Adieu

You guys are so autistic sometimes

except the electoral college seems to only be allowing republicans to get elected.

someone capable of waging war in the name of leftist philosophies. mental and physical. That sounds fun to me. I really hate my 9-5. Why don't we let them do it, so there will be a violent revolution? Then afterwards we can put whoever we want into power and get rid of this back and forth election nonsense?

Also rofl limpy rofl The higher one’s IQ, the more pessimistic one became about free-market politics — capitalism simply is not that popular with the crowd. Among the smartest conservatives, this pessimism often manifested in heroic drinking; the smartest libertarians, by contrast, had fewer hang-ups about positive law and escaped not only to alcohol but beyond it.

Smart, Tech-savvy, and takes risks. He would be the person suggesting the most dynamic and progressive ideas imo It's at least interesting to see how a VC operates within the government Are you fucking joking, Adieu? Peter Theil said 'freedom' and 'democracy' are incompatible By 'freedom' of course he meant the freedom for businesses to act how they want, regardless of the impact on civilization But Peter Theil is as close to a moustache-twirling bad guy as you're gonna find... Think about it this way, if the things they want to do don't work, the quicker we go back to doing the things the way we want do them. If they work, it's better for all of us. In the meantime, I hope all of you are keeping yourself in tip-top shape to be neo-socialist samurai warriors. You might be fighting soon.

Smart, Tech-savvy, and takes risks. He would be the person suggesting the most dynamic and progressive ideas imo It's at least interesting to see how a VC operates within the government

It looks like we have some confirmation about who will be part of his transition team. I think peter thiel might be the only bright spot. Appointing his children into his administration is fucking gross. This looks like some proto-monarchy shit to me in a lot of ways. Especially the "continuing to hold rallies" shit. Vice President-elect Mike Pence will take over as the leader of Donald J. Trump’s transition effort, pushing aside Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey Stephen K. Bannon, the conservative provocateur and chairman of the Breitbart News website, will be a top transition adviser. Three of Mr. Trump’s adult children and his son-in-law, who were among his closest campaign advisers, will join a 16-member advisory committee to help guide his choices. Rick Dearborn, the chief of staff to Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama and a fierce advocate for Mr. Trump, will move from the campaign’s Washington office to help direct the transition operations. Two people familiar with the reorganization discussion said Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, had wanted to marginalize Mr. Christie, who had come to recognize that he was not in the running to serve as a top adviser in Mr. Trump’s White House. It was unclear whether concerns about his ability to be confirmed might prevent him from being offered a cabinet post. Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and Michael T. Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who has been a top campaign supporter, will also serve as vice chairmen of the transition, the transition team said Friday afternoon. The 16-member advisory committee is made up of four women and 12 men. It will include several members of Congress; Rebekah Mercer, a top Republican donor; Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee; Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal; Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida; Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive; and Anthony Scaramucci, a hedge-fund manager and Trump supporter. Mr. Bannon will also serve on the committee. A political committee supporting Ms. Bondi received a $25,000 donation from the Trump Foundation, raising questions because it was around the time her office was reviewing allegations against Mr. Trump’s for-profit education programs. most of those people were back in view on Thursday, including Corey Lewandowski, the campaign’s first manager. Mr. Lewandowski is said to have told people he would prefer a White House senior adviser role, although he has also been mentioned as a possible Republican National Committee chairman. Mr. Lewandowski resigned on Friday from his role as a CNN political commentator. Trump Tower, the president-elect’s residence, has been transformed into a kind of fortress by the Secret Service and the New York police. The building has been ringed by Jersey barriers and concrete blocks marked with “NYPD.” The Secret Service has set up checkpoints on each end of 56th Street near the tower, and pedestrian access has been restricted around the building. The latest to be swept into the speculation is Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, who was mentioned as a possible candidate for secretary of the Treasury by CNBC. Officials with the Trump transition team said they reached out informally to Mr. Dimon, who was clear he did not want the post. The critical position of chief of staff — the gatekeeper for the president inside the West Wing — is expected to come down to a choice between Mr. Bannon and Mr. Priebus. The two men spent more than an hour in a meeting on Friday at Trump Tower. Mr. Giuliani told CNN on Thursday that he might accept an appointment as attorney general, saying that “there’s probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.” Mr. Mnuchin, who served as Mr. Trump’s campaign finance chairman, is said to be a serious contender for Treasury secretary (though Carl Icahn, the investor, and Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican of Texas, have also been mentioned in the news media). This is so fucking crazy honestly... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/politics/trump-cabinet.html?_r=0

