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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-the-people dept.

And the winner of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, as reported by the major mainstream media outlets is Donald Trump. It has also been reported that Hillary Clinton called President-elect Donald Trump to concede.

Electoral vote count (so far): 279 for Donald Trump, 218 for Hillary Clinton. 270 electoral votes are needed to win.

Popular vote: 57,227,164 votes (48.0%) for Donald Trump, 56,279,305 votes (47.2%) for Hillary Clinton. Update: Now it is closer to 59,085,795 votes (47.5%) for Donald Trump and 59,236,903 votes (47.6%) for Hillary Clinton.

Yell, scream, gnash teeth... but please keep it civil.

Results at CNN, NYT, FiveThirtyEight, Wikipedia.

takyon: Republicans have retained control of the House and Senate.

Here's some market news:

Dow futures plunge nearly 750 points as investors warily eye electoral map
Asian markets plummet on likelihood of Trump victory
Bitcoin price soars as Trump pulls ahead
Opinion: How to profit from a Donald Trump victory

Ballot measure results will be covered in an upcoming story. Some initial results can be found at Ballotpedia and CNN.

[TMB Note: Stop breaking stuff, cmn32480]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:05AM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:05AM (#424389) Journal

    The term "flyover country" is reason alone for this giant middle finger to the coastal elites. It perfectly captures the who-cares-about-existing-Americans attitude our so-called enlightened folks feel about white people who neither think nor act like they do.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:31AM (#424408)

    the who-cares-about-existing-Americans attitude

    To be fair, that is the single most important founding principle of the USA.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:32AM (#424411)

    Drop the race crap. This isn't about race. Trump didn't win on the white vote. He received a greater share of the latino vote than Romney did. He even received a greater share of the black vote. I think the thing that's really driving this is we're all getting so sick and tired of the media pretending everything is race, or gender, or whatever else. There has been an ongoing class battle in the US. Know about the massive fast food wage protests? Of course not because the media pretends things like this don't exist. Black Lives Matter is ostensibly the antithesis to Trump support yet it's fundamentally the same thing as was the Occupy movement. Left or right doesn't even make any sense anymore. People, both sides of the aisle, are getting tired of feeling like they're being exploited and Hillary was the embodiment of this exploitation and class entitlement. Trump as a billionaire from a millionaire father isn't exactly a 'plastic spooner' but he still managed to tap into this frustration that people, the vast majority of people, are feeling. Will he deliver on this? No idea, but I know for sure Hillary wouldn't and this has nothing to do with the color of peoples' skins or whatever happens to be between their legs.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:44AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:44AM (#424421)

      Black Lives Matter is ostensibly the antithesis to Trump support yet it's fundamentally the same thing as was the Occupy movement

      You might consider why Occupy went down such a flaming death, and why BLM is assuredly going to do the same- when the progressive stack becomes more important than issues, you've set the course for irrelevancy, alienating your largest block of supporters.

      And that is most assuredly about race.

      • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday November 12 2016, @04:01AM

        by butthurt (6141) on Saturday November 12 2016, @04:01AM (#425919) Journal

        > You might consider why Occupy went down such a flaming death [...]

        Massive, co-ordinated police actions appear to have been a major reason.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:15AM (#424444)

      > He received a greater share of the latino vote than Romney did.
      > He even received a greater share of the black vote.

      That's outright false.

      > This isn't about race.

      It is absolutely about race. Its about rural whites thinking that minorities are "cutting in line" [washingtonpost.com] and urban republican whites not minding blatant bigotry in their president as long as it's not directed at themselves.

      The KKK are fucking jubilant over this result. [internationalnewslive.com]

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:01AM (#424482)

        Which KKK. The new version BLM? Or the old school black panthers? Maybe La Raza?

        White != Racist you nitwit.

        The DNC created KKK is basically irrelevant at this point. The only people who continue to make the relevant are those who want to divide people into little groups. So they can tell them sweet sweet tailored lies and then do nothing about it.

        You are willing to allow people to break the law just so long as you do not look 'bigoted'. Well many disagree with your stance.

      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:49AM

        by q.kontinuum (532) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:49AM (#424505) Journal

        KKK was not the only supporter [twitter.com]...

        Victor Laszlo: This will always be remembered as the presidential election in which the KKK, the KGB and the FBI all supported the same candidate.

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        • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:46PM

          by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:46PM (#424636)

          You have to be realistic, its a running joke in the 1488-alt-right nrx type movement that every freaking member of the KKK is a FBI or local law enforcement agent.

          As a typical example one of the alt-right podcasts I listen to had a running joke over the recent Halloween holiday that he loves Halloween because finally he can wear a white sheet in public without people thinking he's in the FBI and all the other hosts laughing. Everyone's got a joke similar to that.

          Now if you mean "Klan" as in Normies call any non-progressive infiltrated semi organized or autonomous group the "Klan", well that's different. Yeah, we're pretty happy. Jubilant even. But thats intellectually lazy, just like every Republican for my entire life has been "literally Hitler" so I've been gradually acculturated to think a politician who's like Hitler is pretty cool. I like Duterte and Putin and Trump and Pinochet, I'm told they're all literally Hitler and having Hitler in charge was only a bad idea exactly one time back in my grandparents generation. But every time we put a Clinton in office its a corrupt shitshow, or not just a Clinton but a "D" in general.

