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Discussion: U.S. Election 2016
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For those of you who have Twitter, use this website to mash your tweets with some politicians (Trump and Sanders are funny): http://tweetmashup.com/
This is the first one I got from Joe Biden 
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@JoyAnnReid: .@McFaul on @maddow just now: White House avoided Russian intereference talk so as not to tilt the election. Wow.
Wtf has Obama been playing at? 
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Originally posted by Jacketh
For those of you who have Twitter, use this website to mash your tweets with some politicians (Trump and Sanders are funny): http://tweetmashup.com/
This is the first one I got from Joe Biden
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I did a mash up of my tweets and Trump:
"Busy day PLANNED PARENTHOOD. How ****ing dense can you be? #ElectionNight"
"2 sausage mcmuffins and we are going to WIN back the White House! Thank you MI!…"
lady gaga+trump
"Awesome pants, even more expensive. Doesn't work, I will REPEAL AND REPLACE!"
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Achilles.
@JoyAnnReid: .@McFaul on @maddow just now: White House avoided Russian intereference talk so as not to tilt the election. Wow.
Wtf has Obama been playing at? |
He's such a 🐈 sometimes
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I just read this and I haven't researched it but F*** if it's true.
UPDATE (11/30/16, 3 p.m. ET): On Tuesday evening the Associated Press reported that Pence, not Trump, is receiving near daily intelligence briefings, and that Trump has received just three such briefings in the four weeks since he won the presidential election.
America’s first vice-president, John Adams, said of the job: “The vice-presidency is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” Well, not if Donald Trump has anything to say about it. If Trump gives his vice-president, Mike Pence, the same offer he allegedly gave Ohio governor and former presidential candidate John Kasich back in July — that is, to run the country while Trump focused on “making America great again” — Pence could effectively be in charge of all domestic and foreign policy. In 2017, the vice-president of the United States could become the most powerful person in America.
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A Pence vice-presidency, however, would be a radical departure from the past. “What Trump has proposed with Pence,” Kruse said, “is entirely different. ... As Trump has described it, his vice-president would run things like an acting president, under the terms of the 25th Amendment. Trump would nominally remain president, but Pence would handle all the actual duties. Basically, he’d be the decider, not Trump.”
That would put Pence in the driver’s seat on setting policy priorities and mediating the White House’s relationship with Congress. The good news is that Pence appears to be capable and consistent. The bad news is what he could be capable of; Pence is the most conservative vice-presidential pick in half a century, per the American Conservative Union, supporting major tax cuts, massive increases in defense spending, an end to environmental regulations, and overturning Roe v. Wade. With the GOP firmly in control on Capitol Hill (holding majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate), he could get a Republican wish list signed into law — even if Trump doesn’t agree with it. While his boss focuses on “making America great again” at victory rallies, Pence will be laser-focused on imparting a conservative agenda that’s more Paul Ryan than populist — that is, more focused on cutting government spending than starting trade wars with China. Trump might have touted a $1 trillion infrastructure bill to fix America’s tunnels, roads, and airports during the campaign, but Pence and other GOP stalwarts likely won’t get on board. And Trump’s newfound support for the Affordable Care Act might not survive Pence, who has demanded its repeal while requiring it to be modified while in office as governor of Indiana.
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It's hardly surprising - did anyone really expect Trump to work 18 hour days and to be really active, scanning political documents and proposing/drafting legislature?
Wasn't going to happen, and he probably isn't best equip to do that either. It makes sense for Trump to devolve it to Pence.
As long as Trump can keep his narrative going and make it appear he's Making America Great Again (whatever the hell that actually means), then he'll be content. I imagine he'll spend most of his time lapping up the stardom that comes with being POTUS. He'll probably bring the whole Trump family when he comes and meets the Queen
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Originally posted by Full Metal Bitch
I just read this and I haven't researched it but F*** if it's true.
UPDATE (11/30/16, 3 p.m. ET): On Tuesday evening the Associated Press reported that Pence, not Trump, is receiving near daily intelligence briefings, and that Trump has received just three such briefings in the four weeks since he won the presidential election.
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Well yeah.. it's already been reported that Trump is rejecting daily security briefings and listening to "other sources"
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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I think we all saw this coming since Kasich essentially said he was offered VP with most of the responsibilities of the president anyways. Every single cabinet member appointment has reeked of Mike Pence. Trump doesn't know much about the government, so he's obviously deferring things to Pence/Bannon to really stock the cabinet. Honestly, Ivanka is the best hope of a liberal voice to Trump since Melania won't be at all involved in politics 
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Trump is a puppet for Pence and Pootin. As long as he makes a lot of money, has a lot of rallies, and grabs a lot of *******, he doesn't care about being a president.
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Member Since: 3/24/2011
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I don't know if this is already been posted, but in PA today Trump's lead was just cut down from 69 000 to 47 000.
And that's before any recount has begun.
Maybe the Stein/Clinton campaign knows something we don't?
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/statu...05018774405120
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Full Metal Bitch
I just read this and I haven't researched it but F*** if it's true.
UPDATE (11/30/16, 3 p.m. ET): On Tuesday evening the Associated Press reported that Pence, not Trump, is receiving near daily intelligence briefings, and that Trump has received just three such briefings in the four weeks since he won the presidential election.
