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I nearly killed myself laughing.
Drudge posted a link to this story with the headline “Silicon Sultans $h*t Themselves:
http://mashable.com/2016/11/08/silicon-valley-election-freakout/#jKngwvmfW8qQ
‘Meanwhile, At Hillary Clinton’s Headquarters: Tragedy’
“I feel nauseous,” one top campaign official for Clinton told People before slipping behind a black curtain beyond which reporters were barred.’
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president/pennsylvania
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president/ohio
Hate to break it to Ben, but that doesn’t look like Da Meddel Fanger. It looks like Da Poinddy Fanger.
It is, but Ben is too much of a gentleman to post an actual meddel. We get the idea.
God Bless Texas!
The Fed’s Ponzi markets are imploding. Next up: its asset bubbles. True price discovery is going to be a biatch.
Change di Come!
Ben, just donated you $50.00, figured I owed you after 10 years of reading this blog. Couldn’t think of a better time! Hopefully we’ll both see Hillary put in prison (or worse ;))
I’ll match that today…. it’s been a while. Thanks for the reminder FD.
President >95%Trump Senate >95%Rep. House >95%Rep.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president
Not sure if my older comments got through, but I’m so happy! I knew Americans wanted to destroy the globalist scum, we did it, together. MightyMike/ProfBear, prepare to cry
Pottery Barn rules: You broke it, you bought it.
I enjoyed Senator Corker’s Sunday comments vis-a-vis Trump. Adult day care center indeed.
And now y’all own it. Enjoy!
You’re whining.
Oh, we are. Immensely.
Nice to see you here :-). I’m here reading this in Penang Malaysia because there’s no point talking about it on FB. Too many people get upset too easily. I didn’t want either one…got half my wish. Hopefully we’re done with Clintons. Next: try to oppose anything too stupid coming from Trump. Hope that somehow something good can come from all of it.
Agree. Trump is analogous to the baby and the bathwater. Let’s hope the baby survives.
It’s a dead baby.
now, now.. it’s time to put our differences behind us and come together and heal.
They never will, tj.
i know. but that’s what we’re always being told.
time to put our differences behind us and come together and heal ?
You mean like they did over the last eight years with Obama ? Oh…Wait a moment…
Obama rejected bipartisanship from the outset.
It took Obama all of about 2 weeks into his first term to take the “f’em, we have the votes” approach to governing (specifically with respect to his stimulus package, within which he included not a single Republican suggestion–which Obama solicited).
Yes, I well remember him saying “We won”.
Seriously, you come on here after all this time to say this? Thanks for contributing.
“Seriously, you come on here after all this time to say this?”
yeah, i’ve got some nerve don’t i? i guess i forgot that there was some time limit.
“Thanks for contributing.”
i guess you’ve missed me.
yeah, i’ve got some nerve don’t i? i
tj, in your absence, you apparently forgot how threading works; Karen was responding to ahansen, not to you.
Allena, always good to see you back, without regard to whether I agree with what you have to say.
I have no idea who you are, but you need to follow the comment tree to see who I was addressing.
She never left.
ok, i’m sorry Karen. it sure looked like your post was addressed to me. i just missed it.
again, i’m sorry for my mistake.
Hi Allena!
It appears to be an honest win, against the odds. A peaceful revolution. We’ll all own the outcomes.
Four years of endless scandals, crony capitalism, influence peddling, corporate statism, and neocon military misadventures would’ve been so much more preferable, right, ahansen?
It would take a heart of stone to read about the utter desolation at the Clinton Campaign’s headquarters, and not laugh.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-09/meanwhile-hillary-clintons-headquarters-tragedy
Were they given safe spaces?
>“I feel nauseous,” one top campaign official for Clinton told People before slipping behind a black curtain beyond which reporters were barred.’
Evidently yes:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/09/yale-professor-makes-midterm-optional-for-students-distraught-over-trump-win.html
Come get your cup of Jim Jones koolaid. —DNC
The Saudis will be distraught.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/11/07/Opinion-poll-68-of-Saudis-prefer-Hillary-Clinton.html
The Russians, on the other hand, are rejoicing.
LAPD going into riot mode:
http://deadline.com/2016/11/lapd-riot-mode-plans-donald-trump-election-1201850978/
Burn the mutha down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M
Who is going to riot for Crooked Hillary? What has Obama done for black America?
Well as I understand he’s had rappers visit him in the whitehouse here and there.
Apparently Trump voters aren’t the only angry mob out there on the loose.
Thousands rail against Trump: Protesters march on 101 Freeway in L.A., burn Trump’s head in effigy
Trump protest
A swarm of protesters in front of Los Angeles’ City Hall rallied against Donald Trump, and some burned a Trump head in effigy.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
By James Queally and Matt Hamilton
Thousands of people poured into the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night and shut down the 101 Freeway as they forcefully denounced President-elect Donald J. Trump
The mostly young and diverse crowd screamed, “Not my president,” and “Respect all women.” The band of demonstrators marched through the city before spilling onto the busy freeway near Alameda Street.
By 10:15 p.m., up to 300 people were on the 101 Freeway, drawing a massive response by the California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles Police Department.
Traffic backed up for miles, and authorities did not provide a timetable for when the freeway would reopen.
Clad in riot gear, CHP officers warned protesters that arrests were imminent and urged motorists to return to their vehicles. But some demonstrators remained, waving flags from U.S. and Mexico and chanting, “Hands up; don’t shoot.”
CHP Officer Elizabeth Kravig said no arrests were reported, and that officers were trying to clear the road peacefully.
“They’re trying to escort people off the freeway,” Kravig said.
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Clinton won by 60,000 votes in VA - exactly the number of felons who had their voting rights restored by the Democrat governor.
http://observer.com/2016/11/autopen-in-virginia-and-polls-kept-open-in-nevada/
I will be tired tomorrow but I am going to have to see this through.
I’m tellin’ ya. My eyeballs are bouncing off my knees, but I’m gonna hang in.
WTF is taking them so long?
3%
Trump
I just turned Trump off, when he was introducing his family. Gonna be interesting, folks.
A dynasty has been uprooted. What happens next, we don’t know. The majority has had enough of what has been.
Hillary’s ahead in the popular vote.
Hillaryous was unelectable.
That’s not exactly how the election is set up Mike. Didn’t she concede? I think that means it’s settled.
I was responding to your statement - “The majority has had enough of what has been.” I wasn’t questioning the outcome of the election. Though if Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are included, you are correct.
On the other hand, imagine what would be going on today if the situation was reversed, if Trump had won the popular vote and Hillary won the electoral college by winning a number of swing states by 1 or 2 percent. A large number of Trump fans would be shouting “rigged!” and Trump might even refuse to concede.
and Trump might even refuse to concede.
And yet, concession speech or not, he wouldn’t have been sworn in, would he? The world would have continued to turn, and the country would have moved on, with or without the involvement of the Supreme Court.
Corruption lost this round. You don’t know what people would be doing any more than I do.
Though if Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are included, you are correct… On the other hand, imagine what would be going on today if
Bargaining stage
Corruption lost this round. You don’t know what people would be doing any more than I do.
Trump was making claims about voter fraud frequently before the election, laying the groundwork to challenge a narrow loss. Palmetto claim that HRC won the popular vote through fraud. I’d call that being a sore winner - and they’re are millions who think as he does.
A crime family has been uprooted. Hopefully, justice for their influence-peddling, pay to play, and diversion of Clinton Foundation funds for such “public service” as paying for Chelsea’s $3M wedding will be forthcoming.
The FCC needs to dismantle the MSM for their despicable propaganda campaign. Report the news rather than create it.
The Hollywood Reporter article Ben linked to way down below talks a lot about the media’s role in this.
Holy Jeebus, he won PA!
wow! let the fun begin. Let’s guess the DOW drop? I say -900
Got break a few eggs to make an omelet. At least weed is legal in CA, less MX cartel and more $$ for the state.
Wrong, again!
Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)
DJI - 18,341.09+8.35 (+0.05%)
http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI
+1, Ben. I looked at the futures last night, and thought: someone is going to make bank on the morning bounce. But I was too tired to care, and fell asleep on the sofa while waiting for results.
Now it’s up 165 pts. My guess is that “certainty” is kicking in. Or perhaps a potential repeal of Dodd-Frank.
told ya, illegals cant and dont vote. turn off your tv. drain the swamp!
Any thoughts on why markets are completely freaking out on the prospect of a Trump victory?
its a buying opportunity!
You of all people have to ask?
HFT’s went haywire.
Any thoughts on why markets are completely freaking out on the prospect of a Trump victory?
Any thoughts on why markets don’t actually seem concerned at all in retrospect, contrary to the late-night signals in the futures markets?
