Red Mosquito

bune wrote:Election predicted in book 18 years ago.

I dunno though

I am convinced that the real 'story' of this election is not really that 'the silent majority' or 'rural white america has spoken'; but more:

a few million non-white voters decided not to vote this time,

so the republican candidate won.

everyone seems to keep looking past the fact that it was a super low turnout election; framing this as the rise of the 'alt-right', or 'the rural vote' overthrew the establishment.

they didn't represent the majority

Hillary won the popular vote

Idiocracy is the opus that predicted this

half the country is too retarded to vote

half of the other half that does vote is too retarded to tell the difference between food and a stapler

Someone really, really doesn't want Pearl Jam to play in North Carolina for another four years: Pat McCrory Lost the North Carolina Governorship. Now He’s Trying to Steal It.

96583UP wrote:
everyone seems to keep looking past the fact that it was a super low turnout election;

Except that it wasn't... http://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump ... ?r=US&IR=T

Citizen Dick wrote:

96583UP wrote:
everyone seems to keep looking past the fact that it was a super low turnout election;

Except that it wasn't... http://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump ... ?r=US&IR=T

I'm not sure that article really states that.

Also Romney didn't run in 2008 so I hate that article

Strat wrote:

Citizen Dick wrote:

96583UP wrote:
everyone seems to keep looking past the fact that it was a super low turnout election;

Except that it wasn't... http://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump ... ?r=US&IR=T

I'm not sure that article really states that.

Also Romney didn't run in 2008 so I hate that article

Fine, the article I grabbed isn't a great one, check out the chart about a third of the way down... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11 ... -year-est/

Despite turnout having fallen this year, the figure of 57.9 per cent is consistent with the level of voting that has been seen in presidential elections over the past century.

There's a ton of articles estimating that the turnout will be around 58%. This puts the 2016 election well behind 2008 and slightly behind 2004 and 2012 but AHEAD of every other election since 1968.

There were a couple of myths about this election that seem to have taken hold within public consciousness in the 1-2 days immediately after the election and before the dust had settled.

One of these is voter turnout. Another is that the polls were horrendously off. The final week (and historically it's always been the case that you need the polls as close as possible to the election to give them any creedence), reputable national polls showed Hillary winning by 1-2%. Basically the margin she is going to win the national popular vote by. The rustbelt states that swung the election for Trump were still showing state polls with extremely small victories for Hillary, but the results have been within standard polling error margins. Basically the election has highlighted a number of challenges polling services are going to have to remain relevant but it was no where near Dewey or Brexit level bad.

Citizen Dick wrote:
There's a ton of articles estimating that the turnout will be around 58%. This puts the 2016 election well behind 2008 and slightly behind 2004 and 2012 but AHEAD of every other election since 1968.

right; so maybe 'super low' was the wrong term; i should have anticipated David Boies' rebuttal

perhaps 'lower turnout than any of the last 3 elections' would have been a better phrasing ?

or put differently: 'lowest turnout in the era in which humanity uses cellphones' ... ?

the point is: there was not a dramatic landslide victory from trump

there was not a dramatic landslide victory from hickville

there was not a dramatic landslide victory from neo-nazi USA

but all the puss-wuss liberal media stringer online news outlets want to act like the Heartland came out in droves and Hitlerism is alive and well now

really to me it just looks like a bunch of the blacks that Obama got excited enough to vote last time decided to stay home this time

prove me wrong, space coyote.

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I mean just look at these headlines. Total overreaction to Hillbot's slight loss in the rusty belt.

this is hardly the reality we live in:

The Daily Worker wrote:The Heartland came alive!

Knife & Gun Magazine wrote:Ford F-150s march on Warshington!

Breitbart wrote:BiCoastal Elites ordered arugula and got served an arugula and shit sandwich!

The Washington Times wrote:Smell the glove libbies, smell it!

The FDA wrote:Neo-Nazism Now the Apex layer of the Food Pyramid

Local Gazette Weekly wrote:Citizen Dick Implicated in international panda smuggling ring

Rock n Roll Hall of Fame wrote:Dave A inducted based solely on hi-hat work on 'Daughter'!

Dave A seems like a Trump guy.

That panda smuggling has yet to be proven in a single international court of law.

"if the liberal echo chambers were more accurate in their polling predictions then obama would have gotten out much sooner and more intensely to attempt to rally the untermensch vote"

-steve bannon, at daughter's hitler youth bake sale; November 20, 2016

tragabigzanda wrote:It's ridiculous to see all the inter-media finger pointing and finger banging: Harper's story on the Wash Post; the Post's fellating of NYT today; NYT's fellating of itself; 538s inability to just say "We fucked up." It's like the entire lefty media knows it's culpable, but none of them want to open their doors to criticism...

I'd imagine they're all deathly terrified: their industry is already in the shitter, Peter Thiel (a Trump backer) just put Gawker out of business; and now they're facing a President who seems to hate their "mission" (in quotes because their collective mission has shown itself to be highly compromised). One or two false moves, and any of these publications could be dunzo.

these cuties are going to have to go back to their Bush II playbook

got too comfy with the arugula jesus regime

time to revert to putting DOD press releases through the spellchecker and calling it a day

but seriously, yes they took a huge stand/bet and lost

and that's gotta be very awkward now...

the whole 'nerd prom' / white house press correspondents culture is nauseating

the stand up comedy is usually solid at that event

but the journalists who speak at that thing act like they are nobel laureates

may have been a sophisticated industry 40+ years ago

now you just type up the happenings at dog shows and spend the rest of the day beating your chests and grunting in self-satisfaction

quantum computing: impressive

keeping me apprised of things that Ivanka says: not impressive

tragabigzanda wrote:538s inability to just say "We fucked up."

trag

tragabigzanda wrote:It's ridiculous to see all the inter-media finger pointing and finger banging: Harper's story on the Wash Post; the Post's fellating of NYT today; NYT's fellating of itself; 538s inability to just say "We fucked up." It's like the entire lefty media knows it's culpable, but none of them want to open their doors to criticism...

I'd imagine they're all deathly terrified: their industry is already in the shitter, Peter Thiel (a Trump backer) just put Gawker out of business; and now they're facing a President who seems to hate their "mission" (in quotes because their collective mission has shown itself to be highly compromised). One or two wrong moves, and any of these publications could be dunzo.

A move away from insider 'nerd prom' journalism and towards an adversarial outlook would be more than welcome at this point.