Hey, I'm Czech too! Na zdraví!

V-O-O-D-O-O

Also, can I nominate "entitlement" as an official dog-whistle?

IDK if youve been in the POG politics thread. But if you havent, dont. And if you have, dont do it again.

No, not at all. That **** was ugly and Roveian.

Sweet christ this is why under my veil of bleeding-heart leftyism I'm actually a psychopathic meritocratic elitist.

pokerodox ain't allowed to vote no more. Also, sterilization.

You don't get to advocate taking formula out of poor babies' mouths and top that off with a, "What's all this ballyhoo about Kansas?"

fwiw i cant speak for any place other than the UK, but imo the reason we think drumpf is a bad candidate for president is not that we are worried that our one-sided traid dealzzz will be torn up, its that he is literally a reality tv game show host. and literal reality tv game show hosts should not lead countries. its just a general belief we have over here

eg you will never catch us voting simon cowell for prime minister regardless of what trade deals he promises

I clicked there about a year ago. Mistakes were made.

I'm missing the strategy that led Trump to finally admit President Obama was born in America. Was it just part of a very weak effort to get the black vote? If so, its backfiring miserably. I don't know why he just didn't leave it up in the air, along with his tax returns and virtually all of his policies.

Neicheman was also a big proponent of the idea that the GOP should go even harder on white resentment as an electoral strategy, something that was widely derided, often by me. But he may be proven prescient in the end.

I have a pet theory, and it's total pop psych -- but I'm pretty confident that 2p2 -- has high levels of intelligent, socially awkward, obsessive types that enjoy games and activities (e.g., poker, the POG forum) that can be engaged in with very low complex social requirements. Particularly the high volume posters who are going to dominate the conversation.

Basically, I'm suggesting a lot of people here are on the autism spectrum/Aspergersy.

The result is high levels of rigid thinking leading toward authoritarianism. Seems to me like while Trump and the Trump style is almost exemplified and noteworthy for its offensiveness to more intelligent and educated groups, you can predict the one group of smarter/educated people where it might land well are the typical high-functioning autistic types and you're going to find a lot of them on 2p2 or other places like this (e.g., NeoGAF) with a high population of male posters somewhere on the spectrum. The comirbidity between passions like video games and poker, past political movements like Ron Paul and GamerGate, and then now Trump has to be really high. I've pointed this out before that an astonishingly high number of Ron Paul supporters (e.g., 30-40%) have migrated from RP to Trump -- given the ostensible stark differences. But once you see the common thread as like "socially awkward, nihilistic dudes" then it's easy to see the appeal of Trump and hardcore libertarianism to a single set of people. Gamergate is probably a little easier to deduce of how Trump threaded the needle on a bunch of angry bros.

And then in the end here: anywhere where those kinds of guys congregate, you're going to get high levels of "wtf did I just click on?!" political commentary.

I mean all your quotes are completely in the spirit of the policies of use of nuclear weapons for every president since we've had nukes. No president or major presidential candidate has ever put specific conditions on when the us would or wouldn't use nuclear weapons.

Breitbart definitely benefits from a Trump win. With a Clinton victory, the site is basically what its been for most of its existence. Sure there will be plenty of faux scandals, but that's not really any different than with Obama. If Trump wins, an important battle will have been won, but the war will still be far from over. Lord Trump vs Congressional Cuckservatives will play right into their strengths. Not to mention how easily they'll keep the younger fascists clicking with HAHAHAHA CHECK OUT THESE LIBTARD FEMINIST SJWs ON TWITTER ALL BUTTHURT OVER MR PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP SAYING HE'LL PROBABLY PULL AMERICA OUT OF THE UN!

A really frightening thought I've been having about a Trump win goes back to Siculamente's pathetic argument about President Trump not having unchecked power. Whether or not Trump actually has the political capital to actually build the wall or really go full-on deporting illegals there are going to be millions of Americans feeling quite emboldened on those issues. They voted for a wall and to kick out the Mexicans and Trump won and there ain't no Washington pussy congress that's going to tell them that ain't happening. Most of those losers are harmless outside of their right to vote, others not so much.

My completely unfounded speculation is that it was the product of some alchemy between KellyAnne Conway's polling/political training and Trump's publicity/media skills.