‘Nassim Taleb, hedge-fund adviser and author of “The Black Swan,” said last week that investors are more afraid of a Donald Trump presidency than they should be.’
‘At any rate, he said if the market does fall apart, it won’t be because of Trump. “Because the market’s been on Novocaine now since 2009… because the market’s weak anyway,” he said, “you need to be prepared regardless of the election.”
‘Taleb shared his thoughts on who that might be on Twitter as a Trump victory was taking shape late Tuesday night.’
‘NassimNicholasTaleb
Time to laugh at “Intellectuals”.
Who got burried?
Saudi Barbaria
Goldman Sacks
Syrian Jihadis aka “rebels”
Academic Economists w/PseudoNobel
NYT & other bullshit venues.’
‘Oh, and he almost forgot “the big losers: the neocons. We have at least four-to-eight years of watching them drive Uber cars/taxis in D.C.,” he added.’
“‘Taleb shared his thoughts on who that might be on Twitter as a Trump victory was taking shape late Tuesday night.’
‘NassimNicholasTaleb
Time to laugh at “Intellectuals”.
Who got burried?
Saudi Barbaria
Goldman Sacks
Syrian Jihadis aka “rebels”
Academic Economists w/PseudoNobel
NYT & other bullshit venues.’
‘Oh, and he almost forgot “the big losers: the neocons. We have at least four-to-eight years of watching them drive Uber cars/taxis in D.C.,” he added.’”
I feel like I am watching the Berlin Wall come down again.
It doesn’t get any better than that. I wonder if Kristol is still in a fetal position?
‘Wolf Blitzer is on suicide watch!’: Twitter mocks ‘desperate’ host for stunned reaction to Trump’s success while key CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper go MISSING
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3919238/Twitter-mocks-desperate-Wolf-Blitzer-stunned-reaction-Trump-s-success.html#ixzz4PXodhHY3
‘Wolf Blitzer is being criticized by many on Twitter for his refusal to accept the fact that Donald Trump had won the presidency while hosting CNN’s election coverage. One Twitter used noted that Blitzer was trying to ‘desperately resuscitate the Clinton corpse’ in response to the fact that he was calling states for Trump long after other networks and major media outlets.’
‘CNN was also also the final network to report that Trump had won the race, waiting until 2:48am, just after he took the stage to make his victory speech in New York.’
‘Just minutes prior, Blitzer was visibly stunned when co-host Dana Bash informed him that Clinton had conceded to Trump in a phone call. ‘If Hillary Clinton has conceded, that is dramatic,’ said Blitzer, live on air.’
‘That is a dramatic development, Dana, and to hear the words president elect, we haven’t yet projected that - but you’re saying Clinton made a formal call to Donald Trump to concede?’
‘Bash then again confirmed that Clinton had conceded, but still CNN did not call the election for Trump.’
‘At one point in the evening, CNN’s Brianna Keilar spoke about how difficult the night had been for Clinton supporters, saying that some were ‘crying’ after hearing the results at her rally.’
‘They were coming to this event for what they thought would even be an early night watching Hillary Clinton being elected as the first woman president, and now they are confronting the reality that they could be walking out of here not knowing, or even expecting that Donald Trump will be president,’ said Keilar.’
‘Blitzer responded by saying: ‘I can certainly understand their sadness.’
Watch CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Drink Wine and Dance in Total Not-Celebration of Hillary Clinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHG7tvx4E94
‘A stunned Chris Matthews struggled to comprehend Hillary Clinton’s loss and the victory of Donald Trump on election night. On MSNBC, Matthews sputtered, “[Clinton] won every debate by all standards. Every debate…. She had the best ad campaign, the best ground game.”
‘He whined, “This is a shot against meritocracy, I think. Because she merited everything and the normal way you standardize these things, she did what you’re supposed to do to win and Trump came in around the corner.”
‘Reporter Kasie Hunt mourned, “I don’t think we should overlook the human element here either…. I mean it’s a devastating end.”
‘A sullen James Carville compared Clinton’s loss to the Civil War, saying, “There will be a Ken Burns film on this.”
‘A stunned Chris Matthews struggled to comprehend Hillary Clinton’s loss and the victory of Donald Trump on election night. On MSNBC, Matthews sputtered, “[Clinton] won every debate by all standards. Every debate…. She had the best ad campaign, the best ground game.”
‘He whined, “This is a shot against meritocracy, I think. Because she merited everything and the normal way you standardize these things, she did what you’re supposed to do to win and Trump came in around the corner.”
‘Reporter Kasie Hunt mourned, “I don’t think we should overlook the human element here either…. I mean it’s a devastating end.”
‘A sullen James Carville compared Clinton’s loss to the Civil War, saying, “There will be a Ken Burns film on this.”
I am convulsing with laughter. Can’t wait for the Ken Burns’ flick. This just gets better and better. Is gloating wrong? It feels so good.
Brexit II http://www.garynorth.com/public/15874.cfm
“The editors at Google News could not bring themselves to admit this. At 3:25 a.m., EST, Google’s gatekeepers ran as its lead story a series of articles on the Senate race. Look down two headlines.”
“This was no mistake. At 3:36 this was the arrangement. Google substituted a story on Mike Pence for the story on the newly elected President.”
“Either the editors did this or else Google’s algorithm is programmed Democratic.”
“A New York Times columnist is in shock. She just got a taste of democracy. She doesn’t like it. I like her title: “The Audacity of Hopelessness.”
Another Times columnist, Ross Douthat, writes in The Trump Era Dawns:
I fear the risks of a Trump presidency as I have feared nothing in our politics before. But he will be the president, thanks to a crude genius that identified all the weak spots in our parties and our political system and that spoke to a host of voters for whom that system promised at best a sustainable stagnation under the tutelage of a distant and self-satisfied elite. So we must hope that he has the wit to be more than a wrecker, more than a demagogue, and that his crude genius can actually be turned, somehow, to the common good.
And if that hope is dashed, we must find ways to resist him — all of us, right and left, in the new chapter of American history that has opened very unexpectedly tonight.
At long last, these people are finally scared. I have waited all my life to savor this moment.
If it weren’t for Janet Yellen and her peers, I would be ecstatic.”
The Audacity of Hopelessness http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/the-audacity-of-hopelessness
“A bigger part of tonight’s story is that millions and millions of Americans are willing to vote for a candidate who has been endorsed by the Klan.”
About ten years ago, I was talked into attending a dinner event where Carville and Mary Matalin were the guest speakers. Both were odious, and both were viscerally more interested in the sport of political campaigning than in whether the public ultimately benefitted.
By the way, the Brexit II article I linked to above has images everyone should check out. They are screen captures of google searches as the election results were rolling in.
Google tried to hide and diminish the truth: “Either the editors did this or else Google’s algorithm is programmed Democratic.”
“shot against meritocracy”?
Give me a break. The merit of the Trump voters was passed over again and again. The Democratic side promoted minorities over them due to affirmative action, allowed illegals take their jobs illegally, and played the race card if they spoke up The Republican side got rid of their pensions and unions, shipped away their non-college jobs in the name of profit for millionaires who didn’t need more millions, allowed banks to conduct usury on what was left of their fragile finances, and then forced them into neocon wars because cannon fodder was the only paycheck left.
Let’s talk about merit.
thanks to a crude genius that identified all the weak spots in our parties and our political system and that spoke to a host of voters for whom that system promised at best a sustainable stagnation under the tutelage of a distant and self-satisfied elite.
That’s yer liberal SBUX elite-ivory tower talk right there.
Here’s another pretty good commentary, from a Democratic American expat living in Amsterdam. The language is much plainer:
“The Democrats have spent quite a few years focusing on the concerns of coastal elites and minorities at the expense of other constituencies. The Republicans have spent years obstructing, and waving shiny objects like gay marriage, while doing the bidding of the business wing of the party. Those who are disheartened tonight might hold out hope that Tuesday night’s stinging rebuke, which was directed at both Democrats and Republicans, will cause a reboot of some sort.”
the big losers: the neocons.
Hurrah!!!! That’s the very best part.
+1 Send the neocons to China to parasite a larger host.
Because the market’s been on Novocaine now since 2009…
Novocaine??? Heroin is more like it… Or maybe crack cocaine… My guess is that we’ll have to see how fast and hard the low comes on when the drugs become unobtainable in order to be sure what the right drug analogy is.
The Financial Times
United States of America
Peso collapses and US stock futures plummet on Trump lead
Drop in S&P 500 futures triggers ‘limit down’ curbs intended to limit panicky selling
Read latest:
Markets tumble as Trump closes in on victory
9 minutes ago
by: Robin Wigglesworth and Nicole Bullock in New York, Jennifer Hughes in Hong Kong and Jude Webber in Mexico City
US stock market futures have tumbled and the Mexican peso has suffered its biggest collapse since the post-Tequila Crisis currency gyrations in 1994-95 as investors were badly wrongfooted by a US electorate that might hand the US presidency to Donald Trump.
