Election Thread 2016

Hail Hydra.

http://www.kayfabenews.com/america-turns-heel/

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The world is in shock today after the United States of America — long considered a brash but lovable babyface — made a dramatic heel turn last night.

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The figurehead of America’s heel turn, Donald Trump, celebrates sending the world’s financial markets into a tailspin.

After a decades-long run as a shining bastion of freedom and equality, America pulled the ultimate swerve with a heel turn fuelled by anger, racism, misogyny, and a penchant for shouting.

It is expected that America’s “push” as a top heel will last four years — or until America is suspended for a Mental Wellness Policy violation, which seems inevitable.

Although America’s heel run has just begun, some pundits are expecting the country to establish its new identity with some classic heel moves, including:

Sticking the Canadian flag up its nose
Mocking the sports teams of other countries
Nuking other countries when the United Nations’ back is turned
Using illegal foreign objects to pummel illegal foreign immigrants

The mouthpiece of America’s heel turn, an orange balloon topped with cotton candy and filled with hot air, said last night: “It’s a new World order, brother, and we are taking over!”

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Originally Posted by Satsuki

There was a huge denial from multiple parties about the impact of internet culture, social networks, etc on elections. If it can work for Obama, it can just as easily be adapted to support another party. We dems wanted to believe that we had a monopoly on digital culture, as in the past, but we do not. Everyone, even republicans, have the Internet in their pockets. Media cannot ignore this and pretend it doesn't exist.

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To me one of the factor that he won was the media never took him seriously.

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Originally Posted by Satsuki

Oh, no, I know there's a lot online about Trump being shitty, the problem is there's a lot online about him being great too - especially in circles that are, as you said - are predominately adult white males. I think the left discounted these groups as marginal, and this is obviously not the case. Perhaps it's a symptom of the progressives becoming almost too complacent with their advocacy - promoting visibility and diversity when the reality is that they shift back to the minority (I mean in the online sense, where they(progressives, outliers) once dominated.)

I really, really feel like it was a gross error on the part of the progressive left to not take these white men into consideration. It was attempt to break the status quo and it failed miserably.

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A few years ago, after Romney's loss, a right wing pundit wrote an article saying that what the GOP needs to do is get "dormant" white people to go to the polls again. This was the opposite of what the "establishment" right wing writers were saying, which is that they needed to pass immigration reform, etc. to win elections. Obviously that right wing pundit was correct.

The left took white men into consideration, by calling them all racist and deplorable. Shockingly that did not turn into support for their candidate. If anyone read the New Yorker article I mentioned earlier, it basically said that white people in poor areas are supporting Trump because, in short, Democrats don't give a shit about what they are struggling with and instead just call them dumb hicks. If anyone thinks this isn't a factor they are delusional.

No, you're absolutely right.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

Quote from my mom tonight: "At least Hollywood will realize now that they're not as powerful as they think they are."

Then I imagine an entire country of that.

I think I'm starting to understand now.

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Hollywood's supposed to realize it's not as powerful as it thinks it is because a TV reality show star was elected?

movie actors < tv actors, the math is sound


also my mind still won't accept that trump won

Reality TV is considered as an insult to hollywood

Congratulations on becoming a parody of yourself, America.

While I wasn't a fan of Trump, I really feel like a lot of the negative things being said about him could also apply to Clinton. It's not like we had a choice between a white hat and a black hat and voted for the bad guy. They're both bad. A lot of the people I know that voted Trump did so because his bad guyness, politically, was steeped in possibility while Clinton's is very much established. And like Diff pointed out, the left saying "If you're not voting Dem, you must be a racist balh blah blah" really was a source of motivation to otherwise apathetic voters that otherwise may have stayed home yesterday.
Contrary to what the religious folks in my facebook feed seemed to think, I did not vote Clinton because I'm for babies at the 8 1/2 month term being ripped apart and pulled out of the mother's womb. It made me mad to have my values boiled down to one part of her platform, and it got me to vote when I had never done so before. That street goes both ways.