2016 US Presidential Elections | Trump Wins

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Unbelievable, any conspiracy theories about Putin playing part in Trump's win yet?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He inherited an enormous amount of capital at a time when it was almost impossible not to spectacularly grow that capital, with just a modicum of good advice. And he's been voted in by people who feel angry about wealth accumulating upwards. The mind boggles.
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I'm sure its been said that if he stuck his inheritance in an Index Tracker he'd have been wealthier than he is now (at least that was until he got elected)
 
crappycraperson said:
He has already called Trump to congratulate. Don't think Trump will blow up the GOP now. He won't favor those who were against him but he will let the establishment pass the stuff they want to.
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Sean Hannity seems to think so.

Trump is an utterly vindictive person. I could see him having "settle my scores" on his private list for the first 100 days of presidency.
 
She conceded on the phone but wouldn't go out to face her supporters who have been waiting on her in tears for the last 3 hours?

Ugh
 
Vato said:
But in the end you have to vote for democrats or republicans as they're the only elected parties, right? It's a shit system that needs to be reviewed.
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No, the libertarians might actually get more than 5% of the popular vote, which will give them some public funding next election.
 
12OunceEpilogue said:
I know I'm open to accusations of naivety, even stupidity, but at the moment I'm going with what I feel. I couldn't be happy with a Hillary victory and, loath though I am to say I'm happy with President Trump, I can't deny it feels good to see Hillary and her ilk be rejected so starkly by the people. As you say with elected politicians it's a question of degrees; and if this seismic event means we start to see even an incremental shift towards substance over style, an unpicking of career politics and a re-establishing of what is an acceptable proximity between elected leaders and monied elites then that would be a huge positive from what is a pretty shocking result.

Again if you're worried for yourself and your family over the next few years I'm sorry and I'm not looking to rub your noses in it, I'm just trying to see the positives in Hillary's worldview getting turned upside down in such a way.
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By making one of the monied elite an elected leader?
 
Just makes you think, are people writing off Corbyn too quickly?
 
I think eventually he's going to be just another republican president. He said whatever he needed to say to win and it worked, but at the end of the day i doubt he'd do anything that ted cruz wouldn't.
 
This is a massive moment. Trump has to be gracious and tamp down all the campaign BS about lock her up.
 
Someone said:
I think eventually he's going to be just another republican president. He said whatever he needed to say to win and it worked, but at the end of the day i doubt he'd do anything that ted cruz wouldn't.
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That is what I have felt the whole type what is freaking me out is I just realized the Republicans now control everything.
 
Grinner said:
Yeah Hill, just give it up. A bloke in Germany reckons it's done.
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I really don't know what you're on about.
The data on CNN painted a very clear picture, the press pretty much unanimously called it and the fact is she ended up conceding half an hour after sending her supporters home. :wenger:
 
If he opens his speech with "Grab her by the Pussy" and the crowd cheers, I'll love America forever.
 
Grinner said:
Not her finest hour.
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She will be remembered as one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the democratic party. McGovern could have won this election.

Don't think anyone has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in quite so spectacular fashion.
 
Wittmann45 said:
Hilary has been working towards this moment for two decades. She lost out in a previous primary race when she was a comfortable favorite, she almost lost this primary process, but got through it and all the numbers were pointing to a comfortable victory. Obama's approval rating has been soaring and she must have been so convinced she was winning. She won the debates comfortably, her campaign was extremely well run and her entire party supported her, yet she lost out to a lunatic reality tv star who headed a divided party and whose campaign seemed to be in ruins at times

She probably already planned out the first year of her presidency.

But now comes that moment when you realize that people just don't like you and politics on a national scale isn't really your thing
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I feel sorry for her, a lot of people think it's her destiny to be the first women president. :(
 
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And if I run, I will win...
 
Someone said:
I think eventually he's going to be just another republican president. He said whatever he needed to say to win and it worked, but at the end of the day i doubt he'd do anything that ted cruz wouldn't.
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If Trump wants 8 years instead of 4 he won't be able to do that. His whole platform is basically feck Democrats and feck Republicans, I'm changing everything. That's where all his rabid support comes from. He might not be as insane as everyone is expecting, but I highly doubt he'd just be a standard GOP president.
 
harshad said:
Feels weird seeing black folks rejoicing at the Trump win
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Not surprising considering Bill Clinton's crime bill and welfare bill with minority's being jailed at a larger rate than ever and unemployment and poverty in black community's sky rocketing.
 
Good. I big feck you to career politicians. I hope he can shakes things up. He is a lot smarter than he comes across.
 
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