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The F.B.I. reported Monday that attacks against American Muslims rose last year, driving an increase of about 7 percent in hate crimes against all victims.

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Attacks against Muslim Americans saw the biggest surge: 257 reports of assaults, attacks on mosques and other types hate crimes against Muslims last year, a jump of about 67 percent over the year before. It was the highest total since 2001, when the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks saw more than 480 attacks.

11-14-2016 , 04:53 PM

#853

MrWookie

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They are all false flags, bro.

11-14-2016 , 05:03 PM

#854

hornbug

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

prediction: gwen ifill was brutally murdered by a roving gang of average trump supporters

compared to other debate moderators she was not so biased, this makes her superior to most of this year's crop of moderators. this was a bad year for good journalism

11-14-2016 , 05:04 PM

#855

ScreaminAsian

For President

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i thought chris wallace was very good

11-14-2016 , 07:33 PM

#856

ScreaminAsian

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prediction: he at some point orders drone strikes on US soil

prediction2: he drones a US embassy killing an ambassador he doesn't like

11-14-2016 , 09:15 PM

#857

zikzak

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If Bolton gets to be SoS we're going to war with Iran.

Actually, that prediction is a bit too optimistic for Iran. We'll just bomb the ever living **** out of them.

11-14-2016 , 09:31 PM

#858

ymmv

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1. He continues to discredit the media. Not fox news though - they and Breitbart will be the only 2 trustworthy sources for news.

2. He continues to avoid the media

3. Companies he has interests in thrive to previously unseen levels

4. Trump leaves the white house worth 50+ billion

5. He declares a state of emergency for the ongoing protests

6. He further militarizes the police and goes to great lengths to protect individual officer privacy following incidents against black and muslim people

7. He declares a state of emergency shortly before the 2020 election

8. Like every other venture in his life, he defaults on the national debt and tells China to shove it

9. DonJr, Eric, and Ivanka maintain high ranking "unofficial" positions but have untold levels of power.

10. He "jokingly" says prior to 2020 elections "I don't even know why we are having elections when the country is doing so much better now than it was before I became president" - and then continues to parrot that. To the point where a good portion of trump supporters also begin to ask it.

11. His SCOTUS nom(s) do not overturn gay marriage but uphold severe state-restrictions on it. Same with abortion.

12. At least one city will end up with what looks like an unofficial internment camp for either blacks, hispanics, or muslims. My bet is on muslims following a terrorist attack abroad.

11-14-2016 , 11:50 PM

#859

Trolly McTrollson

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As someone who was totally wrong about this election, my big dick-swinging prediction is that when Trump walks back all the promises he made, his supporters will not care at all. There was a thread on CP that was very illuminating:

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Another bubble boy. He didn't say he'd put her in jail if he wins. What he was saying is that if he were already President, the investigation wouldn't have been corrupted by a politicized attorney general and Hillary would have been prosecuted and convicted on the facts made public by James Comey.

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You keep getting this wrong. He said he would get the ball rolling on the first day, not that he would complete the project on the first day.

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Amnesty isn't a very useful term since it could mean anything from our current state of not trying to deport to automatic and immediate citizenship.

Here's my prediction. Border security first. Deport criminal illegals second. Create a pathway to legalization but not citizenship third. Eventually, legalized status will be transformed into a pathway to citizenship by a future Congress/Administration.

etc. etc. I guarantee you all of these posters were hardcore "LOCK HER UP / BUILD THE WALL!" slappies who will immediately shift to praising Trump's moderate approach when he abandons all his campaign promises. "Deport criminal illegals second" is a roundabout way of saying we will give de facto amnesty to those millions of illegal immigrants!

11-15-2016 , 03:24 AM

#860

daca

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Originally Posted by zikzak

If Bolton gets to be SoS we're going to war with Iran.

Actually, that prediction is a bit too optimistic for Iran. We'll just bomb the ever living **** out of them.

realistic bad scenario if it's bolton:

the us sends in an army to fight isis, then bombs iran, and ends up occupying half of iraq/syria with no exit plan and everyone hating it and, more or less covertly, fighting it.

no idea what giuliani would do, but he doesnt seems like a very nice person either. maybe he would be less of a russia hawk.

11-15-2016 , 03:38 AM

#861

stinkubus

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Originally Posted by 5ive

Now his supporters expect action. “If he doesn’t pass that tariff, I will vote the other way next time,” warned Nicole Hargrove, who has worked at Carrier for a decade and a half and is not certain what she will do if and when her job goes to Mexico.

Good luck being alive in 4 you selfish ****ing idiot.

Dude, this is a good thing b/c congress approves ~0 tariffs.

11-15-2016 , 04:59 AM

#862

batair

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Islamic extremist like to use trump as recruiting tool so their numbers should get a boost.