Investors had gone into Tuesday’s historic election increasingly confident Democrat Hillary Clinton would vanquish her Republican opponent, a sentiment that increased on Monday after Mrs Clinton was cleared by the FBI of any impropriety in her use of a private email server while secretary of state — breaking the longest losing streak for the S&P 500 since 1980.
Instead, after Mr Trump notched a string of electoral college wins, the peso fell more than 13 per cent to 20.7 against the dollar, a new record low. The Mexican currency has become a prime gauge of Mr Trump’s fortunes given the Republican candidate’s rhetoric on immigration, trade and the US’s southern border.
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BTFD!
Ding dong the witch is dead
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHJoj9IqeKg
Election just called for Trump.
How much criminal, saudi, goldman sachs (falls under criminal, but thought I’d call it out separately) and soros money went up in SMOKE!?! Ah well, easy come, easy go since all that money was stolen through fraud.
Look out below!
market up
another EXpert goes down
Could be the Titanic life raft effect. PPT had to make sure Wall Street’s finest were saved before the ship sinks.
Trump Wins the White House in Astonishing Victory
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-takes-florida-ohio-nc-in-battle-for-white-house/ar-AAk4d93
If ever a person earned the right to call himself President (with the exception of George Washington), Trump did. Never saw somebody work so hard for the office. Never saw somebody take it directly to the people like that. Never a drop of disdain or preaching to the deplorables. The pundits often criticized him for not having a “ground game”. What idiots. Trump himself was the “ground game”. But none of the navel gazers ever noticed. None ever bothered to actually look at and listed to his rallies.
It was like David and Goliath.
What I would be interested in is a comparison between the two campaigns of monies donated and expended. The Clinton campaign is a prime example of malinvestment, not just by her team, but by her donors.
I would be more interested in seeing signs that the fire hose of influence money gets shut off. I can’t imagine that the Clinton gang has much to offer going forward. That’s what I hope anyway.
“Never saw somebody work so hard for the office. Never saw somebody take it directly to the people like that. Never a drop of disdain or preaching to the deplorables.”
Remember Ron Paul?
While I definitely prefer Mr. Trump to Mrs. Clinton, I think Mike Rozeff said something very astute here https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/trump-win-huge-upset/
“He has a great many errors of judgment and understanding to overcome. He has a greater capacity to learn from his mistakes, however, than Clinton has demonstrated to learn from hers. Trump will need that as his term unfolds.”
Can we now stop the nonsense about money buying elections?
HRC outspent Trump by more than $200 Million.
Just like government, bigger is not better.
It’s not nonsense. Go to Open Secrets dot Org to see who owns the Republicrat duopoly political whores. HRC outspent Trump because she herself was bought and paid for by the likes of George Soros and Goldman Sachs.
“Can we now stop the nonsense about money buying elections?”
Start by abolishing Citizens United.
Business News | Wed Nov 9, 2016 | 1:47am EST
Investors see no let up to market bloodbath if Trump wins presidency
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., November 7, 2016.
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RTX2SC7K
By Nichola Saminather | SINGAPORE
Investors should brace for a further slump in global stock markets, the U.S. dollar and most commodities if Republican candidate Donald Trump becomes the next U.S. president, as appeared increasingly likely on Wednesday.
Markets fear a Trump victory could trigger global economic and political turmoil, creating massive uncertainty for investors who had been counting on a win by Democrat Hillary Clinton, whose policies were seen as more staid but predictable.
“If current market moves hold or go further, there is likely to be quite a bit of de-leveraging and forced selling tomorrow,” Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz, said as global markets skidded.
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Whatever happened to calling them “infestors”?
Got cash?
No crash…
Hope you covered your shorts Mohammed.
We’ll all be eating gruel.
Goodnight HBB
Goodnight President Donald Trump
It’s 11:44pm here on the west coast, and they just called it for Trump - he’s supposed to speak shortly (OK, Mike Pence coming up to the podium now) so I’m staying up, even though I’ve got a business trip tomorrow.
I can’t believe this is happening!
I stayed up until about 3:10 am in the eastern time zone. Guess I’ll be draggin’ ass all day today.
Turns out Hillary Clinton was not inevitable after all.
And apparently she was also un-electable, as some here have been saying!
Agreed. Hillary was unelectable.
I’m afraid almost everything about electing Trump will have horrible consequences for the country… except getting rid of the Clintons.
Comment by Professor Bear
2016-11-09 01:05:47
“Turns out Hillary Clinton was not inevitable after all.”
Pathetic
Thanks for gracing my humble and deplorable self with your thoughtful comment.
Do you have a deplorable camo t-shirt?
I probably need to get one of those to properly mirror the contumely certain posters entitle themselves to regularly spew.
View from across the pond.
The chattering class are going into breakdown mode. The Guardian comments section is in melt down
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/nov/08/us-election-2016-polls-trump-clinton-live#comments
They seem unable (in the main) to understand the average bods rage. Here’s a little clue, people want security and hope and the gig economy gives them neither.
We look forward to having Nigel back for a visit.
Pretty much like my Facebook feed. I tried to tell my college friends way back when that all these left-wing types (including them) had no understanding of how the average person thought and felt. That blindness has always amazed me, and nothing penetrates it. They are so sure they know what’s best for everyone.
No matter how insufferable the coastal elites are, Obama and Biden themselves didn’t grow up rich. And it was Obama and Biden who saved all those working-class jobs at GM. Michigan going for Trump must have been a real slap in the face to them.
The rich voted for Trump. Voters with incomes below the median preferred Hillary.
To both of you: my comment wasn’t specific to rich or poor or what ‘class’ one belongs to.
The left-wing subscribes to a certain ideology. Many of them do not come from monied backgrounds, but they do come from an ideological position which your average American does not share and never will.
So which ideological position saved those jobs at GM? Certainly not the traditional conservative one.
Most interesting personal observation from this election cycle:
- Initially I assumed all the adult women in my family would vote for HRC, based on the prospect of helping to elect the first female president.
- My daughter, my wife, my mom and likely at least one sister did not end up voting for Clinton, as other concerns took precedence.
Did they vote for Jill? My sister said to me “I voted for a woman and it wasn’t Hillary”.
No Hillary vote here either. The last thing I need is for the “first woman President” to pimp out the Lincoln Bedroom… again.
Then I hope you will be pleased with our classy new First Lady.
+1 Nice gap-n-toe.
52% of white women voted for Trump http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3920042/A-breakdown-Deplorables-33-Latino-men-26-Latino-women-voted-Trump-52-white-women.html
The best comment I heard on conservative talk radio tonight was that Canada had better start building a wall to keep out all of the hollywood elites out that promised to move up there if Trump was elected.
Redmondjp
Hollywood elites need not bother. Canada does not allow criminals to cross into the country !
Only tourists, service personnel, and relatives please.
Knock-knock.
https://i.sli.mg/an4zH2.jpg
LOL.
A solid acceptance speech by Trump. Considerable magnanimity. Very little self adulation.
Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania officially have gone to Trump at this point.
Michigan, New Hampshire and Minnesota still remain to be called.
His success tonight amounts to a continuation of the beginning.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHJoj9IqeKg
Trump the magnificent bastard did it! I’m reading boards where a lot of libs post and they’re seeing an upside in that trump will accelerate the decline in the housing market so they’ll finally be able to afford buying, how ironic. They want to secede, I’m all for it.
This should mean a normalization of interest rates, NO QE, and that hag yellen will have to learn how to print something other than greenbacks, namely her resume!
Renos death was a nice gift, lets hope Ginsberg croaks soon too! Hillary by firing squad, Assange, time to release the kraken!
We live in interesting times, I so wish I lived in Quirm
http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/The_Floral_Clock
Many of the citizens of Quirm once lived in more ‘interesting’ cities filled with exciting events such as coups, wars, assassinations, dragons, mage wars and attacks by horrors from before the dawn of time etc. Consequently they have sworn great oaths that ‘it won’t happen here’, and strive to keep the city as calm and dull as possible.
Wow, that was a long night but well worth it. I can stop buying bulk ammunition for the time being.
Yeah, I was thinking “glad I didn’t buy an overpriced AR”. Although the problem with a guy like Trump is you never know if we might need one more than ever soon.
Buh-bye! Don’t let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you….
Barbra Streisand
Bryan Cranston
Miley Cyrus
Lena Dunham
Rosie O’Donnell
Amy Schumer
Jon Stewart
Cher
Chelsea Handler
Samuel L. Jackson
Whoopi Goldberg
Neve Campbell
Keegan-Michael Key
George Lopez
Ne-Yo
Al Sharpton
Raven-Symoné
I happened to be on ABC last night or this morning when they said the Government of Canada’s immigration website crashed, George Stephanopoulos was just staring into the camera and looking like he had just swallowed a baseball sized wad of gum.
