PGT: President-Elect Donald J Trump

[taco.vidal]

Originally Posted by rubecube

And this is what people are talking about when they say they're scared for women, minorities, etc., under a Trump presidency. It's not necessarily his proposed policies, as that the rhetoric used by him and his supporters has been validated by the results of the election. But yeah, good thing they showed all those lefty elitists!

Im not sure if you are serious or sarcastic with that post.

[GaiJin]

Originally Posted by polak

We voted in a charismatic, well spoken leader who had been in politics for nearly a decade and who was running on a solid platform that connected with many people

holy &#$ , really?
Less koolaid, more coffee.

[polak]

Originally Posted by GaiJin

holy &#$ , really?
Less koolaid, more coffee.

What swear word has 3 letters?

Anyways please tell me where I'm wrong. Do you not remember the election? You know, the one where Harper drove his party into the ground and gave the liberals a majority?

[Drak]

Originally Posted by polak

What swear word has 3 letters?

Poo

[taco.vidal]

a$$

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

Im not sure if you are serious or sarcastic with that post.

Hahaha. She is going to suffer death by a thousand micro-aggressions.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by rubecube

And this is what people are talking about when they say they're scared for women, minorities, etc., under a Trump presidency. It's not necessarily his proposed policies, as that the rhetoric used by him and his supporters has been validated by the results of the election. But yeah, good thing they showed all those lefty elitists!

I'm pretty sure this did not happen.

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Palin? Omarosa? Rudy?

Yikes, it's like he's forming a reality show for his cabinet.

And just wait til you meet Supreme Court Justice Coulter.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Pretty much. The Republican vote came home because they had nowhere else to go. The Democrats literally picked the one candidate that Republicans couldn't hold their nose for and vote Democrat.

The other side of that is that Hillary's reputation was largely a scenario made up by the GOP.

[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by polak

These comparisons between the US voting in Trump and us electing Trudeau are starting to get very tiresome.

We voted in a charismatic, well spoken leader who had been in politics for nearly a decade and who was running on a solid platform that connected with many people, especially on social issues which were in stark contrast to the opposition parties. Yes he happened to be a teacher in his younger days, Crazy.

That is not even in the same hemisphere as electing a wealthy real estate tycoon who reached stardom by starring in a reality tv show whose campaign literally blurred the line between parody and reality and was full of the most outrageous, offensive, demeaning and backwards comments that even forced his team to take away his access from his own TWITTER ACCOUNT. This man had zero experience in politics, his agenda publicly attacked minority groups, seriously suggested building a walled boarder with a country the US has a free trade agreement with and he insulted the family of a fallen solider because he was muslim. He won simply by taking advantage of the lowest common denominator in the American voting populous.

Get a grip.

Hilarious.

They are both populists. It doesn't mean they are the same person. They are speaking to different groups, but they both have bland platforms that just throw money at votes, with zero long term plan. A tax to the top 5% that does nothing to balance budgets but makes the masses think he's on our side. Populist.

your entire rant is basically true but completely irrelevant. They both have no real experience and the voters didn't care.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

The other side of that is that Hillary's reputation was largely a scenario made up by the GOP.

How well would GWB's wife have done? Running Hillary was an awful choice.

[photon]

I'm starting to come around to this Clinton being the wrong candidate because she's so disliked. To me so much emphasis on it is just as silly as debates being a major criteria for choosing a president (or anything for that matter, debates are the worst venue for anything), I want to choose a candidate based on competency, policy, history, as well as communication skills.

But I'm far from a typical voter, and I understand that right or wrong it's the way the world works.

But I don't see how fighting populism with populism (by putting forward a populist liberal) in a country where the divide between the left right continues to widen is a good solution. Already the difference between left and right is less "my ideas differ from theirs" and more "if you're one of them you can't be one of us".

Being part of the rise of nationalistic xenophobic populism around the world doesn't seem like a good path forward.

[Acey]

Originally Posted by photon

I'm starting to come around to this Clinton being the wrong candidate because she's so disliked.

Her losing the nationwide vote among white women is the biggest evidence of it. To me the only explanation for that is an underrated hatred of Clinton.

[polak]

Originally Posted by Flames in 07

Hilarious.

They are both populists. It doesn't mean they are the same person. They are speaking to different groups, but they both have bland platforms that just throw money at votes, with zero long term plan.

your entire rant is basically true but completely irrelevant. They both have no real experience and the voters didn't care.

Bland platforms? I don't think you know what the word "bland" means. Trumps platform was the most extreme I've seen in my lifetime.

Trudeau was elected as an MP in 2008 and legitimately made his way through the ranks of the liberal party over those 8 years. Hardly no experience, every Prime Minister is "new" at one point.

Either way my comment wasn't just directed at you but the comparison has been made many times already on this site and it is in my opinion, totally unfounded. No one was shocked that Trudeau won. No one said "Trudeau could never actually win".

[Drak]

My wife couldn't stand Clinton. During the primaries she was supporting Bernie. When Bernie lost, she still didn't want to support Clinton. When mid September started to roll around she reluctantly started to come around because she was the candidate. But she was never truly happy about it.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by photon

I'm starting to come around to this Clinton being the wrong candidate because she's so disliked. To me so much emphasis on it is just as silly as debates being a major criteria for choosing a president (or anything for that matter, debates are the worst venue for anything), I want to choose a candidate based on competency, policy, history, as well as communication skills.

But I'm far from a typical voter, and I understand that right or wrong it's the way the world works.

But I don't see how fighting populism with populism (by putting forward a populist liberal) in a country where the divide between the left right continues to widen is a good solution. Already the difference between left and right is less "my ideas differ from theirs" and more "if you're one of them you can't be one of us".

Being part of the rise of nationalistic xenophobic populism around the world doesn't seem like a good path forward.

Here's one for you photon,

Romney was the 'out of touch billionaire candidate'

Trump is richer than Romney! How did he become the 'in touch everyman candidate'? Books will be written on this.

[icecube]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

I'm pretty sure this did not happen.

How the #### would you know?

[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by Drak

My wife couldn't stand Clinton. During the primaries she was supporting Bernie. When Bernie lost, she still didn't want to support Clinton. When mid September started to roll around she reluctantly started to come around because she was the candidate. But she was never truly happy about it.

Both parties put forward horrible candidates. Republicans because the mainstream vote was split so many ways, and the democrats hardwiring the results of someone who already is neck deep in ethical and competency issues. Nobody talks about this but to me is as big a problem as any.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Flames in 07

Hilarious.

They are both populists. It doesn't mean they are the same person. They are speaking to different groups, but they both have bland platforms that just throw money at votes, with zero long term plan. A tax to the top 5% that does nothing to balance budgets but makes the masses think he's on our side. Populist.

your entire rant is basically true but completely irrelevant. They both have no real experience and the voters didn't care.

Trudeau is not a populist leader. He is practically the embodiment of the political mainstream.

[Looch City]

There are anti Trump protests in multiple cities across US.

I wonder if all these people voted...

Should Trump address them? They'll probably wither away in a couple days haha