Canada's immigration website has shut down due to too much traffic http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...s-immigration-website-has-been-down-for-hours
To be honest, other than MSNBC and FoxNews, I've never felt that. But I think that could've been my own bias at play. Reading the wikileaks it's hard to deny that there is some truth to the liberal media boogeyman. CNN came out of it looking real bad. Your outside view is likely to be most accurate. FYI, I found BBC America news (and TV shows) slyly anti-American. Not sure if you guys pick up that perception.
And anti-democracy. That's what they're really voting for: total destruction of the democratic process. They think autocrats from the business world are going to solve all their problems. Best case scenario for Trump's presidency is avoiding a nuclear holocaust. That's about it. Low bar.
Wikileaks itself is the boogeyman. People will figure it out eventually...the "leaks" are really hacks (who's the "whistleblower" supposed to be for Podesta's emails...he's not even a government official), and they're all directed at the same party from the same country, over and over again.
Could we be seeing the western world shifting to the right? Brexit and now President Trump... Italy has a referendum next month and then Germany and France have leadership elections next year. Could be a very different world in 12 months time.
Assume the worst about human nature and you will rarely be wrong I guess. Pissed off rednecks determined this election, especially in rustbelt areas.
That's what happens when you vote out of spite and not out of actual self-interest. You just get a spiteful world, and nothing else.
Why white male middle class workers would think a luxury real-estate developer and serial tax dodger has the answer for their job problems is beyond me. Trump actually bragged about using Chinese steel in his buildings because he wasn't "forced" to use U.S. steel by the government, and then Pennsylvania and Michigan vote him into office.
What do you think Trump's going to do about his really controversial policies? The wall, no tax under 20k, the Muslim ban? Those that voted for Brexit didn't have to follow through with their promises, as they were just campaigning for a result rather then having to deliver on it.
The problem is nobody knows what Trump is actually going to do. I'll give the guy credit, he single handedly got to the finish line even after his party abandoned him. He even boosted them on his coat tails. It's abundantly clear the Republican party cannot control him, and are now in his debt. He's pretty much going to reshape the GOP in his image and do whatever the fuck he wants. The optimists on TV are hoping most of what he said was figurative and not literal, but I'm not so sure. Trump has stayed on message from the start to the end like nobody else. That wall is getting built... tax policy will change... he's gonna make moves. His speech yesterday had a bit of a calming effect... it was very un-Trump like. The futures markets came back hard from their 5% dips because he didn't behave like a lunatic. But this is just day 1 of 4 years....
Who knows. Trump is primarily an entertainer, and a lot of what we saw on the campaign trail may have been for show. Typical of reality TV stars and wrestling villains, he operated on the premise that all publicity is good publicity. He may be completely different in office. We have nothing to go on as he has no political experience and his policies were vague. Maybe he tries to do the things he talked about, or maybe he's a do nothing one term president with zero follow through.
Giant tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations + caving to the Russians in Europe are the only certainties. The wall is just electioneering b.s., and Trump has already admitted that Mexico won't be paying for it. Plus, it's not actually necessary…unauthorized immigration maxed out in 2007 under Bush and basically didn't change at all from 2009-2014. Most of the states that voted for Trump had 0% increase in unauthorized immigration during that time, which is similar to the Brexit vote where the voters most likely to be worried about immigrants were in the areas that had the least amount of immigration.
Last night it was being reported that liberal initiatives like higher minimum wage and legalizing marijuana was passing in states that voted Trump. That seems to indicate there was simply a strong dislike for Hillary as opposed to actual support for Trump. There are a variety of reasons for that including decades of scandals, corruption, as well as like plain old sexism. That's on the DNC, imo. Bernie wasn't disliked enough for record (R) turnout... and he woud've nabbed millennial votes, which would've tipped the scales in (D) favor. Bernie Sanders would've ran a cleaner election and the whole establishment corruption angle wouldn't have worked. HC walked right into it at every turn. She fucking hired DWS after she was fired after the first DNC leaks, while Trump is talking about how corrupt she is... http://neopvc.com/threads/all-things-trump.1348/page-6#post-48800 We'll find out when they spew out more data as to what actually happened.... CBSNews said 2012 Obama voters went Trump in their exit polls.
Correction…decades of fake scandals. Whitewater? Fake. No charges against Clintons. Benghazi? Fake. GOP House Committee cleared Clinton. Clinton Foundation? Fake. No charges against Clintons. Email server? Fake. No charges + a very small number of classified emails that the State Department failed to label as classified. GOP won't have the Clintons to kick around anymore. They probably don't have any other strategies for winning a future election other than stacking the SC with judges that will approve voter suppression.
You can't include Russia in that 'rest of the world' either. They're apparently thrilled with Trump's election, and coincidentally seem to think that they had something to do with it…..hmmmmm…..not sure what that could be…..Wiki…Wiki…something or other. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tablishment-basks-in-trumps-victory/#comments
I actually find Mike Pence more scary than Trump. His views are like stepping through a time machine into 60 years ago.... Trump is an opportunist, imo. People like Mike Pence are true believers. I borderline supported Trumps trolling until Pence came along.
I've just realised something, we in the UK do our dates the proper way so it is day/month/year. As such this means today is 9/11, it really is a cursed date for you Americans.