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2016 Presidential Election Thread: TRUMP vs. Hillary SMACKDOWN

View Poll Results: The 45th President of the United States of America will be

Hillary

332 46.63%

TRUMP

190 26.69%

In to watch it burn

161 22.61%

Bastard

73 10.25%

im tryin to tell you about ****in my wife in the *** and youre asking me these personal questions

57 8.01%

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07-31-2016 , 02:18 PM

#11926

BAIDS

2013 FA Cup winner

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 32,645

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisGunBGud

Sitting back, pouring butter on your popcorn and enjoying the show?

the rise of drumpfian politics is compelling but not enjoyable. imo ROW is bemused rather than amused*

i am however looking forward to the likely outcome (humiliating defeat for drumpf) and seeing how he deals with that, who takes the blame, whether his business suffers crippling hardship as a result of his failed campaign/disgraceful rhetoric & so on

*this extends to many things that the GOP has done and said in the last 25 odd years, but this does not reflect poorly on yanklandians in general given that the GOP have lost the popular prez vote 5/6 and probably 6/7

07-31-2016 , 02:23 PM

#11927

jjshabado

Carpal Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 22,732

I don't think the ROW enjoys what's happening in the US.

There are lots of legitimate complaints about the US. And we clearly get a kick out of Americans claiming USA#1 when it's almost certainly not true in the ways it's often intended. But having a relatively stable USA is clearly good for everybody. And I'm sure Trump getting elected scares a good number of us.

07-31-2016 , 02:25 PM

#11928

Nicholasp27

27th level thinker

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 85,371

Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

Isn't there a recent poll showing trump down 15 in PA?

Doesn't matter

Narratives!

07-31-2016 , 02:27 PM

#11929

El Rata

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 31,720

as a non-USA#1ian, i'm scared of a trump presidency and don't find anything about it that funny

07-31-2016 , 02:32 PM

#11930

chezlaw

Limey Bastard

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 48,788

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisGunBGud

What does it say about our country that we have better than a fighters chance to **** up the easiest election of our existence?

Hopefully people will realise that beating trump isn't the end of it. Some of the underlying problems that have led to such anger with the establishment need to be addressed or the dice will get rolled again and again.

Quote:

Posters living in other countries I'm curious are y'all laughing at us? Sitting back, pouring butter on your popcorn and enjoying the show?

USA is too powerful for us not to be deeply worried as well as laughing. Even the jokes have turned sour post brexit - many specific difference between brexit and trump but also a common underlying problem that has been neglected for years.

07-31-2016 , 02:34 PM

#11931

Riverman

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Well, 40% of the country apparently being absolutely awful people is way north of what I assumed a year ago, and I'm pretty cynical.

07-31-2016 , 02:43 PM

#11932

sweep single

banned

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 2,558

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisGunBGud

What does it say about our country that we have better than a fighters chance to **** up the easiest election of our existence?

It says the system is awful and needs scrapped. We literally have a choice between 2 of the worst humans in the country.

07-31-2016 , 02:47 PM

#11933

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,090

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shuffle

I think it was Hillary +9 and it's from WSJ/NBC News/Marist which has skewed HEAVILY towards Hillary this entire cycle.

Pretty much the new Rasmussen x10 for DNC you can pretty much throw all their polls out.

There was a Marist +9 in PA a couple of weeks ago, but the recent +9 was Suffolk. Because Hillary is going to win PA lol Shuffle lol youtubes lol not even trying to understand the world as it is instead of the world as you wish it was.

07-31-2016 , 02:48 PM

#11934

Louis Cyphre

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Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11,025

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisGunBGud

What does it say about our country that we have better than a fighters chance to **** up the easiest election of our existence? Posters living in other countries I'm curious are y'all laughing at us? Sitting back, pouring butter on your popcorn and enjoying the show?

We are looking on in horror shaking our heads. The problem is that the US is not a far away island with no influence on the rest of the world.
The last time the US elected a terrible president it resulted in Europe getting involved in two wars and getting terrorism in return.

Last edited by Louis Cyphre; 07-31-2016 at 02:53 PM.

