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On November 09 2016 12:54 blade55555 wrote: I know a majority of TL will disagree and hate this result, but this is for the best. Out of the two candidates we are choosing the least corrupt out of the two.
Originally I wasn't even going to vote as both candidates were so shitty. Then I did legit research, not doing research on biased sites like fox news/CNN/MSN/etc. Not listening to the Media, this site, reddit and definitely not my Facebook, but actually looking into them. Reading the DNC emails, I will never understand how people can vote for Hillary. If the leaks where Trump cheated his way into the Primary, had CNN paid off to ask specific questions to his opponent, I would vote Hillary 100%. But that's not what happened, instead we got one of, if not the most corrupt candidate the US has ever had, Hillary as his opponent.
I hope Trump is good, don't know if he will actually be a good president or not, but I know he's better than Hillary will ever be. So I hope Trump wins tonight, I know it's looking good, but until it's 100% it's not over.
Is it not true that trump is filling his cabinet with idiots?
Well... what can you do right now? You can only try to look at the bright side of this situation here.
I'm sure if you sit down with a large teapot and do the same as blade55555, read a thousand or so of the DNC and Podesta emails, you'll get a really terrible feeling about Clinton as well. That can then perhaps be channelled into a positive outlook for the future. Liberals were supposed to be the good guys. With that mindset the collusion with media and wall street and foreign donors is seriously disappointing. A good thing that could happen now is that if Dems really lose today, this could be taken as an opportunity to purge the party of this corruption, to go back to having pure dreams for the future instead of using the system as a get-rich-quick-scheme.
You say that like the collusion is a recent phenomenon. It goes back for a few decades at least.
If anything, I think the Democratic Party was too in love with its self-image.
Both political parties have had those ties since the 1800s, it's basically part of the condition of being one of the major parties.
On November 09 2016 13:24 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So Clinton has to win Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada. She down in 3 of the four.
Viva El Presidente Trump.
It's really close in Michigan, dunno about Nevada but Clinton leads in Pennsylvania. Wisconsin only has 10 seats, why is it so important? Or is it more for the total seat count to be reached?
On November 09 2016 12:54 blade55555 wrote: I know a majority of TL will disagree and hate this result, but this is for the best. Out of the two candidates we are choosing the least corrupt out of the two.
Originally I wasn't even going to vote as both candidates were so shitty. Then I did legit research, not doing research on biased sites like fox news/CNN/MSN/etc. Not listening to the Media, this site, reddit and definitely not my Facebook, but actually looking into them. Reading the DNC emails, I will never understand how people can vote for Hillary. If the leaks where Trump cheated his way into the Primary, had CNN paid off to ask specific questions to his opponent, I would vote Hillary 100%. But that's not what happened, instead we got one of, if not the most corrupt candidate the US has ever had, Hillary as his opponent.
I hope Trump is good, don't know if he will actually be a good president or not, but I know he's better than Hillary will ever be. So I hope Trump wins tonight, I know it's looking good, but until it's 100% it's not over.
Is it not true that trump is filling his cabinet with idiots?
Well... what can you do right now? You can only try to look at the bright side of this situation here.
I'm sure if you sit down with a large teapot and do the same as blade55555, read a thousand or so of the DNC and Podesta emails, you'll get a really terrible feeling about Clinton as well. That can then perhaps be channelled into a positive outlook for the future. Liberals were supposed to be the good guys. With that mindset the collusion with media and wall street and foreign donors is seriously disappointing. A good thing that could happen now is that if Dems really lose today, this could be taken as an opportunity to purge the party of this corruption, to go back to having pure dreams for the future instead of using the system as a get-rich-quick-scheme.
You say that like the collusion is a recent phenomenon. It goes back for a few decades at least.
If anything, I think the Democratic Party was too in love with its self-image.
Both political parties have had those ties since the 1800s, it's basically part of the condition of being one of the major parties.
I believe for the Democrats, there was a hard shift beginning in the late 60's-early 70s.
On November 09 2016 13:24 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So Clinton has to win Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada. She down in 3 of the four.
Viva El Presidente Trump.
It's really close in Michigan, dunno about Nevada but Clinton leads in Pennsylvania. Wisconsin only has 10 seats, why is it so important? Or is it more for the total seat count to be reached?
The point about Wisconsin is that Hillary's firewall is coming apart. She should not be losing in WI and MI at all.
On November 09 2016 13:24 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So Clinton has to win Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada. She down in 3 of the four.
Viva El Presidente Trump.
It's really close in Michigan, dunno about Nevada but Clinton leads in Pennsylvania. Wisconsin only has 10 seats, why is it so important? Or is it more for the total seat count to be reached?
The point about Wisconsin is that Hillary's firewall is coming apart. She should not be losing in WI and MI at all.
On November 09 2016 13:28 Nyxisto wrote: Doesn't Trump win in this case because the house elects the president?
Do you think Congress will elect Trump if they have the choice?
I don't know, and neither do you. But I do know that it would be a worse bloodbath than either candidate winning. It happened once 200 years ago, and it was one of the most notorious scandals in US history.
EPT
