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I didn't have a horse in this race. I voted against Trump not for Hillary. I just regret voting for the republican senator since I believed the polls and wanted the balance of power. Never again!! His victory will not change my life the slightest. I doubt his supporter's will either.

This is what decent people do, admit the defeat and move on. I doubt it if Trump would have done that.

Oh I see what you are saying. They don't have the strength of the character to say what they believe in. Too ashamed to admit.

Scott Adams nailed it. He also completely changed how I view the world. Big learning experience for me. Gotta give him the credit. He nailed it and no doubt about that. In future his word will matter a lot.I have also started to believe that we are in a simulation that went horribly bad. I have no problems in admitting when I'm wrong. Heck I was wrong about my state. All of us looked at the polls and assumed he will lose. But since ALL of these polls were wrong, I am inclined to believe the Trump's argument that they are rigged.

wow Is there anything about Buffet he wouldn't clone?? I see a lot of prostate exams in his future. Sorry Prasad, had to get it out. I have started drinking early ;)

Who the hell is Friedrich Weimar? Is this some kind of fan fiction that I'm not privy to. Spot on there. If there is anything this man knows, it is to leverage, blow up and then bankrupt his investors. I mean the guy lost money owning a Casino. Hillary Clinton knows how to make money, her net worth was zero in 2000 and now its in hundreds of millions. And she did it without getting prosecuted. I just can't believe that we are so lucky that this kind soul agreed to rule over us and to help us get out of the mess that Bush got us in.

What I am surprised is how little it would take to move the needle to the other side. Imagine if we just had another meltdown similar to 2008. I can guarantee that Trump would have won handily no matter how racist,misogynist, dangerous tyrant he would sound. How are we any different than the authoritarian countries that we lecture every day about the wonders of democracy and open society ? They just happen to have shitty economy and bad neighbors.Doesn't make China look so bad does it when they clamp down on the free media? How about Venezuela or Iran who blame their neighbors for their problems? Or Russia who employs the draconian measure to save the republic? Or Israel who we lecture how to treat the muslims.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/report-melania-trump-worked-in-us-without-proper-permit/2016/11/05/3ddc5a8a-a302-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html It can't get any better than this. Look at the republican base, you have evangelicals who preaches family values and are voting for an adulterer and an extremely unethical candidate. You have deplorables who don't like illegals but the candidate's wife was an illegal immigrant in this country. Bunch of pathetic hypocrites. Hilarious.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/national-enquirer-paid-to-kill-trump-affair-story-report.html Oh Oh Melania got RickRolled..

It might look that way when you read it in the media but I don't sense any of that on the ground unless I'm living in my own little bubble. Ultimately the demographic trends , money and power are on the correct side. Look at the red states and they are usually poor, backward and struggling. Not all blue states are heaven but most of the money and power is concentrated in those. If that changes then we are screwed.

Not sure if you guys know this in Canada but Fox news is not considered a legitimate news outlet here. Its more of an entertainment channel featuring blondes who passes Ailes 'sniff' test. They pride themselves on high ratings but since they are the only ones who peddles these crackpot theories , this is the channel of choice for deplorables. I can't wait for Trump to launch his own. That'll be the race to the bottom.

It's a perception thing. There are long lines, because everyone is voting. The last thing they want is the perception that I went to vote and almost no one was there. Sort of like a night club huh. I don't know. I might have hit the lunch crowd. But tomorrow is the last day to vote as an absentee ballot here. I'm sure lot of people are realizing that there will be even longer lines on the election day so coming out early.

Just cast my vote if it matters for anything although Wisconsin is still a swing state. The line was long and there were a lot more women than men. I was really tempted to ask few women if they are Trump or Hillary fan but the passions are running so high in this election , I thought I would get beat up if I was incorrect. The person at the polling center told me that they decided to extend the hours from 4:30 to 7:30PM due to the crowds.

I am becoming a fan of your thought process even though you post some crazy sh**t from time to time. Just the other day, me and the wife were discussing if people should go through a test before voting and weather their test results should determine how much their vote would count. Would that be a fair system? Probably not because it will disenfranchise some segment of population. Would that be better for the country? The closest thing to that system is China( Believe it or not, their politburo is extremely meritorious) and the jury is out if its working or not.