George Stephanopoulos’s Wife: We’re Leaving America if Trump Wins
by BEN KEW6 Nov 2016
The wife of prominent ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos, Ali Wentworth, has claimed the couple will leave the country should Donald Trump become president of the United States.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Wentworth said that “If Trump wins, we’ll start looking at real estate in Sydney, Australia. No crime, no guns.”
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/06/george-stephanopoulos-wife-leaving-trump-wins/
Expensive houses though.
He makes 10 mil or more a year basically shilling for Clintons and DNC.
He makes 10 mil or more a year basically shilling for Clintons and DNC.
Well, he did anyway. Somehow I think that gig is gone now.
I;m guessing some crime will develop as asset prices tumble
Sydney my aszzzzzz
Let the word go forth….
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/11/08/breitbart-beats-cnn-huffpo-for-total-facebook-engagements-for-election-content/
Hehehehe. I love watching Hillary’s corruption-enabling minions’ distress as they realize their dreams of endless graft, patronage, and payola just went up in smoke. See you parasites and scumbags in the unemployment line in the oligarch-looted economy you helped create.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/09/hillary-clinton-supporters-in-dismay-as-the-democrat-candidate-c/
The Wall Street grifters aren’t pleased about the populist insurrection. They had counted on unimpeded looting and asset-stripping of the 99% under Crooked Hillary and her Goldman Sachs puppetmasters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-wallstreet-parties-idUSKBN1332UG
‘Matthew Farley, a lawyer with Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in New York, said he had been warning friends and colleagues about an electoral upset for months. “I told them that … a significant portion of the country wanted someone to do a cannonball into the pool and mess up the status quo,” said Farley, who advises Wall Street brokerages on regulation and arbitration issues.’
“The cannonball party is not united. They’re progressives and conservatives, but they’re fed up with the status quo and all they know is that anything is better than what we got.”
‘Trump supporter Steven Chiavarone, associate portfolio manager for Federated Global Investment Management Corp, a fund that invests in stocks, bonds and currencies globally, said the market gyrations should not be seen as a harbinger of doom.’
“The world doesn’t end. Assuming capitalism survives, you manage through the volatility and then find the opportunity.”
A lot of these clueless, out-of-touch Establishment types better review The Seven Stages of Grief.
http://www.recover-from-grief.com/7-stages-of-grief.html
Oh heavens no…we can’t have our oligarchs leaving the country.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-06/barry-diller-says-he-ll-leave-the-country-if-donald-trump-wins-the-white-house
We the people!
Stay classy, Hillary.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/hillary_stiffs_her_supporters_and_doesnt_address_crowd_at_ny_party.html
I think she was indisposed. Remember the video of her staggering off the plane as Bill loaded her into the car?
DC Area Real Estate to tank. Hard.
I can only dream!
What makes you say that?
Fragility. A box of rocks is on its way.
1) “Drain the swamp”. A lot of gov workers are worried about their jobs. No on knows what his agenda will be, and no one around the country will feel bad for us “elites”.
2) Soon to be Retirees won’t stick around collecting a paycheck. They are going to punch out and collect what pension they can get, plus try to get top dollar for their house.
3) He’s a real estate mogul and will be sure to personally benefit from the Presidency. No bailouts, property for pennies on the dollar and his kids will buy up everything in sight.
4) Tech jobs around NoVa will dry up. No more worker visas, no more immigration, no more innovation. Silicon Valley will hurt bad as well.
5) Because $700,000 for a 3/2/2 is ridiculous.
“No more worker visas, no more immigration, no more innovation.”
You certainly are drinking the Kool-Aid. I think we can survive quite well without this sort of innovation. There are definitely US citizens that can do all the jobs; they just want more to do the work.
Good points, Sean. Yup, lots of potential retirees in my office building. Better that they leave now while they can.
$700K is NoVa and yes it’s nuts. MD housing is less (I won’t say “more reasonable,” for fear of getting donked.)
‘ 5) Because $700,000 for a 3/2/2 is ridiculous. ‘
+1
It is morning in America.
We came so close to electing the most corrupt politician ever to run and to darkness.
Trump will be far from perfect.
But a step in the right direction.
But a step in the right direction ??
One step with four years of steps to go….
i look forward to a better future no more political correctness everything is on the table …. it’s about TOUGH LOVE a good swift kick in the pants…..
it didn’t have to be trump but then nobody else stepped up to the plate…they all WUSSIED OUT!
Amen
brick layers are happy about some work.
The market has really calmed down today. I saw futures off 800 last night. Would be crazy if stocks closed up today.
Russell 3000 up 19 bps as of 11:30am EST.
S&P 500 up 42 bps as of 11:30 am EST.
Let’s see where they close.
Remember when AlbuquerqueDan, I mean SanDiegoProf was assuring his Hillary would win because his polls said so?
You spent 4 years heaping ridicule on AlbuquerqueDan when he said Romney would win. Tell me, SanDiegoProf, do you even cognitive dissonance, bro?
I never “assured” that Hillary would win. You are making stuff up again, Michael. I guess that’s what Realtors do.
Someone must have made some good money buying Trump at a discount in the Iowa electronic prediction markets…
Somehow in Michael’s confused mental state, my posting and commenting on the Iowa prediction markets turned into a Clinton endorsement.
The problem with ABQDan was that he went by Rasmussen polls, which were notoriously biased toward Republicans. Dan stuck with Ras even when *every other poll* picked Obama. This time, ALL the polls were wrong, including Rasmussen (who predicted Clinton 322, Trump 216).
The entire polling establishment is eating crow.
The entire polling establishment is eating crow.
They’re not the only ones
The fundamental bias with a poll is that it only measures the opinions of people who wish to be polled, and who are reachable by the pollster. Didn’t any of our super-intelligent national experts take statistics in college? Having said that, several of the final polls had Clinton leading by less than the acknowledged margin of error.
It was amusing to see so many pundits, so serenely confident in the outcome, utterly flummoxed at what was happening. I watched the returns on CBS, and at one point, after a return from a commercial, the commentators simply sat there looking at each other in stunned silence. It only lasted about 10 seconds, but it felt like minutes.
“The fundamental bias with a poll is that it only measures the opinions of people who wish to be polled, and who are reachable by the pollster.”
Angry people may be harder to reach.
And lots of folks who voted for Trump may not have wished to admit it (”shy Trumplings”).
“…including Rasmussen (who predicted Clinton 322, Trump 216).”
Now that is Hillarious.
all your swamp are belong to us
Can Trump reign in the massive overspending and debt binge?
needs to be done, but he won’t do it.
Oh ye of little faith. Just wait and see.
I am looking forward to watching mass Republican disappointment on this point develop.
There’s a Reckoning waiting down the line for us, a debt IED. Nobody knows when we will smash into it. Sooner is always better than later, but it’s already later.
Can Trump reign in the massive overspending and debt binge ??
LOL…Hardly….
A real estate guy just became president. A flipper, a landlord. He’s prob not going to be out to help the renters over the owners.
Cheer up my good friend and remember…. Nobody better understands how falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels accelerates the economy like President Trump. Nobody.
Trump now lives in these people’s empty heads forever
A real estate guy just became president. A flipper, a landlord. He’s prob not going to be out to help the renters over the owners.
True enough. But the big success here is that enough of the public was able to ignore the relentless media bullhorn (opinion pieces, nominally factual analyses and polling) to elect Trump.
I think that movement towards un-curated information and debate is very good for the society.
Assange said the Establishment would never allow Trump to become president. The Establishment brought its entire firepower to bear in trying to defeat Trump, and they lost. I think that’s a positive development.
Markets are betting on a massive Trump fiscal expansion.
This Is the Most Important Market Reaction to Donald Trump’s Victory
by Geoffrey Smith
November 9, 2016, 8:20 AM EST
Bond yields are soaring on expectations of higher inflation
Forget stocks. The one market reaction that really counts this morning is in the bond market, and its message is: economic reflation is on the way.
…
I think it’s too early to make that call.
Markets are nonetheless trying to price it in.
One can only hope. An 8%-10% (and higher) lending rate is the only way out of the paralyzed economy.
$210 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare are not going away until the federal government declares bankruptcy
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Kotlikoff-GDP-debt-deficit/2015/03/10/id/629314/
Or the Fed prints away those debts and liabilities.
These are unfunded future liabilities. You can’t inflate them away. The programs remain, and they only get more expensive and burdensome with each passing year. It’s a moving target.
maybe DT will work out
IF:
forget protectionism
forget the big spending plans
lp.org - still less taxing
‘Pollsters and election modelers suffered an industry-shattering embarrassment at the hands of Donald Trump on Tuesday night. Trump had long said the polls were biased against him. His claims – dismissed and mocked by the experts – turned out to be true.’