America’s first vice-president, John Adams, said of the job: “The vice-presidency is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” Well, not if Donald Trump has anything to say about it. If Trump gives his vice-president, Mike Pence, the same offer he allegedly gave Ohio governor and former presidential candidate John Kasich back in July — that is, to run the country while Trump focused on “making America great again” — Pence could effectively be in charge of all domestic and foreign policy. In 2017, the vice-president of the United States could become the most powerful person in America.
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A Pence vice-presidency, however, would be a radical departure from the past. “What Trump has proposed with Pence,” Kruse said, “is entirely different. ... As Trump has described it, his vice-president would run things like an acting president, under the terms of the 25th Amendment. Trump would nominally remain president, but Pence would handle all the actual duties. Basically, he’d be the decider, not Trump.”
That would put Pence in the driver’s seat on setting policy priorities and mediating the White House’s relationship with Congress. The good news is that Pence appears to be capable and consistent. The bad news is what he could be capable of; Pence is the most conservative vice-presidential pick in half a century, per the American Conservative Union, supporting major tax cuts, massive increases in defense spending, an end to environmental regulations, and overturning Roe v. Wade. With the GOP firmly in control on Capitol Hill (holding majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate), he could get a Republican wish list signed into law — even if Trump doesn’t agree with it. While his boss focuses on “making America great again” at victory rallies, Pence will be laser-focused on imparting a conservative agenda that’s more Paul Ryan than populist — that is, more focused on cutting government spending than starting trade wars with China. Trump might have touted a $1 trillion infrastructure bill to fix America’s tunnels, roads, and airports during the campaign, but Pence and other GOP stalwarts likely won’t get on board. And Trump’s newfound support for the Affordable Care Act might not survive Pence, who has demanded its repeal while requiring it to be modified while in office as governor of Indiana. |
TELL ME THIS IS NOT NEWS TO PEOPLE? Literally this has been known for months, which is why I and so many others denounced anyone saying "Give them a chance, it won't be that bad." YES, it will be THAT BAD.
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Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris 2h2 hours ago
We may be strangers, but we are connected in this movement . We all have a responsibility to take action in the coming months and years.
Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris 6h6 hours ago
As your senator, I will never back down from challenging powerful special interest groups.
Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris 13h13 hours ago
Sixty-one years ago today, Rosa Parks sparked a revolution when she refused to give up her bus seat. We must continue her fight for justice.
Its fascinating the way she's positioning herself already. Will defo run in 2020 imo.
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It's fascinating, but it's also so transparent. I follow her on FB and a few hours after the results were announced, she posted something about not despairing. She's posted something similar pretty much every day since.
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I just want Hillary to end this nightmare already.
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Originally posted by Meh
It's fascinating, but it's also so transparent. I follow her on FB and a few hours after the results were announced, she posted something about not despairing. She's posted something similar pretty much every day since.
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So transparent. They just feel give off the 'I want to run for president' vibe.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by Achilles.
@JoyAnnReid: .@McFaul on @maddow just now: White House avoided Russian intereference talk so as not to tilt the election. Wow.
Wtf has Obama been playing at? |
Honestly, probably just integrity. That appears to be the straight forward answer anyway.
There's a time and place for diplomacy. But when you have the threat of a Donald presidency, you pull out all the stops. 
It's only fitting that his FBI appointment went ahead and tilted the election anyway. 
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Originally posted by RickyH.
TELL ME THIS IS NOT NEWS TO PEOPLE? Literally this has been known for months, which is why I and so many others denounced anyone saying "Give them a chance, it won't be that bad." YES, it will be THAT BAD.
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It's not news, but I'm a mess and have been for the last three weeks and when I read it in black and white all I kept thinking was holy f*** what did America do. I'm far from naive about what Trump/Pence was going to bring (I'm on the whole Hilter/Goebbels, antichist, etc. I've been on for ages), but every once in a while I sit there and read something and it hits me and I think holy sh**!!! Somebody fix it, fast!!! I mean the unmitigated disaster that this brings and in some cases to things that can't be reversed like the environmental damage, it's still blowing my mind. I'm still trying to process every bad news piece that just keeps coming out. It's a complete mindf*** over and over again. I just can't believe this happened. So I'm not dumb, I'm just processing and sometimes it comes out like I'm an idiot. I'll get shocked by the stupidest piece of information, just like I just did. It's a mess.
Also I really didn't know about the Kasich thing. I didn't know he'd been so blatant with the whole "I'll be the face, you'll run the show." I mean, I didn't need to know. I wasn't voting for a bigoted, misogynistic, racist, sociopath.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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So the Carrier plant is getting 7 million $ and a 700,000$ tax cut yet STILL moving 1100+ jobs outside while only keeping 800 jobs
And people here were praising him. You can always tell who's gonna cave in for the clown based on how they acted since election night til now.
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rachel EXPOSING pence's reason for staying on as the governor of Indiana after the election
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by Lord Blackout
So the Carrier plant is getting 7 million $ and a 700,000$ tax cut yet STILL moving 1100+ jobs outside while only keeping 800 jobs
And people here were praising him. You can always tell who's gonna cave in for the clown based on how they acted since election night til now. |
Honestly, I could see right through this façade. They're buying positive press not really keeping jobs to the extent they want us to believe.
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