Great comment. I am not voting for Clinton , I am voting against Trump. Thus no bumper stickers.

Yes, this election is clearly separated along the class lines. Right where I live, there are all Clinton signs. I saw one sign for a local republican senator but not Trump's. But this is a progressive upscale community. Last week we drove through some white working class neighborhoods and its all Trump country. People are really afraid to cross the political boundary of their neighborhoods this time.

Oh well this election is over. Some dude in Detroit saw a rally of women, Gave them a grade on looks and class scale and is convinced Trump's crowd is high energy. While you are over there in Detroit, do you mind visiting the car companies and let us know how do they look energywise ?

A good ole American. Thanksgiving style.

Say what you will but this is what I like about Trump. Most politicians would have coughed up the money because 1) Its not theirs 2) They don't want a bad publicity. Not Donald. He saw the charge he didn't like and now this guy has to explain. Very powerful message and these idiots at WaPo think they landed a scoop.

Speaking as an (economically) very right wing European: some ideas of the left are very useful. For example, antitrust is a fairly left wing idea but it brings out the best of capitalism imho. And heresy of all heresies: I think socialised medicine might be better than the current US system because it is apparently more efficient (cost/outcome). Capitalism only improves lives to the extent that it is inventive and competitive and efficient, and you do need some regulation to ensure that it is. That said, I agree with the thrust of your point. Whether any party in the US now genuinely stands for free markets, I am not so sure. I think both of you are mixing the US political system with the free market. Political parties here have always been split into a workers party and the party of the affluent. They like to think that their fiscal policy determines the direction of the market but in reality they are always catching up. This is unlike the other countries where the government have a lot of influence. I once asked a Chinese businessman about how to find opportunities to do business in China. He replied, start reading the government's five year plans. He said we don't read annual reports of companies, we read government policies. Europe to a less extent works the same way. Its completely different here. Think about the shale revolution, sharing economies like Uber, Air BnB etc. They disrupted large regulated businesses and now the government is catching up with them. Read the Rockefeller or Carnegie's biographies and you'll find the same pattern when they disrupted oil and steel. Read the political news of those times and you'll find the same charges/counter charges. The only difference is that the voices are shriller which makes the division seems much starker than they actually are. I can guarantee you that this country will be ahead of everyone in the next decade , next 25 years. It takes generations to get the entrepreneurial culture in the DNA. I don't see a single country capable of that right now.

Our daughter was born this summer and we are still getting all the medical bills. I have stopped counting but the last estimate was $20K. And this was a natural birth. My wife's insurance paid the bulk of it but the charges makes me mad. $1000/per night for a hospital stay. I am sorry , I have stayed in $1000/night hotels and this ain't one. And separate charges for the same service from multiple LLCs. As a business owner I can see the scam they are pulling but this is a cartel now and its hard to get rid of it. That's why I thought single payer was a much better solution than the crap we had now. Everyone gets reasonable health care access. A specialized care may get worse but I think we will save on the unnecessary surgeries also. Also limit the patent duration and all these dirty tricks like mashup,alternate delivery and purification. Another scam is the drug industry/doctor cartel. Years ago I dated this girl who was a medical rep. She had zero idea about what she was selling but damn she looked really good. Her job was mainly to take these doctors out on dinner. All these married geeks would fawn over her and then the account rep would "drop by" and talk business.

How about I post a link and an expert commentary on that. Here it goes: My favorite Trump supporter Scott Adams is losing it. Its a matter of time before he ends up in a mental asylum so I constantly keep a check on him. He has recently turned delusional and paranoid. He thinks Twitter is blocking his opinions and that is a treason because oh well he can impact the course of this election only if his message can be heard. Hmm who does that remind me of? http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152204980091/twitter-and-periscope-shadowban-update

This is not related to rkbabang's comment or to him/her. My wife and I get a kick out of watching these doomsday preppers show. Man these people are nutcases. At one time we thought about finding some just in case. But then we figured it would be so terrible to live among them that we abandoned our search. Our favorite was this couple who were storing bunch of frozen food in the basement refrigerator.

Ever heard the phrase "Better to be roughly right than precisely wrong" . I suspect its the latter in your case.

wow what a meltdown by a weak ,whiny ,know nothing and off course a deplorable idiot.