          I never thought I'd feel common cause with Duterte, him being a chinese commie emulation of Che. Che was a total dirtbag, but Duterte has little reason to dislike him other than the whole "bosses are chi-coms" thing. The alt-right is more open minded that most give it credit.

          On a side issue, something I don't understand about anti-KGB anti-Russian stuff Hillary was running on while trying to start a nuclear WW3 in Syria... show some empathy? Like if the Russians were having an election where one candidate was a nutcase trying to turn the world into a radioactive cinder and/or start WW3 and/or a new cold war, that is horrific and you'd demand the CIA do every damn thing possible to prevent the pointless worldwide annihilation of western civilization. So the KGB should oppose Clinton because the odds of Russia turning into a radioactive cinder are what, 10, 100, 1000 times higher with her than the known to be Chill God Emperor? I mean you can't blame people for not wanting to die... It might be some boomer thing that only people born before 1940 and lived in the cold war can relate to, but every time she went on a "I've got a great idea, lets nuke Russia" rant I was like WTF are you actively trying to lose?

          • (Score: 5, Insightful) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:40PM

            by q.kontinuum (532) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:40PM (#424687) Journal

            Not sure which of your comments are sincere and which are more sarcastic or tongue in cheek. A cousin of my wife was shot dead under Dutertes war on drugs... He was a user only, not a dealer, going to the police to own up, and next thing he is shot dead from behind in the head, two more bullets to the chest for good measure. Body looked like he was shot kneeling, the way it fell. Gun in his left hand as he allegedly attacked the police (strange he is right handed, and strange it was not the gun he legally owned), and drugs in his right hand to make certain everyone gets the point he was definitely a maniac on drugs at that time.

            And this is not a rare case on Philippines nowadays, more like a common pattern.

            I'm not claiming every nutjob is "literary" a "Hitler". Unfortunately the name and meme was heavily overused the past decades, by Disney-movies and alike to depict a non-human monster that everyone expects to identify for what it is on a first glance, from others as an insult to any conservative nationalist. The effect is that everyone thinks what happened here in Germany could never happen to them, and any allegation to Hitler can be ignored due to decades of crying "Wol^wHitler" at any occasion.

            I sincerely which you the best of luck with your new president. I'm not even sure Hillary would have been better, although I'm sure she would have understood that if the world burns, USA would burn with it. With Trump I'm not so sure. I'm a bit concerned that this is a general tendency. It was in France, Hungary, Poland, Britain (Brexit), Philippines, etc. People are just fed up with corrupt politicians and vote for change. No matter what, as long as it is a change. Bernie Sanders would have been a viable alternative in that regard, I suspect. Assuming this will show the establishment, and assuming it can't get any worse anyhow.

            I'm afraid this is a wrong assumption. I think it can get *much* worse, on a global scale, before things finally might get better again. And due to technical progress, mankind is now in a position to destroy the human race entirely, so I can't take it for granted it will get better again later.

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:05AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:05AM (#424512) Journal

        Well, illegal aliens ARE 'cutting in line'. But, "illegal" isn't a race, dumbass.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:11AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:11AM (#424518)

          It is revealing that when you read "minority" you hear "illegal."

          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:46AM

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:46AM (#424542) Journal

            Don't sweat it man - in just a few short years, whites will be the minority, and probably illegal too.

        • (Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:17PM

          by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:17PM (#424660)

          But, "illegal" isn't a race, dumbass.

          In practice though, nobody is protesting hot Canadian women scantily clad in maple leaf costumes tying us up to force feed us delicious maple syrup while experiencing a civilized modern healthcare system and watching ice hockey. I hate it every time that happens. In fact I should go protest it right now. At least I'll protest against the ice hockey part.

          Funny isn't it how ICE puts in a lot of labor hours to make sure a white college grad from England will never work illegally here, but the country doesn't seem to enforce any laws or rules against folks of certain other demographic characteristics. Its almost like the system is rigged or is racist against some groups. Naah couldn't be, right?

          • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday November 10 2016, @03:24AM

            by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Thursday November 10 2016, @03:24AM (#424979) Journal

            Funny isn't it how ICE puts in a lot of labor hours to make sure a white college grad from England will never work illegally here, but the country doesn't seem to enforce any laws or rules against folks of certain other demographic characteristics. Its almost like the system is rigged or is racist against some groups. Naah couldn't be, right?

            As someone who has a close family member who married white European person -- who was prevented for years from coming to the U.S. (even though she was married to an American citizen and had a child who was born in the U.S. and an American citizen) because of overstaying a visa earlier... I can assure you that U.S. immigration can be jerks to people of all nationalities and races.

            Yes, the most prominent group of "illegal aliens" that politics focuses on are Mexicans (and other Latin Americans). But I assure you from my own family experience and from hearing of others who were in similar situations when they were consulting attorneys to deal with the fiasco of years of hearings and proceedings... U.S. immigration definitely doesn't give a free pass to whites or whatever.

            At some point in the process my family members were seriously considering just sneaking this person across the Canadian border rather than going through the official process, since it works so much better for most "illegal immigrants." Instead, they put up with living separately with my relative commuting back and forth to Europe to be with his family for several years.

            • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:22AM

              by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:22AM (#425085) Journal

              No kidding. My second-in-command at the Clinton Foundation, no less, was Irish and it took him 15 years to get his green card, and that was without having overstayed a visa or anything like that.

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      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:59PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:59PM (#424598)

        He even received a greater share of the black vote.

        That's outright false.

        One of these ACs is wrong. I'll put my actual name and reputation (however tarnished it may be) to the result of some google searches and the best factual data I can find at this time is Trump got 8% of the black vote and Romney scored 6% of the black vote. That may change thru the day as numbers are finalized and, of course, spun.

        You could make a good argument that 2% of the black vote is racist and only voted for Obama because he was black, and without a black dude on the ticket they voted their conscience instead. Honestly I don't know how to comment if 1 in 50 being the dark equivalent of klansmen is high or low. I mean 49 out of 50 black folk not being racist is pretty damn good in a certain absolute sense, its only the 1 in 50 that need fixing, I guess? Are 1 in 50 white guys 1488? More? Less? Damnfino. Most of the black folk I know are extremely highly educated and very successful (which makes them extreme outliers in their community) and they in general have expressed high skepticism of race relations to me, but none of them would qualify as far as I know as outright racists so anecdotally 1 in 50 isn't too ridiculous.

        Also as a side issue there's no point in assuming the worst, its entirely possible AC #2 is factually reporting partial results he read at 9pm last night or something that are simply out of date. Or AC misread some data from Mississippi or some subset and that peculiar subset has peculiar result that don't reflect national results.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:27PM (#424832)

        You think like CNN and MSNBC.

        It was funny watching them discuss the results. They would alternate between dissing Trump and proclaiming that he won by angry while males, occasionally acknowledging that there might be a class divide.

        Not a negative word was said about Clinton. They literally couldn't say "corrupt".

        Trump was up against somebody who wanted to run the USA like a 3rd-world nation, pay-for-play with immunity for team members. Why can't this be admitted?

        It's also about women, and what will happen to them if we let in unlimited muslims. It's also about not wanting to have to speak a different language right here where we were born. It's also about jobs, including for black men...

        ...but mostly it's about corruption.

        One more thing that probably showed up too late to matter (couple days ago) but should be more than enough to disqualify Clinton: She had a secure room in her house called a SCIF (see Wikipedia) that is used for TOP SECRET with extras, effectively beyond TOP SECRET. She gave the code to open this room to her maid, who is a foreign citizen, so that the maid could go get things and print things. This alone earns Clinton a felony. Also, her room was not certified for computers, and she denied that she had them there, yet she did in fact have at least a laptop in the room. Normal people serve time for that sort of thing, though a mere "oops" can be just losing a security clearance. This was no "oops", given that Clinton asked her maid to print stuff.

        I don't know about Trump... but I do know about Clinton. We chose to not have 3rd-world governance.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:07AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:07AM (#424924)

        I'm a white male. I voted for Trump because most of the politicians hate him and they couldn't even imagine him winning, that's how full of themselves they were. I hate the politicians and it's about time they get something they don't like. They're all far too cosy, using their positions for personal gain rather than improving the country. Really, that's the only reason I didn't vote 3rd party. It was a screw you vote to Washington and to Hillary. Hillary matches my views on almost every issue (well her current public views anyway), but her and her party were just too corrupt to vote for. Race or gender never factored into anything.

        I have no doubt that Trump will be a bad president, but he's an enemy of my enemy. I'm sorry about all the little people I just helped screw over and the environmental damage he'll cause, but I can't support any politicians anymore and he was their worse choice. They would have screwed over the little guys anyway. That's what they do. Hopefully Trump will keep them off balance.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:59AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:59AM (#424943)
        <leans in close> WRONG!

        http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/ku-klux-klan-grand-dragon-will-quigg-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:08AM (#424486)

      > He received a greater share of the latino vote than Romney did. He even received a greater share of the black vote.

      Those are exit poll numbers. They don't include all of the early voting and early voting was way up, especially in Florida and Nevada where latinos are a large part of the electorate.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:40PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:40PM (#424686) Journal

        They don't include all of the early voting and early voting was way up, especially in Florida and Nevada where latinos are a large part of the electorate.

        Why would the early voting lean more Hispanic?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:25PM (#424749)

      If you look at "change maps" that compare to prior elections, the biggest shift was in the north rust belt. Many lost decent-paying middle-class jobs there and are as pissed as hell.

      Whether Trump can bring comparable jobs back is another matter. Technology genies are hard to put back in the bottles. But at least he gave those people hope.

      Obama dismissed them as "bitter clingers", at least verbally, and they didn't forget that.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:08AM (#424439)

    > The term "flyover country" is reason alone for this giant middle finger to the coastal elites.

    As someone who has lived in Illinois, Tennessee, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Washington State, New York and California -- the only people I've ever heard use the term "fly-over country" are people with persecution complexes who live in 'fly-over country.'

    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:08AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:08AM (#424514) Journal

      You're not real bright, Bubba. The term "flyover country" made little sense to any middle-America resident, untit it was shoved down our throats by the media. At every election, we heard about the results from NY, Cal, and a few other "battle ground" states - but "flyover country" was largely ignored.

      Go pound sand, you ignorant monkey.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:01PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:01PM (#424647)

      I actually never heard the term until someone from the east coast said this was his first time in flyover country. Took me a few seconds to get it. It's basically an insult.

