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-Lurid Crime Tales-
White House open to a Clinton pardon
[NYPOST] The White House isn’t ruling out the possibility of Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by normal people as a crook...
receiving a last-minute pardon from President B.O. -- even though she hasn’t been charged with a crime.
Because corruption clings to corruption.
Asked at Wednesday’s press briefing whether Obama had considered utilizing his unique executive power, press secretary Josh Earnest was cryptic.

"The president has offered clemency to a substantial number of Americans who were previously serving time in federal prisons," Earnest said.

"And we didn’t talk in advance about the president’s plans to offer clemency to any of those individuals and that’s because we don’t talk about the president’s thinking, particularly with respect to any specific cases that may apply to pardons or commutations," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama will pardon her, because once a conviction looms, she will drag down anyone she can, and I doubt Obama is completely clean.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/10/2016 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Rezko, Blagoiavich (or however that mop-haired asshole spells his name) - who else?
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Pardoned for what exactly? I thought the FBI Director called her Madam Clean.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 11/10/2016 1:07 Comments || Top||

#4  He wants a taste of Chelsea's $250M foundation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 2:56 Comments || Top||

#5  At this point in time, there is nothing to pardon her for. Maybe once things settle down Obama can consider such a thing (after Jan. 20th) in his quiet solitude in obscurity while he is contemplating his lost legacy.

Me, I'm going to celebrate our second Independence Day for a short while, it's the day the globalists were forced to lift their boot from our necks. Wish that evil old bastard Soros would follow the name of his cancerous organization and "Move On."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 6:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama, should I quote you by saying we won as in "We The People". A pardon will not be your call.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 6:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Dear Obean, you can pardon federal crimes, but not state and local. There's plenty of dirt to go around. Your and her best bet is in 60 days, is to bring her in on charges, plea no contest, take the penalty (for a long list of abuses), then pardon her, protecting her under the double jeopardy exclusion. Then, of course, while she won't do any time, the record will show all the criminal convictions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2016 7:05 Comments || Top||

#8  I just heard on the television news that the Congressional commmittees intend to continue their investigations of the lady who will not be president.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 7:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Giuliana should have a discreet word (face to face) with Obumbles or one of his key horse handlers about the possibility of additional Wikileaks emails surfacing, with Obumbles clandestine SN attached. Perhaps handing him one or two as examples, along with a knowing smile would keep the monkey pawed bugger at bay.

Disestablish the Foundation and let 'Father Time' and the Mayo clinic have their way with the Beest. Putting her behind bars has a certain appeal, but establishing a leftest martyr has no appeal at all.

Yes, she is the personification of evil and corruption, but unfortunately she has a rather large following. It is the following that I am now concerned about.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 7:36 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 I just heard on the television news that the Congressional commmittees intend to continue their investigations of the lady who will not be president.

TW, From your lips to G-D's ears.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 8:03 Comments || Top||

#11  #8 I just heard on the television news that the Congressional commmittees intend to continue their investigations of the lady who will not be president.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||

#12  "for any past or future crimes against the nation, the law, and humanity"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 9:08 Comments || Top||

#13  make the Clintons and their criminal enterprise disgorge any ill-gotten gains from their vast pay-for-play scam. Openly embarrass the Goldman Sachs of the world for buying influence. Put a newly reformed IRS on their Foundation
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 9:11 Comments || Top||

#14  I'm hoping IRS Director John Koskinen will soon be assigned to a newly created IRS liaison position on Johnson Island.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 9:34 Comments || Top||

#15  In all seriousness, I am sending Trump a letter asking to be the next IRS commissioner. It will be in the mail by Monday.
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 10:34 Comments || Top||

#16  She lied to Congress and it is provable.

If Obama doesn't pardon her Trump should have a special prosecuter (or whatever they are called) look into things. To be super-overly fair put some super-lefty on it like Elizabeth Warren in charge. If Warren wants to bury the evidence its on her and the Democrats for all to see. If Warren wants to be honest about it than Trump looks good for staying out and giving Hillary the most unbiased prosecutor possible.

