CNN Meltdown

I'm still in awe of you RB. Nobody and I mean nobody was saying Trump was going to beat Hillary but you. You took a lot of shit back then but you were right. Brexit was the foreshadowing that everybody missed. Influencial people in the CA legislature pushed me to get behind Rubio. I attended a private breakfast and listened to him speak. He was terrible and a fraud. So I got behind Cruz but even he turned out to be a freak. The 16' election cycle woke me up as to how corrupt the republican party was. It is/was the same Bush party that tried to destroy one of the best presidents our country has ever had in Ronald Reagan. You were always right about Trump and very close friends of mine still don't get it. You did and I'll always respect you for seeing what you did and opening my eyes.

DerekJohnson

Seems like yesterday that 20 Democrats led Trump in the polls
I'm still in awe of you RB. Nobody and I mean nobody was saying Trump was going to beat Hillary but you. You took a lot of shit back then but you were right. Brexit was the foreshadowing that everybody missed. Influencial people in the CA legislature pushed me to get behind Rubio. I attended a private breakfast and listened to him speak. He was terrible and a fraud. So I got behind Cruz but even he turned out to be a freak. The 16' election cycle woke me up as to how corrupt the republican party was. It is/was the same Bush party that tried to destroy one of the best presidents our country has ever had in Ronald Reagan. You were always right about Trump and very close friends of mine still don't get it. You did and I'll always respect you for seeing what you did and opening my eyes.

I tentatively predicted a Trump victory. A friend of mine, a Romanian political refugee, asked me how I could say Trump was going to win. "EVERYONE is against him", she said. But I saw video of Hillary speaking to a half-empty gymnasium, and then I saw Trump speaking to a full arena. And I thought "hey the media is lying to us".

pawz

Seems like yesterday that 20 Democrats led Trump in the polls
I'm still in awe of you RB. Nobody and I mean nobody was saying Trump was going to beat Hillary but you. You took a lot of shit back then but you were right. Brexit was the foreshadowing that everybody missed. Influencial people in the CA legislature pushed me to get behind Rubio. I attended a private breakfast and listened to him speak. He was terrible and a fraud. So I got behind Cruz but even he turned out to be a freak. The 16' election cycle woke me up as to how corrupt the republican party was. It is/was the same Bush party that tried to destroy one of the best presidents our country has ever had in Ronald Reagan. You were always right about Trump and very close friends of mine still don't get it. You did and I'll always respect you for seeing what you did and opening my eyes.

Ahem. I made money betting the '16 election.

The establishment failed at controlling the narrative. With continued arrogance they continue to fail all over themselves to this day. The internet finally gives a palpable voice to the populists.

DerekJohnson

Seems like yesterday that 20 Democrats led Trump in the polls

Yes. Everything is bullshit.

RoadTrip

Seems like yesterday that 20 Democrats led Trump in the polls
I'm still in awe of you RB. Nobody and I mean nobody was saying Trump was going to beat Hillary but you. You took a lot of shit back then but you were right. Brexit was the foreshadowing that everybody missed. Influencial people in the CA legislature pushed me to get behind Rubio. I attended a private breakfast and listened to him speak. He was terrible and a fraud. So I got behind Cruz but even he turned out to be a freak. The 16' election cycle woke me up as to how corrupt the republican party was. It is/was the same Bush party that tried to destroy one of the best presidents our country has ever had in Ronald Reagan. You were always right about Trump and very close friends of mine still don't get it. You did and I'll always respect you for seeing what you did and opening my eyes.
I tentatively predicted a Trump victory. A friend of mine, a Romanian political refugee, asked me how I could say Trump was going to win. "EVERYONE is against him", she said. But I saw video of Hillary speaking to a half-empty gymnasium, and then I saw Trump speaking to a full arena. And I thought "hey the media is lying to us".

My bad Derek. I was hanging out at e-duck those days

RoadTrip

Seems like yesterday that 20 Democrats led Trump in the polls
I'm still in awe of you RB. Nobody and I mean nobody was saying Trump was going to beat Hillary but you. You took a lot of shit back then but you were right. Brexit was the foreshadowing that everybody missed. Influencial people in the CA legislature pushed me to get behind Rubio. I attended a private breakfast and listened to him speak. He was terrible and a fraud. So I got behind Cruz but even he turned out to be a freak. The 16' election cycle woke me up as to how corrupt the republican party was. It is/was the same Bush party that tried to destroy one of the best presidents our country has ever had in Ronald Reagan. You were always right about Trump and very close friends of mine still don't get it. You did and I'll always respect you for seeing what you did and opening my eyes.
Ahem. I made money betting the '16 election.