It's possible. they haven't noticed yet. On another note, Returning home to Trump Tower from the White House may not be Mr. Trump’s only embrace of the familiar. His aides say he has also expressed interest in continuing to hold the large rallies that were a staple of his candidacy. He likes the instant gratification and adulation that the cheering crowds provide, and his aides are discussing how they might accommodate his demand. “I think Trump has discovered that these rallies are tremendous opportunities for him to get his message out,” said Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax Media, a conservative website. “It’s actually sort of old-fashioned, that you want to actually meet people and press the flesh with him.” Not least, Mr. Trump is finding Twitter a familiar comfort, although it is unclear if he will be the first president to wholly control his own Twitter account once he is in the White House. “I know they’re willing to be unorthodox and want to be true to themselves and not fall into a habit of let’s just follow precedent on what’s been done,” said Mike DuHaime, an adviser to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who supported Mr. Trump shortly after ending his own White House bid and who stepped back as the head of the president-elect’s transition team on Friday. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/politics/trump-president.html

They will eat him alive if he doesn't follow through I think.

You're trolling so hard right now

You're upset about someone not being liberal enough for your taste? He keeps it pretty balanced. I don't blame him for bitching about psychotic SJW's at all, and I don't think you can do something like blame him for it.

“This whole idea that he was an outsider and going to destroy the political establishment and drain the swamp were the lines of a con man, and guess what — he is being exposed as just that,” WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has complained have too much clout in Washington: corporate consultants and lobbyists. Jeffrey Eisenach, a consultant who has worked for years on behalf of Verizon and other telecommunications clients, is the head of the team that is helping to pick staff members at the Federal Communications Commission. Michael Catanzaro, a lobbyist whose clients include Devon Energy and Encana Oil and Gas, holds the “energy independence” portfolio. Michael Torrey, a lobbyist who runs a firm that has earned millions of dollars helping food industry players such as the American Beverage Association and the dairy giant Dean Foods, is helping set up the new team at the Department of Agriculture. David Malpass, the former chief economist at Bear Stearns, the Wall Street investment bank that collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis, is overseeing the “economic issues” portfolio of the transition, as well as operations at the Treasury Department. Mr. Malpass now runs a firm called Encima Global, which sells economic research to institutional investors and corporate clients. Mr. Eisenach, as a telecom industry consultant, has worked to help major cellular companies fight back against regulations proposed by the F.C.C.that would mandate so-called net neutrality — requiring providers to give equal access to their networks to outside companies. He is now helping to oversee the rebuilding of the staff at the F.C.C. Dan DiMicco, a former chief executive of the steelmaking company Nucor, who now serves on the board of directors of Duke Energy, is heading the transition team for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Mr. DiMicco has long argued that China is unfairly subsidizing its manufacturing sector at the expense of American jobs. In October, declaring that “it’s time to drain the swamp in Washington,” he promised to institute a five-year ban in which all executive branch officials would be prevented from lobbying the government after they left. He has also promised to expand the definition of a lobbyist, so it includes corporate consultants who do not register as lobbyists but still often act like one. Bruce F. Freed, the president of a nonprofit group called the Center for Political Accountability, which is pressing major corporations to be more transparent about their political spending, said Mr. Trump’s transition team had sent an unfortunate signal to his followers. “This is one of the reasons you had such anger among voters — people rigging the system, gaming the system,” Mr. Freed said. “This represents more of the same.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/politics/trump-campaigned-against-lobbyists-now-theyre-on-his-transition-team.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

Bush 2.0 But in early September 2016, in a move that should have received far more attention than it did, Trump appointed former CIA director James Woolsey as his senior advisor on national security issues. Woolsey – a key member of the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) – had been a strong advocate for invading Iraq in 2003 and for waging war throughout the Middle East. In its commentary about Trump’s appointment of Woolsey, The Intercept noted, “Woolsey’s selection either clashes with Trump’s noninterventionist rhetoric – or represents a pivot towards a more muscular, neoconservative approach to resolving international conflicts.” [1] Genie Energy Ltd. In September 2015, James Woolsey was appointed to the strategic advisory board of Genie Energy Ltd., a U.S. oil and gas firm that has exploration rights in the Golan Heights – the long contested area of Syria that is now known to be rich in both oil shale and fresh water. Israel seized parts of the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War. Syria tried to retake the area during the 1973 Yon Kippur War, before Israel annexed the region in 1981 by imposing Israeli laws, jurisdiction and administration over the territory and its inhabitants. In response, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242, which declared that Israel must withdraw from all lands occupied in the 1967 war, including the Golan Heights. Ever since, the international community has considered the Golan to be occupied territory and Israeli settlements there to be illegal. In late 2010, media mogul Rupert Murdoch teamed up with Lord Jacob Rothschild to buy an $11 million stake in Genie Energy. Lord Rothschild is chairman of RIT (Rothschild Investment Trust) Capital Partners, a $3.4 billion investment trust fund. Subsequently, Genie Energy’s strategic advisory board has grown to include quite a roster of well-known names. As Dr. Nafeez Ahmed wrote, joining Murdoch and Rothschild on the board are “Larry Summers, former Director of President Obama’s National Economic Council; ex-CIA director James Woolsey, a former Vice-President of NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, Director of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, advisory board member of anti-Muslim hate group the Gatestone Institute, international patron to the Henry Jackson Society; Dick Cheney, former Vice-President under George W. Bush; and Bill Richardson, former Secretary of Energy under Clinton, Governor of New Mexico and Obama nominee for Secretary of Commerce.” [6] The parent company is owned by American millionaire Howard Jonas. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/11/trump-woolsey-was-there-a-bait-and-switch/

If that' all true then we don't even have to speculate on how this presidency will go.

