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2016 American Presidential Campaign

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I have never been this depressed by an election in my life. Depressed and terrified. And that is all I can say tonight.
 
^ oh herby :( <3


I'm not at all surprised that lots of people voted for "third parties".

And while the government in my country are fucking reprehensible scum, it is times like this that i appreciate Australia's preferential voting system.

I can for the Greens, for example, but also preference whichever of our two-party dud candidates i detest the least - so i can vote for someone who i know won't be elected (actually, that used to be the case in the state i lived in before, but i just moved to a neighbourhood that is very left).
Whereas the protest vote for US voters is just basically throwing your vote away:


Now, just a warning to any Americans that are sensitive about people criticising the USA. I've been accused of being "anti-American" (whatever that means) for criticising US foreign policy and so on - despite having a lot of love for America and Americans.

But this election, and the anticipated Drumpf - er, sorry - Trump victory, is going to be a fucking comedic goldmine.
Fake gold, sprayed on artificially preserved dinosaur turds, but gold nonetheless.

As a keen observer of global politics, i'm looking forward to see this clearly unstable man humiliate himself on the world stage.

That's the optimism i'm clinging to. Fuck, i'll take any optimism i can scrape up off the men's room floor that is the current political situation in the US and elsewhere.
And at this point, all i can really do is laugh.
Obama had that "HOPE" slogan. Drumpf gives us "GROPE".

Thanks yank mates - this is going to be a laugh a fucking minute.
Sorry about your country and all, but it's just an imaginary bunch of lines on a map anyway.

When i'm viewing things online, i'll no longer have to think about whether i'm wanting to watch a comedy or world news - it's just all blurred together in one big orange postmodern mutated comb-over....bigly.

In all seriousness, the American left will be galvanised by this, and i hope to see the USA's hard left come out of 50+ years in the wilderness.
This election marks a major paradigm shift in global politics, and my hope is that it inspires the radical left to keep pushing on.

Sanders getting screwed out of the Dem nomination was a major contributing factor to all of this, and i expect to see his supporters continue to gather momentum now that Clinton appears to have lost.
It's about time the American left stood together and took the fight to The Man.

If anything is going to give the left in the United States a shot in the arm, i daresay it is having this fascist galoot elected President.
 
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iirc clinton is into increasing free trade trade restrictions which will hurt the economy.
 
I think I feel a stroke coming on. This is messed up. How anyone can be happy to have this buffoon as president is beyond my comprehension. You idiots just installed our equivalent of Commodus into the oval office.
 
Phil.McKeer said:
I think I feel a stroke coming on. This is messed up. How anyone can be happy to have this buffoon as president is beyond my comprehension. You idiots just installed our equivalent of Commodus into the oval office.
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vs Empress Zoë; what a choice
 
Third party candidates, and voters are not to blame for Donald Trump becoming President.

I campaigned for Jill Stein, as she is actually liberal and progresive unlike Hillary and any of the demócratas including Obama.
 
This is so depressing....

I hope he delivers on his promises about the economy I guess......
nothing else please.
 
Hes not gonna do a goddamn thing. Jesus Christ how did this idiot fool America. I just hope he goes all liberal now hes elected.
 
Disappointing but I had an anxiety in the back of my mind that Trump would sway the religious with his pro life stance, I just didn't want to believe it. On the other hand rejoice in that Hillary isn't president and the Republican party is now dead. I hope we can survive it.

Like with Bush it's going to be good times for his 4 or (god forbid) 8 years and as he steps out of office the economy will start collapsing as it all catches up and the deficit crumbles.

Get ready to be pissed in the face with trickle down economics poor people.

I really hope he builds the wall immediately and makes good on his promise to stop free trade and implement tariffs, and defaults on the debt so things turn shitty immediately.
 
god damn

let's see how that will turn out. I wouldn't care too much, but obviously American politics influence the whole world, unfortunately.
 
^^ The election was lost the day HRC was nominated. At the time that party boss DWS handed the nomination to HRC, there were enough Bernie or Bust people to make sure HRC did not win. I read that as many as 30% of Sanders' supporters were goign to stick with him or chose the Nuclear Option (Trump). They warned the superdelagates and the DNC establishment this would happen.

I would like to see how many votes third party candidates and Bernie Sanders took as a write in.

Also, this could be a good thing. Instead of another turn around the slow downward spiral that 8 years of HRC would have brought, Trump will pull the string and give the American establishment the enema and the big flush that it needs to make a fresh start in 2 to 4 years.
 
I know it will galvanize the left, and the left will not be fooled by an Obama who said things like "I don't know if I'm member of the CFR." while campaigning in 2008. Did you get to see my real post? I saw this "Oh herby" thing show up and it's all I can see, I certainly did not delete spacejunk's quote, because I've bolded some parts of it etc. wtf. Also I notice the HTTPS is not working on bluelight tonight...I switched servers is all I can say.
 
It was rigged in the DNC primaries and such, at the computer level. It likely was like in 2000,2004, 2012 (2008 is strangely clean, evidence from the researchers that followed the guy who invented a voting machine with a paper trail and a confirmation of 3 steps on who you voted for back in 2004 presented it in Ohio and then was on his way to California, to go at some University to show it there, when his car "Hastingsed"...

I'm certain some rigging was done in favour of HRC in fact, but the 4-6% of the vote I've seen the Greens or Libertarians (or them together) plus the Constitution Party in a couple states got much more votes than say 2012. The situation is very 2000'ish. I mean yeah sure Trump won, but by some such small tiny Dubya like margins that the Sandercrats (which I would be if I was American), likely caused, voting Trump to spite Clinton and how they got treated by their own party, actual superdelegates and delegates getting treated like shit, arrested, beaten on by "Security"...in Nevada it was ridiculous.
 
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So is the election still rigged now that he won? Or does it not count anymore?
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The DNC nomination was rigged.This was made clear by the email leaks. So if the nomination of one of the two major candidates was rigged, the choices in the election itself were rigged.

As for the voting itself, there are better safeguards against rigging.
 
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