Rule-of-law and yet bi-partisan.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 10:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
US anchor’s meltdown as Trump wins dubbed ‘hilarious’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] MSNBC’s news anchor Rachel Maddow had a meltdown live on air late Tuesday, bemoaning now US President-elect Donald Trump winning Ohio and North Carolina in the heated elections.

After giving a long sigh, Maddow said "you are awake by the way, you are not having a terrible, terrible dream."

"Also, you are not dead and you haven’t gone to hell. This is your life now. This is the election now. This is us, this is our country," she continued.

Americans on Twitter reacted to her meltdown with some people criticizing her as unprofessional while others warmed up to her act as "hilarious" and "absolutely glorious" to watch.

While polls pitted Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ...
as the would-be winner, Trump won a landslide early on Wednesday to become the 45th US president-elect after winning more than the 270 electoral votes.

Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's sorta how I felt when I found out that 0bean had won in 2012. I figured for sure the voters would have figured it out by then. Instead, it turns out I was surrounded by pod-people. So I couldn't even scream. I just kept my mouth shut.
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2016 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I put the video on a loop.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 2:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Call her by her proper name: Madcow.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/10/2016 3:23 Comments || Top||

#4  my favorite meltdown so far is, although not a celeb, here
Posted by: lord garth || 11/10/2016 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  @#4: So that's the sound a melting snowflake makes. Huh.....
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||

#6  lord garth: Vid confirms that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 - that's awesome, but we know she didn't kill herself. She's a failure at that as well as everything else in her life.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 9:15 Comments || Top||

#8  I've been saying that about MSNBC for a long time - I'm not as bothered by their leftist leanings as I am about them being thoroughly unprofessional.
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 10:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Soup of the day year, "Tears of Liberals", a whole bunch of sweet and salty for your pleasure.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/10/2016 10:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Broken link
Posted by: Elmavish Panda1401 || 11/10/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, temper tantrum always worked for them - starting with kindergarten. Why change a winning strategy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#12  p.s. Instapundit asks why nobody is praising Kellyanne Conway - the first woman ever (in USA) to run a successful presidential campaign?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 11:34 Comments || Top||

#13  absolutely. She did an outstanding job
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 11:40 Comments || Top||

#14  I'm not sure I want her Conway to get recognized. Not because she doesn't deserve it, she does, but out of fear for her safety. We're already seeing violence, someone turns on her as "Traitor to all women"...
Posted by: Charles || 11/10/2016 17:08 Comments || Top||


Arabia
68 percent of Saudis preferred Hillary Clinton
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An opinion poll by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Washington and that included nine Arab countries revealed that 68 percent of the Saudis prefer that Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ...
wins the presidential elections while 46 percent thought Donald Trump was bad.

The nine countries included Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Jordan, Paleostine (the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip), Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Tunisia and an average of 400 people from each country participated in the questionnaire.

Asked which of the candidates will positively influence the US policy towards the Arab region, 65 percent of the Saudis said Clinton’s victory will positively impact the Arab region.

The Arab public opinion prefers Clinton’s win by 66 percent while 11 percent prefer Trump’s victory. The highest percentage in support of Clinton winning the presidency was in Morocco and Tunisia while the least percentage in favor of Clinton’s victory was in Paleostine and Iraq. Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
the highest percentage in favor of Trump winning was in Iraq and Egypt.

Asked about the issues which the upcoming American president must focus on, those interviewed by the poll said the first priority was not intervening in Arab countries’ affairs. Other priorities included combating ISIS, resolving the Paleostinian-Israeli conflict, resolving the Syrian crisis and resolving the crisis in Yemen.

Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't know if Saudis are the Mafiosi type, but I threw this question up on a few Facebook buddies - do they whack her, Goodfellas style?

It was unanimous, 4-0.