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      • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:33PM

        by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:33PM (#424834)

        I thought it just meant sparsely populated ... no big cities. You know, all that land you just fly over when getting to one of the big cities.

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:19PM

          by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:19PM (#424860)

          Nothing worth visiting, right? That's the idea behind "flyover country". You don't land there. It's just boring and useless land (and people) between real places. I doubt most people mean it to be an insult though.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:03AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:03AM (#424921)

            I'm watching PBS Newshour tonight and the only person to use the term "fly-over country" is the shouty conservative guy doing exactly the kind of aggrieved projection as originally described. He was so loud that I actually had to turn down the volume, I've never had to turn down the volume on the Newshour before.

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:18AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:18AM (#424447) Journal

    Yes, I agree with you. I grew up in the Rockies, a storied- and robust region of the country that was settled by people who are tougher than I'll ever be. Those people forded rivers, fought bitterly cold winters, withstood the intense isolation of threatening, unsettled lands. Growing up, I was proud of them and proud to be descended from them. In a couple of generations those hard-bitten folk had turned wilderness into a global force for good. Pretty awesome in any book.

    Then I went to college in Chicago and met my roommate from Philadelphia. He dismissively referred to everyone between the East Coast and the West Coast as "Flyover Country," and my reaction was, "fuck you, you sheltered simpering elite."

    "Flyover country" is incredibly insulting to the people who make the pampered lives of the coasts possible. They don't ever seek fame. They are stolid and want only to do their work and have that work be useful. They believe in God, and in freedom. Every time they see those values mocked in popular culture it drives a wedge between their daily reality and the country they live in. I suspect that the people who voted for Brexit experienced the same.

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    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by TheLink on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:35AM

      by TheLink (332) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:35AM (#424496) Journal
      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:17AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:17AM (#424524) Journal

        Holy cockslaps? WTF?

        But, basically anyone who wants to understand US politics ought to read that page. Vulgarity aside, he's got it figured out.

      • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:33PM

        by fritsd (4586) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:33PM (#424567) Journal

        That is a fascinating article; and it explains why people in the "Red states" didn't vote for Clinton.

        But IMHO it still doesn't explain why they voted for Trump. I can't understand why those voters believed him.

        • (Score: 4, Informative) by Geezer on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:49PM

          by Geezer (511) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:49PM (#424573)

          I truly believe people were not so much voting for Trump as against the globalist, crony-capitalist plutocracy. If Peewee Herman had run as an anti-establishment firebrand he might have won too.

          • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:19PM

            by fritsd (4586) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:19PM (#424581) Journal

            Yes, but how did they arrive at "the Republican party is anti-establishment" ?????

            • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:04PM

              by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:04PM (#424603)

              You are both right and wrong.

              Jeb and the other 14 to 66 low T level, low energy neocucks were the establishment candidates. Jeb had like $100M raised if I remember correctly? The entire establishment hates Trump so its pretty hard to argue he's establishment. The entire media, all of academentia, the more cucked corporations...

              You are correct in that the party in general has too many legacy neocuck traitors who will be liquidated shortly.

              • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by takyon on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:40PM

                by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:40PM (#424629) Journal

                So, when are the gas chambers open for business? Or will Trump make a deal and sell his soul to the establishment?

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                • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:56PM

                  by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:56PM (#424645)

                  Have to remember Trump used to buy and sell those same politicians before he became one, and he can still afford it, and his brand is ascendant at this time. Imagine what a guy like Trump could do to in the midterm primaries to a legislator on his bad side...

                  Or working the other angle, he has to sell out to the establishment because...

            • (Score: 2) by Geezer on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:41PM

              by Geezer (511) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:41PM (#424630)

              The part where Trump basically told the Bushes, Bill Krystal, et al to go to hell.

          • (Score: 5, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:45PM

            by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:45PM (#424634)

            Makes you wonder what could have happened if they hadn't thrown Bernie under the bus.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:17PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:17PM (#424776)

              bernie would have won, but i'm sure glad he didn't. socialists need to leave before it's too late.

            • (Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:55PM

              by DutchUncle (5370) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:55PM (#424796)

              If the Democrats hadn't been so blind, they would have found *some* way to run Bernie. An election between two old white guys would have emphasized the difference between "nice old coot with idealistic ideas" and "obnoxious asshole".

            • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:06PM

              by fritsd (4586) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:06PM (#424877) Journal

              Makes you wonder what could have happened if they hadn't thrown Bernie under the bus.

              Then, the right-wing media would have slipped appropriate synonyms of "commie" and "jew" into the debate.

          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:46PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:46PM (#424691)

            I truly believe people were not so much voting for Trump as against the globalist, crony-capitalist plutocracy.

            So instead of voting for a politician that has good intentions in mind but sometimes doesn't deliver to expectations, you voted in the most egocentric, crooked and self-centered elitist? The guy that made deals with the New York mafia? Seriously, WTF?

            http://www.idesignarch.com/inside-donald-and-melania-trumps-manhattan-apartment-mansion/ [idesignarch.com]

            If this doesn't spell *elitist*, I have no fucking idea what does. I guess let the deportations begin?? I would grab popcorn, if only this idiocracy would not affect the rest of the world.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @08:24PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @08:24PM (#425809)

              So instead of voting for a politician that has good intentions in mind but sometimes doesn't deliver to expectations

              You must be talking about third party candidates. Or were you talking about Clinton, who supports mass surveillance, supports the TSA, supports the drug war, wants to censor the Internet to fight terrorism, and generally supports a lot of unconstitutional nonsense? Trump agrees with Clinton on many of these issues. She might have good intentions (I doubt it; there's no way a politician like her doesn't understand how those policies destroy freedom and violate the Constitution.), but she, like Trump, is a wicked, authoritarian human being.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:21PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:21PM (#424862)

            >...not so much voting for Trump as against the globalist, crony-capitalist plutocracy.
            BINGO!

