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  • gut
    If Trump builds a wall AND grants amnesty....everyone is happy and there goes the Latino vote for Dems, or at least a big chunk of it when they can't play the "Repubs hate brown people" card
  • Commander of Awesome
    like_that;1823189 wrote:Couldn't have said it better myself.

    What pissed me off the entire election is I obviously wasn't going to vote for trump, but liberals painting every trump voter as some uneducated asshole racist/sexist that doesn't know what is good for this country was so damn ignorant. My dad is a fucking intelligent and successful man (lawyer, retired as an AF colonel, etc) and he voted for trump. I knew he would because 1. He normally votes the GOP ticket no matter what like many people do for both parties and 2. He despises Hillary. It's just straight ignorant to group people like him or working class Americans who never voted before yesterday, into what liberals were trying to paint them as. People like zwick, ptown and the majority of most educated democrats/liberals I know simply couldn't comprehend the fact that a lot of people were voting for trump because they hate Hillary that much.

    If Hillary stayed on message about why she was the best candidate, perhaps those people would have sucked it up and voted for her. Instead, she made her ENTIRE campaign about trump, while also throwing shade on the people she needed to come out and vote for her.

    I was harsh on Romney after 2012 and harsh on the GOP the last 18 months, but Hillary might go down as the greatest political failure of all time.
    I don't understand this line of thinking. You're making a pretty feckless picture of the Right, they got hurt feelings so they abandoned all values?
    Don't you hate PC culture? You're argument is people should be nicer to the Right and respect them more. But its Left "shitting" on the Right that caused Trump?
  • like_that
    Commander of Awesome;1823247 wrote:I don't understand this line of thinking. You're making a pretty feckless picture of the Right, they got hurt feelings so they abandoned all values?
    Don't you hate PC culture? You're argument is people should be nicer to the Right and respect them more. But its Left "shitting" on the Right that caused Trump?
    They hate Hillary and vote for their party. Hillary did nothing to keep them home. Pretty simple logic.
  • thavoice
    I dont know if the overall votes for the dem party were down overall. I know when CNN when they would click on many of the counties that historically voted overwhelmingly democratic she just wasnt making nearly as much hay as DEMs did in the past.

    I know our county voted nearly 81% for DT, but that isnt abnormal.
  • jmog
    sleeper;1823239 wrote:So what does the Democrat party do to change? Business as usual seems to be working out well for the GOP.
    It was simple, don't be corrupt and cheat out the democratic process.

    I think we all know that if nearly anyone not named Hillary Clinton with the corruption, lies, and frankly cheating during the primaries, was nominated, Trump loses in a landslide.

    Of course, the same maybe able to be said for many of the original republican candidates, they could have beat Hillary in a landslide.

    Hillary made Sarah Palin look like a good choice...let that sink in. Hillary may have been the worst nomination by either of the 2 major parties since Bob Dole, although Gore was pretty close (didn't know how much of a loon he was until later, so Hillary was worse).

    Honestly consider that, Hillary is worse than Kerry, Gore, McCain, Romney, etc. 2 decades since Dole and he is the first one that comes to mind as a worse nomination.
  • Con_Alma
    Calexit

    http://time.com/4564119/california-calexit-donald-trump-victory/?xid=tcoshare

    Oh those crazy Texans.....errr....Californians.
  • Con_Alma
    Fab4Runner;1823174 wrote:I am positive. And that's just one example.

    No need to argue about it. What's done is done, unfortunately.

    http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/donald-trump-holds-high-flag-gay-equality/



    Maybe being a bigot was an overdone, media effort.
  • iclfan2
    Con_Alma;1823255 wrote:Calexit

    http://time.com/4564119/california-calexit-donald-trump-victory/?xid=tcoshare

    Oh those crazy Texans.....errr....Californians.
    Haha those morons would starve. They forget they once got IOUs for tax refunds?


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  • thavoice
    iclfan2;1823258 wrote:Haha those morons would starve. They forget they once got IOUs for tax refunds?


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    Some times I wonder if I am on the "right" side, and then things like how those whackjobs in California act that make me realize that yeah, I am on the side of right.
  • Belly35
    It feels so good to be able to say President Trump I haven't been able to say the words president for over 8 years also in the near future 4 years from now Pence..
  • Fab4Runner
    Con_Alma;1823256 wrote:http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/donald-trump-holds-high-flag-gay-equality/



    Maybe being a bigot was an overdone, media effort.
    I don't care about a flag. I care about him appointing justices who overturn the SCOTUS ruling. Hopefully it doesn't happen. We shall see.
  • fish82
    sleeper;1823239 wrote:So what does the Democrat party do to change? Business as usual seems to be working out well for the GOP.
    They could start by not calling their core "firewall" constituency "uneducated whites," in order to court minority votes.
  • QuakerOats
    like_that;1823189 wrote:I was harsh on Romney after 2012 and harsh on the GOP the last 18 months, but Hillary might go
    down as the greatest political failure of all time.

    Time has a way of eventually catching up with the deceitful, the corrupt, and the empty.
  • BoatShoes
    fish82;1823265 wrote:They could start by not calling their core "firewall" constituency "uneducated whites," in order to court minority votes.
    A Democrat like Tim McGraw invited to the convention over Katy Perry wouldn't hurt.

    I dunno man. Without the presidency the dems have nothing. They are decimated at the state and local level save a handful of counties and none of these people know how to win anything.

    California is doing great v. say Kansas but it is like a different world compared to the rest of the country.

    Lookin pretty dark. Donald's New York Values are our only hope lol.
  • BoatShoes
    like_that;1823189 wrote:Couldn't have said it better myself.

