Wednesday, November 09, 2016

The World Series of politics

Waking up the morning after a critically important Election Night is like waking up after a colonoscopy. Your first reaction is was it good or bad so you gauge faces, expressions, vibes and in this case tepidly turn on the news early the next day since you didn't stay up all night 'cause of work the next day. I didn't vote on principle but Hil was my logical prediction. I never understood geo-voting, why folks in most of the northeastern states overwhelmingly vote Democrat while Dixie goes Republican and lots Midwestern states went Trump and CA goes for Hillary. You have a political herd mentality just based on your geographical location? Don't get it. I think Hillary felt entitled to the presidency, a kind of logical thread in the fabric of time, a foregone conclusion (first black president/now woman), a political inevitability so she didn't put her heart and soul into it which goes a long way explaining why she had a major fireworks display set to go off over the Hudson around 9:30 last night. I said I wasn't gonna watch but channel-surfed other stuff and up pops an electoral map on some Spanish station and Trump was doing not bad, good even so I switched around. I saw aging commentators like Charlie Gibson and Jeff Greenfield like they seemed fairly young and flush only a few years ago. WHERE IS THE TIME GOING??? The Ole Gray Lady recently likened FBI director James Comey to J. Edgar Hoover for going after Hillary over the remaining 650,000 emails but a more mundane explanation might be he's only doing his job. Relax Gray Lady editorial board, do a group yoga thing maybe. Brokaw said people are more agitated than they realized but the msm needs to get out more imo. Putin called President-elect Trump already and some people at work looked dismayed and downcast today.

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  1. We live in interesting times.

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  2. The folk didn't seem to care what the media seemed to care about. The more the msm talked about Trump and breasts the less the public seemed to care. So how are you taking it?

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    1. Better than my wife, poor woman.

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    2. I never voted for Bill Clinton or Obama but lived my life all those years not thinking too much about it. The sun still rose and I had bills to pay.

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  3. Put in a nut it means that Hillary was more unlikeable, that the public has Clinton fatigue.

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    1. Apparently. We spitefully note-
      Clinton 59,755,284 votes and Trump 59,535,522 votes
      and agree with the latter: the election was rigged. :)

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    2. Get rid of the electoral college then. Remember Bush Gore and Florida?

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    3. Yeah, that was the start of the great recession and one small reason I strongly dislike the deceased Scalia. Statistically 50-50: hard to get a unanimous decision. How many years now we geen going along with half the population pissed off?

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    4. Well it's like I'm seeing Black Lives Matter vs. Blue Lives Matter. How 'bout taking each case as it comes along?

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  4. How is Shaw taking it? Will have no end of blogging material.

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    1. Not well. About like my relatives in Switzerland and Norway who asked WTF?

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    2. The progressive blogs are predictably unhappy-
      "We're all hostages now and as for all those snarky, snotty, superior Hillary haters, I blame you for selling out my country. You're dead to me and when I see you bagging groceries at the Winn-Dixie in a year or two, don't expect a tip and besides, I'll probably be jealous of anyone with such a good job when America is Great again.

      No, she's "crooked" she lies and then there are the thrice examined emails of no discernible importance. There's the thrice examined Benghazi debacle which didn't rise to the level of the 12 previous embassy attacks we little note or care to remember. You're hypocrites, you're snark addicts, trying to give import to your insignificant opinions with your zingers and snarky epithets. You're willingly gullible, having too much fun piling on to stop and think. You're my enemy and the enemy of my country and I shall never forgive you.

      Go ahead and wait for the crook and liar to make it great. The demise of American prestige and respect leaves a hole that will soon be filled by those who have no intention of making America anything but a third world economic colony. You wrote the death warrant. You and no other and when it comes time to regret it, and all your piety and wit won't wash out a line of it, nor all your tears a line, don't look for me.

      Been here and gone." -The Swash Zone

      "As I have stated, I am not as upset by this as a lot of people. It has been my firm belief, as stated here before, that the Republican party was determined to give oligarchic dictatorship a try, and whether or not they won this time, they would have kept at it, with the vast resources of money and evil which they have to muster. If it hadn't happened this time, it would have happened in four or eight years, and probably with someone with the self-control to bring about their fascist golden age far more efficiently than Trump ever could. Honestly, I'm not so young any more, and I'm sort of glad that it happened when I still have the energy to do whatever I can about it.

      And one final thing. I remember Bertrand Russell once being asked what he thought about people who predicted the future by measuring the Pyramids. Russell said that the interesting thing about all of those predictions was that they were perfectly accurate at delineating world history up to the time that the prediction was made, and utterly useless after that. So I make a reservation about the following comment:

      I have a decades-long, almost unbroken record of accurately predicting what was about to happen in this country, something for which I take very little credit, as any person willing to be honest with themselves could see what I did. I want to predict the following: this is going to end up with a first strike use of nuclear weapons by the United States, against whatever innocent victim is most convenient at the time, just to prove that we are the biggest, toughest guy on the block."
      -Green Eagle
      ...and so it goes,Z-Man. If I were younger, I'd be
      livid, but at my age a glowing mushroom cloud is just something to practice my old Chemical Officer
      training, determine the yield, fallout, direction
      and blast wave timing. Kelly Ann Conway took away
      Trump's twitter...I hope she hides the nuclear codes too.

