Official presidential election results thread - Nov. 8, 2016

[Nye]

Faux in full on melt down mode. On a serious note now that Trump won - think Rand would accept a cabinet position if trump offered it?

 

[P3ter_Griffin]

Can anyone confirm that if every Hillary voter had voted for Johnson, Johnson would be president? So a vote for Hillary was actually a vote for Trump?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Strange. Doesn't she know who Steve Bannon is?

I'm sure she knows exactly what she is doing. Probably will be the establishment strategy. Attempt to separate Trump from everyone who was anti-establishment, and surround him with establishment moles and tools. Hell, they are halfway there already. Now they will do everything they can to split off people like Bannon and Sessions and Carson and anyone else they didn't like for the past couple of years.

LOL, they are saying on CNN as I type that Trump needs a "whisperer" to guide him. Is Grima Wormtongue available? Maybe Newt or Giuliani will do in a pinch.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Compiled a few Mencken quotes.

 

[CPUd]

I'm sure she knows exactly what she is doing. Probably will be the establishment strategy. Attempt to separate Trump from everyone who was anti-establishment, and surround him with establishment moles and tools. Hell, they are halfway there already. Now they will do everything they can to split off people like Bannon and Sessions and Carson and anyone else they didn't like for the past couple of years.

LOL, they are saying on CNN as I type that Trump needs a "whisperer" to guide him. Is Grima Wormtongue available? Maybe Newt or Giuliani will do in a pinch.

Reince Priebus

 

[The Gold Standard]

Faux in full on melt down mode. On a serious note now that Trump won - think Rand would accept a cabinet position if trump offered it?

Why would he offer one? Is there a single policy area where they agree?

 

[UWDude]

Faux in full on melt down mode. On a serious note now that Trump won - think Rand would accept a cabinet position if trump offered it?

Secretary of State?

 

[P3ter_Griffin]

Compiled a few Mencken quotes.

Ha. Thanks for sharing.

I've never read 1984 myself but my GF is reading it and telling me how eerily the author nailed it.

 

[AuH20]

I'm sure she knows exactly what she is doing. Probably will be the establishment strategy. Attempt to separate Trump from everyone who was anti-establishment, and surround him with establishment moles and tools. Hell, they are halfway there already. Now they will do everything they can to split off people like Bannon and Sessions and Carson and anyone else they didn't like for the past couple of years.

LOL, they are saying on CNN as I type that Trump needs a "whisperer" to guide him. Is Grima Wormtongue available? Maybe Newt or Giuliani will do in a pinch.

Bannon has stated that he wants to "blow up" up the existing political establishment in Washington. You may be right that they may be trying to separate him from Trump.

 

[Nye]

Someone earlier commented that Trump and Rand are on good terms now. Not sure if it's true or not.

Also what was up with him congratulating Hillary at his acceptance speech? Didn't he want to lock her up if he was elected?

 

[AngryCanadian]

Sarcasm?

Source

 

[Peace&Freedom]

CNN puts the electoral count win for Trump at 288 (for now). I am pleased to see that result matches almost exactly my prediction of how the states would fall out that I posted on RPF on August 12 and on my blog. I got Utah and Wisconsin wrong, but did predict Michigan and Pennsylvania. See for yourself:

 

[Natural Citizen]

Perhaps you should apply for a job at Trumpbart?

Tee Hee Hee. It's about time you got sht canned, rev.

 

[devil21]

Awww come on. You know it's true.

Don't make me quote Carroll Quigley, ok?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Faux in full on melt down mode.

They literally just said that if Trump does not do everything he has promised, there will be "blow-back". Wonder where they learned that term? They had never heard of it in 2007...

 

[CPUd]

Someone earlier commented that Trump and Rand are on good terms now. Not sure if it's true or not.

Also what was up with him congratulating Hillary at his acceptance speech? Didn't he want to lock her up if he was elected?

He said they didn't speak directly, but that he considered the primary stuff water under the bridge.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Let's make sure this blind leading blind stuff gets cancelled in time.

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[devil21]

#Brexit2.0

And what were the biggest immediate effects of each vote?

Currency revaluations overnight.

 

[Nye]

He said they didn't speak directly, but that he considered the primary stuff water under the bridge.

Can imagine a lot of angry Trump supporters if he doesn't arrest her. I know here in PA the theme of arresting hillary if trump was elected was HUGE (and they weren't kidding about locking her up).

I could see Rand accepting sec of state if it fits in with what he believes (we don't even know where Trump stands on a lot of issues... Since he likes to change his mind like his clothes)

 

[parocks]

Faux in full on melt down mode. On a serious note now that Trump won - think Rand would accept a cabinet position if trump offered it?

How about Ron? It should be Ron. Rand probably wants to stay Senator.