(11-24-2016 08:22 PM)Samseau Wrote:  Can't belive no one has posted this yet. Looks like the left has lost a lot of voters after Trump's win.



And who says the Demographics are not on our side?

All of these meltdowns are hilarious. They are also the result of underdeveloped amygdalae. That portion of the limbic brain which handles stress and fight or flight.

Many millenials and others who have never had any real hardship in their lives are now faced with something they can't "deal with" So, their amygdalae get triggered so easily because it's never been tested by fire, that is, by challenges to their word views. So, they throw a temper tantrum the only way they know how. By threatening to "kms"

AC's latest article illustrates this concept of untested amygdalae very well:

http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blo...chocolate/

The liberal tears from family & acquaintances on my Facebook seem to have finally subsided.

Election night: Trump can't be the president, I can't believe this is happening, I can't even...
Day 1: Someone should assassinate Trump
Day 2: I hate all of these redneck racists who voted for Trump
Day 4: Trump lost the popular vote, so don't lose hope yet
Day 5: Trump will probably be impeached within a month anyway
Day 10: I want everyone to prepare for 4 years of darkness
Day 12: We must all try to protect and salvage the fragile progress made during the last decade
Day 15: It's all over, but at least we can keep telling Trump supporters how stupid they are

(11-25-2016 02:39 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Election night: Trump can't be the president, I can't believe this is happening, I can't even...

Denial.

Quote:Day 1: Someone should assassinate Trump
Day 2: I hate all of these redneck racists who voted for Trump

Anger.

Quote:Day 4: Trump lost the popular vote, so don't lose hope yet
Day 5: Trump will probably be impeached within a month anyway

Bargaining.

Quote:Day 10: I want everyone to prepare for 4 years of darkness
Day 12: We must all try to protect and salvage the fragile progress made during the last decade

Depression.

Quote:Day 15: It's all over, but at least we can keep telling Trump supporters how stupid they are

Acceptance.

I know I've said elsewhere the 5 stage process of grief is only observed in terminally ill patients, but the pattern is striking.

(11-24-2016 09:42 PM)Dusty Wrote:  ...



This sign was installed around the San Francisco Bay Area the weekend after the election.

I only just noticed precisely where this sign was located. It makes it ten times more hilarious.

A less moral man might be tempted to run a suicide hotline that gave advice to the tune of:

"It's only four to eight years. What's that, like 1460 to 2920 days? That's only 35,000 hours or so. 70,000 hours, tops. You can last that long, right?"

(11-24-2016 12:03 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

(11-21-2016 10:06 PM)Latinopan Wrote:  

(11-21-2016 09:55 PM)weambulance Wrote:  Saw this pop up on my facebook feed:



So, now it's okay to criticize where a woman lives and how she raises her family. Got it.

(11-21-2016 09:58 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  ^ Fiscal conservatism. Add that to the list of #ThingsLiberalsSuddenlyCareAbout along side of the stock market, the popular vote, executive power, etc.

Always remember to point out to them the Obamas costed over a billion to protect.

Obama family 'costs taxpayers $1.4BILLION per year' (that's 20 times more expensive than British Royal Family)

Suddenly they care about taxpayer money.

Besides - I would like to see a breakdown of that cost. By my estimate at least 20-40% of it will be connected with Michelle Obama and her kids travels. They really did their utmost to travel across the world.

Yes, is mostly Michelle and her girls vacationing, the media tried to spin this trips as "cultural learning" trips for the girls, but there were just vacations trip winch are extremely expensive when a literal army has to go to protect them.

This is the good thing about Melania, she does not like to go out, everybody who knows her say the same, Melania likes to be at home, she is not going cost that much taxpayer money.

Now even the Huffington Post is publishing demands for a second Civil War!

https://archive.is/8ayDA

Quote:It’s time, America. It’s either a two-state divorce or “Heil, Trump” will be coming to your neighborhood as it has already come to mine.
We are in a civil war. Not very hot - yet - but in which tension is building daily. Neo-Nazis party in my neighborhood of Chevy Chase, unnoticed by the Leader, while he attacks the cast of Hamilton instead. Clinton keeps racking up votes, now with a 2,000,000+ vote lead, while no one is yet auditing the states that swung the Electoral College (itself a vestige of slavery). Liberals are turning in on themselves, while conservatives stand stunned, buried at the foot of the wreckage of the Republican party while the kakistocracy takes shape.