(This is Vinny - we had a problem...)
(It was among the Italians; it was all greaseball shit....)
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 3:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Not a surprise--the Arabs and ISIS had a symbiotic relationship with her; otherwise known as pay-for-play.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 6:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Everybody believed what the New York Times "reported". So of course they preferred Hillary Clinton, who also is a known quantity. The wonder is that 32% knew her well enough to prefer someone else -- they were probably thinking of her impact on Libya and Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  They love her because they know she hates Da Jooooos
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 9:17 Comments || Top||

#6  They love her because they know she hates Da Jooooos

And Americans (great Satan)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 10:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Just why should we believe this poll?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/10/2016 10:27 Comments || Top||

#8  That blubber was practically stinking!
Resist it? He gulped it, unblinking.
Resuming his hunting,
The polar bear, grunting,
Began to learn critical thinking.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/10/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#9  :)
Posted by: Shipman || 11/10/2016 16:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
What will happen to the Clinton Foundation?
When an influence peddling org doesn't have much influence to peddle anymore.

Link goes to a thumb sucker at the daily caller
Posted by: lord garth || 11/10/2016 11:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, if it's a charitable foundation, it should grow and prosper, now that Hilly can devote full time to it, instead of her public service.

So I think it'll wither and die.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/10/2016 13:03 Comments || Top||

#2  If the Clintons were Republicans, they would not be having these problems - because the IRS would never have let CGI get off the ground...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Well since the donors can't get policy favours in return after Obama leaves office

I suspect donations will dry up

no more $1 million birthday cheques for Bill Clinton

and speeches will no longer attract $800,000 fees
Posted by: anon1 || 11/10/2016 16:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Gotta get Chelsea in the House ASAP, gonna resign?
Posted by: Shipman || 11/10/2016 16:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Can't help but ponder how fast the Clintons will go through the money they have. They always use other peoples money, without that how fast do they go broke living their lifestyle?
Posted by: Charles || 11/10/2016 17:09 Comments || Top||

#6  One thing they won't do is give refunds.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/10/2016 17:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Can't help but ponder how fast the Clintons will go through the money they have.

We can lawfare them into poverty.
Posted by: Clyde Hupusoter2721 || 11/10/2016 18:45 Comments || Top||

#8  What will happen to the Clinton Foundation?

Use it for training for the local fire station?
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2016 23:56 Comments || Top||


Ilhan Omar elected first Somali-American legislator in the US
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ilhan Omar, a Democrat and former refugee, made history after winning a state House race in Minneapolis and becoming the first Somali-American Moslem woman in the US to be a politician, US media reported.

Omar faced little Republican opposition, local daily the Star Tribune reported, yet some believe that the 34-year-old’s win is "huge."

"I am excited for our progressive values and to be able to be on the ground at the Capitol representing the diverse people of my district and being a champion with them and for them." Omar told the daily Star Tribune.

Omar came to the United States after escaping the Somali civil war with her family and spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp.

The newly elected senate is also the director of policy at Women Organizing Women Network, an organization dedicated to pushing East African women in to positions of civic leadership.

Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ilhan has probably committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother so he could get a visa and doing this while already married. However, her district is heavily Somalian and Minnesotans are under a form of Sharia that forbids looking into immigration and family law crimes by muslims.

See this story in CityJournal
Posted by: lord garth || 11/10/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||


White House hopes Obama will convince Trump on issues
[AA.TR] President Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
will try to convince President-elect Donald Trump about his key policies, the White House said Wednesday.

Following the stuffing defeat of former Secretary Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Bainbridge Colby ...
by Trump, the hot topic in Washington is now the fate of Obama’s legacy. Trump has vowed to undo many of the achievements of the B.O. regime.

"There is a tradition, particularly with regard to executive agreements of successive presidents preserving some element of continuity. I don't know whether or not that will apply in this case," White House front man Josh Earnest said.

"President B.O. will have an opportunity to talk to President-elect Trump about some of these policies about some of the benefits of these policies," he added.

He said the B.O. regime will live up to its commitments under foreign deals up until Jan. 20 when Trump takes office.

Trump has said he would renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal a as well as the free trade Trans-pacific Trade Partnership, or TPP, which was inked with 12 Pacific rim countries, because he believes they were "badly negotiated".