- Conway looks at the polls and realizes that:

(a) Trump's biggest weakness relative to traditional Republicans is with college educated whites and women, and putting the birther thing "to rest" can help bring at least some of them back into the fold.

(b) Hillary polls well with black voters, but the support is not as robust as it was for Obama in '08 and '12. So, you muddy the waters just a little bit, remind people of how nasty the '08 primary did get at times, and hope to depress turnout just a bit. If Trump actually gains some votes, great, but I don't think that is the larger goal.

I also think Conway probably took a page from the classic Republican campaign strategy of attacking your opponents' perceived strengths rather than their weaknesses. It seems counterintuitive, but can be effective b/c it can catch your opponent off guard and neutralize your own weakness in a particular area (for example: Swiftboating)

- Trump listens to Conway's case, and figures out a way of packaging the message in a way that allows him to get some free media for other topics and not look like he is apologizing for past behavior, so he plays ball.

Is "Washington, PC" a thing in the derposphere? It should be.

Syre, many of them are all of this, although in the specific case of VMF, I wouldn't lump him with the GameGate people. Probably not even socially awkward (relative to the group you're talking about). He's just an odd cat. His primary shtick is concern trolling. Well named is right that his Trump loyalty is primarily driven by fear of Muslims. He does have this patriarchal type worldview, while largely subscribing to feminist ideas (yes, simultaneously). I have no idea about where he lies on the spectrum .It wouldn't surprise me if he's just normal. But the key to understanding him is a complete lack of intellectual curiosity, combined with unthinkable naivety.

And, well I don't disagree with your diagnosis as far as which said the plurality of young Trump voters, there are lot of folks that don't match your description. The same holds for many of his older voters. Racial animus or misogynistic views are the primary driving force, among the group as a whole, but the extent varies wildly within the group.

And, believe it or not, some of them don't really hold any of these grievances. They just support Donald Trump because he's a Republican and so are they. It's a mistake to I think they became a republican after carefully looking at both party platforms, as opposed to a vestigal cultural marker. The feedback loops in these social networks are impossible to escape for those who lack the tools needed to break free. I'm not making excuses for them per se, but any analysis which disregard these sociological factors is necessarily incomplete.

How do you lose a settlement?

Good post, I always enjoy reading your insights. I thought the campaign's handling was ok and this had to be addressed for the reasons you outlined. The press was absolutely livid with the way he handled it which was probably a bad idea but no staff completely eliminate the candidates deep desire to grift.

Thank you. It's pretty simple really. A Donald Trump Presidency is a direct threat to the status quo, both at home and abroad. Any true conservative's first and foremost concern should be the stability and continuity of government and social institutions, and also, to perhaps even a larger degree, the proper world order. In America we have been blessed since WWII with the luxury of picking from candidates ideologically, without having to be concerned that either had a strong chance of upending our country and world.

Every major candidate of either party over AT LEAST the last one hundred years, viewed through this prism, would be preferential to Donald Trump. And yes, I am including McGovern and Goldwater in that list.

You can argue that about the one where he says that nuking Europe is not off the table: that could be interpreted as just standard policy (stated horribly). But pulling off of alliances and letting everyone have nukes definitely isnt. "Somebody hits us within ISIS — you wouldn`t fight back with a nuke?" isnt either. Both are idiotic and dangerous.

He is clueless about geopolitics, loves simplistic solutions to complex problems, and has a fascination with nukes. A guy like that should not be allowed to be made president anywhere.

Don't pretend you actually care about women.

So you pretend to care about women because Hilary did something something. No trial. Just you read something somewhere and decided she hates sexual assault victims.

But Trump actually paid millions (edit:apparently hundreds of thousands from a different discrimination case) after a racial discrimination suit brought by the government. His company instructed its employees to mark black tenant applicants with a code--"no. 9" or "C." They were directed away from non-white buildings. And now you want to apply "innocent until proven guilty"?

Obviously you are lying about that being an important standard for you. And you've already shown that you are bigoted against any Muslim person. Nobody believes you're on the fence about this. You love Trump because he mirrors your view of the world: A deeply racist, deeply stupid view.

Why are you so pants-wet over the prospect of admitting it?

Infotards

Gee, I doubt any of us called this based on your very first post.

LOL remember when you pretended to be a Bernie supporter?