All this because a few hundred thousand Rust Belt citizens, repeatedly fed misinformation and disinformation in our era of Big Data, decided to first destroy the Republican Party, which had betrayed then for forty years (fool me once . . .), and then take down the entire country in a fit of pique for an encore. Now they will learn what pain really feels like, as they’ve given unlimited power to a demagogue (“Hamilton’s besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.”) while emasculating themselves. Their new Karl Rove fancies himself as Darth Vader, Dick Cheney and Satan, though on a good day he elevates his narcissistic neo-Nazi self-image into Thomas Cromwell (who ended up executed by the Crown, but no matter).

Still, the fact remains that 62 million people voted for the El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago, in spite of the fact that a significant plurality of those voters felt he was unqualified. All I hear these days from Republicans (and some Democrats) is we failed, in this perverse Marxist analysis, because we didn’t empathize with the poor white working class, while we played within our diversity and let multiculturalism and intersectionality run amok. We must learn to show compassion. Not to our myriad of communities competing for the American ideal of equality, but for a swath of the country - the heartland and Confederacy, along with the Rust Belt - that just ended the American experiment its white race had run for the entirety of 240 years, as if it were simply a season of Survivor.

Sorry, but no. I’m all out of empathy and compassion. Feel free to hate me all you want because I’m an elitist who shows disdain for you. Enjoy waiting for the factories and mills to return as you fling your resentment at the bicoastal elites who’ve created the government programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (sorry about that) upon which you depend. You’ve been fighting a culture war and a religious war, and while you won this battle, you will most assuredly lose the war.

But just as I have no empathy or compassion left, I also have no room for hate in my heart. Vengeance is toxic. So, in the interest of giving most Americans what they what, I again offer what I’ve previously called the 36th Parallel, or Two-State Solution. An amicable disunion so the white enthno-nationalist supremacists can have their own land, their own “safe space,” (as much as they revile that phrase), and diverse America can be free in its own country.

There’s plenty of precedence for this plan - the former Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, which gently dissolved their bonds of empire and union. Soon the same will probably happen to the UK. At times it’s gotten ugly, as it did in Yugoslavia, but there is plenty of centrifugal momentum to provide more than adequate justification for us to give it a go. To ignore the alternative is to condemn us to civil war.

I’ve heard that the idea is just absurd. It’s a taboo; after all, preserving the Union is what drove Lincoln to go to war in the first place, and the thought that the exceptional United States would ever break up is inconceivable. But Trump was as inconceivable three weeks ago. A fascist takeover by an admitted sexual predator of adolescents and fraudulent businessman was inconceivable. Today few believe a Brexited UK will remain intact; it didn’t take too long to imagine Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland taking flight to join the EU as independent states. London may secede as well, its population greater than Scotland and Wales combined. Their economies depend on it.

So we can do the same. Already there is a growing movement for a #CalExit, and New York has also announced its refusal to play nice with Washington beginning next year. We don’t need to secede from the start; even I can’t imagine Democrats having the guts to do it. But we can set up regional compacts in the northeast and Midwest to develop the governmental relationships that will lead to the future United States. Resistance to Homeland Security’s deportation raids and Muslim registries will build regional will to continue on the path to independence. We already have regional agreements with Canada to control acid rain and greenhouse gases; with the upcoming gutting of the EPA we can take those as a model for the future dissolution. Cities and states can refuse federal funding (not that it will be offered for much longer anyway), and we’ve long known that the Confederacy survives only with subsidies from the blue states.

