US General Election 2016

I don't really think the Interwar period comparisons do any good for anyone- Eldo

I think the comparisons to Mussolini and Hitler are silly. - Forest

{{I generally agree with you both, which was why I puI think the comparisons to Mussolini and Hitler are silly. t it up in response to Figg's Mussolini comment, as it reminded me of similar rhetoric. Though Mussolini is a bit closer a comparison if you look only at the rhetoric, not the surrounding circumstances. But neither work as a comparison. }}}

Looking good for Trump.


139 needed 73 needed in favour of Trump.
270 to win

May be wrong but I don't remember seeing election results crawling during commercials.

Well... I guess now we see whether he follows through on it all.

This year seems to have ended up a pretty regressive one, in my opinion. Looks like even the Paris Agreement will now end up in pieces which was the only real political success story.

Fun times.

Re-posting from the election night thread, the current state of the electoral college:

My last comment on the election result, is again not my own

These voters have no fucking idea what they have just done to this country.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMlEGxJAMYH/?taken-by=robinpecknold

No he is not Mussolini, he is worse and far more dangerous.

Well, he has been elected now, and there's not much anyone can do or say to change that fact. What will come will come, for good or bad. I personally don't (or won't) believe he'll do all of those crazy things he said. Time will tell - I'm going to enjoy the show from the sideline with a bottle of beer in hand. Good luck to all the US-hobbits around here! And I suppose a congratulations is in order for Bungo - come back, I'll want someone to discuss/rant over the Dark Tower movie with when it comes

in comparison to this brexit is merely a pimple on the face of a very smelly orc.

letter to President Trump.

Dear Mr Trump,
Can you start 3WW after season 8 of Game of Thrones has finished?.
kind regards
Mrs Figg

Figgy... I just received this through some internal communication channels (spy stuff).

Dear Mrs Figg,

I am trying to get a wall built. I will not have any media of any kind suggest that a wall should, or will be, coming down.

Actually, maybe I could sell it as Mexicans = White Walkers. Maybe Canadians would work better.

Anyway, thanks for your suggestion and I like your pussy.

Yours

Donald J Trump
President Elect.

Dear Mr Trump,
If you try grabbing that pussy, she will eat your arm up to the elbow.
yours sincerely
Mrs Figg

This message passing might get boring soon.

Dear Mrs Figg.

Hillary promised me that once but it turned out she was already up to her elbows in a Goldman Sachs executive. So don't promise of you can't deliver.

I would invite you over to see if we could work on it, but it seems you may have a tinge of red in your hair and I am looking to introduce policy to ban you from our country until we can figure out what is going on.

Also, we may bomb your family.

Thanks for your comment.

Donald J Trump
President Elect

(if we get these posted on reddit I think I see virality happening.)

Definitely

So Trump is considering who will be in his cabinet. A few lowlights, courtesy of

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/who-is-in-president-trump-cabinet-231071

Secretary of state

Former House Speaker Gingrich, a leading Trump supporter, is a candidate for the job, as is Corker, current chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Tennessee senator has said he’d “strongly consider” serving as secretary of state.

Trump is also eyeing former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.

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Attorney general

People close to Trump say former New York City Mayor Giuliani, one of Trump’s leading public defenders, is the leading candidate for attorney general ( ) . New Jersey Gov. Christie, another vocal Trump supporter and the head of the president-elect’s transition team, is also a contender for the job — though any role in the cabinet for Christie could be threatened by the Bridgegate scandal.

Another possibility: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, though the controversy over Trump’s donation to Bondi could undercut her nomination.

Interior secretary

Lucas, the 74-year-old co-founder of oil products company Lucas Oil, is seen as a top contender for Interior secretary.

Trump’s presidential transition team is also eyeing venture capitalist Robert Grady, a George H.W. Bush White House official with ties to Christie. And Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., is said to be interested in the job. ( )

Meanwhile, a person who spoke to the Trump campaign told POLITICO that the aides have also discussed tapping Sarah Palin for Interior secretary. Trump has said he’d like to put Palin in his cabinet, and Palin has made no secret of her interest. ( )

Homeland Security secretary

One person close to Trump’s campaign said David Clarke, the conservative sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, is a possible candidate for Homeland Security secretary. Clarke has cultivated a devoted following on the right, and he spoke at the Republican National Convention in Ohio, declaring, "Blue lives matter." Christie is also seen as a possible DHS secretary.

( : a county-level execute promoted to a national post )

Environmental Protection Agency administrator

While Trump has called for eliminating the EPA, he has more recently modified that position, saying in September that he’ll “refocus the EPA on its core mission of ensuring clean air, and clean, safe drinking water for all Americans.”

Myron Ebell, a climate skeptic who is running the EPA working group on Trump’s transition team, is seen as a top candidate to lead the agency. Ebell, an official at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has come under fire from environmental groups for his stances on global warming. Venture capitalist Robert Grady is also a contender.

Other potential candidates: Joe Aiello, director of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Environmental Safety and Quality Assurance; Carol Comer, the commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, who was appointed by Pence; and Leslie Rutledge, attorney general of Arkansas and a lead challenger of EPA regulations in the state.

( This will be the end of any carbon emissions programs )

Add a sprinkle of this.. (You get the governement you vote for. Surprise.)

Dear president Trumpy Poo,
When you said you were very big in Georgia did you really really mean it?
yours
Georgia Figg

I just passed the last message over to you in the other thread. No more.

Tweet him or something.

Mrs Figg wrote:No he is not Mussolini, he is worse and far more dangerous.

Mussolini didn't have nukes.

Do you guys think that nukes get launched by an app that'll be installed on Trump's smartphone so he can press it whenever he gets mad?

And even if you do think that Trump launching a nuclear attack is likely, it's a very different situation than European fascism in the 1930s, so there's still no reason to keep bringing up Mussolini and Hitler except as a cheap way to try to score points.

How about Berlusconi?

That does seem like a better comparison.