And this sums it up. People need a "liberal" once in a while to remember why they don't want what they're peddling. http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/11/12/shribman/r1kEAvFubT7k2WgfeHqyVL/story.html “Trump took advantage of 30 years of job losses, flat wages, rising insecurity, and the industrial working class’s feeling that the system doesn’t work anymore,’’ said Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers union, based here. “The attitude was: ‘Why not take a chance?’ ” Clinton/Obama 16 of the last 24 years
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...aw-the-economic-crisis-the-others-didn-t.html In the coming months, we'll hear about how the democratic system failed. The reality is that it worked. In debate after debate, candidates exposed themselves not only as unprepared to deal with Americans' quite rational economic perceptions, but as ignorant of them. Clinton was the last woman standing until she, too, fell to the self-professed billionaire from Fifth Avenue who saw what no one else saw. No one, that is, but the voters. Be angry and frustrated that Trump will be our next president, if you will. But be angrier and more frustrated at the elites whose eight-year vacuum created him.
Snort. Gee...I can't IMAGINE why I didn't vote for your candidate with people like you supporting her.... Wait a minute....I thought it was TRUMP who was "anti-women"? Oh yeah....Trump is anti-women alright.......
When your President goes to the White House lawn to tell the world that your beloved Clinton has bowed out to Trump..... Yes, that's an ACTUAL photograph of the White House staff listening to Obama tell the nation about Hillary's defeat. Beautiful, isn't it?
There's a lot of interesting ways to speculate why why Trump was elected, but when I look at the numbers, to me to me it seems it was simply that Clinton did not excite her base enough to get out and vote. Trump actually got less votes than Mitt Romney did in 2012. And I don't think Mitt was exactly a set the world on fire canidate, the republican base just backed their guy. Clinton got 5 million less votes than Obama did in 2012. So to me, that indicates the issue was more that people didn't want to vote for Clinton.
There's also a non-insignificant number of Obama voters that backed Trump; particularly in the rust belt states. Obama promised "Hope & Change" and people in those places got neither. Add in Clinton's establishment, "4 more years of the same bullshit" message and it starts to make more sense -- People are tired of corruption and feeling that that the system is rigged against them. So tired they'd be willing to back a loose cannon like Trump (who is a vile human being), but he's an outsider.
There are millions of uncounted ballots in California and Washington. Sounds like Clinton's final popular vote numbers will be close to Obama's second election. Where she failed was getting out the Dem vote ( a lot of it blacks) in the Midwest.
Or....maybe they've FINALLY figured out that the Democrats don't care about them, and that it's time to leave the Plantation.
Didn't this photo come out originally come out and republicans say it was the staff watching Trump come in to meet with Obama. Which then someone on this very forum mentioned it was faked. Now people are saying it's staff listening to Obama tell the nation about Clinton's defeat?
That's exactly what I've heard as well. There was even an article out there debunking the "Trump Meeting Obama" story, and confirmed that this was, indeed, the staff listening to Obama address the nation about the election results.
Trump will step back, as it's not his job to prosecute her. She will be prosecuted by the Dept of Justice for aiding and abetting the enemy by knowingly arming ISIS and Al Quaeda sponsors Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Yemen, and for selling influence on billion dollar deals she pushed while in the State Dept. Wikileaks and the FBI have already published more than enough evidence to assure convictions. She and Bill, and probably Chelsea, will be prosecuted by the Dept of Justice for charity fraud, money laundering, theft by deception, tax fraud...and maybe some real disgusting child-trafficking stuff...when the ongoing FBI investigation is finally completed. James Comey provided proof that she lied under oath to Congress, so she could also face those charges. Numerous lawsuits will follow her the rest of her miserable life. If they let her off like they did with Nixon, you'll see a 3rd party President sooner than you think.