            The 'Out with the old, in with the new. Anyone but the typical who's who!'

            It's an understandable viewpoint, and one that will hopefully be tempered with experienced cabinet members. Trumpster is after all, only one person.

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:32AM

            by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:32AM (#424934)

            So basically, as Mr. Trump completely tossed the Republican platform out the window, we have just seen the first third-party in disguise victory. It took a loud, crude, totally unlikable individual to do it. And he did it basically because no one took him seriously because he was a loud, crude, totally unlikable person. He didn't act or sound like a politician. He played on fear and anger. He didn't play by the rules.
            He was different. A cult of personality put up against a brick. Obama promised hope and change, we got little of either, Trump promised change with a really big megaphone and got more free airtime than any candidate I can recall just by being Donald.
            Both parties should be shitting their pants right now. They must realize just how thin their support has become. I dislike DT, but he has shaken the establishment to it's roots. And that is a good thing.

            Well, maybe not totally unlikable, as there was Ted Cruz in the mix at one time.

            What will we name this new party? Donpublican, Trumpinstein, Godzilla?

            Seriously though, he doesn't seem to support the Republican nor the Democratic platforms nor have support of the parties. Doesn't that make him third-party in disguise? Bernie Sanders was basically this, and may of gotten all the way if not for being screwed. We have witnessed actual interest and desire for more options from both sides of the isle in the population. I hope this trend continues and delivers some real choice in four years.
            Yeah, I smoke too much weed, keeps me from getting too cynical.

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            • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @01:49AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @01:49AM (#424950)
              What party is trump really?

              http://www.reformparty.org/platform/

              Yup. The party started by trump-lite ross perot.

              Will it use that name? Dunno.
        • (Score: 2) by TheLink on Thursday November 10 2016, @04:33AM

          by TheLink (332) on Thursday November 10 2016, @04:33AM (#424998) Journal

          See this: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support [theguardian.com]

          Trump was the only candidate pretending to represent the "jobs going away" bunch. Other than Sanders: http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Bernie_Sanders_Free_Trade.htm [ontheissues.org]
          Not Johnson, who thinks it will lead to more jobs: http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Gary_Johnson_Free_Trade.htm [ontheissues.org]
          OK maybe Stein but would she even get a quarter of the support Sanders got? http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Free_Trade.htm [ontheissues.org]

          Sanders would have got more of those votes than Clinton. But the DNC didn't like him - he wasn't truly one of them (which was another plus point for him among some voters).

          Go look at all those laid-off workers and their families in the eye and tell them that free trade creates more jobs in the USA.

          I'm not sure that Trump would actually try to solve that problem. But the fact is Clinton was not even pretending that she'd do that. She was doing stuff like calling the TPP the "gold standard": http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2012/11/200565.htm [state.gov]

          As Euripedes said: "When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.". In America do those voters and their families get fed well after they've lost their jobs? Do they get their bread and circuses? They remember a time when America was great, there was hope. And which of the candidate gave them the most hope where they were? Not Clinton. Clinton would be a guaranteed continuation of their nightmare.

      • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:01PM

        by nitehawk214 (1304) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:01PM (#424764)

        I did not make it through the article, (its buzzfeed top-10 level laziness) but the top part basically posits that since red-state folks live in most of the land mass, they should have most of the vote population density be damned.

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      • (Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:44PM

        by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:44PM (#424913) Homepage Journal

        Yes. I've been sharing that cracked article around everywhere I can for the last week. I grew up on the ragged edge of suburbia, spent a lot of time in the country, summer jobs on farms and what not. This brought back a lot forgotten truths for me. Once I read this and fit it in with the larger context of what's going on, along with some deconstruction help from Scott Adams, and I knew, for sure, that Trump was going to take it.

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        • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday November 10 2016, @01:00AM

          by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Thursday November 10 2016, @01:00AM (#424945)

          Great article. I live in a small city surrounded by farmland. Not quite flyover but not big city either.
          We see a lot of both sides here.
          Seems odd though, that the most accurate article I have now read on the election came from Cracked. I love it.
          We could look at it this way. Trump threw out the political platform, running on his own opinions and making up his platform as he went along. Does that not make him a third-party in disguise?

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        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:38AM

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:38AM (#425088) Journal

          I shared in August after taking the family on an 8,500 mile roadtrip around America (we didn't go through the deep South, but went everywhere else) that we saw Trump signs everywhere, more than we could count, and not a single sign for Hillary, even in the heart of the bluest of the blue (Madison, WI, Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Eugene, OR, San Francisco, CA, etc). It was clear there was a huge enthusiasm gap.

          Toward the end, though, I wasn't sure that would be enough to overcome the weight of the entire Establishment working in concert against him.

