US Politics Mega-thread - Page 6188

On November 11 2016 08:29 LegalLord wrote:

Don't give them more credit than they are due. At the end of the day they are just a class of moneyed elite who found a fantastic source of profit and used it to become wealthy. They may be more in tune with software design than the average bear but they're not much different from hiring someone like a Goldman Sachs director to your cabinet.

Also, one of those guys has yet to prove that his many wide ranging ventures aren't just a scam. There's that.

On November 11 2016 08:38 LegalLord wrote:
I'll give them a few months and see if they start to appreciate why they lost what was supposed to be an easy, clean sweep of the election. First they will blame Sanders, then racists, then the Russians, then lazy millennials, then old people who should just die off already, and then finally maybe they will learn some self-awareness.

On November 11 2016 08:33 Danglars wrote:
Another day of protests and some severe freeway slowdown. These people need to get over themselves. Throwing fits is exactly how you remind people that their Trump vote was absolutely necessary.

On November 11 2016 08:52 MasterCynical wrote:
wtf did Obama tell Trump? He looks so shaken.

On November 11 2016 08:45 LegalLord wrote:

There is a place for moneyed SV elites, the same way there is a place for GS directors, in a presidential cabinet. But see them for who they are. They aren't some dreamer geniuses to revere, they are just people who made money off of software products.

'To outsiders, the Trump campaign often appears to be powered by little more than the candidate’s impulses and Twitter feed. But after Trump locked down the GOP nomination by winning Indiana’s primary, Kushner tapped Parscale, a political novice who built web pages for the Trump family’s business and charities, to begin an ambitious digital operation fashioned around a database they named Project Alamo. With Trump atop the GOP ticket, Kushner was eager to grow fast. “When we won the nomination, we decided we were going to do digital fundraising and really ramp this thing up to the next level,” says a senior official. Kushner, this official continued, “reached out to some Silicon Valley people who are kind of covert Trump fans and experts in digital marketing. They taught us about scaling. There’s really not that much of a difference between politics and regular marketing.”

When Bannon joined the campaign in August, Project Alamo’s data began shaping even more of Trump’s political and travel strategy—and especially his fundraising. Trump himself was an avid pupil. Parscale would sit with him on the plane to share the latest data on his mushrooming audience and the $230 million they’ve funneled into his campaign coffers. Today, housed across from a La-Z-Boy Furniture Gallery along Interstate 410 in San Antonio, the digital nerve center of Trump’s operation encompasses more than 100 people, from European data scientists to gun-toting elderly call-center volunteers. They labor in offices lined with Trump iconography and Trump-focused inspirational quotes from Sheriff Joe Arpaio and evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. Until now, Trump has kept this operation hidden from public view. But he granted Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive access to the people, the strategy, the ads, and a large part of the data that brought him to this point and will determine how the final two weeks of the campaign unfold.'

'(...) To compensate for this, Trump’s campaign has devised another strategy, which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and his team are trying to shrink it. “We have three major voter suppression operations under way,” says a senior official. They’re aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans. Trump’s invocation at the debate of Clinton’s WikiLeaks e-mails and support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership was designed to turn off Sanders supporters. The parade of women who say they were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and harassed or threatened by Hillary is meant to undermine her appeal to young women. And her 1996 suggestion that some African American males are “super predators” is the basis of a below-the-radar effort to discourage infrequent black voters from showing up at the polls—particularly in Florida.

On Oct. 24, Trump’s team began placing spots on select African American radio stations. In San Antonio, a young staffer showed off a South Park-style animation he’d created of Clinton delivering the “super predator” line (using audio from her original 1996 sound bite), as cartoon text popped up around her: “Hillary Thinks African Americans are Super Predators.” The animation will be delivered to certain African American voters through Facebook “dark posts”—nonpublic posts whose viewership the campaign controls so that, as Parscale puts it, “only the people we want to see it, see it.” The aim is to depress Clinton’s vote total. “We know because we’ve modeled this,” says the official. “It will dramatically affect her ability to turn these people out.”'

On November 11 2016 08:33 Howie_Dewitt wrote:
My school is disgusting. I'm by no means a trump supporter or happy with the results of the election, but this is pathetic.

All the conservative kids at my school are shunned if they try to speak out, so I can never truly understand their point of view. I can usually identify kids who are conservative by their silence and stony faces during discussions, which gave a tendency to become circles of "fuck Republicans."

On November 11 2016 08:52 MasterCynical wrote:
wtf did Obama tell Trump? He looks so shaken.

On November 11 2016 09:10 Kickstart wrote:
The emotional attachment you are describing is due to demonizing candidates for the 4 years until the election. This time it was no secret that Hillary would be the nominee, so it was easy to figure out whose name to drag through the mud for 4 years. If there weren't a thousand republicans in their primary the same would have happened to them, as it did once it was Trump.

On November 11 2016 09:19 Sbrubbles wrote:


So, kids are emotionally attached to Hillary because she's been demonized for the 4 years until election?

On November 11 2016 08:53 StarStruck wrote:


How so? Do you think people wouldn't riot if Trump won? It doesn't make anymore necessary. I have given this a lot of thought as to the outcome. From my understanding everyone wants more equal opportunity. It remains to be seen that Trump will deliver on that more so than Hilary. A lot of people are under the impression that the richer will get richer and the poorer will get poorer regardless.

Make America Great Again? That is a long ways off.

On November 11 2016 09:22 Kickstart wrote:


No, they are emotionally attached because Trump has been sold as a racist/bigot/sexist/clown/etc. In the same way there are large groups that think similar things about Clinton.

When you think you are voting against someone who is literally evil and everything wrong with the country, it is no surprise that you are attached to the person you are supporting and that you are shocked/ somewhat distressed when the person who you thought was Hitler won.