Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[PhillyPhreak54]

What a nightmare.  I'm still in disbelief. 

I feel guilty, like I should have known, or done something.  What an awful, awful failure.

Same here. It's like an alternate universe right now.

I find it funny that some of his supporters are already pissed bc he wasn't fire and brimstone during his acceptance speech and also today he was nice to Obama.

I find it disgusting that there are reports of several instances of whites making 1950s type comments to blacks.

[PhillyPhreak54]

The best that can be said for any of this at least it wasn't Ted Cruz.

Watch him appoint him to the Supreme Court

[Butchers Bill]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/

Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.

It's a profound failure of empathy in the service of endless posturing. There's been some sympathy from the press, sure: the dispatches from "heroin country" that read like reports from colonial administrators checking in on the natives. But much of that starts from the assumption that Trump voters are backward, and that it's our duty to catalogue and ultimately reverse that backwardness. What can we do to get these people to stop worshiping their false god and accept our gospel?

We diagnose them as racists in the way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession. Journalists, at our worst, see ourselves as a priestly caste. We believe we not only have access to the indisputable facts, but also a greater truth, a system of beliefs divined from an advanced understanding of justice.

You'd think that Trump's victory – the one we all discounted too far in advance – would lead to a certain newfound humility in the political press. But of course that's not how it works. To us, speaking broadly, our diagnosis was still basically correct. The demons were just stronger than we realized.

This is all a "whitelash," you see. Trump voters are racist and sexist, so there must be more racists and sexists than we realized. Tuesday night's outcome was not a logic-driven rejection of a deeply flawed candidate named Clinton; no, it was a primal scream against fairness, equality, and progress. Let the new tantrums commence!

That's the fantasy, the idea that if we mock them enough, call them racist enough, they'll eventually shut up and get in line. It's similar to how media Twitter works, a system where people who dissent from the proper framing of a story are attacked by mobs of smugly incredulous pundits. Journalists exist primarily in a world where people can get shouted down and disappear, which informs our attitudes toward all disagreement.

[PhillyPhreak54]

The people protesting are morons. Those same people protesing were telling Romney/McCain supporters to deal with it 4 and 8 years ago.  Trump won. It sucks something awful, but he won.  Nothing to really do now but either deal with it or find a new home.

Here's his plan for the first 100 days in office in case you haven't seen it yet.

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days

* FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;

* SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health);

* THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;

* FOURTH, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;

* FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;

* SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

On the same day, I will begin taking the following 7 actions to protect American workers:

* FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205

* SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership

* THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator

* FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately

* FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.

* SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward

* SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure

Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:

* FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama

* SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States

* THIRD, cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities

* FOURTH, begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take them back

* FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.

Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration:

Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.

End The Offshoring Act. Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free.

American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.

School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable.

Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.

Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-side childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.
End Illegal Immigration Act Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.
Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.

Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values.

Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.

There's like 2 or 3 things in there I can get behind but everything else looks flat out awful.

Same here - a couple things on there I can get down with but it doesn't change that he's a racist jerkoff.

As for those protesting? I'm fine with it so long as they voted. And not just for president. If they didn't vote on the local and state levels then they can farg off and cry themselves to sleep.

Like Kaepernick...I was fine with him doing what he's done and stood for. Until he said he didn't vote.

[General_Failure]

That's the fantasy, the idea that if we mock them enough, call them racist enough, they'll eventually shut up and get in line. It's similar to how media Twitter works, a system where people who dissent from the proper framing of a story are attacked by mobs of smugly incredulous pundits. Journalists exist primarily in a world where people can get shouted down and disappear, which informs our attitudes toward all disagreement.

If you're looking for a safe space on Twitter, you can stop looking. If you dislike Hillary, you'll get a flood of people calling you mean things. If you dislike Trump, you get a flood of people calling you mean things.

Twitter is a shteinhole full of the same awful people you'll find everywhere else on the internet.

[Rome]

Well, not everywhere. 

[Tomahawk]

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/matt-walsh-liberals-this-is-very-simple-you-lost-because-hillary-clinton-is-objectively-terrible/

Stupid Clinton

[Eagles_Legendz]

Rip igy

[smeags]

I think sanders beats trump.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Is igy still alive?

[Diomedes]

I think sanders beats trump.

I disagree.  He might have pulled some whites from Trump, but he would have lost at least as many blacks that did bother to come out for Bill's wife.

[Tomahawk]

I think sanders beats trump.

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/bernie-sanders-electoral-map

[Sgt PSN]

As for those protesting? I'm fine with it so long as they voted. And not just for president. If they didn't vote on the local and state levels then they can farg off and cry themselves to sleep.

Like Kaepernick...I was fine with him doing what he's done and stood for. Until he said he didn't vote.

I don't get your obsession with voting being some sort of prerequisite to free speech.  Vote or don't vote.  It's your right to back a candidate at the polls or stay home and do nothing, makes me no nevermind.  I voted for the bitch, but truth be told I wish I'd have abstained from the POTUS ballot....or at a minimum voted for Stein. But I chose to abandon my own beliefs in order to try and keep this country from being a global laughing stock.  Fat lot of good that did.  I sold myself out and didn't get anything in return.  Shame on me and anyone else who didn't have the balls to sit this shtein show out. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/moscow-had-contacts-with-trump-team-during-campaign-russian-diplomat-says/2016/11/10/28fb82fa-a73d-11e6-9bd6-184ab22d218e_story.html

[PhillyPhreak54]

As for those protesting? I'm fine with it so long as they voted. And not just for president. If they didn't vote on the local and state levels then they can farg off and cry themselves to sleep.

Like Kaepernick...I was fine with him doing what he's done and stood for. Until he said he didn't vote.

I don't get your obsession with voting being some sort of prerequisite to free speech.  Vote or don't vote.  It's your right to back a candidate at the polls or stay home and do nothing, makes me no nevermind.  I voted for the bitch, but truth be told I wish I'd have abstained from the POTUS ballot....or at a minimum voted for Stein. But I chose to abandon my own beliefs in order to try and keep this country from being a global laughing stock.  Fat lot of good that did.  I sold myself out and didn't get anything in return.  Shame on me and anyone else who didn't have the balls to sit this shtein show out.

I have a problem with people who bitch and moan but don't do shtein about it but bitch and moan.

So if you're out protesting and didn't use your democratically enabled voice to do something about it? Tough shtein.

If you're online spitting fire about whatever and didn't vote? Or voted for a farging dead gorilla? Then you've got no leg to stand on when griping.

I'm not just talking about the presidential election. This also applies to local issues and representatives. Especially those, in fact.