Trump carried a message that appealed to the blue collar worker: Get rid of the illegals and free up jobs for their unemployed friends (orvthemselves). In doing so, he stole the traditionally Democrat labor vote.

A narcissistic hatemonger, who has declared bankruptcy four times in the last eleven years, and felt up his daughter's ass on national television, is now the leader of the greatest empire in history.

Well played, my m
oronic American friends, well played...

Great, now I feel like a m
oron.

There are many things to criticize Trump for. The bankruptcy thing is not one of them, and in trotting it out you're either ignorant or intellectually dishonest. His businesses have a 98% success rate Trump has never declared personal bankruptcy. Four of his businesses have taken advantage of the reorganization bankruptcy chapters, acting completely within the law.

I would agree that Trump is a narcissist, but no more than Obama or Clinton, in fact much less so. His speeches talk about how "We" are going to make America great again, while Obama told us routinely how "I" did this for you. This simple choice of words is a key indicator of the differences between good and bad leadership traits. I'm not saying he's not arrogant, because he is, but that's been a non-factor to everyone for eight years, yet suddenly now we care about it. Sadly that just comes with the territory of most anyone crazy enough to run for president. When you get a humble leader like George Bush, he is mocked and ridiculed as "stupid" by the very people labeling others narcissistic.

The US election and its result, though it affects pretty much everyone around the world, it is a matter for their electorate. But the swing to the right, nationalist tendencies in all countries is horribly reminiscent of the period between the two world wars. My parents and their generation, as with the rest of Europe and Asia, endured great privations and hardships due to the pursuit of the very 'policies' that Trump espouses - like Brexit, the very people who voted for these outcomes may well be condemned to repeat the mistakes of history.

Let me give everyone a little lesson in basic Social Science. I have been having to give this lesson to professional social scientists for several months. They were clearly humoring me until Wednesday and now have started responding with genuinely unbalanced emotion since then.

Through every news cycle since the late Spring, the RealClearPolitics average of state level polls in the "swing states", which was reported daily, showed Donald Trump's numbers swinging wildly. As a counterpoint, Hillary Clinton's numbers for all intents and purposes never moved. Virginia was the only "swing state" that she ever got above 46.3% for any length of time and even there her numbers never got to 49%. So either one could believe that people were getting on and off of the Trump train by the tens of millions without any measurable number of them getting on the Hillary bandwagon or one could believe that people were merely altering their responses to the pollsters given the latest news cycle as the media carpet bombed Trump on a scale unprecedented in modern political history.

What to me seemed the obvious interpretation was that we were seeing an accurate reading of Hillary's ceiling of support in the "swing states" and the Trump numbers were essentially just noise. I offered this model to interpret the relevant signals to people I knew way back in the Spring. Someone on Wednesday claimed that I told him in February, which to me seems a bit early. However, I told people to look at what Hillary's numbers did in the polls as the media turned on Trump with all of their bile. If her numbers did not move up when Trump's numbers went down, then everyone not for her was against her. All year. I made my predictions based on this model of interpreting survey data and mapped the numbers I saw into updating my expectations of the underlying reality. I am told by friends who apparently keeping track in preparation for an epic "I told you so" that my predictions were nearly uniformly correct. I also do not believe that I have watched even a single minute of political news television this calender years. My analysis was based entirely on occasionally checking the front page of RCP's website when people told me that major news events had occurred.

...but feeling up his daughter's ass on national television is OK? She pulled away abruptly, naturally revolted. It was obvious. That's the POTUS lol....

https://youtu.be/MZ0b2Xoj84I lol....

So you cannot tell the difference between touching someone's hip for a second and "feeling up" someone's butt?

That's a bad clip. It was obvious, my friend. Surely, you concede the man's a sexist pig, right? Women are property to him.

So it was obvious, you posted a clip of it, it was non-existent in the clip you posted, and so there exists some clip that you did not post? Do I have this chain of logic correct?

Must be mapleleaf you are talking to, gopher. I've muted him as he is back to his offensive anti-America comments.

https://youtu.be/4CVTuOyZDI0 Here you go. Not that you haven't seen it. The creep grabs his own daughter's ass. lol. God bless America. lol...

Also, aren't you just a wee bit condescending for an individual defending a child molester?

Sound advice. One of the great things about VDip is the general absence of political debate, particularly the mindless trolling. The muting feature helps with the stray trolls.

I am baffled by your post. I guess I should say posts in the plural. I see no even tangential connection to reality. Who precisely are you claiming is a "child molester" and what is the basis of this assertion?

Looks like more of a pat than a fondle. I suppose all those football players who do the same to their teamates are secret child molesters too? Is that clip the supposedly infamous genital grope?

https://twitter.com/NastyWoman20/status/830557808252706816

https://goo.gl/photos/tdHpckYD7CFY3noG8

https://goo.gl/photos/LQ46Z31x5RTTR1cN8

https://goo.gl/photos/sXuw2MW7rcY5c5Bz8

Like shooting fish in a barrel.
Any of you Trumpanzees learn the words to the Russian national anthem yet?

I joined up to the new variant lab, which is hosted by the Russian fork of webDiplomacy. Does that count?

Don't ask me, ask Page, Manafort, Flynn, Trump...

They're the Russian experts.

I don't know who Page, Manafort or Flynn are. I could google them but couldn't be arsed. Why don't you tell me given that you are an expert on the subject.

As someone within the academy, I must say that I do find it terribly entertaining that after so many decades determined leftwing defenses and periodic attempts at rehabilitating Henry Wallace (venomous anti-Catholic bigot that he was) the hardcore left has embraced with such enthusiasm the entire panoply of tactics they expended such energy denouncing.

To offer one particular quote from a more recent attempt at academic rehabilitation of Wallace, "With good reason, modern scholars have condemned 'red-baiting' as one of the more deplorable aspects of early Cold War political culture."

@mapleleaf....I believe that I am making the intended inferences from your innuendos. So if I have this straight, your assertion is that a career America solder (and a lifelong Democrat) in Michael Flynn, whom I believe have been deployed abroad to combat zones four times, is a traitor to his country. That hardly seems like a proposition that a reasonably intelligent person possessing normal capacity for personal shame would be willing to stand up and make in public.....I do hope that you can make the intended inferences.

@kaner406 - Nope. Your willingness to remain happily ignorant speaks volumes, Trumpanzee.

@gopher27 - What a coincidence

@gopher27 - (oops, damn fat fingers) I've always believed supporting a President who vilified and degraded an entire religion, mocked the disabled, was accused of sexual assault by many women, regularly attempts to bully a free and independent press, made racist comments on the campaign trail, uses the WH as his personal ATM, and was/is endorsed by the KKK hardly seems like a proposition that a reasonably intelligent person possessing normal capacity for personal shame would be willing to stand up and make in public.

But life is full of suprises.

Your boy is going to be impeached.