Election 2016

[LoathedVermin72]

[96583UP]

The Apocalypse is going to be hilarious.

it hath been foretold

[96583UP]

lofl

[96583UP]

the year is 2018, and the Trump presidency has sent the United State spiralling into chaos. The perimeter of the Embarcadero Trader Joe's has been breached. Aslan emerges from aisle 7 to attempt to negotiate; but the Trump supporters know not what diplomacy means...

[Self]

[Strat]

this gif is perfectly in sync with the song im listening to it and its fucking wonderful. My god.

Meet me in the city cover by North Mississippi Allstars

[Strat]

I cant stop looking.

Its perfect

[Strat]

lol @ trumps potential VP's

[Henery Hawk]

Based on that smile Huma the puma must be close....real close

[Simple Torture]

Nate Silver wrote a nice long piece about how he and other data-driven journalists got Trump wrong and how prognosticators and journalists can adjust for it in the future without over-adjusting (gets heady and theoretical, but I liked it): http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how ... ald-trump/

[simple schoolboy]

Nate Silver wrote a nice long piece about how he and other data-driven journalists got Trump wrong and how prognosticators and journalists can adjust for it in the future without over-adjusting (gets heady and theoretical, but I liked it): http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how ... ald-trump/

I still kinda hope that Trump wins just so Scott Adams can beat Nate Silver.

[bodysnatcher]

aaaaaaaaaand the political emails from my dad have officially begun.

Trump! Trump! Trump!

[Simple Torture]

So there's this Twitter account that slightly modifies quotes by Donald Trump (or just writes in his voice) but changes the perspective from an over-confident businessman/political candidate to an over-confident Dungeons & Dragons DM:

[Jorge]

http://theresurgent.com/why-didnt-god-s ... s-clinton/

[Simple Torture]

http://theresurgent.com/why-didnt-god-s ... s-clinton/

Gee, I wonder why.

[b_i_revisited]

Nothing says "inclusive and enlightened" like hiding behind gated communities to get away from "those people". welcome to the left Coast.

"A struggling white man in the heartland is now told to “check his privilege” by students at Ivy League colleges."

[Jorge]

The struggling white man in the heartland replies "I;m thinking about thos Beans"

[4/5]

I found this article pretty interesting; it argues that the larger-than-expected support for Bernie does NOT signal a leftward shift among the citizenry, including Democrats and specifically Bernie supporters.

However, they [Sanders' supporters] were less likely than Mrs. Clinton's supporters to favor concrete policies that Mr. Sanders has offered as remedies for these ills, including a higher minimum wage, increasing government spending on health care and an expansion of government services financed by higher taxes. It is quite a stretch to view these people as the vanguard of a new, social-democratic-trending Democratic Party.

Mr. Sanders has drawn enthusiastic support from young people....For many of them, liberal ideology seems to have been a short-term byproduct of enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders rather than a stable political conviction.

Perhaps for that reason, the generational difference in ideology seems not to have translated into more liberal positions on concrete policy issues -- even on the specific issues championed by Mr. Sanders. For example, young Democrats were less likely than older Democrats to support increased government funding of health care, substantially less likely to favor a higher minimum wage and less likely to support expanding government services. Their distinctive liberalism is mostly a matter of adopting campaign labels, not policy preferences.

[Norah]

Mr. Sanders has drawn enthusiastic support from young people....For many of them, liberal ideology seems to have been a short-term byproduct of enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders rather than a stable political conviction.

Perhaps for that reason, the generational difference in ideology seems not to have translated into more liberal positions on concrete policy issues -- even on the specific issues championed by Mr. Sanders. For example, young Democrats were less likely than older Democrats to support increased government funding of health care, substantially less likely to favor a higher minimum wage and less likely to support expanding government services. Their distinctive liberalism is mostly a matter of adopting campaign labels, not policy preferences.

I can see that in a lot of people I know.

[b_i_revisited]

Mr. Sanders has drawn enthusiastic support from young people....For many of them, liberal ideology seems to have been a short-term byproduct of enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders rather than a stable political conviction.

Perhaps for that reason, the generational difference in ideology seems not to have translated into more liberal positions on concrete policy issues -- even on the specific issues championed by Mr. Sanders. For example, young Democrats were less likely than older Democrats to support increased government funding of health care, substantially less likely to favor a higher minimum wage and less likely to support expanding government services. Their distinctive liberalism is mostly a matter of adopting campaign labels, not policy preferences.

Another mark in the tally against universal suffrage.