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Patrick
2016 Nov 21, 8:23am
Pretty insightful, though I think Kunstler is far more pessimistic than he should be.
Kunstler is exaggerating tremendously here. He seems not to have noticed that Hillary won the popular vote. To be more specific, more voters chose her than chose The Donald. I heard somewhere that she would have the won the whole if a total 100,000 voters in three states had voted for her instead of him. Someone exactly like her, who held all of her positions, but didn't the have the baggage of the Clinton Foundation and the email server scandal, probably would have won.
Also, I wonder where that image of Obama shedding a tear comes. It was probably a funeral or something.
Nevertheless, Obama and Clinton are moving into the past. Trump is now our future. He claims that he wants to help the working class. That's the story now. Let's see how it goes.
komputodo
2016 Nov 21, 9:54pm
He seems not to have noticed that Hillary won the popular vote. To be more specific, more voters chose her than chose The Donald.
I wonder what the popular vote numbers would be if CA wasn't included..also wondering if CA should have such power in deciding the presidency for the other 49 states. Just sayin'
Due to the way that electoral college works, California has less influence than it should.
Shaman
2016 Nov 22, 9:52am
Or if all the illegal immigrant votes hadn't been included. Last numbers put those votes close to three million, plenty to completely reverse the popular vote result. States like California have little to no checks on voting rights, basically relying on an honor system for voting that by its very nature can't be verified. You fill out a card, check the box that you're a citizen, fill out your address, and you're registered. Voting day comes and you go give them your name and address and you vote. At no point is citizenship verified, so it's no surprise at all that three million illegal mostly Latinos, triggered by Univision and Trump comments on building a wall, decided to vote even though this is against the law. They will never ever be prosecuted for doing so, and it was a way to make their voices count.
It wasn't legal though, nor right that foreigners vote in a domestic election.
Trump won, fairly, in every way that matters.
Dan8267
2016 Nov 22, 9:56am
Made from liberal tears:
All the liberals I know are rejoicing, including me. We know that stopping Hillary is the key to taking back the Democratic Party, and that Trump is going to tear apart the Republican establishment leaving the GOP in pieces.
finehoe
2016 Nov 22, 11:30am
He seems not to have noticed that Hillary won the popular vote.
Democrats also got more votes for the U.S. Senate than Republicans
"For all practical purposes, both traditional parties have blown themselves up. The Democratic Party morphed from the party of thinking people to the party of the thought police, and for that alone they deserve to be flushed down the soil pipe of history where the feckless Whigs went before them. The Republicans have floundered in their own Special Olympics of the Mind for decades, too, so it’s understandable that they have fallen hostage to such a rank outsider as Trump, so cavalier with the party’s dumb-ass shibboleths. It remains to be seen whether the party becomes a vengeful, hybrid monster with an orange head, or a bridge back to reality. I give the latter outcome a low percentage chance."
How dare anyone criticize Brilliant D & R voters?
"You’re offended? Suck an egg. Someone appropriated your culture? Go shit in your sombrero."
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/boo-hoo/