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- lowimpakt1
The United Hates of America
- Continuity4
Well, United States, you people are beyond fucked.
And you're going take the rest of us down with you. Thanks a fucking lot.
- ApeRobot2
How Europe see America.
- quite accurate, you'd have to cut off one leg, though.grotesk_neue
- the one without the gun, obviously.grotesk_neue
- The other is deep fried and poking out of a kfc bucket tucked under its wingcannonball1978
- lowimpakt0
Ann Coulter just tweeted "1928 was last time Republicans had the White House, the House and the Senate."
She left out the part about 1929 being the start of the Great Depression which was only resolved by the industrial-military mobilisation of world war 2
- it wasnt caused by that nor was it recovered by that...********
- https://www.youtube.…********
- she is a piece of shit********
- Fuck Ann Coultergrotesk_neue
- it wasnt caused by that nor was it recovered by that...
- sted4
See ya! next time:
KANYE WEST 2020- LOL!********
- http://www.qbn.com/r…********
- KNOWAZALsted
- Yall's need to step up your game.********
- I believe it could happen.********
- LOL!
- ********-1
Did anyone here vote for Trump? There must be.
- well at least u admitted stein. i dont get why ppl are so weird about it.********
- well at least u admitted stein. i dont get why ppl are so weird about it.
- Beeswax1
Canada is too cold in this season.
I suggest moving to Mexico.
- ********0
Could Bernie have done better?
- yes.lowimpakt
- i think he could have done better in vote, but his policies would have had detrimental effects on commerce. creating a two class system faster********
- Gardener4
I blame David Bowie, everything was fine before he died
- David Bowie made this world a better place for 40+ years. Now it's going to shit.grotesk_neue
- He knew what was coming and got out at the right time.face_melter
- I blame David Blaine - surely he could have done somethingFax_Benson
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- ********2
This and brexit are true signs that the world and it's people are changing for the better. Yet the brainwashed still cry and wish war and oppression had won the vote. Bizarre times.
- better how?sted
- How is it better than war and oppression from the regime that's been working so well for everyone so far, you mean? Okay Mr.********
- i think you never lived in a real dictatorship or in a fascist regime right?sted
- I thought they were two sides of the same global conspiracy coin?Fax_Benson
- Probably, though there is a remote chance that he's not a part of that. Clinton certainly is.********
- If you think that voting for a war mongering criminal is a better option, you should probably have a little think about yourself.********
- statistically we're in more of a peace time than ever... So things actually have been going well.inteliboy
- Fax_Benson0
has anyone posted the Simpsons episode yet?
- nosted
- Ya'll ready to party?grotesk_neue
- https://pbs.twimg.co…Fax_Benson
- sureshot0
What happened with Joe Plumber btw?
- sofakingback0
ok, NOW buy a gun. seriously.
- yeahhhhhboyeeeee! escalate that arms race ftw!!!!!¡¡⁄⁄⁄¡11hans_glib
- pew pew pewsofakingback
- I told ya! lolsea_sea
- gonzalle1
As seen from far away, my question is : how the fuck was she able to loose ? I mean how bad can be anyone to loose against Trump ?
Since months I was wandering if the choice of Donald Trump as an opponent was not "helped" by some of global conspiracy to help her winning. Let face it now, it'n not Trump's victory, it's Clinton's system failure !...- Americans are more racist and scared for no reason than anyone ever thought.********
- because she's so smug and entitled she didn't bother to engage with the wider electorate. she assumed the presidency was hers.hans_glib
- yep - how anyone could lose against him is just bizarrefadein11
- Freedom > I don't think so ! If it was so, Obama would not have been elected twice. Find an other reason. As I keep thinking, people vote AGAINST Clinton.gonzalle
- And I think it's because her "progessive" attitude looks so fake !gonzalle
- Lose*********
- Americans are more racist and scared for no reason than anyone ever thought.
- lowimpakt2
Trump supporter shouts "Kill Obama" during acceptance speech.
welcome to the new USA
- Well, to be fair white yokels have been killing black people for years. So thats not so new...sofakingback
- yaygrotesk_neue
- Morons supported every person who ever ran for president. What's your point?********
- This one is the most moronic.monospaced
- ********-3
White Riot...
The privileged don't want to be stripped away from their priveleges...
- hans_glib0
From today's times
"Hillary’s flaws have defined the US election
Only someone as self-righteous and deceitful as Clinton could have struggled so long against someone as bad as Trump
Let me start with a story. In January 2000 Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States of America, appeared on The Late Show and she did well. Laughing it up with the late-night TV host David Letterman she was relaxed and funny.