I know secession is unconstitutional, but that didn’t stop Jefferson Davis. What is Trump going to do to the 6th largest economy on the planet? Invade? Resistance (#Resist) is not futile. It is the essence of the American experiment, dissent on behalf of efforts to create a more perfect union. It’s just that the effort required to create that union is simply too difficult with 120 million apathetic non-voting citizens and 60 million who’ve been trying to kill the federal government for the past forty years and have now finally succeeded. We don’t need to play that game. We don’t need to maintain efforts at political persuasion in an anti-political world where fascism is ascendant. President Clinton said we needed to vote for Hillary because our children and grandchildren would thank us. It wasn’t enough. Now we have to separate and end this marriage which was arranged and forced from the beginning, and has never, except when the outside world intruded and threatened destruction, shown any real cohesion. Let’s call an end to the 50 state experiment so we can salvage the ideals upon which the original constitutional republic was based. Separation will let us do a better job at it. A roughly 50-50 state split will do it, or we can start by cutting the Confederacy loose.

We can continue to flounder around in a miasma of pain and incomprehensibility, or we can work towards reclaiming the Declaration and Constitution from the fascists. A friend recently mentioned that the South won the Civil War, and we’re only now recognizing that fact.

It’s time, America.

This would be funny as hell to watch. In a secession, the red states would be free to pursue the low-regulatory environments that Republicans have always said themselves to favour. Their productivity would skyrocket without the albatross of massive welfare programs to support. California might have the 6th biggest economy in the world, but it also has one of the smallest populations on Earth, essentially the size of Poland or the Sudan. It also has no navy, no allies, and virtually none of the military (the US military being predominantly southerner in composition these days.)

In a real civil war, California's status as the 6th biggest economy in the world would last roughly two weeks. After which its infrastructure and "wealth-building" assets are bombed into oblivion. After that they're down to roaches, rats, and each other for food, since I doubt somewhat that the Midwest is going to hand over corn, flour, or indeed any significant food crop to a bunch of weedy rebels in California.

What weapons would they use? Dildos, selfie sticks and iphones?

California is such a drama queen.

Broke-ass state, no power grid and no food and water, mean-muggin' everybody because they didn't get their way this time.

The same state that just made it contraband to own high capacity magazines or loan a firearm to a friend without going through serious red tape.

Such a large percentage of people there are so scared of their own shadow they pass some max 10-round bullshit. Now talking Civil War II, secession, etc.? What are they gonna do, throw Napa valley grapes at tanks? Might as well be a child pretending to hold their breath. Bitch, please. Talk about getting blown the fuck out.

(11-24-2016 11:37 AM)kbell Wrote:  

The political “logic” of a typical Hillary supporter (blue hair or otherwise):

- I’m a 5; if Hillary wins, I’m a 10 because she’s also a 5. That’s great!!
- I’m a 5; if Trump wins, I’m still a 5 because of his hot wife and daughters. That’s unacceptable!!

That’s the operating system behind their beliefs: self-interest in protecting their low SMV, nothing more. They don’t care about trade deals, foreign relations, Wikileaks, etc. It has, and will always be, about maximizing their sexual market value.

(11-27-2016 11:45 AM)MajorStyles Wrote:  - I’m a 0.5

Fixed it for you.

(11-27-2016 12:08 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(11-27-2016 11:45 AM)MajorStyles Wrote:  - I’m a 0.5

Fixed it for you.

Ha! It's Sunday and I was feeling a little generous.

But I will accept your correction as a closer reflection of reality.

I would love to see them try and secede. Would be a bloodbath for them. Talk about hubris. Do these morons have any idea how vulnerable cities are in times of war? They've obviously never studied a single war in any detail.

(11-27-2016 04:23 PM)Samseau Wrote:  I would love to see them try and secede. Would be a bloodbath for them. Talk about hubris. Do these morons have any idea how vulnerable cities are in times of war? They've obviously never studied a single war in any detail.

To be fair, they've likely been watching the US pussyfoot around in Iraq and Afghanistan against ISIS and conclude that a few suicide bombings are enough to make a government give in to secessionists. The US conventional war machine hasn't been fully let off its chain for a very, very long time.

