Stephen Bannon and Reince Priebus named to lead Trump's White House

[smilesammich 10,727]

I don't think anyone but Trump can tell you anything. Sorry for wasting bandwidth trying.

trump's already repealed obama's sharia! praise breitbart the only thing to do now is to steal the obama's dogs for their own safety; everyone knows they only survived this long for show.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The lube that was defeating Hillary Clinton may not last long enough to avoid the butt hurt Trump supporters have in store when the man of the people takes office officially.

I sincerely hope I am wrong, as I was about his chances of actually winning, but a man that promises to bring manufacturing back to America but produces products in other countries, that pledges support for US workers but hires foreign workers to build towers with Chinese steel, the list goes on and on, doesn't inspire me with a ton of confidence.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

The lube that was defeating Hillary Clinton may not last long enough to avoid the butt hurt Trump supporters have in store when the man of the people takes office officially.

I sincerely hope I am wrong, as I was about his chances of actually winning, but a man that promises to bring manufacturing back to America but produces products in other countries, that pledges support for US workers but hires foreign workers to build towers with Chinese steel, the list goes on and on, doesn't inspire me with a ton of confidence.

History would say the odd of you being wrong again are very high

[MarkPerry 488]

History would say the odd of you being wrong again are very high

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

So it was just typing willy-nilly on your part, with nothing of substance to back it up? Gotcha. We all have those moments, it's all good!

I don't think anyone but Trump can tell you anything. Sorry for wasting bandwidth trying.

[smilesammich 10,727]

what..none of you care about the dogs anymore??

[jg121783 3,921]

but a man that promises to bring manufacturing back to America but produces products in other countries, that pledges support for US workers but hires foreign workers to build towers with Chinese steel, the list goes on and on, doesn't inspire me with a ton of confidence.

The way things are set up today you can't be competitive as a bussiness if you don't produce some things overseas. Trump has said he would like to stop doing this as soon as there is a business climate that would allow him to do so and remain competitive. His economic plan contains some exellent ways to allow businesses to produce things in the US and remain competitive. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you can save a lot of money as a business producing things in China where labor costs about $2 an hour, energy costs are a lot cheaper (most factories in the US spend more on energy than labor) and taxes are way lower. By the way I am sure he would have loved to use US steel for his towers if we hadn't closed most of our steel mills that would have produced the steel for his towers.

Trump wants to place tarrifs on imports that will basically offset any savings that can be had by using slave labor (somehting that has been done since the founding of this country but hasn't been done in recent years). He wants to remove severe restrictions on clean burning coal plants and other energy sources that Obama has put in place that have resulted in energy costs skyrocketing (we have resorted to buying electricity from Mexico now). He also wants to lower business taxes (along with all other taxes across the board) to a competitive level. I have great confidence that if Trump isn't blocked from putting these things in place that we will see a major growth in US manufacturing.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

The lube that was defeating Hillary Clinton may not last long enough to avoid the butt hurt Trump supporters have in store when the man of the people takes office officially.

I sincerely hope I am wrong, as I was about his chances of actually winning, but a man that promises to bring manufacturing back to America but produces products in other countries, that pledges support for US workers but hires foreign workers to build towers with Chinese steel, the list goes on and on, doesn't inspire me with a ton of confidence.

Uhhh not to be contrary but he doesn't take office till January , please give him at least 2 days in office before you become unhinged and accuse him of failing

[OriZ 3,157]

Brilliant election analysis by Hussman:

If we’ve learned one thing from the recent election cycle, it’s that people on both sides of the political spectrum feel both unheard and even threatened by the views of the other. Discontent, on either side, is a signal that we’d better listen to each other to understand those differences. When people feel unheard, their concerns find unexpected and often undesirable ways of expression. Neither side will do much good for the country by treating the other half of the nation as idiots.

I spend much of my time working with probability distributions and extracting signals from statistical noise. From that perspective, what happened, I think, in this election, is that people didn’t vote for the candidate that fully represented their views, but rather the candidate that was the “nearest neighbor” to their views.