My Muslim coworker has been really unphased about it. Early on he found the election interesting, not alarming, as if it was a sports series of debates. I suppose it is because he is from Algeria, a place with an authoritative government. He left there because he was forced to serve in the army and the civil war in general was stressful to live and work through. He's been in the US for 20 years or so and funny enough he's mistaken as latino a lot. Strangers have literally walked up to him assuming he speaks Spanish. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk I think the people that are worried are the ones that haven't been here that long.

I really doubt this. He's got Republican majority in Senate and House, so if he "Becomes practically a democrat" he'll be fighting against both and greatly disappointing his supporters. What motivation does he have to do this? "Doing the right thing?" He's given zero shits about this up to this point. I dunno. You may be right. It just feels that so much of his outward persona is just brash, obnoxious and so forth and yet I believe there is another man in there somewhere. During the last eighteen months, there were a few moments (so fleeting they may have been said to have never even occurred) where I felt he accidentally let his guard slip. Sometimes it was an expression or just his body language. Trump showed no interest in learning or preparing or listening. I don't think he's actually interested in the work of the job and it's totally possible he's feeling a bit like the dog that caught the car, if that's the phrase. It's amazing to me that people think he's got some other level. Could he? Yes, anything is possible, but from what I've seen during this election, the simplest answer is the right one. No. My prediction is he cedes the policy work to the rag tag and collectively dissonant bunch he's surrounded himself with. Theil/Pence/Gingrich/Reince will work out agreements with McConnell and Ryan and we'll get some mutated Republicanism that is irresponsible tax cuts, deregulation, and healthcare confusion. That won't stop Trump from claiming victories on the wall or trade but again, he's shown no capacity to do the hard work that big ideas require for realization. Then, if there is some event that we can't imagine right now, and there will be, the response will be ill-informed and short-sighted. The last time this crew had the control panel, we got a big terrorist attack (yes yes I understand there's an argument that that wasn't negligence by W's crew, but I'm of the opinion that it was), two wars, massive corporate malfeasance (e.g. Enron), reckless trickle down tax cuts, Citizen's United, and global recession. I honestly don't know how the overt racism and xenophobia will play out. It may embolden very serious and very scary groups. It's so strange that I really can't predict what will happen with it. That's not to say that racism and xenophobia are not sloshing around all the time. But it is weird for the president to be willing to use it. It's Bush/Cheney 2.0. That's what we are in for. It's so fucking obvious.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/breitbarts-steve-bannon-might-be-trumps-chief-of-staff.html "Steve Bannon Might Be Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff"

People are afraid of the voices Trump gave to all the scum racists out there and they thinking this is a green light to be openly racist and aggressive Im not afraid of trump because there is no way in hell this fool can bring the whole thing down, i don't even think he is a true racist, he's just some old school shit talker man child i know guys like that and they are innocent just a little fucked up in the head thats all The media ran a moral campaign against him and thats all there is to it Trump is everyone's opinionated but ultimately shortsighted and ignorant uncle, dad, brother, grandpa. That's why everyone looks passed all the bullshit he says.

and He doesn't want the job at all. lol

lol^^^^ Apparently muslims are pretty freaked out. A lot of them are wondering if they should leave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)

I think clinton lost more than trump won if you're going to characterize it that way. I'm very upset with the DNC, and I hope the lawsuit fucks up the people involved in this mess. But it's also the media's fault. The way they operate is so fucking unethical and stupid. It's all a big cluster fuck of shit. I understand what happened in a lot of ways. People are taking in ridiculous fucking sources of opinion and information. My parents are wonderful decent people but they just do not understand the bigger picture, etc., and this is all so fucked now.

People are being openly nationalistic, racist, inflammatory, etc etc etc. and they think they have the backing of the government/establishment/status quo and this is the scariest thing about this. Trump is now responsible for fixing all of this and reaffirming that human decency is important. People actually think that you can stop the fucking world from all becoming one big melting pot by being nationalistic. fucking christ. The people being stupid and protesting all need to go home, because they are making us look bad. Our country might have regressed 20 years in the span of 1 election cycle.

It means he's going to do all the shit we are already doing, but repackage it to seem like he's doing it better. Why appeal to bullshit voters when you can just appeal to everyone and get elected without ruining the reputation of the country, and stirring up the darkest elements of our population.