Just imagine, for a moment, the full might of a big portion of the US armed forces unleashed against an urban target it doesn't need to take intact. You don't even have to use nukes. Take, for example, the entire city of New York which might have Wall Street and JFK International, but which otherwise has no serious military significance. Blow four bridges and nobody's leaving in a hurry. Three or four passes by a flight of B-52s from tens of thousands of feet up, followed by a few Fuel-Air Bombs, and the fucking Indians can have the joint back, it'll only be worth a few shiny beads again.

From Mr. Fake-but-accurate himself:

Quote:Could someone who has Donald Trump's ear please take away his phone and tell him that he now has a very big job to do that requires paying attention to reality? There are no training wheels for being president. You go from a common citizen to the most powerful person on the planet. And that is not a joke.

"He's got the whole world in his hands" is an old spiritual that has become a favorite of camping trips and sing-a-longs about the power of the Almighty. But when it comes to the affairs of humankind and the planet, you could make the case that you could almost say the same thing about the powers of the president of the United States.

War and peace. Justice and the economy. Even now with the looming catastrophe of climate change, the very health of our Earth. All are in the hands of the president. But here we have Donald Trump, who will soon be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office tasked with decisions that will shape millions of lives and our world, tweeting lies - lies - about illegal votes.

The very job description of the presidency is you can't afford to be petty. Richard Nixon was and it destroyed him. But I can't think of anyone else who was so obsessed with apparent slights and minutiae. Donald Trump has won the presidency. I know there is a movement to recount votes in a few key states, but barring a plot twist worthy of the Twilight Zone I can't see all of this changing much. For Trump it should be a minor distraction to task a junior aid to keep in touch with not what dominates his mind to such a degree that he issues multiple public statements about it - statements far adrift from any reported fact.

Yeah, I'm sure the whole 3 minutes or so total President-Elect Trump has spent tweeting about the recount bullshit--probably while in an elevator or taking a dump or something--was a distraction that risked the fate of the world.

Edit - The most upvoted comments on that post are a window into the truly Carroll-esque delusions of the progs, as well.

(11-27-2016 11:21 AM)Gustavus Adolphus Wrote:  California is such a drama queen.

Broke-ass state, no power grid and no food and water, mean-muggin' everybody because they didn't get their way this time.

When liberals talk up CA's economy they also fail to mention that most of that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very tiny elite minority of people. If you isolated CA's economic data from the rest of the nation and measured the Gini coefficient it is by far one of the worst states.

Liberals tend to use various dishonest ways to mask that by leaving out illegals or other temporary migrants and only account for people they define as residents in gdp data.

Also a lot of the profits from those Silicon Valley companies is funneled overseas into various holding funds never to be seen again by the U.S. economy. CA is a wealth transfer state all right..a lot of Silicon valley is subsidized by the U.S. govt in various ways to begin with. Subsidized risk/privatized profit.

^ California is just north Mexico now, with Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

(11-28-2016 01:26 AM)weambulance Wrote:  From Mr. Fake-but-accurate himself:

Quote:Could someone who has Donald Trump's ear please take away his phone and tell him that he now has a very big job to do that requires paying attention to reality? There are no training wheels for being president. You go from a common citizen to the most powerful person on the planet. And that is not a joke.

"He's got the whole world in his hands" is an old spiritual that has become a favorite of camping trips and sing-a-longs about the power of the Almighty. But when it comes to the affairs of humankind and the planet, you could make the case that you could almost say the same thing about the powers of the president of the United States.

War and peace. Justice and the economy. Even now with the looming catastrophe of climate change, the very health of our Earth. All are in the hands of the president. But here we have Donald Trump, who will soon be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office tasked with decisions that will shape millions of lives and our world, tweeting lies - lies - about illegal votes.

The very job description of the presidency is you can't afford to be petty. Richard Nixon was and it destroyed him. But I can't think of anyone else who was so obsessed with apparent slights and minutiae. Donald Trump has won the presidency. I know there is a movement to recount votes in a few key states, but barring a plot twist worthy of the Twilight Zone I can't see all of this changing much. For Trump it should be a minor distraction to task a junior aid to keep in touch with not what dominates his mind to such a degree that he issues multiple public statements about it - statements far adrift from any reported fact.