Earnest tried to defend Obama’s criticism of Trump when he referred to him as being unfit for president and even a threat to country’s national security.

"The president had used forceful language in helping people understand exactly why he was so passionate in his support for Secretary Clinton," Earnest said. "Now the responsibility that President B.O. has is to turn his attention to prioritizing a smooth transition with his successor and ensuring a peaceful transition of power."

Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  ....Lemme know how that works out, mmmkay?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2016 5:20 Comments || Top||

#3  To be a fly on the wall. In a little while Obean will be more irrelevant than ever.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 6:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump - "I won."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2016 7:09 Comments || Top||

#5  I suspect most the conversation today will be about obama's golf game and trump's golf courses.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/10/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#6  I suspect most the conversation today will be about obama's golf game and trump's golf courses.

"Behave, and you'll have lifetime membership at all my courses, with complimentary stays at my hotels for your golf buddies. Make things hard for me, and you won't play anywhere -- you know how many friends a president can have when he looks for them."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2016 9:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Obumble is just afraid that Trump will actually do what he promised and take away all his toys he has forced the rest of us to play with.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Following lunch, please begin the inventory of silver and furnishings.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2016 9:29 Comments || Top||

#9  This may be interesting. O believes he's the commensurate negotiator, but he's only had experience with sycophants.

Trump on the other hand.....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/10/2016 9:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Trump on the other hand.....

So, Barak is going to leave before Jan 20th?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 10:24 Comments || Top||

#11  So, Barak is going to leave before Jan 20th?

Wouldn't put it past him to take some more vacation time now...that'd be a good thing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2016 11:02 Comments || Top||

#12  that'd be a good thing.

You telling me - Israeli press is full of speculations about O's parthian shot at us.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#13  The funnest part is all the executive orders Obama gleefully signed can just as easily be undone.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 11:20 Comments || Top||

#14  I want ValJar in shackles and chains. Then, swimming lessons.
Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 || 11/10/2016 12:18 Comments || Top||

#15  Yes indeed, there are a lot of presidential traditions. But the way this president has been behaving I don't think he deserves it.
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2016 15:54 Comments || Top||

#16  ValJar loses her SS detail, is that correct?
Posted by: Shipman || 11/10/2016 16:50 Comments || Top||

#17  I expect Obama at this point will sign a bunch of executive orders that make him a hero to the left and which can be held against Trump when he reverses them. A minefield of sorts. I think Bill Clinton did something like that with top loading washers and lead in water daring W. to reverse them and look bad.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 21:03 Comments || Top||

#18  Don't know if this is possible, but Trump should sign an EO declaring all EOs of the previous eight years inoperable.

Then, he can have staff pick through the stack at leisure and see if there any worth reviving.

If anyone squawks, just remind them that America has been fundamentally transformed.
Posted by: charger || 11/10/2016 21:52 Comments || Top||

#19  #16 ValJar loses her SS detail, is that correct?
Posted by: Shipman


Her Iranian puppetmasters will provide
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 22:00 Comments || Top||


Trump supporters driven by white fear: Analyst
Even the black and brown ones? Mr. Trump did better with those demographics than Mr. Romney did.
[Iran Press TV] US Republican president-elect Donald Trump won the race against her Democratic rival Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ...
by causing "white America" to panic and stirring "white fear" among people who do not want minorities to grow, says an American political analyst.

Speaking to Press TV on Wednesday, Alan Bean, an executive director at the Friends of Justice, said there was a significant reason why the Democratic Party lost the race to the White House despite having the elite and the mass media on their side.

"The really amazing things about this election is that all of the elites in America, whether we are talking about the universities, the academy, the financial people on Wall Street, the captains of industry, certainly the mass media... almost all newspapers in the United States endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said.

"Even Fox News which usually is the voice of the very conservative white America was somewhat divided on Trump... and yet he won," the analyst noted.