In a typical election cycle, the candidates might be represented by A versus B below. Given a bell-curve of political views, A is the nearest neighbor to the views of the left half of the distribution, and B is the nearest neighbor of the right half. Each candidate gets something close to half of the popular vote, but both candidates are at least tolerable to nearly everyone except those on the far tails of the distribution.

In the recent election cycle, the candidates were not only further from the middle, but had a record of saying and doing things that were seen as jaw-droppingly offensive by one side or the other (and in some cases, both). Conceptually, those candidates represent points C and D below. And that’s the problem. If each side votes for the “nearest neighbor” to their own views, it gives the impression that all of the people who voted for C or D actually alignthemselves with C and D, so each side ends up believing that the other side is insane. Likewise, other countries assume that the whole nation aligns itself with C or D.

Whatever the outcome, there’s bound to be a certain level of dissatisfaction. If C wins, most people will feel they’re to the right of that candidate to some degree, and if D wins, most people will feel they’re to the left of that candidate to some degree. Worse, there’s a vastly larger set of people on one side of the distribution who see the outcome as intolerable and even terrifying. My sense is that this is actually where the nation stands at present, and it shouldn’t be a surprise.

Some have suggested that it should be the job of Democrats to deal with the distress of Democrats, and the job of Republicans to deal with the distress of Republicans. I wholly disagree. The first act of wisdom, and the first step toward peace and reconciliation, is for each side to listen, nonjudgmentally, to the suffering - real or perceived - of the other side. The job of any true leader, indeed, the mark of any true leader, whatever their political persuasion, is to encourage that understanding.

A way forward, I think, is to suspend the inclination to reduce other human beings to labels. Labels are our way of defending our attachments and avoiding any attempt to understand and address the other side’s concerns, fear, anger, misunderstanding, or perceptions of injustice. One usually finds that it’s possible to address the concerns of others in a way that still meets one’s own interests, but it takes a certain amount of courage to open a dialogue when the other side uses labels like “extremist” and “enemy” too. My friend and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh once said “To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him or her, and he or she is no longer our enemy. When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”

Ultimately, all of us are made of the same substance, which is humanity. We share the same momentary blink-of-an-eye in the eternity of time, on the same tiny dot in the vastness of the universe. That’s an extraordinary thing to have in common. The sooner we approach each other with that recognition, the stronger we’ll be as a country and as a world.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

History would say the odd of you being wrong again are very high

Actually history says the last time the Republicans controlled all three branches of government we got the Great Depression. But do continue with the gloating. Facts are so pesky!

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Uhhh not to be contrary but he doesn't take office till January , please give him at least 2 days in office before you become unhinged and accuse him of failing

I believe that I have been very clear, I hope Trump is a great success and all America benefits from his Presidency. His campaign gives me serious doubts that will occur. Why do you assume that I hate America?

[eieio 1,594]

Actually history says the last time the Republicans controlled all three branches of government we got the Great Depression. But do continue with the gloating. Facts are so pesky!

Is that a prediction?

What are you? 0 for 87 now?

CNN is hiring.

[Ban Hammer 13,619]

Actually history says the last time the Republicans controlled all three branches of government we got the Great Depression. But do continue with the gloating. Facts are so pesky!

some facts.

2005-2006 was the last time republicans controlled all three branches of the government.

The Great Depression was 1929-1939.............

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

DARN those pesky facts. Reported!

some facts.

2005-2006 was the last time republicans controlled all three branches of the government.

The Great Depression was 1929-1939.............

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Is that a prediction?

What are you? 0 for 87 now?

CNN is hiring.

No but I think it's a fair possibility that things are significantly more complex and difficult to carry out than the flim flam man promised his worshiper's. And the consequences of many of the things to come from even the attempts will be potentially painful even for the true believers' such as yourself.

I have been very clear that I hope a Trump presidency turns out to be a good thing, but my lack of fielty for your God-Emporer confuses you.