Yeah, I'm sure the whole 3 minutes or so total President-Elect Trump has spent tweeting about the recount bullshit--probably while in an elevator or taking a dump or something--was a distraction that risked the fate of the world.

Edit - The most upvoted comments on that post are a window into the truly Carroll-esque delusions of the progs, as well.

(1) Interesting that Rather destroys the argument that Trump was unqualified because he has no prior public service. Good old Dan is proclaiming here that there's basically no training for being President at all.

(2) Note the Inspector Louis about the "LIES! LIES!" Trump has supposedly told. I didn't notice any similar histrionic pearl-clutching over Obama's flat out lies when it came to any aspect of Obamacare.

(3) It's hilarious that Rather pounds the table saying you can't be petty as President. I draw your attention to a certain Presidential candidate who actually made public speeches including rants against a cartoon frog and called anyone who reposted said frog deplorable. I draw your attention to a certain Presidential candidate who could not even keep her temper when her own Secret Service agents did something minor that she didn't like.

(4) Rather actually proclaims that Trump should be getting an understudy to do his tweets for him. That's the exact reason Clinton sucked at social media control: because she had to finesse her public statements through legal, marketing and most likely get them rewritten by Robert Cialdini before they could be sent.

It also underscores Rather and the MSM's real fear: that Trump has found an effective and simple way to go right around them to get words out to the people.

Let me expand very shortly on this last point, because it's worth underscoring. Few years ago, I read something by John T. Reed that changed how I thought of the Internet, drained all of my craving to be published by a big publishing house. It was this: The Internet kills middlemen.

This is the prime reason retail has gone into the toilet. A retail outlet is essentially a gatekeeper between the producer of a good and its ultimate consumer. The retail outlet survives only on its ability to skim a slice off the top of that transaction. If the producer can communicate and negotiate directly and effectively with the consumer, there is no need for the middleman at all, and the middleman is fucked.

(This is also why long term investors should probably be avoiding Amazon. It's a contradiction in terms: an Internet middleman. Eventually, someone is going to come up with a faster and more direct way for people to search and liaise directly with producers of goods, and when they do, Amazon is done.)

Trump's tweeting and youtube videos are similarly killing middlemen - but this time the middlemen are the opinionistas of the MSM, who don't have a chance to edit, filter, or twist what he says.

The really hilarious part about this, and why the MSM are really howling, is because Trump is only doing to the Left what FDR did to the Right with his fireside chats.

Per Wikipedia itself:

Quote:Roosevelt understood that his administration's success depended upon a favorable dialogue with the electorate — possible only through methods of mass communication — and that the true power of the presidency was the ability to take the initiative. The use of radio for direct appeals was perhaps the most important of FDR's innovations in political communication. Roosevelt's opponents had control of most newspapers in the 1930s and press reports were under their control and involved their editorial commentary. Historian Betty Houchin Winfield says, "He and his advisers worried that newspapers' biases would affect the news columns and rightly so." Historian Douglas B. Craig says that he "offered voters a chance to receive information unadulterated by newspaper proprietors' bias" through the new medium of radio.

Guess what, you leftie bastards: it took the Right 80 years to come up with someone who could do it, but they're using exactly the same tools against you that you used to half-destroy the American economy and convince people that it was a good idea.

^

Yes, it's become quite clear to me that progressives have absolutely no intellectual honesty. They will do anything to win, and anything our side is doing is bad and wrong (if it's effective) even if it's the same thing they were doing last week. There are endless examples from the last 16 years.

They cannot be reasoned with because there is no consistent frame of reference to work in. They don't reason their way into anything. They start from their feels-based end position and backfill their rationalizations into a sort of flimsy pseudo-rational argument that will only stand up to people who don't wish to challenge it to begin with.

Other than laughing at them, I think we should strip away their ability to cheat, dilute their access to the levers of power, then ignore them except for the occasional glance to make sure they haven't stopped crying and decided to take more direct action. They don't deserve our attention or consideration, period.