The election result indicated that America is reaching a "tipping point" where minorities are "growing very rapidly" while the younger generations are increasingly developing liberal mindsets.
David French of the National Review digs into the statistics:
Dear America, This Is Important -- Trump Did Not Win Because of Racism

Last night, CNN analyst Van Jones — after offering his congratulations to Trump supporters — got quite emotional, claiming Trump’s win represented something he called a “whitelash.” Here’s the footage:
Video at the link.
If the data supports his assertion, we shouldn’t shrink from it. Indeed, the notion that identity politics from the Left is being met with identity politics from the Right is nearly received conventional wisdom, as is the notion that our nation is more racially polarized than any time in recent memory.

Or maybe not. The exit polls are remarkable. Would you believe that Mitt Romney won a greater percentage of the white vote than Donald Trump? Mitt took 59 percent while Trump won 58 percent. Would you believe that Trump improved the GOP’s position with black and Hispanic voters? Obama won 93 percent of the black vote. Hillary won 88 percent. Obama won 71 percent of the Latino vote. Hillary won 65 percent. Critically, millions of minority voters apparently stayed home. Trump’s total vote is likely to land somewhere between John McCain’s and Romney’s (and well short of George W. Bush’s 2004 total), while the Democrats have lost almost 10 million voters since 2008.

And all this happened even as Democrats doubled-down on their own identity politics. Black Lives Matter went from a fringe movement to the Democratic mainstream in the blink of an eye. Radical sexual politics were mainstreamed even faster. White voters responded mainly by voting in the same or lesser numbers as the last three presidential elections. That’s not a “whitelash,” it’s consistency.

As I know all too well, a portion of Trump’s online support is viciously racist. Conservative and liberal Americans can and must exercise extreme vigilance to insure that not one alt-right “thinker” has a place in the Trump administration, but it’s simply wrong to attribute Trump’s win to some form of great white wave. Trump won because minority voters let him win. The numbers don’t lie. The “coalition of the ascendant” stayed home.
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "The really amazing things about this election is that all of the elites in America, whether we are talking about the universities, the academy, the financial people on Wall Street, the captains of industry, certainly the mass media... almost all newspapers in the United States endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said.

"Even Fox News which usually is the voice of the very conservative white America was somewhat divided on Trump... and yet he won," the analyst noted



Fox Butterfield...you know the rest.
Posted by: charger || 11/10/2016 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  So, the country that voted for a black Marxist on two occasions is now racist? Good to know!
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2016 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Driven by rage at elitists who dare to tell us how to think and call us names when we disagree with them.

No fear at all, just anger. And the worst, most criminal, terrible lying candidate the Democrats have put up ever.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/10/2016 3:19 Comments || Top||

#4 

Maybe some fear about the cancer gnawing at our country.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 6:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Conservative and liberal Americans can and must exercise extreme vigilance

The National Review frequently gets them confused.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/10/2016 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  They've sure confused me plenty over the years.

Re fear...

Most triggering thing about whiteness
For students of Whitey's uptightness?
Bombarded by rudeness
And crudeness and lewdness,
His hatred's still masked by politeness.

Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/10/2016 9:54 Comments || Top||

#7  The day after they voted for the black Marxists the whites in America were called racists. Perhaps the word has been more than a little overused and no longer has any sting left.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 10:51 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought voting "Identity Politics" was patriotic in 2008, 2012?

Ohhhhh....just not for us pale people of privilege™
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 11:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Trump supporters driven by white fear

Well, they're deplorable - what'd you expect.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 11:00 Comments || Top||


#11  Nate Silver thinks blue collar whites have become aware of their minority status and are now voting like a minority, a damn big minority.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/10/2016 16:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Multiculturalism is tribalism with an academic gloss.

The biggest tribe in the country is beginning to do what all the other tribes are doing.

Vote tribally.

It may be "deplorable", but it was the Left who created this state of affairs.

Posted by: charger || 11/10/2016 21:09 Comments || Top||

#13  I think it's they who should have white fear.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 23:40 Comments || Top||


Winning popular vote means people 'counted on us,' Clinton says
[Iran Press TV] Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ...
, who lost the 2016 presidential election in a dramatic shift of events on Tuesday, says the fact that more people have voted for her than her opponent GOP nominee Donald Trump, means that the American people "counted" on her.

