US General Election Thread III: Clinton vs. Trump

[Christian Conservatism]

Make America great again!

1. Already great
2. A slogan won't fix anything
3. When, in your opinion, was America great?

It's been getting worse and worse for a long time, but it finally became terrible once we elected Obama, who ruined our nation, and our values. He might make himself dictator before his term ends, who knows.

[Gauthier]

I don't think an armed revolt is in the cards, as inflammatory as this election may be.

Trump winning the Republican primaries wasn't in the cards either.

[Ifreann]

I don't think an armed revolt is in the cards, as inflammatory as this election may be.

Nah, not armed revolt, just some angry idiots flipping cars, smashing shit, starting a few fires.

[Hittanryan]

1. Already great
2. A slogan won't fix anything
3. When, in your opinion, was America great?

It's been getting worse and worse for a long time, but it finally became terrible once we elected Obama, who ruined our nation, and our values. He might make himself dictator before his term ends, who knows.

Gonna have to ask for a source for each point.

[Gauthier]

Ugh, the fact what you guys are saying might be true is what's scary. With Trump, who the fuck knows.

He's already saying now that the election's been rigged and that there's going to be voter fraud because of those voter ID laws that were struck down. I'd say it's a good as guaranteed that when he loses, he'll start talking about how people, tremendous, intelligent people, have been telling him that they've seen so much fraud, terrible fraud. Believe me.

And then someone tries to assassinate Hillary at the inauguration.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

1. Already great
2. A slogan won't fix anything
3. When, in your opinion, was America great?

It's been getting worse and worse for a long time, but it finally became terrible once we elected Obama, who ruined our nation, and our values. He might make himself dictator before his term ends, who knows.

Well, yea, but since when has it started going worse and worse, according to you? Any date in particular?

I mean, you're saying America is so horrible and things have been getting bad for a while. Surely this is an informed historical notion rather than just smoke blowing up a hole.

[New Chalcedon]

It's been getting worse and worse for a long time, but it finally became terrible once we elected Obama, who ruined our nation, and our values. He might make himself dictator before his term ends, who knows.

Well, yea, but since when has it started going worse and worse, according to you? Any date in particular?

I mean, you're saying America is so horrible and things have been getting bad for a while. Surely this is an informed historical notion rather than just smoke blowing up a hole.

Oh, yes, the "ruination" of the nation from the Global Financial Crisis, caused by Wall Street and President Bush's asleep-at-the-help "regulators". Yeah, right. Methinks that CC is pulling his ideas from his backside - there is no metric, literally no measurable metric, on which America has done poorly over the past eight years. But evangelical right-wingers like CC prefer to claim that it's all going poorly, and that only their way will make things go right again. By which, of course, they mean the restoration of the white male as the natural and lawful head of the universe, The Way It Was Meant To Be.

[USS Trumptanic]

I don't think an armed revolt is in the cards, as inflammatory as this election may be.

Trump winning the Republican primaries wasn't in the cards either.

Only when the Jokers wild.

[USS Trumptanic]

Ugh, the fact what you guys are saying might be true is what's scary. With Trump, who the fuck knows.

Trump isn't going to say anything after a certain point (an icy one). He'll just go under and that will be that.

I don't think an armed revolt is in the cards, as inflammatory as this election may be.

Nah, not armed revolt, just some angry idiots flipping cars, smashing shit, starting a few fires.

Like bunches of geriatric patients always do. Trump's base will be lucky if half of them don't have heart attacks and siezures before election night is over. The physicians around the nation are probably already dreading what will become known as Code Black Wednesday. OTOH, funeral parlor owners dream of such things.

[Yasuragi]

I don't think an armed revolt is in the cards, as inflammatory as this election may be.

Trump winning the Republican primaries wasn't in the cards either.

This is true, but there's a world of difference between a wild-card winning a primary (especially when the field was so heavily divided to begin with) and any sort of substantial revolution or rioting. There's enough to worry about in this election - I don't think it's necessary to start worrying about the Second American Civil War.

[Shrillland]

Well, yea, but since when has it started going worse and worse, according to you? Any date in particular?

I mean, you're saying America is so horrible and things have been getting bad for a while. Surely this is an informed historical notion rather than just smoke blowing up a hole.

Oh, yes, the "ruination" of the nation from the Global Financial Crisis, caused by Wall Street and President Bush's asleep-at-the-help "regulators". Yeah, right. Methinks that CC is pulling his ideas from his backside - there is no metric, literally no measurable metric, on which America has done poorly over the past eight years. But evangelical right-wingers like CC prefer to claim that it's all going poorly, and that only their way will make things go right again. By which, of course, they mean the restoration of the white male as the natural and lawful head of the universe, The Way It Was Meant To Be.

