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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    I didn't vote. Woke up super hungover and burst out laughing
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,116 Standard Supporter
    Bob_C said:

    Trump supporters have gone underground, just for fear of being called a racists. They will lie to pollsters just like last time and will ultimately vote with their wallets.

    The left is just racing itself to get further left to secure the far left vote and inadvertently marginalizing the true middle ground that it relies on to actually win. It’s over.

    Reminds me of the Jake Browing scrambling for a massive loss gif.

    Try hard, lose 35 yards.

    And the election.

  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662

    Bob_C said:

    Trump supporters have gone underground, just for fear of being called a racists. They will lie to pollsters just like last time and will ultimately vote with their wallets.

    The left is just racing itself to get further left to secure the far left vote and inadvertently marginalizing the true middle ground that it relies on to actually win. It’s over.

    Reminds me of the Jake Browing scrambling for a massive loss gif.

    Try hard, lose 35 yards.

    And the election.

    The nice part about this being a football board (and an alt right cesspool) is that everything can be compared to Browning and/or sark
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,474 Founders Club

    pawz said:

    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.
    Alexis said:

    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.


    I have similar story. At the Cal game one of my best friend's two dads insisted on betting. He was willing to bet as much as $500. He was so emotional about it I was concerned winning might affect our friendship (I've know the family since kindergarten). We settled on $20. The next week at the ASU game when he had to pull $20 out of his pocket, he acknowledged that I let him off the hook cheap.

    I knew Trump was going to win by the end of that Summer. While I don't often agree with the guy, Michael Moore nailed. He made the speech about "the Blow's" in the rust belt were going to vote Trump just to say FUCK YOU to Hillary and the establishment.

    I didn't have money in an offshore sports betting site at the time. The trick for off-shore betting sites is funding them. Most people use ecurrency.


  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Trump's populism turned me off and I reluctantly voted Hillary (flags deserved) as liberal free trade I still do believe in. Trump's subsequent election, the backlash, Russia gate, etc. All completely opened my eyes to just how far left and authoritarian people were hiding their true selves to be. It also woke me up to Chinas very real cold war against the US which I had only been peripherally aware of.

    While there's still populist elements I disagree with there's no doubt that Trump's policies are working and as Bannon(steve not race) put it I'll take right wing populism over left wing every day.

    I used to be embarrassed by Trump's behavior and language but now I see what it does to the Left and I don't mind so much. It reveals them for the goose stepping bootlickers they are.

    That's all not even getting into how the Dems have been taken over by communists so even if Trump was as bad as the media led you to believe I'd still be voting for him.

    What is liberal free trade?
    The way the great political philosophers used it.