Addressing her supporters at New Yorker Hotel on Wednesday, the Democratic flag-bearer said she was not trying to "sugarcoat" her loss, urging Democrats to remain "focused on what each of us in our own ways can do to really keep standing up for those values, and doing all that we can do together to represent them."

Clinton fell short of 47 electoral votes with 228, compared to Trump who got 279 to become the US president, however, more people narrowly voted for the Democrat to win the popular vote (48 percent to 47 percent).
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...On the other hand, had Malificent pulled out a squeaker of an EC victory with Trump getting a clear plurality in the electoral vote, I don't think she would have been inclined to let him win instead...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2016 5:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The people were counting on us?

It could mean there was a lot of "rigging" too Madame.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  228, compared to Trump who got 279

What happened to the other 31 electoral votes (or is it 28? 535, I thought, 538 I read recently).
Posted by: Bobby || 11/10/2016 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  The Dem media is still in denial over Michigan and Arizona and won't add their numbers to the total (even with 100% of the polls reporting in those states) - a number over 300 looks too much like a landslide in Trump's favor...that is why they report the lower number. Just stating the obvious I guess.
Posted by: Tennessee || 11/10/2016 9:18 Comments || Top||

#5  There were too many reports of machines switching votes to Hillary (not one to Trump) to believe the most people voted for Hildabeast.

Trump and Bannion KNEW this was going to happen therefore campaigned in a manner that would flood the system with as many legitimate votes as possible. This shows the Trump team was resilient.

The rest was taken cared of by the brilliant electoral college concept established by the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Little did they realize they were establishing a process that would defeat vote rigging in isolated areas of the country.
Posted by: Butch Shusonter1176 || 11/10/2016 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  A popular vote victory and electoral loss means you ran up the score in places that you didn't need. That's a sign of brainwashed masses and bad campaign strategy (perhaps believing nonsense polls).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2016 10:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Now RJ, in your system (winner take all) the losers (both parties) always claim they had the popular vote. In proportional representation the losers claim other things.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#8  "We lost 14-2, but we stole the most bases"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Just means that the Dems stuffed the wrong ballot boxes. They'll fix it for next time.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/10/2016 11:46 Comments || Top||

#10  I wonder if the 'popular vote' overage corresponds to the Dem fraud and deader vote count.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2016 23:43 Comments || Top||


Butthurt: Newsweek prints ‘Madam President' issue before election even happens
This was a story from yesterday.

(From The New York Post)

"The polls show Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead, and a business decision was made to print the Clinton issue first while continuing to work on the Trump issue," said the company’s CEO, Tony Romando.
Yesterday, Mr. Romando said the printing and distribution of this latest "Dewey Beats Truman" thingie was a "business decision." It will be interesting to see if Mr. Romando receives any blow-back for this decision.

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One thing Trump should do is stop all government advertising in print and TV. That will help accelerate their demise.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/10/2016 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps Trump should "out" the MSM by requiring them to register as a Dem Super PAC (sarc). Or require them to show a WARNING on all MSM channels that identify them as a propaganda arm of the Donk Party and that they may be harmful to your health and well-being.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2016 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Newsweak, didn't that entity sell for like a dollar to anyone 'progressive' enough to absorb its loses? Trashing a whole run is not a way back to financial health.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I will have to try to get one of these. They'll be collectable someday.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/10/2016 9:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Mainstream media magical thinking...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2016 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  It probably was due to logistics similar to the prep and printing of Wheaties boxes. Events such as Superbowl or World Series always nessicitate production of two separate packaging with graphics representing each team. Then again, this is Newsweek so all bets are off.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 11/10/2016 13:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Ship in bulk for distribution to impoverished Africans for toilet paper.
Posted by: regular joe || 11/10/2016 15:05 Comments || Top||

#8  People actually buy Wheaties, DG.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/10/2016 16:41 Comments || Top||

#9  ...well, till their cover boy/girl start taking to the knee at the sound of the anthem.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2016 17:10 Comments || Top||



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