The establishment failed at controlling the narrative. With continued arrogance they continue to fail all over themselves to this day. The internet finally gives a palpable voice to the populists.

Impressive and I often wondered how one would open an account in the UK (I assume that's where you placed the bet) to place a bet of that nature. What odds did you get and wasn't Brexit a similar upset? I should have been hanging out here then.

Southerndawg

Van Jones is actually fairly reasonable

Disagree. He’s right on this, the dems have a weak field, but he’s always been a left wing race baiter. In fact his stance is that Trump’s election was a “Whitelash”. Fuck that guy.

MisterEm

Seems like yesterday that 20 Democrats led Trump in the polls
I'm still in awe of you RB. Nobody and I mean nobody was saying Trump was going to beat Hillary but you. You took a lot of shit back then but you were right. Brexit was the foreshadowing that everybody missed. Influencial people in the CA legislature pushed me to get behind Rubio. I attended a private breakfast and listened to him speak. He was terrible and a fraud. So I got behind Cruz but even he turned out to be a freak. The 16' election cycle woke me up as to how corrupt the republican party was. It is/was the same Bush party that tried to destroy one of the best presidents our country has ever had in Ronald Reagan. You were always right about Trump and very close friends of mine still don't get it. You did and I'll always respect you for seeing what you did and opening my eyes.
I tentatively predicted a Trump victory. A friend of mine, a Romanian political refugee, asked me how I could say Trump was going to win. "EVERYONE is against him", she said. But I saw video of Hillary speaking to a half-empty gymnasium, and then I saw Trump speaking to a full arena. And I thought "hey the media is lying to us".

Those that produce, create, and provide a value added service in today's (or 2016's) market could see the path of the Democratic party. If your livelihood depended or depends on Congressional appropriations and FAFSA applications... Orange man was... BAD...real bad.

The woke movement on display in the MSM, at the local coffee-house, in PTA meetings, etc.....vilified any counter-thought to a Hillary presidency.

The result.... those that leaned R kept their mouth shut during polling, and their ballots hot enough to steal the game late in the 4th.

I am in an awkward space working a dayjob as a research biologist with a bunch of bleeding heart liberals.... but I also run a small (tiny) business (production, creation and classic racecar restoration), and slumlord a couple shitty properties.

The over educated and minimally employed sipping hot-cocoa for Obama folks just... can't.... comprehend...why anyone would vote for Trump.

Make, produce, or do something without a "gubmint handout, indirect cost-rate, or Fed cost-code" and the game changes quickly.

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches (or sucks off the Fed teat)."

Just like the Husky FB program... produce or shut the fuck up.

Doogles

Shameless plug, but I was living in San Francisco at the tiime and I posted on here how there was no way it was that lopsided to Hillary because I would simply keep my mouth shut about politics to avoid the hate that would come my way for suggesting Trump wasn't the end of the world.

There had to be more people like me in the middle thinking what the fuck is happening.

It was so bizarre to watch it unfold in real time. People lost their minds and all objectivity.

RaceBannon

http://twitter.com/kingstonjk824/status/1217441046898016257?s=19

Alexis

In late June of 16, I was at the local horse track for the first leg of a bachelor party and it was right in the middle of the fervent Black Lives Matter/all cops are racist pigs that Hils and Obama were peddling.

I mentioned to a buddy that maybe demonizing a union as large as the Police Union wasn't a great strategy for the Dems as they needed Union support to win elections.

My buddy railed on me about there was absolutely no way Trump could ever win a general election against Hils. I said I guess we'll let it play out. He wouldn't drop it and forced me to take a $100 bet.

That phone call on a Wednesday morning in November was pretty sweet.

LebamDawg

IIRC - the LA Times is the only paper that predicted Trump would win.

PurpleThrobber

IIRC - the LA Times is the only paper that predicted Trump would win.

Duckfighter Illustrated was all over that shit.

Bendintheriver

I thought for sure The Bitch would win. I have friends in OH who work in the dem party and they suggested two weeks prior to the election that Trump might win this thing. They said they had never seen so many Republican/Trump signs in more yards than for this election. A total change from elections past. My son always thought he would win and stuck by it. I started getting cryptic texts from a friend who was working The Bitch's suite on election night that she was drunk and scratching Bill's face in anger when they figured out this could go completely the wrong way. Said she was acting like a "psycho". I still didn't believe it. When the I knew that Trump won was when the friend in the suite said that the masses were trying to go unnoticed while leaving as quickly as they could. The celebration came when I was alerted to the fact that The Bitch was in no mental or physical shape (drunk as a skunk) to come out and concede. A more fitting end couldn't have happened to a such a vile human being.