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]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:45AM
Bright side? When Drumpf inevitably gets impeached (that is, if he doesn't blow up the world via nuclear mutually assured destruction first), we get stuck with President Mike Pence, who is FAR, FAR WORSE and FAR more extreme than Drumpf could ever be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:14AM
Don't worry, Mexico doesn't have enough nukes for that, and even if they did, Trump would have the support of his good friend Putin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:52PM
Why would he nuke Mexico? And the whole point of mutually-assured destruction is that everyone has nukes. We launch a nuke, our target and all their allies nuke us, and then all of our allies nuke all of them, and so on. It doesn't matter where the first nuke goes, all the allied countries of the target have to retaliate. Thats how the system works to keep anyone from using a nuke, because everyone dies if somebody decides to be that stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @12:21AM
The operative assumption of course is that there is no one that stupid. Perhaps you hadn't heard but during a national security briefing Trump asked no less than three times why he couldn't just use nukes. He has also suggested that we bow out of our security agreements with South Korea and Japan and they should just defend themselves from North Korea with nukes instead. Given his extreme stupidity, our future is looking much more bleak. Say a prayer tonight; it may be about the only thing standing between us and Armageddon.
(Score: 1) by mechanicjay on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:22PM
Seriously? Did we hear the responses to his 3 questions? Do you think only asking once would be too many? Is fully understanding the Security Advisors take on the "End of Days" option really the most horrible thing or is it the only responsible thing?
Here's a hypothetical:
Q: What about Nukes?
A: Well, we can't really use them.
Q: Okay, why not?
A: Well, because of the retaliation.
Q: Okay, so when would they be a valid option?
A: Never.
3 times. Of course it's not hard to have the next question be, "They why are we spending Billions on these things?" or something similar.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:59PM
You're thinking of the candidate that was actively picking a fight with the only other serious nuclear power in the world, not Trump.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @08:09PM
same hillary voter that was spewing bs earlier. hillary is the hawk out of the two. why you dumbasses keep trying to paint trump as the nut with his hand on the button is beyond me. nobody believes you, dumbass.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:24PM
hillary is the hawk out of the two.
Yes, she is. But Trump's hardly a dove.
why you dumbasses keep trying to paint trump as the nut with his hand on the button is beyond me.
Because in a couple of months he WILL BE the nut with his hand on the button.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @07:30AM
The only possible reason I could come up with for voting for the Drumpfster was the inevitability of the Republicans having to impeach their own president. The Dress would probably not even be blue, and come with the name "Epstein" on it. But right, Pence: he, like most evangelicals, will burn in hell for an eternity for having the gall to thing that they can interpret the will of God. God does not like it when you do that, even if you are a republican, or perhaps, especially when you are a Republican who has hitched his ass to a know fornicator and liar and person with very small hands. I Prey for Pence's soul. Seriously.