“It’s going to put the polling industry out of business,” said CNN anchor Jake Tapper. “It’s going to put the voter projection industry out of business.”
“It’s going to put the polling industry out of business,” said CNN anchor Jake Tapper. “It’s going to put the voter projection industry out of business.”
Like the pot calling the kettle black.
Polls have been used to push narratives, and this election cycle removed any doubt you may have had in the past.
Climate Scientist
HUNGRY
Will Fudge Global Warming Numbers For Food
Anything Will Help
US scientists: Global warming pause ‘no longer valid’
By Helen Briggs
BBC Environment correspondent
4 June 2015
A US government laboratory says the much talked about “pause” is an illusion caused by inaccurate data.
Updated observations show temperatures did not plateau, say National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) scientists.
The warming rate over the past 15 years is “virtually identical” to the last century, they report in Science.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33006179
Trump: We Will Cancel ‘Global Warming Payments’ To The UN
MICHAEL BASTASCH
2:33 PM 11/02/2016
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told supporters at a Florida campaign rally he would “cancel billions in global warming payments to the United Nations” if he won the election.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/02/trump-we-will-cancel-global-warming-payments-to-the-un/#ixzz4PWcMztuu
Gee, does that mean I won’t get another free cell phone
Ahhh. Ring Wing Goes Crazy Over ‘Obama Phones’ Which Are Actually ‘Reagan Phones’
Actually called the “Lifeline program,” the legislation permits some households to receive a free landline under Congress’s rationale that “telephone service provides a vital link to emergency services, government services and surrounding communities.”
That idea dates back to 1934, under the Communications Act, but Reagan was the first to actually implement the legislation. The program grew under President Clinton, who recognized the advent of the newfangled new technology of cordless phones and expanded it to include cell phones.
NAFTA is GOP and Bush
but you knew this
You know you are right. I should have thought of that right away as Obama never did accomplish anything while in office other than divide the country and fill the welfare rolls.
ron …..ohbahma has set race relations back at least 40 years, is that an accomplishment?
What Wikileaks revealed about the Clinton campaign and potential presidency.
http://observer.com/2016/11/wikileaks-continues-to-prove-worst-fears-about-clinton-presidency/
“Chelsea Clinton was exposed as having used the Clinton Foundation as a personal checking account, while her husband used it to find investors for his hedge fund.”
Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn’t
BY LESLIE LARSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Monday, June 23, 2014, 5:13 PM
Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea, according to a recent interview, claims she couldn’t care less about money.
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-clinton-care-money-article-1.1840138
Buh-bye loosers, may the last chapter of your life story be in prison
Sad
Van Jones: This Election Was A ‘Whitelash’ In Part
by IAN HANCHETT8 Nov 2016
During CNN’s Election Night coverage, former Obama adviser Van Jones argued that the 2016 election was “a whitelash against a changing country. It was a whitelash against a black president, in part.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/11/08/van-jones-this-election-was-a-whitelash-in-part/
Hyphenated UNITE !
keep your bitch about America thing going
I’m going w Anglo-saxon-American for maximum syllable effect.
Dc area re down and now going to go way down.
Why is it not OK for white people to vote what is in their best interest?
Dats rayciss….
Unfortunately the mainstream left, having completely acquiesced to neoliberal economic ideology, has a hard time seeing the result through anything other than a racial or gender lens.
It’s already old, and it’s been less than 24 hours.
Where’s the poster with the “Trump is throwing the election to Clinton” thing?
That polester is busy warming his dirty $hithooks over a dumpster fire.
There were a few of them. Bill was one, I think.
Sweet William must be catatonic with shock right about now. Of course he’ll be back to harangue us all about being jackbooted statists, while he was the parrot on Hillary’s shoulder when the time came to stand up and be counted in the fight against corporate statism and the neocons.
Alright, let’s drain the swamp!! Start with the do-nothings, Ryan and McConnel!
I’m buying coal stocks, and the other dirty industries we tried to get out of.
Lets block CHina from buying Hollywood! Deport them with the Muslims.
There are a number of people super bummed today. Criminals, homicidal muslims, ugly women, and the men who are married to them. Obviously, a person can fit into multiple categories. See where I’m going with this?
(hides mirror to save it from cracking)
“…ugly women, and the men who are married to them.”
LOL.
Principles are unchanging
I like the poster who quotes Iowa Electronic Market. Is that the new Rasmussen now? And don’t even let me get started on Nate Silver.
Hey Nate, even my dog got the forecast right in 2008/2012!
Donald Trump to Hilary Clinton - You’re FIRED!
‘Early Trump advocate Ann Coulter appeared on ‘Good Morning Britain’ shortly after the Republican candidate officially won the presidency. “It was entirely predictable, that’s why lots of us did predict it,” she said about Trump’s victory. “It is all part of the same thing,” Coulter said about the issues Trump won on: Jobs, economy, immigration, and trade.”
“That is globalism vs. nationality.”
‘She continued: “Part of the trade deals are very important. We’ve lost our– the number of manufacturing jobs has been halved in the past 20 years. People don’t know in this beautiful city. They don’t know in San Francisco. Or Washington or L.A. Go out to America. These people used to have great jobs and their kids could look forward to futures better than theirs. Now, it is good for Wall Street, because they get to arrange the international deals, but it is terrible for the people who live here.”
So true. Except for the part about Washington being a beautiful city. What a pit.
Lol, SF and DC. Yeah the epitome of American failure. Hobo crusted overpriced POS’s with lipstick on their streets. No guns, crazed homeless, jacked up housing markets, funny money galore, and a general all around arrogance. A lot of the people spouting holier than thou political statements all over my social media are friends from the left coast, because theyre just so enlightened compared to everyone else.
I dislike her extremely, but she is correct. And I thought the best real-time analysis of what was happening last night came from Peggy Noonan.
Ryan, you’re fired!
‘Nigel Farage hails Donald Trump victory’
‘Appearing on LBC radio, Mr Farage said: “Is he going to offer me a job? I’m hoping he might do. He will be in need of a proper eurosceptic ambassador in Brussels for the European Union. I would rather like that job.”
‘He added, acknowledging the convention that ambassadors are representatives of their own country: “Being a foreigner will not disqualify me. As long as we can bring the EU down, it doesn’t matter how we do it.”
Nigel!
Oh, please, President Trump, do offer him the post.
‘It’s a nightmare‘: Horror and disbelief at Clinton HQ as stunned supporters watched Hillary’s humiliating loss’
‘Stunned supporters at Clinton HQ watched Hillary’s lose state after state in stony silence last night
Dejected Clinton fans left in tears without even seeing their candidate after the results were announced
It’s a nightmare,’ said Jeannette Barbasch,’We’re totally distraught - we never thought this could happen’
‘But Bermejo tried to see the bright side on a dark night. ‘After I have a stiff drink of tequila, I’m going to get up, and since I’m a hopeful person, then I’ll do whatever I can to make sure we vote him out of office, because that’s what democracy is about,’ she said.’
‘Shock was the dominant reaction, rather than anger, especially in New York, a Democratic bastion that voted for Clinton - seemingly very far away from Trump’s America that disdains Washington insiders. ‘We definitely knew it was close - not this close,’ said 22-year-old Evynn Stengel, who started drinking before the disheartening results started trickling in. ‘We feel like we live in a bubble - voting for Trump to me is so shocking.’
Nothing was better than seeing it Live, the celebration event party slowly dying with each Red conversion of a rust belt state. Then it was full on pouty behavior by sour liberals. I don’t like to get caught up the political brands, but its like there’s no compromise with the deepest supporters of Hillary. I’m glad the will of the working people showed through despite media and poll manipulation
nightmare
The pictures of her supporters weeping are the best part of this article.
And I love this cognitive dissonance on display:
“‘We are disgusted, embarrassed, we are sorry on behalf of our country that the white male uneducated vote has spoken today,’ railed Celia Rowlson-Hall, a 32-year-old filmmaker.
‘We, as the other half of the country that believes in love, unity, and fairness - we have to gather together even stronger to fight against this man who only represents hate and bigotry and xenophobia.’”
Love, unity, and fairness… except towards those scummy white male uneducated voters, right?
What else do you expect from a filmmaker?
“Filmmaker,” like “blogger,” is code for poor broke Millenial still paying off the Obamastudies degree.
Is Ben a poor broke Millenial? Bloggers are the only ones reporting the real news.
If someone asked Ben what he did for a living, I don’t think he’d say “blogger.” That’s not his primary job. Ben is primarily a real estate developer, or a property manager, or something close to it.
If that someone was you, he might respond with “I live rent-free in your empty skull”.