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          • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mechanicjay on Thursday November 10 2016, @05:01PM

            by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Thursday November 10 2016, @05:01PM (#425188) Homepage Journal

            This is true. I live in Seattle. During primary season I saw MAYBE 1 Hillary Sign for every 10+ Bernie signs. Considering the state when like 70% Bernie during the caucus this was not surprising. Even after the primary though, those Bernie signs were never replaced with Hillary signs. By this past weekend, honestly you were just as likely to see a Johnson or a Stein yard sign as you were a Hillary sign.

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:12AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:12AM (#424519) Journal

      Damn girl - that little speech can't really be improved on. It really can't. This is the part of the country where you find real men, and real women. This is where hard work means something. It's where stuff gets done.

      Our rejects go running off to New York or Los Angeles, to become prostitutes and dope heads.

      Flyover country, indeed.

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:00PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:00PM (#424578) Journal

        Jesus, Runaway, this is fundamentally why nothing real and lasting will happen under President Trump. You simply cannot, cannot resist insulting the people who agree with you on certain issues. You must insult them.

        Calling me 'girl' is one such example. I disagree with you often, but I never call you 'bitch' or 'pansy,' though others might think you have more than earned such epithets.

        Let me couch my comments on 'flyover country.' Young people in 'flyover country' migrate to places like Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York because their home towns don't recognize or reward their impulse to do something new. LA and NYC and other urban centers at least afford them the chance to break out. Des Moines, and places like it, never will. That doesn't mean that those places have no value, which I wrote about earlier, but it also doesn't mean that urban centers like LA and NYC don't have any value either.

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        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:10PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:10PM (#424579)

          Um, it's just an expression.

          You're making way too much over this.

          • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:20PM

            by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:20PM (#424616) Journal

            You're right, Cocksucker. Oh, wait, that's just an expression. I didn't mean you literally suck cock. Don't make too much of it.

            See how that works? I can debase you to no end, then claim I didn't mean it, and get to both deliver the insult and pretend that I shouldn't face the consequences.

            Here the ink on the election results isn't even dry, and you're already hard at work erasing any potential good from the result through sheer dumbfuckery. ProTip: shut the fuck up and let any positive consensus following from this election proceed, because it will benefit you and everyone else.

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            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:24PM

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:24PM (#424748) Journal

              ROFLMAO

            • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Marand on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:54PM

              by Marand (1081) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:54PM (#424917) Journal

              I think the most interesting thing about this comment thread is the logic leap that took you from someone using a fairly common exclamation (one with a positive meaning, no less; it's used as a compliment) to you being insulted because it had the word "girl" in it. You just automatically assumed that because there's a feminine word there, that the remark just had to be an insult. Worse still, after someone tried to explain it, you doubled down on the outrage and equated it to being debased and called a cocksucker.

              That says more about your mindset than the commenter's. Taking the exchange as-is without outside context, it looks like you're either doggedly searching for something to be offended about, or you have a piss-poor opinion of women and are projecting that. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I think it's more likely that you're just on edge because of the election tension. Tempers have been running hot for months and a lot of people just seem ready to snap. Take a few deep breaths and relax.

              (In case it's still not clear, Runaway's comment seems to be commending you for your well-stated (in his opinion) rant about people dismissing "fly-over country", and your reaction was to get pissed off and pick a fight over him agreeing with you. Chill.)

              • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:30AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:30AM (#424962)

                Taking the exchange as-is without outside context, it looks like you're either doggedly searching for something to be offended about, or you have a piss-poor opinion of women and are projecting that.

                It also occurs to me that maybe Phoenix is female and objects (as a woman) to being called a girl? Forgetting that by posting as Phoenix we dont know that and so an unintended insult occurred. Hmmm. Must admit Phoenix being female hadnt occurred to me before but now I look at their posts again, its plausible. Not that I care either way, just greatfull for all his/her posts!

                • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:44AM

                  by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:44AM (#425090) Journal

                  No, very much male. My reaction was born of frustration at trying very hard to give even the most vituperative members of the SN community their due on an emotionally charged subject, only to have it repaid with churlish, sophomoric quips.

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                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:57AM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:57AM (#425092)

                    The other possibility is maybe you're an asshole?

                    Just putting it out there.

        • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:27PM

          by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:27PM (#424673)

          Des Moines, and places like it, never will.

          Oh please, the "magic dirt" mythology at work.

          Right up there with SV only exists because SV is built on magic dirt such that nobody anywhere else can program, there's something in SV dirt, you know, like LSD or something.

          "Magic coastal dirt" theory doesn't apply for music, programming, commodities trading, engineering, science, real estate, frankly anything industry or corporate in general ... I'll give you it does apply for shit tier "modern art" which is mostly trash, and broadway musicals and its showtunes, so there's about 0.0001% of the population that's gonna have to move to the coasts.

          I will say jobs are unevenly distributed. More commodities jobs in Chicago than rural Oklahoma and more petroleum engineering jobs in New Orleans than anywhere in Michigan.

          • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:29PM

            by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:29PM (#424717) Journal

            It's not a question of geography. There are no such barriers to innovation in the Internet Age. But different communities develop local cultures that lend (or do not lend) themselves to experimentation and innovation, do they not? Take Austin, TX as an example. "Silicon Prairie," I believe they have dubbed it. It has Google Fiber and a robust start-up scene. Yet it's smack-dab in the middle of "Flyover Country." Is that a function of "magic dirt?" No. It is a function of intentional policies to encourage creativity.