This screed is basically a list of the liberal agenda. If they keep doing this kind of thing it's going to ensure Trump's re-election in four years:

Quote:The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed a resolution, introduced by Board President London Breed, in response to the election of Donald Trump. The resolution reads as follows:

WHEREAS, On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the United States; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That no matter the threats made by President-elect Trump, San Francisco will remain a Sanctuary City. We will not turn our back on the men and women from other countries who help make this city great, and who represent over one third of our population. This is the Golden Gate—we build bridges, not walls; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That we will never back down on women’s rights, whether in healthcare, the workplace, or any other area threatened by a man who treats women as obstacles to be demeaned or objects to be assaulted. And just as important, we will ensure our young girls grow up with role models who show them they can be or do anything; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That there will be no conversion therapy, no withdrawal of rights in San Francisco. We began hosting gay weddings twelve years ago, and we are not stopping now. And to all the LGBTQ people all over the country who feel scared, bullied, or alone: You matter. You are seen; you are loved; and San Francisco will never stop fighting for you; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That we still believe in this nation’s founding principle of religious freedom. We do not ban people for their faith. And the only lists we keep are on invitations to come pray together; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That Black Lives Matter in San Francisco, even if they may not in the White House. And guided by President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, we will continue reforming our police department and rebuilding trust between police and communities of color so all citizens feel safe in their neighborhoods; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That climate change is not a hoax, or a plot by the Chinese. In this city, surrounded by water on three sides, science matters. And we will continue our work on CleanPower, Zero Waste, and everything else we are doing to protect future generations; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That we have been providing universal health care in this city for nearly a decade, and if the new administration follows through on its callous promise to revoke health insurance from 20 million people, San Franciscans will be protected; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That we are the birthplace of the United Nations, a city made stronger by the thousands of international visitors we welcome every day. We will remain committed to internationalism and to our friends and allies around the world—whether the administration in Washington is or not; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That San Francisco will remain a Transit First city and will continue building Muni and BART systems we can all rely upon, whether this administration follows through on its platform to eliminate federal transit funding or not; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That California is the sixth largest economy in the world. The Bay Area is the innovation capital of the country. We will not be bullied by threats to revoke our federal funding, nor will we sacrifice our values or members of our community for your dollar; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That we condemn all hate crimes and hate speech perpetrated in this election’s wake. That although the United States will soon have a President who has demonstrated a lack of respect for the values we hold in the highest regard in San Francisco, it cannot change who we are, and it will never change our values. We argue, we campaign, we debate vigorously within San Francisco, but on these points we are 100 percent united. We will fight discrimination and recklessness in all its forms. We are one City. And we will move forward together.

^

That's about as meaningful as Kerry saying we should expect a "strong debate" from him over the coming years. He's going to be just another dipshit in the street once Mr. Trump takes office, what the fuck can he do?

We don't need San Francisco to cooperate to achieve our aims. It's pure wank.

Californian here - the liberal tears just might get us back to pre drought times.

Californians especially liberals are definitely overreacting to Trumps victory.

I think it's cute that they want to secede from the union - PLENTY of people will be happy to take up arms to put them down - me being one of them.

WE have the guns, most these libtards don't.

They'd shit bricks at the thought of people gunning for them.

Did I mention we have Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton ? You think they'd take kindly to a state wanting to tell the US to fuck off ?

Let's not forget the Pacific Fleet stationed right below those Marines as well.

We don't have water, 33% of our electricity is imported, probably even more, hydroelectric can't run in a drought if there's no water either, we shut down our nuke generators, we have massive welfare, AND how do you think all our tech/entertaiment is going to work over country lines ? It's going to cost more.


All these liberals who always screamed and protested for peace suddenly want violence and war - that's cute.

Scott LoBaido cracks me up. He's like one of us: red pilled as fuck.

I remember watching Escape from LA as a kid and thinking how awful it would be for such a place to suffer that fate. The adult me believes it would be an improvement.

(11-24-2016 11:37 AM)kbell Wrote:  

In a sane society people like this would be locked in mental institution. Look at these eyes, that hair, we are treating with mental problems as "special" and pricing them for it.