Yours and many others.
Finally we can get rid of Bush 1’s NAFTA! And end Bush 2’s wars for oil.
Cognitive dissonance on display. Obama was too busy playing golf to stop the wars? Didnt he and Clinton start new ones in Syria, Libya, and Jordan to name a few?
Finish your speech, Hillary, and now go home and do a Ken Lay.
Liar to the end.
Waiting for that Obama pardon. Theres gotta be some serious panic going on behind the scenes, server and document destruction, etc.
President elect Trump will be meeting with lame duck Prez Obama. I’d love to be a fly on the wall for that.
I’m betting Trump and Obama strike a deal for Obama’s last 72 days. Obama behaves and Trump will leave him alone to go out with some dignity intact. I hope Obama offshoring himself is part of the deal, though.
Even after a pardon, there’s the IRS.
Now I understand why all the pharaohs took all their servants and minions into the pyramid tombs with them.
President Obama is talking about all the Americans he has met over the last 7+ years.
They did do a nice job keeping the sand traps raked and the putting greens in good shape.
I could not believe my eyes. We actually saw the will of the people come through. I really didn’t think the powers that be would allow it. I thought it would be a landslide, with some Trump victories in the South, but he stole the whole Midwest-Rust Belt (besides crooked Illinois of course). I stayed up til 130 am to see those states slowly convert, and to see my families home state of PA go from a tight race to 2k, 5k, 30k, then 60k lead was amazing. I expected Trump to do well in “coal country” where they reside, and they’re typically heavy democrat union, but they’ve had enough. That’s the message here. A lot of sold out blue collar people have had enough games over the last 2-3 decades. Too much lip service from wealthy politicians who disappear as soon as they win the votes. CNN was outright refusing to acknowledge certain state victories, they highlighted certain counties, saying it could still swing the state,. etc, etc, but you could tell it was hopeless. They were playing with the map and tyring to boost her electoral “what if” counter scenario, but they were all leading for RED at the time, so it was a moot point. Media was lost and confused and that was the best part, watching them acknowledge that working class America has had enough with this disconnect with political royalty.
I could not believe my eyes. We actually saw the will of the people come through. I really didn’t think the powers that be would allow it.
I felt the same way. And remember, they won’t be able to rig the economy (real estate and financial markets) forever either.
Their world is ending, and they are truly shattered. I don’t think this can be overstated. The people who have been in power for a hundred years are done.
This globalism scheme goes back to Raymond Fosdick and Jean Monnet and the World War I era.
Agree about the media. I went to bed at 1:30 a.m. and no one had called the election, even though the outcome was obvious by that point, perhaps because no one wanted to believe it. Earlier, I kept seeing that Florida was in doubt, long after 99% of the precincts had reported and Trump had a 100,000-vote lead.
The result that I’m most looking forward to from the election (I think):
Democratic peace protestors will once again be prominently featured in the news; where have they been for the last eight years??
Oooh, forgot about that. Those protesters were running out of stuff to protest, which is why transgender bathrooms were such an issue. Now the SJWs have bigger potatoes to freedom-fry.
On a similar subject, my prediction is that personal privacy and the Fourth Amendment will come back into vogue on the left. Snowden, whose real offense was to embarrass the Obama Administration, will be almost instantly rehabilitated once Trump is sworn in.
yeah Trump pardoning snowden then offering him a job at the white house…..what a tone that would set…l love it
Here are some protestors, after the election result started sinking in last night: http://wtop.com/education/2016/11/trump-victory-sets-off-protests-in-california-oregon/slide/1/
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa October 20
‘For seasoned Republicans who have watched Trump warily as a general-election candidate, the aftermath of Wednesday’s debate brought a feeling of finality.’
“The campaign is over,” said Steve Schmidt, a Trump critic and former senior strategist on George W. Bush’s and John McCain’s presidential campaigns.’
‘Calling a refusal to accept the election results “disqualifying,” Schmidt added: “The question is, how close will Clinton get to 400 electoral votes? She’ll be north of 350, and she’s trending towards 400 — and the trend line is taking place in very red states like Georgia, Texas and Arizona.”
This cuck is gonna be unemployed soon.
‘As the race tightened Tuesday night, members of Silicon Valley’s elite took to Twitter to freak out along with everyone else.
Shervin Pishevar, cofounder of venture capital firm Sherpa Capital, an investor in some of the biggest names in tech, including Uber, Airbnb and Slack, tweeted that if Trump wins he would start funding a campaign for California to become its own country.
1/ If Trump wins I am announcing and funding a legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation.
— Shervin #VOTE (@shervin) November 9, 2016
@shervin I was literally just going to tweet this. I’m in and will partner with you on it.
— DAVE MORIN (@davemorin) November 9, 2016
Others were quick to chime in. Path founder Dave Morin quickly chimed in with his support and offered to partner on the effort.
Markets will melt with a Trump win. Regardless of who wins this is a turning point in our nation. Serious systemic changes must happen.
— Shervin #VOTE (@shervin) November 9, 2016
Elsewhere, Jason Calcanis was freaking out about the New York Times’ real-time election forecasts.
#Nightmare #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/SbTnyfH4FD
— jason (@Jason) November 9, 2016
And Box CEO Aaron Levie was equally frustrated with 538 founder Nate Silver’s predictions.
Nate Silver, we trusted you.
http://mashable.com/2016/11/08/silicon-valley-election-freakout/#Upe2QXkUI8qO
I think the majority of America would gladly give back California. And the people who try to flee its suffocating taxes and employment can use a VISA or apply for one to get back to the USA. Facebook and Google would head to TX so fast for the cheaper taxes and rent.
Maybe California could rejoin Mexico. Then they’d no longer need to import all their grunt workers.
Good riddance.
Yep, General Dynamics shipbuilding down in San Diego literally buses in immigrants to do their steel work and painting and such. Those jobs sure would be nice for US citizens….especially since they’re funded with Pentagon Money -_-
And don’t forget Bush II who suspended the Davis-Beacon local wage laws after hurricane Katrina. The clear message was for immigrants to flood the jobs for almost no pay.
“Janet, you got 2 weeks to clean up your desk” is what I want to hear.
Make It Happen!
Trump won’t seek Yellen’s resignation: adviser
Published: Nov 9, 2016 4:27 p.m. ET
…
‘Weeks of prognosticators putting Clinton’s chances of taking the White House at far better than 50% set expectations high that the race would be called fairly early in the night after polls closed.’
‘The disbelief was clear in the voices of many anchors as they began to articulate that Trump’s thoroughly unconventional campaign could defy all odds and virtually every protocol in American politics.’
‘Fox News’ Megyn Kelly observed that the long night ahead may force her to bow out of her scheduled guest co-hosting gig with Kelly Ripa on the syndicated “Live with Kelly” Wednesday morning. “This was not what they expected,” Kelly said of the Clinton campaign. “They thought she was going to run away with it.”
‘As Trump began adding states to his win column, the analysis shifted from the dynamics in battleground state to explanation as to how so many polls could have been so far off the mark. The expectation that Trump had a nearly impossible climb to the 270 electoral votes had been turned on its ear by midnight ET. “She’s now where we thought he would be,” Fox News’ Brit Hume said.’
‘That sentiment was echoed by many establishment figures, from major newspapers who penned dire warnings about the threat he posed to Republican leaders who vowed not to vote for him. But that collective outrage and outreach didn’t dissuade millions of voters.’
“The vaunted power of the media is not what it might once have been,” Hume observed.’
We dodged a major bullet here, like a WW3 type bullet, IMO.
At this time, I would like to thank Ben Jones for giving me an attitude adjustment when I so desperately needed it. This was a few months ago when I was whining about Trump softening on immigration and some other stuff.
I don’t remember the exact wording of the post, but Ben basically said it wasn’t about me and he was right. It’s a chance to end suffering for millions, to stop the bombing and the bloodshed. Just a chance, but a chance is better than what we had.
We had that chance eight years ago. It was the one promise that I took as a silver lining when Obama got elected. I wasn’t alone. Remember they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize on the expectation that he would stop the killing?
All of us will need to be vigilant now, to keep being heard about this.
“The vaunted power of the media is not what it might once have been,” Hume observed.’
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/20/carl_bernstein_drudge_an_influence_unequalled_large_measure_of_why_trump_is_the_nominee.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/304982-carl-bernstein-trump-wins-if-alternate-universe-of-drudge-is-right
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/09/matt-drudge-was-right-all-along/
These folks cannot conceive of a world in which Matt Drudge, a guy who graduated almost last in his high school class, never went to college, and started the Drudge Report as a gossip column while working as the manager of a gift shop, has more influence than the anointed ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Drudge
These people’s worldview has been shattered.
the 96%
they want their contributions back
‘Mexico was pitched into deep uncertainty by Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory on Tuesday. Watching in homes and bars around the country as the New York real estate tycoon extended his lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton in one U.S. state after another, many Mexicans were gripped by disbelief and fear.’
