The Trumpmare is happening... Who will win?
 

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Go the Donald!

I don't think he'll get it though

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I'm not sure why there is such fuss about a wall. Australia and the UK both have natural walls. It doesn't present problems for Australia and the UK.

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This looks to be a rerun of the Brexit vote, with the city types voting for sanity and the rural locations voting for disaster.

We live in a F**kwits' Universe now.

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I hate what Trump stands for and everything he says.....

But.... This I hate even more.... ergo I probably would have voted for him just based on this one thing alone. I've suspected the West playing to the Saudis tune for a couple of years now and this just pours fuel on that fire. Give me the Russians or the Chinese at their worst over the Saudis any day of the week.

Julian Assange: Isis and Clinton Foundation are both funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar | The Independent

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I agree

I don't know what all the fuss over Trump is about anyway. 200-odd years ago the Americans rebelled against rule by a king and designed a political system to prevent a king or emperor talking control. Trump will face the same thing that has faced every president before him - a parliament that is not a rubber stamp for their decisions. At the moment, the republicans and democrats can't stand him and his chances of passing contentious legislation are very limited

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Looks like he's doing pretty well ATM.

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No, we live in a world where the elite are so arrogant, and so far up their own arses they wouldn't even dream it possible for the great unwashed to say '**** it, I'm voting for him, you've had your chance and you've done nothing but treat me like a ****wit'. He'll be assassinated because the losers can't take the result too. This is hilarious in my opinion.

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Nope, we live in a world where people who have no clue how things actually work put in place people who are going to both shaft them AND screw things up.

Jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

You are right though, there is a good chance someone will shoot him, I just hope they get Pence at the same time, he's worse.

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And it's that kind of sneering, looking down the nose attitude of our supposed "intellectuals" and "experts" that is reason for Brexit and the rise of Trump, Hanson etc

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I posted that before the results really started coming in

Looks like he's gonna get it

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You mean people have a different clue to how things work.

Just like your opinions of the winners of the last election in Australia ......... and guess what, Australia is still flying high. ..... I wonder which high and mighty BE advocate might be wrong now.

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Bingo

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Cheap shares going anyone?

If you missed out in the Brexit fire sale, jump on "Make America Great Again"

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You just don't get it. It is attitudes like yours that is exactly why Trump won, or is about to.

Politicians are there to represent and carry out the wishes of the people. Not look down on them, sneer and tell them that they are too stupid to know what is best for themselves.

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+1

Things like this:

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I know I'm right on all counts, people have the idea that the elite have been making mugs of them for decades, and they're correct. The UK and Aus need to see this as a cautionary tale, and not drive their own plebs towards extremism by ignoring the living daylights out of them.

Spot on :goodpost:

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Despite what rubbish the left have been believing in the press, Trump voters aren't just rural, white males.

Bankers, lawyers and software engineers are in on the Trump train too. Depends what you call elite.

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Meanwhile, down the road at Sydney University .........

The Trump supporters chanting offensive slogans have been removed from the University of Sydney’s US Studies Centre party. The uni said it did not “endorse” and would not “tolerate” such behaviour.

As they left, the crowd continued chanting: “No more leftist bulls***! PC is over! Stop crying about it!” The Australian’s Simone Koob reported.

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So how does that explain why they've voted in the most arrogant and supercilious candidate?

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Easy ..... look at the opposition.

Now ..... could have Obama beaten Trump?

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They had a choice of two.

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I doubt there's anyone in the world who doesn't sneer and look down at people as much as Trump does, lol. The issue is that he knew the words to come out with to appeal to a certain demographic and because he was up against Ms Clinton, she couldn't pull it back.

The Obama's dog could have beaten Trump.

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There are all walks of life voting for each candidate, but it's the great unwashed that hold the numbers that can oust governments.

When I say elete, I'm mainly referring to their defenition of themselves, not my definition, uppety twat that looks down on lesser folk, you know the type.

I once knew a bonefide genius, could read and make sense of any electronic drawing in minutes, couldn't change a plug though.

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What "certain demographic" were the 55million people that voted for him yesterday?

You see you are also sneering at people just because they think differently to you.

And just for the avoidance of doubt, I think both candidates were terrible, I could not put a piece of paper between them and the one and only time I expressed a view, with a heavy heart I said I thought Clinton would be better. But I do not sneer or make assumptions about people that thought another candidate was better equipped to represent them. It is their choice.

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And what might that demographic be?

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Oh ok, I'm fairly sure I said he appealed to a certain demographic, not that all those who voted for him were a certain demographic.

Perhaps you can point out where I said the latter?

No? Thought not.

So, do you not believe that he appealed to a certain demographic?

And no sneering going on here, people will vote for the candidate that they think will give them something the other one won't, even if that something is just not the other candidate.

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He appeals to people who have issues with immigration.

He appeals to people who have issues with 'establishment' (bizarrely)

He appeals to people who don't want a Democrat as a president

He appeals to people who particularly didn't want Hillary Clinton as president.

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Cheers Donald! :beer:

It's just been called.

BTW I am not necessarily a Donald fan, but less so a Hillary one. :)

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I think you're underestimating how many people in the US despise Clinton

Ultimately, they're both poor candidates. 320m Americans and the best that they could pick were these 2 clowns

Trump has some good messages on US domestic policy (his foreign policy is terrible) - but he's the wrong messenger. I don't think that he can unite the country and congress will oppose him at every turn. Not much will change

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No, the reason why trump lied his way to power is because people don't think they should have to understand the issues, or how things work, before they vote. They think voting with their gut is somehow an acceptable way of determining policy, or in trump's case, lack of policy.

Those people ARE too stupid to know what's best for themselves. I hate to have to agree with the paternalistic civil servants, but the majority ARE f**king clueless and need to be protected from themselves and their ignorance. And I was always the one railing against the way they would not tell people the truth "because they couldn't understand it".

Guess what, they were right.

:sneaky:

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So what? Are you sneering down on that?

So what? Are you sneering down on that?

So what? Are you sneering down on that?

So what? Are you sneering down on that?

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You mean like the largely uneducated, poverty riddled Latino voters who voted for Clinton?

You will back yourself into a corner again if you tread down the "I am gods gift to BE path". It will be easy fodder to pick off.

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Another slant on it then, The anti-Trump brigade failed to win over a bunch of clueless ****wits. So perhaps ther overestimated their own intelligence. Next time, try engaging people instead of deriding them. Some might surprise you.

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You mean the people Trump threatened to deport and called rapists and drug dealers? I wonder why they voted for Clinton.

This wasn't a complex, difficult question. Clinton was the continuation of Obama policies that bought the US back from the destruction of Dubya policies into rude health.

Trump was a lying, narcissistic, blowhard - last seen on the forecourt of a second hand car dealership - telling ludicrous, obvious, lies.

And they picked the second hand car dealer.

PT Barnum was right.

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The liberal left completely misunderstood the appeal of Donald Trump to those who have been left behind in the post-industrial, rush to globalization. Instead of trying to attack his flawed arguments they just resorted to insults and character smears.

The average American has been divorced and has a shitty attitude towards their spouse, and nobody seemed to recognize that attacking Donald Trump for those things was tantamount to attacking the electorate.

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Democrats keep forgetting the "fly over" part of the US.:nod:

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So during your blame game and name calling, you won't be able label Trump supporters uneducated rednecks then?

I mean, if the Latino's really believed that is a true statement.

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I labelled them f**kwits.

Let's ask the 'elephant in the room' question - would you have voted for Trump?

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I'm dumfounded by the arrogance. You're totally blind to the fact that this attitude drives the disenfranchised right into the arms of the extremist aren't you?