General Election 2016 - Trump v. Clinton

[Exterminator]

It's the anti Trump people who are jumping the Trump people.

Really, stupid?

[Locutus]

Really, stupid?

And from that link it says:

Less than a week since the 2016 presidential election and there have been nearly 200 reported instances of violence across the country, enacted by Trump supporters who have been emboldened by his victory.

Just in case she didn't click on it. 

[me]

And from that link it says:

Less than a week since the 2016 presidential election and there have been nearly 200 reported instances of violence across the country, enacted by Trump supporters who have been emboldened by his victory.

Just in case she didn't click on it. 

Bull shit.

[Exterminator]

Bull shit.

What is bullshit?  Are you saying that local news stations all over the country have conspired to make it look as though these things are happening when they aren't?  Get your head out of your ass.   

[Locutus]

Another example.  No violence involved, but it is racism.

David Sanguesa said he was having a bad day.

But it seems Sanguesa has had many bad days. Wednesday was just the latest. That was the day he was captured on video angrily yelling "Trump!" and "I voted for Trump!" at a barista at a Coral Gables Starbucks when he felt he didn't get his tall vanilla latte quickly enough because he is white. Then he demanded his money back, calling her "trash" and "garbage."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/miami-dade/sfl-trump-starbucks-customer-rant-20161118-story.html#nt=oft12aH-1li3

[The Troll]

Hey, you lost; get over it!

  I just love it when they say things like what Henry just said.     Because I know for a fact that the Republicans are going to step on their dicks pretty soon.  Because in the Republican Party shit always happens.     

[Locutus]

These are the latest two covers of the Charlie Hebdo magazine.   

The cover at left reads, "Should we give him the nuclear button?" and at right, "Obama: An ordinary citizen once more."

[Palehorse]

Well written if not a bit long, but worth the read.

...One very small segment in this diverse conversation:

Trump had triumphed in rural America by appealing to a ferment of anti-urban, anti-coastal feeling. And yet Obama dismissed the notion that the Republicans had captured the issue of inequality. "The Republicans don't care about that issue," he said. "There's no pretense that anything that they're putting forward, any congressional proposals that are going to come forward, will reduce inequality. . . . What I do concern myself with, and the Democratic Party is going to have to concern itself with, is the fact that the confluence of globalization and technology is making the gap between rich and poor, the mismatch in power between capital and labor, greater all the time. And that's true globally.

"The prescription that some offer, which is stop trade, reduce global integration, I don't think is going to work," he went on. "If that's not going to work, then we're going to have to redesign the social compact in some fairly fundamental ways over the next twenty years. And I know how to build a bridge to that new social compact. It begins with all the things we've talked about in the past—early-childhood education, continuous learning, job training, a basic social safety net, expanding the earned-income tax credit, investments in infrastructure—which, by definition, aren't shipped overseas. All of those things accelerate growth, give you more of a runway. But at some point, when the problem is not just Uber but driverless Uber, when radiologists are losing their jobs to A.I., then we're going to have to figure out how do we maintain a cohesive society and a cohesive democracy in which productivity and wealth generation are not automatically linked to how many hours you put in, where the links between production and distribution are broken, in some sense. Because I can sit in my office, do a bunch of stuff, send it out over the Internet, and suddenly I just made a couple of million bucks, and the person who's looking after my kid while I'm doing that has no leverage to get paid more than ten bucks an hour."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency

[Locutus]

He's such a smart man, yet people hated him. 

[me]

He's such a smart man, yet people hated him. 

Disagreed with his policies, there's a difference.

[Locutus]

Disagreed with his policies, there's a difference.

Yet you've repeatedly failed to elucidate what those "policy disagreements" are/were. 

Do you disagree with what the president said above?

[me]

Yet you've repeatedly failed to elucidate what those "policy disagreements" are/were. 

Do you disagree with what the president said above?

I have done that numerous times you just don't seem to grasp it.

[Locutus]

I have done that numerous times you just don't seem to grasp it.

So do you agree with what the president said above?  He's right.

[me]

Yet you've repeatedly failed to elucidate what those "policy disagreements" are/were. 

Do you disagree with what the president said above?

Looks more to me like what the author says he said altough I did hear him say some of the snarky things the author eludes to. Obama comes across at this point as being a legend in his own mind.

[Palehorse]

He's such a smart man, yet people hated him. 

Indeed. I wish I had been able to attend classes under his tutelage while in college.

Haters gonna hate man. Not a damned thing we can do about it. . . aside from refusing to get sucked into their wormhole. . .