“We have to start saving for that wall,” said Rafael Garnica, a 29-year-old Mexico City technology entrepreneur.’
Mexico and Mexicans have nothing to worry about. As long as they are willing to do work for less than Americans, work will find them either here or there. It’s always been this way…I never understood the histrionics against Trump.
‘the histrionics’
It was intimidation. They did the same thing to the British people. Call them racists, knuckle draggers, every name in the book. The world was going to end, etc. Hitler. A couple months ago I took a trip and listened to a lot of media and realized they were 24/7 trying to intimidate me, so I decided I wasn’t going to let them.
“Mexico and Mexicans have nothing to worry about.”
+1 Mexicans are like bees pollinating to big Ag… no Mexicans, no food.
The Mexicans did just fine under the Bracero program for seasonal workers. Work for 4-5 months, go home during the winter. The problems began when they were allowed to stay… and bring their entire clan.
One canard we’ll probably hear over and over, ad nauseum from the MSM (and already from the Clinton campaign) is that Hillary “won” the popular vote. Sure, if you call monkeying with voting machine software, filling out absentee ballots by the thousands all over the country, bussing people around to vote early and often, giving felons the last minute “right” to vote and other fraudulent tactics “winning” the popular vote.
I really wouldn’t push it if I were them. I saw Podesta’s little speech last night about “every vote should count”. I imagine someone gave him a little reality adjustment between then and Hillary’s “concession”.
Florida was a squeaker, and it shouldn’t have been. We got some work to do here.
How many millions of illegals and dead people voted? How many Trump votes got changed by Soros voting machines?
‘Hillary Clinton Destroyed Her Own Campaign’
‘Despite all the odds being in her favor, Clinton managed to sabotage her quest for the White House.’
‘In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a woman stood in between a row of satellite trucks and a concrete wall outside the Javits Center in New York City—the Hillary Clinton’s “victory party”—sobbing and screaming into her cellphone, “How are we losing?!”
‘The answer on the other end was received by a wail.’
LMFAO
thank you
HOW MUCH A MONTH HARVEY WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE / MONTH ON HIS HOUSE PAYMENT.
‘A Mindset Immune to Reason and Love’ https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/11/yvonne-lorenzo/whats-really-stake-tomorrow/
The worldview of Hillary Clinton supporters and what they really wanted to happen to the rest of us.
As if the howling and gnashing of teeth drama by the media isn’t enough, they’re all experts now on how DT did it and “it was so easy to see months ago”. The truth is they don’t know the strategy of the last 8 weeks or the level of effort that went into it.
These pukes need to be flushed.
Real estate related:
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/photos-l-street-artist-posts-moving-sale-posters-anti-trump-celebrities/
Michael Wolff: Trump Win Exposes Media’s Smug Failures
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-wolff-trump-win-exposes-medias-smug-failures-945733
That is an outstanding article.
“That is an outstanding article.”
Indeed… never seen such propaganda before. Where’s the FCC?
Cher to Jupiter and Samuel L. Jackson to South Africa!
How are any of these people going to save face and be in front of the public again?
All of these celebrity Hillary supporters should be sent on the slow boat to Venezuela. Let them see what awaited America under Hillary and her collectivist kleptocracy.
http://www.gtfooh.com
lol
I’ll be very interested if Trump becomes more political as a leader, of if he will continue to speak his mind.
Legislation is often laden with pork, and no one calls out any politician on the BS publicly because of politics…beholden to this interest, or that interest, etc.
I’d like Trump to call this sh*t out publicly and reject such inclusions in legislation…fingers crossed, but not holding my breath.
“I’d like Trump to call this sh*t out publicly and reject such inclusions in legislation…fingers crossed, but not holding my breath.”
You may be very surprised. Trump has a bit of a reputation as a skinflint. Although he is willing to pay for value, especially when it comes to personnel, nothing drives him battier than waste, bloat and ripoff.
I read somewhere online, some pundit or other, outraged at him for having a cash bar at his victory party. That made me laugh. If there’s one thing the media looks forward to at these gathering, it’s free eats and drinks. Apparently the food was free, but the drinks were not on the house. Trump’s a teetotaler. If people want to drink, fine. Heck, he even owns a winery. But they have to pay.
And speaking of which, oxy’s all concerned about Trump having access to the nuclear launch codes. Really? Who would you rather see with access to those codes? A sick, medicated, sometimes tipsy woman with a known taste for bloodshed or a sober guy who is a tad vulgar on occasion?
20% of Fed workers (non essentials) to quit when Dt wins
How many so far?
Danville, CA Housing Prices Crater 5% YoY
http://www.zillow.com/danville-ca/home-values/
How can Yellen the Felon justify maintaining ZIRP when the US 10-year bond just rose past 2%?
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Bond/TMUBMUSD10Y?countrycode=BX
A beautiful banner headline on Drudge Report: “Globalist Disaster.” How sweet it is….
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-un-idUKKBN134374
Pity the Hollywood Hillary Harlots.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/11/09/hollywood-howls-trump-win/
Things I trust more than Crooked Hillary.
http://imgur.com/gallery/TsxLqTZ
Glen Greenwald nails it: The Death of the Democratic Party.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-09/death-democratic-party
+1 for Glenn Greenwald who first published the Snowden files
China dumping US Treasuries. Who is going to finance our deficits?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-09/china-celebrates-trump-presidency-suddenly-dumping-treasuries
Markets Credit Markets
U.S. Government-Bond Prices Fall on Trump Outlook
Yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury has biggest one-day increase since July 2013
By Carolyn Cui and Christopher Whittall
Updated Nov. 9, 2016 3:54 p.m. ET
Government-bond prices tumbled Wednesday, sending the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note above 2% for the first time in more than nine months, as investors rushed to wager that expansive fiscal spending under a Donald Trump administration will mean higher bond yields in coming years.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year note rose to 2.070%, up 0.203 percentage point from Tuesday’s close, the biggest one-day increase since July 2013. Prices fall when bond yields rise.
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http://www.floppingaces.net/2016/11/09/an-american-revolution/
I am not sure people understand how big this thing is. I am not sure people understand how big Trump’s victory was. Donald Trump didn’t just beat Hillary. He beat everybody. It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen, but there is an underlying theme and message to it all. We have just witnessed another American Revolution. This was a total repudiation by the people – and not just of Hillary.
Trump beat Hillary, sure.
He also beat Obama.
He beat the pollsters.
He beat the legacy media.
He beat Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.
He beat the DNC.
He beat Hollywood celebrities.
He beat Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen.
He beat Donna Brazile. That’s just for starters.
He also beat the GOP establishment.
He beat the Bush’s.
He beat Lindsey Graham.
Trump has ended the era of the Bush’s and the Clinton’s. Both dynasties opposed him. Soon he will begin to dismantle the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.
The damage goes back at least as far as Nixon.
looks like the PPT was out in force today.
Donald Trump is a superb statesman with a squad of sexy strumpets.
Can we give California back to Mexico?
http://www.businessinsider.com/calexit-explainer-california-plans-to-secede-2016-11
Mexico knows better than to accept. such a gift.
Meanwhile, back in downtown Denver…
One man dead, one hurt after shooting near 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver:
“A shooting Wednesday afternoon near Denver’s 16th Street Mall left one man dead and another injured and renewed concerns about public safety in the heart of downtown.
As police cordoned off two blocks of Champa Street between 16th and 18th streets, office workers, tourists and homeless people watched and talked about the violence in a public place in broad daylight.
Police officers assigned to the mall through a “Walk the Beat” program aimed at curbing crime responded to the shooting at 2:12 p.m., said Doug Schepman, a police department spokesman.
The fight happened in the parking lot outside the Renaissance Hotel on Champa Street where the victims were shot. Two suspects got on an RTD bus, and police stopped the bus a few blocks away on Champa and detained them, Schepman said.
On Wednesday night, police were still investigating what started the fight. The dead man’s identity was being withheld, pending family notification. Police have not named the suspects because they have not been charged.”
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/09/16th-street-mall-shooting/
Believe Ban Ki believe
Disbelief, questions at United Nations after Trump victory
By Michelle Nichols | UNITED NATIONS
Wed Nov 9, 2016 | 8:29pm GMT
The election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president was met with disbelief and despondency on Wednesday among some United Nations officials and diplomats amid uncertainty surrounding his foreign policy and likely engagement with the world body.
