conga line of right wing suckholes lining up to apologise away all his idiotic statements. You couldn't invent these people if you tried. They defy the laws of all reason.

[laklak]

This entire election has left the realm of the ridiculous and entered that of the sublime. One can only, like Springsteen's poets, write nothing at all, just stand back and let it all be.

I can be deepity with a hangover and hit off the pipe, eh?

[pErvinalia]

I think I've come around to the idea that you need to elect Trump to bring the whole stinking edifice down, and then begin rebuilding a proper democracy*. Clinton is a joke and just a continuation of the same busted neoliberalism that has got us to the political and economic shambles we are in today. Electing her will just continue the economic, environmental and social decline. Trump will either wreck the place, or will literally die (read: be assassinated) trying. On that latter point, I'd expect the Koch-heads and friends to take him out if he can't be controlled, and then pin it all on Democrats/Bernie-supporters. That's the only hope of a Republican ever being elected again in the near future.

*- don't start the silly "US isn't a democracy" shit. You know what I mean.

[Seth]

Well, yes, Trump does have experience. Experience with being a crooked businessman:
...jabbed Trump with his own business failings, saying he “ran up mountains of debt, as well as losses, using other people’s money, and you were forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice—four times."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... r-ceo.html

Nope, you are either lying or you didn't bother to read the whole opinion piece, in which the author specifically states, "For the record, Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy."

What you did was quote mine a Carly Fiorino attack on Trump which was a lie to begin with.

He's a billionaire, you aren't. That says it all.

[pErvinalia]

Says what all? That he's a sociopath with a rich daddy?

[Seth]

Says what all? That he's a sociopath with a rich daddy?

No, that he's a successful billionaire businessman and CEO and you live in a single-wide trailer, so he's got rather a lot more credibility than you do.

[pErvinalia]

double-wide.

As has been pointed out, if he simply invested his money that was gifted to him by daddy into the S&P500 index, he'd have a lot more money today. The guy is a loser, in both monetary terms and behaviour.

[Seth]

double-wide.

As has been pointed out, if he simply invested his money that was gifted to him by daddy into the S&P500 index, he'd have a lot more money today. The guy is a loser, in both monetary terms and behaviour.

What-if's are the last resort of small minds. Fact: He's a multi billionaire. Fact: His daddy didn't leave him billions of dollars. Liberal douches speculate that he inherited between 40 and 100 million, which is a far cry from ten billion dollars he's estimated to be worth today, so no, he would not have done better with the S&P, nor would he have created companies and jobs for thousands of people.

Face it, you're just treading sour grapes because it offends your "anarchist" sensibilities that he's a grand success and you're not.

[pErvinalia]

George Soros is worth more, therefore would be a better president.

[Sean Hayden]

Anyway, nobody inherits just money from a wealthy daddy. It's a whole other world.

[JimC]

Yep, contacts among the fellow wealthy people, the inculcation of greed and avarice, and a primer on how to sneer at the working class...

[pErvinalia]

psychopathy training..

[Drewish]

double-wide.

As has been pointed out, if he simply invested his money that was gifted to him by daddy into the S&P500 index, he'd have a lot more money today.

Yes, but that also assumes he hadn't spent any of it. Dude's been living the good life for decades.