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    3. To the bloggers -- pop a Prozac.

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    4. Four years is a long time. Are they gonna have to go through counseling?

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    5. Some of Z's commenters were halfway reasonable. Probably the ultimate insult, but I find Mrs. Z
      and Shaw quite similar..refined, cultured, intelligent, partisan...and diametrically opposed.
      You Big Apple types won. Heck, either way the
      candidates were New Yorkers..couldn't lose. Idaho
      is excited: Paul Ryan wants to get rid of regulations on the timber industry. The think is,
      you cut down all the trees in the National Forests,
      but they do that with machinery any more..no jobs.
      Then, who is going to buy 100 trillion board feet of lumber? Color me confused.

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  5. About 15% leaves left on our big maple tree out back. It was
    a still day, and I looked out and not a leaf was moving. Except for one which was fluttering back and forth. The wife
    says she has seen the sort of mysterious leave behavior too.
    Mandela Effect?

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    1. Keep checking those Mandela boards for some fresh threads on the election like "I remember Trump winning four years ago."

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  6. A Pope Francis/Donald Trump meeting should be interesting.

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  7. Out for dinner in an hour or so. Since Trump carried our county 70/30 there probably won't be many diners in mourning. A good
    server will avoid politics. If not, my normally generous tip may be affected. :)

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  8. Pot did well last night.

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    1. Still cannot for the life of me figure out why there is this push for legalization rather than decriminalization. What we don't need is another means for government to tax and regulate not to mention the likes of Monsanto getting in on the gig.

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    2. Though I'm not into pot you put it well once. You said why do we need the government's permission to smoke the stuff?

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    3. This sums it up for me: http://weedmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cops-bust-plant-weed-memes.jpg

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  9. Really glad that Hillary, the media, the elitist Hollywood/entertainment crowd got their comeuppance.

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    1. Has Cher and Barbra Streisand left the country yet?

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  10. What I find most interesting is that DC still does not have the consent of the governed based on the voting percentages.

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  11. What I found Chris in talking to some people who voted for Trump they hardly ever said a word to me about how wonderful Trump is and how great he would be for the country. The common refrain was I'm so glad she didn't get in, so glad. They were voting against her and Trump happened to be the default candidate to vote for.

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    1. That's exactly it. Just as the flurry of Hillary voters were claiming their vote was a vote in opposition to Trump, so too were Trump voters voting in opposition to Hillary.

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    2. Voting against Hillary; I agree, Z-Man. We need look no further than the data that while 62% of Americans thought Trump unfit to be president, 47%
      voted for him. He was considered the lesser of two
      evils. We shall see.

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    3. Well that's the thing. It never dawned on Hillary that the country may simply be tired of the Clintons.

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    4. 47% did not vote for him unless you mean of the voting. That was about the percentage that abstained from voting altogether. I think his percentage was actually about 26.7% from the graphic I saw.

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    5. Some liberals are saying Trump won because of racist whites so how come this country elected the first black president to two terms? You see that's the thing with theories they're often not that well thought through.

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    6. Chalk it up with higher education.

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  12. NYU has a campus in Shanghai. Not enough enrollments from Yonkers?

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  13. I hear many universities and colleges have temporarily canceled classes and some major exams in the wake of Trump's victory so the student body can grieve. Yes I kid you not and in some post-election classes instead of discussing the relevant scholastic subject teachers led conversations about the trauma of Hillary losing. I'm glad I don't go to college anymore.

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    1. ..or probably High School
      -snip- 'Students at Oakland’s Bishop O’Dowd High School also held a walkout Wednesday morning, according to social media posts. The students held a rally on campus, in which they raised their fists in the air and held a moment of silence.
      Bishop O’Dowd High School is a private high school ran by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oakland.'
      --we suspect the Mother Superior gave them each a
      whack with a ruler and polished her Trump button?

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    2. College: in our state the conservatives have a hard time getting conservatives to go to college (they already know everything, being home-schooled by Bubba). So, instead, they passed a law that all
      college classes must permit students to carry firearms. We assume the walkouts after one of the most bitter campaigns in history left the conservative students sitting by the skeletons in
      bio lab polishing their weaponry. Not new. In 1960
      my college shut down classes so we could go hear
      John F. Kenney speak (I got to shake his hand) and
      I missed an Organic Chemistry pop quiz. Just saying.

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    3. That idea there about all college students carrying guns reminds me of the wisdom of Archie Bunker in an "All in the Family" episode. Archie goes on tv to do a kind of citizen editorial saying all passengers on planes should be allowed to carry guns and you know Archie it comes out all idiotic. FF to the present day and it becomes conservative wisdom.

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    4. I remember when 'All in the Family' debuted. It made
      fun of the few cranky rightwingers. Now they are the majority and make fun of the bleeding heart liberals. As I recall-could be a Mandela thing.

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