Trump, a Republican, has described the 71-year-old United Nations as weak and incompetent and threatened to pull out of a global deal to combat climate change - a cornerstone of the legacy of U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who steps down at the end of 2016 after serving two five-year terms as secretary-general.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-un-idUKKBN134374?il=0
The oligopoly media informs us there is no such thing as western civilization. I see it so clearly now. We must all become cultural relativists on our neoliberal overlords’ incorporated globalist plantations.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
Convoooyyy! Convooooy! Wait, wut? Canadians don’t want ‘em?
http://heatst.com/politics/canadians-dont-want-america-fleeing-american-liberals-especially-lena-dunham/
Some of the twitter comments are priceless. What strikes me, though, is how arrogant some of these “celebrities” are. Oh, “we’re moving to Canada”, like they’d be god’s gift to that country just by gracing it with their putrid presences.
Notice how none of them are moving to Mexico, despite their shrill condemnation of Trump’s supposed racism.
Good point.
That really is a good point
Heck, they could move to any country in Central or South America, too, but you never hear them threatening to move to Venezuela or Bolivia either.
They would love Brazil. Lots of corruption there and it’s not even hidden at all.
I’d not thought of it that way before, but yes, the hypothetical destinations for celebrity asylum always seem to be limited to Canada and Western Europe. There are Americans who actually have moved to Mexico and other Latin American countries, and they aren’t necessarily liberal either.
Don’t worry about Canada. At the border they will be asked why a Canadian cannot do what they want to do in Canada. Very practical.
OK, one more time with feeling.
CUT THE CABLE!!!!! SCRAP THE DISH!!!!! STARVE THE BEAST!!!!!
I love the tears of distraught lib-tard celebrities in the morning. They look like…victory.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3921156/Miley-Cyrus-posts-tearful-video-Hillary-Clinton-s-loss-begging-President-elect-Donald-Trump-treat-people-respect.html
I want to see Colin Kaepernick sucking-up. LOSER.
Paul Ryan just announced how happy farmers will be now that they are not harassed by the EPA. So a Trump victory means that the lax clean water standards in place are out the window so we can pollute this country even more? Oh wait, the insider billionaire Donald Trump is going to appoint Rudy Guliani. Aren’t these all government insiders. You guys are boasting you just lifted your middle finger up in defiance, but who are you dissing? Yourselves?
Donald Trump did miserably in the debates. He often ignored the issues and slowly repeated inane sound bites at the camera that would only appeal to the most uneducated and undiscerning voter.
And you call this a victory?
Hillary was a crook so it’s good she lost. However, Trump is a billionaire who boasts about ripping off the system he’s claiming to fix now. She was obviously the lesser of two evils.
Oh I forgot. At the Republican convention all the worker bees were waving clean coal signs like that was some fantastic idea. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel we have. Now you non-scientific types might disagree, but global warming and greenhouse gas are undeniable. I pray to God for deliverance from a selfish, entitled America.
I understand how white working class people have been ignored for 8 years, and they are angry. Shutting down the maquiladores in Mexico is only going to send those jobs to Vietnam or Bangladesh. If Trump goes after the corporate elite he should start by shooting himself. He certainly won’t touch the rich criminals that caused the financial debacle of 2008 that we all deplore.
That’s your opinion. Have you seen the pollution in China? Do you know Mexico still dumps waste water and medical waste straight into the ocean? The maquiladores left Mexico for China by the hundreds 15 years ago.
‘And you call this a victory?’
There are millions of people being bombed and starved in Yemen, by a very rich nation, with US support, as I type this. Any chance to end this madness is worth it. Any chance.
Heart-wrenching photos document severe malnutrition in Yemen as bloody civil war rages on.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/heart-wrenching-photos-document-malnutrition-yemen-article-1.2846833?utm_content=buffer617f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
Hey there James. You forgot to tell us hicks what your educational credentials are. Are you a member of Tau Beta Pi?
Butt-hurt, triggered Hillary supporters cry it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=fb&v=grD_IINiH9c&app=desktop
The Snowflakes are out marching tonight.
WaPo: FreddieMac floats “no-appraisal” proposal
Jeebus.
Is it safe to assume President Trump will drain the GSE swamp?
As if all these mortgages aren’t doubtful as it is even with the clowns who are supposedly evaluating the homes.
“Not surprisingly, appraisers who know about the plans are up in arms. The Chicago-based Appraisal Institute, the largest professional group in the valuation field, has written to Freddie Mac’s regulator, Mel Watt, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, urging him to take a hard look. Freddie Mac’s “decision to veer away from fundamental risk management practices appears to harken back to the loan production-driven days in the years leading up to the 2007-2008 financial crisis” — abuses that “turned out to be disastrous for the entire economy,” the group wrote.”
Mel Watt… due diligence? Racis.
I see the media, the fundamental tool used by those who got us into this wretched mess, haven’t learned a thing. They’re right out there breathlessly sermonizing and admonishing. These pukes need the royal flush.
And one.big.fat LOL@LOLA, LIBERACE, DEBT DONKEYS, MT POCKETS AND MT SKULLS
The flight to quality has begun in earnest.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/gold-seller-running-out-of-bars-coins-in-london-after-trump-win
The Financial Times
Federal Reserve
Fed faces Trump glare ahead of policy shake-up
President-elect’s economic advisers say US central bank has created a ‘false economy’
12 hours ago
by: Sam Fleming in New York
The election of Donald Trump as US president will unleash a policy shift away from monetary policy towards fiscal measures in the coming months, some of his advisers told the Financial Times.
In particular, some members of his economic advisory team are convinced that central banks such as the US Federal Reserve have exhausted their use of super-loose monetary policy. Instead, in the coming months they hope to announce a wave of measures such as infrastructure spending, tax reform and deregulation to boost growth — and combat years of economic stagnation.
Mr Trump’s campaign rhetoric has fuelled concerns about the future of Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve, who faced unprecedented levels of criticism by the candidate during the campaign.
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Son of a bitch! The Fed is already using the Trump election to say they aren’t raising rates next month, according to Bloomberg. And Trump is keeping Yellen. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Trump is stuck with Yellen, more or less. She was appointed for a term that doesn’t end until Feb 2018. He could ask for her resignation, or she could resign on her own. My guess is he’ll give her enough rope to hang herself and maybe even the Fed as well.
Trump is following the Queen Elizabeth 1 playbook. He, too, will have a major debacle of some sort early on in his presidency, brought on by bad advice from some of his advisors. This will give him the ammunition for a major purge.
“The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”
I thought trump was bad for stocks?
Michelle Obama for President in 2020? That’s What the Internet Wants!
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/the-internet-wants-michelle-obama-for-president-in-2020-w449598
Meanwhile, bond yields in the PIIGS are soaring. How can Draghi maintain NIRP when borrowing costs are starting to surge?
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Bond/TMBMKES-10Y?countrycode=BX
So the “Scott Foval” account was suspended from Twitter, while he was tweeting out comparisons between the black and yellow bird dog sign in Bob Creamer’s office (seen in the Project Veritas undercover videos) and the professionally printed black and yellow signs used by the paid protesters in urban areas around the country last night.
Interesting. Payback’s gonna be a beetch, by George!
Ahh, someone got a screen cap of the Foval tweet just before his account was “suspended”:
http://imgur.com/C6o9DYe
And here’s a shot of the buses that brought the paid goons to Austin:
https://twitter.com/erictucker/status/796543689237692416
Party on, dipsticks! You may want to save some of those protest wages for when the “foundation” and “non-profit” bank accounts are seized to pay back the municipalities that bore the brunt of your tantrums.
So, Steve Bannon for Chief of Staff, Rudy Giuliani for AG, Sheriff Clarke for head of DHS. Interesting speculation.
Isn’t She be Bannon a Goldman Sachs alum?
Giuliani has a solid anti-corruption history.
Still too neocony for my taste.
I remember when he took on the Mafia. If it’s the same man, he is old school.
Got bonds?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-10/bond-bloodbath-continues-soaring-inflation-expectations-spark-curve-carnage-yuan-plu
Hillary blames Comey and Obama for her loss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbN4RqeSfPw
Interesting. There’s no love lost between the Obamas and the Clintons, despite outward appearances.
Early on, I speculated that Obama would actually take her down somehow before election day, and posted a scenario of how that might look.
My scenario did not come about. However, my basic premise seems to have some truth after all. Obama was already hanging her out to dry long before her campaign even started. And now she knows. Yep, a Trump presidency is safer for Obama than a Hillary presidency.
Ya better not let Triggly’s cousin know where you live.
“Leave Hillary Clinton alone right now, I mean it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTqK4nJNYI
she only says that because she knows obama has to pardon her in order to protect himself.
SWCS
Looking for Roommate for JAN 1, 2017 to help cover expenses
Hill, you loose when you allow the DNC to sabotage yer own party. my gut sez Bern would have taken it ALL - THE - WAY.
Bern is just as bad as Trump. He’s the other side of the same coin, an empty-promise populist.