    What pissed me off the entire election is I obviously wasn't going to vote for trump, but liberals painting every trump voter as some uneducated asshole racist/sexist that doesn't know what is good for this country was so damn ignorant. My dad is a fucking intelligent and successful man (lawyer, retired as an AF colonel, etc) and he voted for trump. I knew he would because 1. He normally votes the GOP ticket no matter what like many people do for both parties and 2. He despises Hillary. It's just straight ignorant to group people like him or working class Americans who never voted before yesterday, into what liberals were trying to paint them as. People like zwick, ptown and the majority of most educated democrats/liberals I know simply couldn't comprehend the fact that a lot of people were voting for trump because they hate Hillary that much.

    If Hillary stayed on message about why she was the best candidate, perhaps those people would have sucked it up and voted for her. Instead, she made her ENTIRE campaign about trump, while also throwing shade on the people she needed to come out and vote for her.

    I was harsh on Romney after 2012 and harsh on the GOP the last 18 months, but Hillary might go down as the greatest political failure of all time.
    All great points. Think about Obama. Everything he will be erased by a birther. Amazing.
  • QuakerOats
  • BoatShoes
    sleeper;1823239 wrote:So what does the Democrat party do to change? Business as usual seems to be working out well for the GOP.
    Trump ignored the GOP wisdom and carried the down ballot.
  • QuakerOats
    GOONx19;1823016 wrote:I cannot believe we just elected a racist, sexist, xenophobic bigot in 2016. He brings not one thing to the table, globally or nationally. I had two separate friends message me from Spain and Poland asking if their news is playing a prank.

    No prank; the United States is regaining its senses in order to prevent it from becoming the disaster that is Europe. And not a moment too soon; thank God.
  • CenterBHSFan
    BoatShoes;1823269 wrote:A Democrat like Tim McGraw invited to the convention over Katy Perry wouldn't hurt.

    I dunno man. Without the presidency the dems have nothing. They are decimated at the state and local level save a handful of counties and none of these people know how to win anything.

    California is doing great v. say Kansas but it is like a different world compared to the rest of the country.

    Lookin pretty dark. Donald's New York Values are our only hope lol.
    I actually agree with this. *gasp!*
    ...

    On another note:
    I heard on the news this earlier this morning that 18% of the black male vote went to Trump. Does that mean that those folks were racist, misogynist, uneducated, sexist bigots? I know that people on here and other places are popping off out of bitterness of their party losing, but still - at some point you've got to realize what you're saying, right?!

    I think that the curve might be starting to get to the point where minorities are starting to be sick of being the useful tools of a particular party. If that is the case, we'll all hear the sound of a giant puckering all across the US.

    And to further my thoughts on this, looking at Hillary losing, the house and senate on down to my area's local races (all around, really), I think that people in general are just sick of democrats at this point.
  • FatHobbit
    Here's some interesting numbers:

    Obama beat McCain 69,498,516 to 59,948,323
    Obama beat Romney 65,915,795 to 60,933,504
    Trump beat Hillary 59,438,335 to 59,647,392

    It looks like 10 million+ stayed home for this election.
  • 4cards
    FatHobbit;1823280 wrote:Here's some interesting numbers:

    Obama beat McCain 69,498,516 to 59,948,323
    Obama beat Romney 65,915,795 to 60,933,504
    Trump beat Hillary 59,438,335 to 59,647,392

    It looks like 10 million+ stayed home for this election.
    ...ACORN forgot to pick them up!
  • jmog
    Fab4Runner;1823263 wrote:I don't care about a flag. I care about him appointing justices who overturn the SCOTUS ruling. Hopefully it doesn't happen. We shall see.
    \

    How about when he talked at the RNC about having to give LGBTQ equality/equal rights and had a speaker at the convention who had just came out as homosexual. It was the first openly homosexual speaker ever at the RNC.

    Trump told the RNC that they needed to do better at helping the LGBTQ community and their rights. His own words, not what the CNN/MSNBC folks said that he said.

    Now, was that a ruse to garner a few LGBTQ votes? Time will tell, but he was the first republican nominee to try to bridge that gap.
  • QuakerOats
    How gratifying that the pollsters and the media and the entrenched bureaucracy got this 'jolt'. It is high time the intellectual elites holed up in the urban centers got their ass kicked. If they bothered to actually get out of their cocoons and spend some time in fly-over country they might gain a true understanding of the positions and concerns that tens of millions of The People harbor. Instead, they tried to deftly portray the millions who stood in lines for hours at Trump rallies in a way to fit their twisted narrative. Their utter disdain and condescension for the common folk has been on full display and it finally struck a cord that was clearly evident here, on the ground, but obviously disregarded by the uppity know-it-alls on the east coast. They may be able to take for granted and habitually abuse a block like the African-Americans, but the big block they have abused, castigated, and maligned, in both policy and rhetoric - The Deplorables, was a block too large to manage from the top down, and from their ivory tower perches.

    The comeuppance was long, long overdue. To see the enlightened exposed as unenlightened; the media as corrupt; and the liberal agenda as bankrupt, is a sight to behold. May these egotistical phonies rot.
  • QuakerOats
    FatHobbit;1823280 wrote:Here's some interesting numbers:

    Obama beat McCain 69,498,516 to 59,948,323
    Obama beat Romney 65,915,795 to 60,933,504
    Trump beat Hillary 59,438,335 to 59,647,392

    It looks like 10 million+ stayed home for this election.

    Impossible; she had a great ground game .............always beats enthusiasm.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Con_Alma;1823256 wrote:http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/donald-trump-holds-high-flag-gay-equality/



    Maybe being a bigot was an overdone, media effort.
    No it wasn't actually. Him holding a flag doesn't change the facts/past.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/after-trump-a-call-for-political-correctness-from-the-right/507155/