07-31-2016 , 02:53 PM

#11935

Flop artist

banned

Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 255

What this election comes down to is nationalism vs globalism. If you are in favor of globalism and having less self determination then Hillary is your person. If you favor nationalism and want your own country to determine its own future, trump is your guy. Plain and simple

07-31-2016 , 02:53 PM

#11936

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 100,610

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riverman

Well, 40% of the country apparently being absolutely awful people is way north of what I assumed a year ago, and I'm pretty cynical.

Most people don't have the intellectual capacity to go against their peer group. How many otherwise normal decent people went along with the Nazis?

07-31-2016 , 02:54 PM

#11937

El Rata

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 31,720

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flop artist

pretty sure it's racism vs decency.

07-31-2016 , 02:58 PM

#11938

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 100,610

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flop artist

Especially if that "own future" involves favorable status for white people.

07-31-2016 , 03:02 PM

#11939

Flop artist

banned

Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 255

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Especially if that "own future" involves favorable status for white people.

U racist against whites brah?

07-31-2016 , 03:04 PM

#11940

samsonh

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 3,535

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shuffle

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/31/donal...heres-why.html

lol youtubes omgz flysofly hurr hurr haha

You are going to be made fun of for posting this link

07-31-2016 , 03:05 PM

#11941

goofyballer

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Ghazala Khan (Khizr's wife) op-ed about why she didn't speak

Quote:

Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart.

Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do. My son Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq. He loved America, where we moved when he was 2 years old. He had volunteered to help his country, signing up for the ROTC at the University of Virginia. This was before the attack of Sept. 11, 2001. He didn’t have to do this, but he wanted to.

Quote:

I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun. For all these years, I haven’t been able to clean the closet where his things are — I had to ask my daughter-in-law to do it. Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?

Devastating.

07-31-2016 , 03:05 PM

#11942

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,090

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shuffle

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/31/donal...heres-why.html

lol youtubes omgz flysofly hurr hurr haha

LOL wait are you posting that article to PROVE ME WRONG?

07-31-2016 , 03:05 PM

#11943

jalfrezi

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 16,251

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Most people don't have the intellectual capacity to go against their peer group. How many otherwise normal decent people went along with the Nazis?

No decent people but plenty of normal people.

07-31-2016 , 03:06 PM

#11944

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,090

Quote:

The most recent polls say Trump is losing Pennsylvania. Separate measures by Suffolk University and NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist put Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton up by 9 percentage points.
But I think the polls are wrong.

How do I know? Because I live in Pennsylvania — have for all my life, even though I work in the New York/New Jersey metro area.

OH NO

Shuffle, I will, generously, give you -110 on PA Clinton. How much you want?

07-31-2016 , 03:06 PM

#11945

Black Peter

veteran

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 2,921

Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Ghazala Khan (Khizr's wife) op-ed about why she didn't speak

Devastating.

I agree. Only an idiot would criticize her for not talking. It's overwhelming on so many fronts. As a father, i doubt i would say anything either if my wife was willing to do the talking on that stage. Trump just seems to have no ability for empathy.

07-31-2016 , 03:08 PM

#11946

DisGunBGud

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,708

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

LOL wait are you posting that article to PROVE ME WRONG?

Hey man you can't refute a hypothesis that is so strongly backed by facts such as "call it a hunch".

07-31-2016 , 03:08 PM

#11947

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,090

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flop artist

"Globalism" is just the 21st century way for Infowars types to reboot the Rothschild conspiracy theories for a new generation of socks and sandals pony tail guys who own far more guns than they should.

It doesn't ****ing mean anything.

07-31-2016 , 03:11 PM

#11948

Flop artist

banned

Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 255

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

What would you call Great Britain's rejection of Europe? Isn't that a rejection of globalism?

07-31-2016 , 03:13 PM

#11949

Schlitz mmmm

banned

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 28,235

Who is that accurate pollster that pretty much nailed the last election, and what are his current projections? And what number of electoral votes does Hilldawg have locked-up and in her pocket, so we can project what combination of swing states she needs to 'ship?