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      • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:23PM

        by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:23PM (#424666)

        This is the part of the country where you find real men, and real women. This is where hard work means something. It's where stuff gets done.

        That is total nonsense: "Real men" and "Real women" aren't a matter of geography. Neither is hard work, nor is stuff getting done. You can find plenty of good and courageous people that work their butts off in both the inner cities and the most rural areas of Wyoming. You can also find bums and criminals and the worst kind of scum in both the inner cities and the most rural areas of the country.

        That's all a matter of character. Not population density, not race, not religion, not gender, and not sexual orientation.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:40PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:40PM (#424685)

          He simply listens to too many contemporary country song lyrics.

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Wednesday November 09 2016, @07:03PM

          by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @07:03PM (#424798)

          nope, there is a qualitative difference in the people and their capabilities...
          city mice may have (MAY) various urban skills that have ZERO value outside the context of a cancerous blight on yhe landscape known as cities...
          country mice have generalized knowledge and skills that are ACTUALLY useful for living ANYWHERE; but city mice disparage them for having dirt under their fingernails and knowing how to skin a deer, etc...
          stupid city mice, when the hard rain comes, our dogs will be cracking your bones for the marrow...
          (note, OF COURSE there are SOME FEW city mice who can snare a rabbit, grow a crop, etc; but there are both FAR MORE country mice who can do the same tasks city mice can do, PLUS a FAR wider population who can do canning, repair a tractor, raise a barn, etc, that are REAL skills for survival...
          um, when the hard rain comes, 'social media' "skills" won't mean shit...)

          • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:57PM

            by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:57PM (#424846)

            There are some city-mice skills that country-mice lack, though, that are also pretty valuable. For instance:
            - When is a loud "bang" a car backfiring, a gunshot, a gunshot close enough that you need to duck for cover, or the wind knocking over a trash can?
            - Which beggars are legitimately in need of help, and which ones are the professionals who actually live quite comfortably?
            - What's the best way to get from point A to point B during rush hour? City travelling is very different from country driving.

            And the country skills that you value so highly are just as useless in a high-density city as the things I just mentioned are in the country. For example, you aren't going to go deer hunting in New York.

            And for the record, I've been both a city mouse and a country mouse. They both have their challenges, and their advantages.

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            • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:52AM

              by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:52AM (#425091) Journal

              As a fellow former-country mouse and current city mouse I'd agree. The country mouse skills he was talking about can be practiced in the city, too, it's just that the local culture thinks they're weird.

              I took my kids walking in Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, last summer. My neighbor came along with his two kids, who are the same age as mine. On the walk I was teaching my kids how to identify useful plants and trees, what their uses were ("chew willow bark to cure a headache"), how to built a lean-to, and how to harvest wild edibles. My neighbor, born and raised in Brooklyn, looked at me like I was from Mars. He wouldn't let his kids touch the willow trees or anything else because they might be dirty.

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            • (Score: 2) by Marand on Saturday November 12 2016, @06:28AM

              by Marand (1081) on Saturday November 12 2016, @06:28AM (#425943) Journal

              For example, you aren't going to go deer hunting in New York.

              I noticed this a few days late, but whatever. There are plenty of places you can go deer hunting in New York, because there's an entire state with that name, and most of it is nothing like NYC. The mistake is rather fitting given the topic, since many NY residents -- especially on the western side of the state -- tend to be rather touchy and even bitter about being ignored and treated like the only part of NY that matters is NYC.

              People's general attitude is that, once you leave NYC, everything else in the state is just "flyover country" that nobody gives a fuck about, and there are a lot of pissed off residents because of it. In fact, there's a lot of built-up resentment over NYC because the rest of the state is crumbling and they feel like nobody cares because NYC has a disproportionate amount of control over the entire state, most of which is nothing at all like NYC.

              That's the kind of building tension that's been a big part of this election.

              Disclaimer: this is just my personal observation of attitudes in the state. I've lived in the NYC area before and I have relatives in other parts of the state, so I've seen both sides of this disconnect.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:14AM (#424521)

      And now that you've lived in NYC for decades, just how often have you heard the term used by anyone who wasn't already a giant dickweed?
      Be honest.

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:28PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:28PM (#424622) Journal

        I don't hear it from people here who are from "Flyover Country." I do hear it from people who grew up on the East Coast. Most often I have heard it from East Coast natives who are not actually wealthy. They use it to put down people from the MidWest and West as stupid, lesser. The wealthy don't use those terms for people from Flyover Country because they have general contempt for anybody who would identify as "American." They are God's gift, you see, and every other human is equally dreck to them.

        Once in a while when somebody from Flyover Country breaks out, they fawn because they know that they themselves have never done anything to deserve their wealth and status.

        Those are my observations. There are things I love about the East Coast, but its entrenched classism is definitely not one of them.

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    • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:09PM

      by Whoever (4524) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:09PM (#424652) Journal

      Did it ever occur to you that the "coastal elites" are tired of subsidizing your way of life, while giving your votes more influence over politics?

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:25PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:25PM (#424710) Journal

        So...we should be grateful to the coastal elites for letting us dwell in their shadow?