Then Letterman changed the subject. He was, he said, going to ask her some questions about New York. Since it was already clear she would be a candidate for the Senate for that state, she looked earnest. A mistake might cost her dear.
But she didn’t make a mistake. Sometimes she had to grope a little for an answer. Sometimes she pondered and appeared uncertain. But she didn’t make any errors. It was pretty impressive stuff. The next day, however, the reason for this straight-A performance became clear. She’d been given the questions in advance. The uncertainty had been an act.
I think this story can help us solve an abiding mystery. Why has this brilliant, experienced, hard-working, politically-moderate woman struggled to defeat such an oaf? Donald Trump is a liar, a braggart and a bully. His grasp of the issues is tenuous, his speeches incoherent and his behaviour shocking. Yet the fight between the two of them went all the way to the finishing line.
Writing this article on election day is the right time to ask this question, for I am writing it without knowing the result and you are reading it after you know what happened. This gives me an advantage. Your view is conditioned by the outcome. I reflect only on the contest without the distortions produced by hindsight.
There are four reasons why Mrs Clinton found the contest with Mr Trump so difficult, leaving everyone uncertain until the last minute.
The first is relatively simple. She was the Democratic nominee. And not just any nominee either. She was the candidate of the party establishment.
Political scientists, assessing the race before the candidates were chosen, believed that historical precedent and the state of the economy suggested that this ought to be a Republican year. A strong part of their reasoning was that the White House tends to change hands after eight years of one party.
The “time for a change” mood is strong this year and Mrs Clinton, on the national political stage for almost a quarter of a century, is particularly ill-suited to thrive in such an environment.
The second problem faced by Mrs Clinton has, distressingly, been the fact that she is a woman. From the moment she became First Lady of Arkansas in 1979 Hillary Rodham has been attacked because she is female. During her husband’s first term as governor, her decision to work and, in particular, to keep her own name was hugely (and disgracefully) controversial, forcing her in the end to call herself Clinton.
When Mr Clinton reached the White House his reliance on her advice came under sustained attack, an attack that other unelected advisers did not face and that she would not have faced if she had restricted herself to picking wallpaper. It is hard to escape the idea that many men dislike her because they feel threatened by her professional ability. This is also the origin of many of the unflattering descriptions of her character. Vindictive, for instance, or pushy.
Her third problem has been that people are weary of what is often called “the Clinton circus”. This goes beyond feeling that Mrs Clinton does not represent change. Throughout the campaign she was dogged by a sense among voters that they’d simply had enough of the whole Clinton soap opera. Each new so-called scandal was greeted with a shrug. Voters weren’t so much outraged as bored and the boredom is what hurt Hillary. Attacking Donald Trump as a reality TV star ignores the extent to which voters thought of the Clintons in the same way.
But the most important reason why Mrs Clinton was run to the finishing line by the appalling Mr Trump is because she is so ... Hillary.
The story with which I began this column was identified as the perfect Hillary Clinton tale by the Republican speech writer and columnist Peggy Noonan in her polemic against Mrs Clinton’s 2000 senate campaign. It remains hard to beat.
Mrs Clinton is extraordinarily professional. She is always well prepared, listens carefully to advice and acts thoughtfully upon it. She has had, even before this election, one of the greatest careers in American political history. And yet lots of people find her hard to trust. They suspect that behind every success on the Letterman show is a political trick. And often they are right.
Trust has been eroded by the fact that she has been embroiled in one scandal after another. It doesn’t seem to matter that most of them have been entirely groundless, the ludicrous email pseudo-scandal most of all. The problem is that she has handled them badly. By regarding affairs such as the Whitewater property deal as politically motivated, she has foolishly resisted telling everything she knows, making the problem worse.
In his mostly admiring biography of Mrs Clinton, the Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein suggests that his subject is often self-righteous and defensive. She therefore resists investigation, wonders how anyone can possibly question her rectitude and repeatedly ends up in hot water as some new revelation is made.
Bernstein blames the same traits for errors made by both Clintons in the early days of Bill’s presidency. While thrilling Congressional leaders with her grasp of the details of healthcare policy, she also managed to antagonise the supporters they needed by appearing high handed. In the end the reform effort collapsed and Hillary was regarded as responsible.
Mr Trump was badly damaged by his behaviour but the damage would have been far greater if people had trusted his opponent. Because Donald Trump’s flaws are so great, European observers have underestimated the extent to which many Americans think Hillary Clinton’s flaws are just as great.
And while this may seem an extraordinary judgment to most people on this side of the Atlantic (and certainly seems so to me) it is impossible to understand the 2016 election without understanding this."