Erm...I don't think it should be taken seriously. Look at CC's sig, and I think you'll come to the conclusion I did. Namely, it's a satirical poster.

[Hittanryan]

Oh, yes, the "ruination" of the nation from the Global Financial Crisis, caused by Wall Street and President Bush's asleep-at-the-help "regulators". Yeah, right. Methinks that CC is pulling his ideas from his backside - there is no metric, literally no measurable metric, on which America has done poorly over the past eight years. But evangelical right-wingers like CC prefer to claim that it's all going poorly, and that only their way will make things go right again. By which, of course, they mean the restoration of the white male as the natural and lawful head of the universe, The Way It Was Meant To Be.

Erm...I don't think it should be taken seriously. Look at CC's sig, and I think you'll come to the conclusion I did. Namely, it's a satirical poster.

Saw that after I posted. Might've jumped the gun on that one.

[Dogs Hate Guns]

Erm...I don't think it should be taken seriously. Look at CC's sig, and I think you'll come to the conclusion I did. Namely, it's a satirical poster.

Saw that after I posted. Might've jumped the gun on that one.

Guns are dangerous people.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

So on 538's Now-Cast, they are predicting a 91.5% victory for Clinton if elections were held today.

Just how the fuck do you manage that?!

[Terran Imperial Union]

1. Already great
2. A slogan won't fix anything
3. When, in your opinion, was America great?

It's been getting worse and worse for a long time, but it finally became terrible once we elected Obama, who ruined our nation, and our values. He might make himself dictator before his term ends, who knows.

You type like a shitty parody of Donald Trump. I hope you realize that.

[Maineiacs]

Erm...I don't think it should be taken seriously. Look at CC's sig, and I think you'll come to the conclusion I did. Namely, it's a satirical poster.

Saw that after I posted. Might've jumped the gun on that one.

Probably, but there are people who really do think like that without being satire.

[Buffoonland]

Saw that after I posted. Might've jumped the gun on that one.

Probably, but there are people who really do think like that without being satire.

Figure it out.

[Aelex]

So on 538's Now-Cast, they are predicting a 91.5% victory for Clinton if elections were held today.

Just how the fuck do you manage that?!

Lot of confidence and a big enough arse from which you can take those numbers out.

[The Romulan Republic]

So on 538's Now-Cast, they are predicting a 91.5% victory for Clinton if elections were held today.

Just how the fuck do you manage that?!

Lot of confidence and a big enough arse from which you can take those numbers out.

I think perhaps you misunderstand. They're not saying Clinton would get over 90% of the vote. They're saying she has a 91.5% chance of winning if the election were today.

Which given the poll numbers right now, seems conservative if anything.

[The Coalition of Common Bastards]

So on 538's Now-Cast, they are predicting a 91.5% victory for Clinton if elections were held today.

Just how the fuck do you manage that?!

Lot of confidence and a big enough arse from which you can take those numbers out.

with an old fashion rectal thermometer.

[Lebanonne]

Saw that after I posted. Might've jumped the gun on that one.

Probably, but there are people who really do think like that without being satire.

Trump's politically dead now. Maybe his corpse will animate or Jesus will come back just in time with Lazarus.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

So on 538's Now-Cast, they are predicting a 91.5% victory for Clinton if elections were held today.

Just how the fuck do you manage that?!

Lot of confidence and a big enough arse from which you can take those numbers out.

Well, what they are predicting is that she will only get 49.1% of the popular vote, although she'd get the majority of electoral votes at about 366 if the election was to happen today.

Which makes complete sense. You can very much win an election with less than the majority vote in the United States because of the electoral college.

[Shrillland]

Lot of confidence and a big enough arse from which you can take those numbers out.

Well, what they are predicting is that she will only get 49.1% of the popular vote, although she'd get the majority of electoral votes at about 366.

Which makes complete sense. You can very much win an election with less than the majority vote in the United States because of the electoral college.

You could win it even without the electoral college with as many smaller parties as there are. I don't think a lot of people would like the idea of second rounds in this country though instant runoffs could work....but that's another argument altogether.

[New Chalcedon]

Lot of confidence and a big enough arse from which you can take those numbers out.

Well, what they are predicting is that she will only get 49.1% of the popular vote, although she'd get the majority of electoral votes at about 366 if the election was to happen today.

Which makes complete sense. You can very much win an election with less than the majority vote in the United States because of the electoral college.

Actually, that's less to do with the EC, than it is to do with people Feeling The Johnson (and therefore, not voting for Trump).

[New Chalcedon]

It's been getting worse and worse for a long time, but it finally became terrible once we elected Obama, who ruined our nation, and our values. He might make himself dictator before his term ends, who knows.

You type like a shitty parody of Donald Trump. I hope you realize that.

To the contrary: CC types like an excellent satire of Donald Trump.