        That's an interesting take on lickspittle-ism.

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      • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:22PM

        by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:22PM (#424829)

        did it ever occur to how much of a city's food, water, energy is produced OUTSIDE your rat-infested shithole ?
        country mice stopped feeding you, there would be full scale zombie breakout in the city within weeks...

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:44AM (#424966)
        did it ever occur to you that the rural nobodys are tired of growing all your food and mantaining everything that allows a city to live in the desert?

        If interstate trade suddenly stopped the citys would die. hard.

        Heck you'd die if just the power went off for longer than your smartphone battery will last.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:25PM (#424882)

      It is delusional to believe in a god.

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:20PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:20PM (#424615)

    The term "flyover country" is reason alone for this giant middle finger to the coastal elites

    Close. If I've ever posted a link for people to read, this is perhaps the most important link I've ever posted:

    https://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-last-gasp-of-american-dream.html [blogspot.com]

    Yeah Greer is kinda a weirdo but being a weirdo he has an outsiders view of the USA, and being a genius, possibly even smarter than me, however unlikely that is, his insights are always spot on. Yeah don't go to Greer for religious advice, for instance. But he's a freaking genius at sociology stuff like the essay I linked to. He also is the only environmentalist type I've met who actually knows biology and science and isn't just a religious nutter, which is ironic seeing as he's also a druid which normally would imply the opposite.

    No shit this is not a rickroll this is possibly the most informative link I've ever posted in my entire posting career.

    To summarize, because Greer does suffer from Moldbuggian levels of verbal diarrhea, its not so much a geography thing as a social class thing, and the "establishment globalist cronies" we've had for decades have told the white working class "F you" and have screwed them over and over again and it doesn't matter if they're in Boston or rural WTF-land they finally have a candidate who doesn't outright shit on them so they want a coronation for him.

    As an interesting side issue Greer is not a 1488 alt-right dude to say the least but in a weird display of convergent evolution I've heard less well formed versions of Greers argument from 1488 alt-right type podcasts as sort of the founding principles of theoretical alt right politics. Greers all "muh ecosystem" but its fascinating how convergent evolution leads him right to 1488 land. Its almost like reality has an inherent alt-right bias or as if the prog narrative is inherently a faulty dead god past its sell-by date. You'd almost think you're looking at reality instead of spin when multiple paths lead to exactly the same place, crazy that, isn't it?

    So if anyone ever read a post of mine and thought it wasn't complete crap, do me a favor and read Greer's essay I linked to above. I've never seen a better essay explaining the current political situation than Greers. Once in awhile that dude is just epic, for the ages, like people are going to read that essay 200 years from now to explain WTF was going on.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:35PM (#424680)

      I've been following that blog for a few months now and it was the reason that while I was still hoping for Trump to lose, I wasn't thinking it was guaranteed. I don't remember where I first ran across it, but it very well may have been you linking to it in a previous thread.

      I'd feel better about Trump winning for those reasons if I believed he was actually doing anything other than pandering. I highly doubt his polices will actually help the rural poor; he was just the only one actually talking to them.

    • (Score: 2) by AudioGuy on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:22PM

      by AudioGuy (24) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:22PM (#424863) Journal

      That link is a spot on analysis of why Trump won.

      To understand HOW he won, go to http://dilbert.com/ [dilbert.com] and select 'blog'. Scott Adams called this step by step, pretty much 100%.

    • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:17PM

      by fritsd (4586) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:17PM (#424879) Journal

      Did you ever read his book "The Long Descent", about the slow collapse of civilizations?

      He's certainly weird, but I believe he's spot on when he describes the power and importance of story telling in civilizations.

      Nobody believes the fairy tale of "we will have economic growth and it will make everything better for everyone" anymore, I think.
      So we need fresh stories appropriate for our times. Hopefully not stories like "Giant Meteor: just end it all now".

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday November 11 2016, @01:29PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 11 2016, @01:29PM (#425661)

        He's certainly weird

        Yeah I got into his writings when "peak oil" was not accepted fact and I came into it from the side of petro/energy investor and geologist like about 99% of the people into "peak oil" when it was new, and he was a refreshing breath of fresh air WRT his weird perspective of having something like a self taught phd in ecology combined with woo woo druidic worship.

        So we need fresh stories appropriate for our times.

        He blog published a 25 part series on sort of a sci fi view of America in a century, pretty hard sci fi stuff, interesting, realistic.

        Also he has a bigger group of followers than SN has, maybe 10x bigger, and he's published collections of submitted stories about the future. He must be on his 4th or 5th collected stories book now. Interesting stuff. So if you have hard sci fi, and you exclude space aliens, star trek, utter apocalypse (usually) and the singularity, then you get his interesting collections.

        Off topic a fresh story would be something like Moldbug's writings.

    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:03AM

      by RamiK (1813) on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:03AM (#424920)

      but in a weird display of convergent evolution

      That's no strange coincidence. As I'm sure you're well aware, some time ago, Germany's national socialists worker's party advocated on those same exact points and arguments using identical rhetoric. Even Trump's avoidance of economic plans and sticking to "points" is part of the strategy: It gives him the freedom to both privatize and nationalize industries and markets on a per-case basis.

      It's not necessarily wrong to use moves from that particular playbook. But going as far as demonizing illegals is playing with fire... Well, we'll see.

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