Election Thread 2016

**Cowutopia** · 09 Nov 2016, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

Climate change denier tapped to lead the EPA transition.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a..._Twitter-Share

Yeah one of my very close friends got an experimental Environmental Economics masters degree and works for the EPA, and he is very, very worried that his job will be eliminated or worse, that his new job will be undermining the environment.

**Diff-chan** · 09 Nov 2016, 09:14 PM

Cracked.com was part of the problem I said before. They've been posting SJW articles for months. Fuck that site.

**Rumpy** · 09 Nov 2016, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by Doc Holliday

Also we won't send our children into war with Russia, and that's good. But ISIS could get ugly.

Everyone has ignored the Taliban and al-qaeda for IS for the entire election. Syria all the time, nothing about Afganistan. The movement on Mosul has also pushed it out, but Afgansistan is a clusterfuck and no one says a word about it.

**AstroBlue** · 09 Nov 2016, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

Climate change denier tapped to lead the EPA transition.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a..._Twitter-Share

"And I said good-bye to my friend, hung up the phone, sat down and wrote this epitaph: 'The good Earth—we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.'"

And the Great Filter, that churning meatgrinder of entropy and death, appears in the horizon.

**Fe 26** · 09 Nov 2016, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

And let's not blame poor people for this.Attachment 79696

I can explain this too.

The bulge at 50 to 99k is where salaried employees start. Salaried employees have been shit on at least at the start of the recession, maybe before.

Do you know what kind of propaganda I still hear because of the recession? That I'm lucky to have a job. That I'm lucky to make what I make. That I should work extra hard. That I should work extra long. That I should work weekends. Becuase the big bad baddy is out there. The recession. Its at the gates. It is ready to shut the place down. It is ready to get me let go. Its ready to make my hypothetical wife and kids starve. Its going to make me miss my house payment and lose my house. I'm going to default on my loans and fuck my credit. Ruin, Ruin, RUIN.

And its why we can't hire more people.

Its why we can't pay to fix things.

Its why the other place shut down.

Its why "you" are going to wake up tomorrow as a failure of a man.

People at that pay grade are tired of working too much and tired of being scared.

**gameoverDude** · 09 Nov 2016, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by icarusfall

Michelle Obama 2020?

Yes, I'd vote for Michelle as POTUS. Seriously.

Hillary, a former Senator and Secretary of State, would be better than Zero Experience Donald. ZED will probably be a mere figurehead, and I guess it may truly be (Indiana Governor) Pence calling the shots when he is VP. If Hillary had won, she'd have a former POTUS in the White House with her to lend help. Melania Knauss-Trump will not be able to offer ZED that sort of help.

So Putin hates Hillary. Forget him. I'd rather have our relations with Russia go into the john than endure 4 years of Trump. Yes, I'd accept a Second Cold War.

The Electoral College is an overcomplicated travesty and needs to be sacked. If it were decided by the POPULAR vote, then Hilary Clinton would be the one. Shame it doesn't go this way. In the EC system some small states are worth hardly any "electoral votes".

Hopefully by 2020 people who voted for Trump (or a 3rd party... thank you, Johnson & nutjob Stein for being glorified vote sponges!

) will think again and kick themselves. I'm beginning to think third parties should be ineligible for POTUS. Libertarian, Green Party? Joke parties. But I'm not laughing when they got votes that could've gone to Clinton.