Seeing that bozo at the podium as president-elect, I really feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
Yeah there are comics where Lex Luthor is the president of the U.S. I used to think they were absurd. Used to...
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
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#202Been living in the Bay Area for 17 years. Nothing will change.
Bay Area as it currently is is around 40 years old
Yes, some things may change
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#203It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is…
Globalization isn't the problem. Computerization is. Other countries are not taking "our" jobs. We simply don't need those jobs anymore. Taxes on foreign labor will only do one thing: subsidize robots. We're going to spend billions of dollars on a big wall, and I guarantee you we're not going to have a lot more jobs after that. (The wall itself is a pretty big project though.)
No wall is needed... Just make it so that employers cannot legally employ those not authorized to work in the country --and fine with an amount which will deter people/companies.
At least that's what I would do if I needed to control unauthorized workers for any place which wanted to do so.
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#204Just tell me, how all those polls got it wrong. People were afraid of telling what they really want?
Because it polls likely voters. The unlikely voters came out and voted.
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#205It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is…
I feel that the US will now, finally, focus on the US. It's time for that. Instead of their usual imperialistic attitude that involves enticing Europe to boycott Russia, taking out stability providing leaders in the middle east without much (after)thought (or the wrong kind of thought), providing weapons the the Free Syrian Army mercenaries that now fight for the better paying ISIS side (this is not stupidity, it's rubbelization with economic motives imo). Etc. Let the US focus on the US for the next 4 years, the US has enough problems to solve within their borders. Clinton would just intensify the Syria situation, alienate Russia even further, make secret deals with Wall Street and keep things just as they are. And things are not fine as they are.
Yeah yeah, I think Snowden is a hero and I hate Trump for calling him a traitor. Also his abortions views are medieval. But hey, a more balanced anti-imperialist would simply never win in the corrupt, house-of-cards like US.
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#206Speaking of tech bubble, just a few weeks ago people wanted to purge Thiel for supporting Trump.
And? Just because he's validated, doesn't mean he's in the right.
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#207It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is…
The difference between this and Brexit is that more people voted for Brexit than against it, while more people voted for Hillary than for Trump.
Trump won the popular vote as well as the EV (at the time of this comment).
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#208I've read somewhere that the president is the captain of a very large ship with a small rudder. Not sure how correct that is factually but it is somewhat reassuring.
To think that Donald Trump is possession of the nuclear codes, dear god...
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#209Every pollster/pundit quit your job now. Edit: I know, not EVERY one of them.
Where are the Nate Silver fans right now?
You know, sometimes, a 30% chance actually happens. That is not a small number.
With that in mind, I do think this is going to necessitate another look at how much we trust and do polling.
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#210Jeez, everybody is all bent out of shape on this. The Republican establishment hate Trump nearly as much as they hate Clinton so with Republicans controlling The House and The Senate how much "damage" is President Trump going to be able to do. The really interesting part of all this was reading Scott Adams blog who proposed the idea that Trump is a master persuader (probably this is just a fancy name for populist). H…
I think the biggest amount of direct influence the president has is on foreign policy.
There's a lot of damage to be done there.
Also, he has shown that he can make the Republicans shut up and follow. Quite easily.
The "problem" that made them fall in line won't go away. The voters will stick with him for a while.