11-15-2016 , 05:22 AM

#863

Subterranean2

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voted for Trump so he would make the mexicans build a game of thrones style wall on the mexican border, pretty dissapointed so far. If half the wall aint built by 2020 im voting Kanye

11-15-2016 , 10:12 AM

#864

BoredSocial

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I predict that by the end of 2017 I will give no ****s about what Trump says and only pay attention to exactly what gets done. Trump gives a whole new meaning to actions speak louder than words. His words are meaningless.

Interestingly I think the same could be said of his inner circle. Rudy Giuliani used to be a moderate republican but suddenly he's gone full Trump? That man has no real ideological loyalties clearly. Ditto for Gingrich (who has always been sociopathically ambitious), Bannon (a former GS banker and navy officer who went full nazi? The only reason to do this is a very good one: the money), Christie, and Priebus.

We all need to take what they say a lot less seriously. At some point in the recent past we all (liberals mostly) started taking what politicians say at face value. We did this because politicians haven't actually done anything in years. I'm for politicians being elected and having real power again. That way we can get back to judging them for their results rather than their heavily focus grouped words.

11-15-2016 , 10:47 AM

#865

Riverman

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Jesus, Trump didn't know he had to replace the White House staff. Yikes.

11-15-2016 , 10:51 AM

#866

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Originally Posted by batair

Islamic extremist like to use trump as recruiting tool so their numbers should get a boost.

Islamic extremists probably use Minnie Mouse as a recruiting tool.

11-15-2016 , 10:52 AM

#867

microbet

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Jesus, Trump didn't know he had to replace the White House staff. Yikes.

The dog that caught the bus.

11-15-2016 , 10:59 AM

#868

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Jesus, Trump didn't know he had to replace the White House staff. Yikes.

Can a president elect choose to keep on certain members of former staff?

11-15-2016 , 11:06 AM

#869

zikzak

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Originally Posted by amoeba

Can a president elect choose to keep on certain members of former staff?

If they choose to stay. That's one of the issues many of the day-to-day government workers who keep the country running are facing - whether to step aside in protest or stick around and try to make the best of a horrible situation.

11-15-2016 , 11:06 AM

#870

ligastar

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Who could have ever guessed that a Trump administration would have more former Goldman Sachs employees than a Clinton administration? What happened to #DRAINTHESWAMP?

Trumpsters -- you must be pissed right? I mean you fell for Donald's schtick hook, line, and sinker. Only a week after the election, all of you look like suckers.

There's a real chance that Trump's administration will be one of the biggest "inside the beltway" administrations of all-time.

Question: How do you Trumpsters feel about being hoodwinked by the Donald?

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Six days into the Trump transition, one of the biggest bait-and-switch operations in recent history is already well under way. Trump campaigned as an outsider who would overthrow a hopelessly corrupt Washington establishment. Now we learn that many members of that very establishment will play key roles in a Trump Administration.

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On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that “at least a half dozen major Washington lobbyists and three top fundraisers for Mr. Trump’s campaign have been tasked with heading key portions of Mr. Trump’s transition team. . . . In many cases, the lobbyists are selecting administration officials for departments that will affect the interests of firms they represent.”

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The denizens of K Street, Washington’s notorious lobbying corridor, have charitably agreed to help Trump “drain the swamp,” as he has put it. Trent Lott, the former Republican Senate Majority Leader, who resigned from the Senate in 2007 and set up shop as a lobbyist representing big corporations, including foreign ones, offered up perhaps the quote of the week in an interview with the Times’ Eric Lipton. “Trump has pledged to change things in Washington—about draining the swamp,” Lott, whose clients have included Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, and Gazprombank, a big Russian bank, said. “He is going to need some people to help guide him through the swamp—how do you get in and how you get out? We are prepared to help do that.”

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To sum up, this is the prospect we are facing. A populist but semi-engaged President who is less interested in governing than in soaking up adulation at big rallies. (He might hold more of them even though the campaign is over, the Times story said.) Meanwhile, his cronies and members of the permanent establishment make many of the actual decisions, which will largely benefit the already rich, including the ruling family. Debt mushrooms as El Presidente approves prestige construction projects but not the taxes needed to pay for them. And skilled propagandists, like Bannon, whip up nationalist fervor to keep the masses diverted from what is really going on.

We’ve seen this movie before, many times. But not here in the United States.

11-15-2016 , 11:21 AM

#871

microbet

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I'm sure there are many appointments the administration needs to make in departments Trump has never even heard of.

11-15-2016 , 11:34 AM

#872

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by ligastar

They're totally fine with it, see the post I made above. I think it's dangerous to rely on "aren't you guys mad at being hoodwinked?" as an anti-Trump strategy. These people give zero ****s about policy as long as Trump continues to show his tribal identifiers.

11-15-2016 , 11:35 AM

#873

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Yeah. A long tweetstorm on why this is the case:
http://electionado.com/canvas/1479173071893

11-15-2016 , 11:39 AM

#874

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Originally Posted by daca

Giuliani is the far less bad choice for SOS. Giuliani was a generally moderate NY style republican when he was mayor of NY. He spouts crazy stuff now but he's definitely the lesser of two evils.