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2016 Postmortem

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Fast Walker 52

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Sun Nov 20, 2016, 12:17 PM Nov 2016

What the Hell Happened? [View all]

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The moment Trump said John McCain wasn't a war hero because he was captured, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump said we should ban all Muslims from entering the US, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump said he wanted to deport up to 11 million people from the US, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump retweeted an anti-Hillary meme from an anti-Semitic site, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump tweeted that global warming/climate change was a Chinese hoax, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment went on the conspiracy idiot Alex Jones show during the campaign and praised his work, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump refused to back down from his claim that thousands of Muslims were cheering in New Jersey on 9/11, and said the news media was hiding the story he saw on this, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump mocked a disabled person during his campaign rally, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump mocked Hillary for being sick, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump hinted that 2nd amendment people could stop Hillary, and talked about her Secret Service protection being taken away to see what happened, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment that Trump said if he was elected that Hillary would be put in jail, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment that Trump said the election was rigged and would only honor the results of the election if he won, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump went on a diatribe about a Miss Universe pageant being overweight, the day after his first presidential debate, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump was heard on tape bragging about sexual assault, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump said that all the women who accused him of sexual assault were lying, and it was conspiracy by the Clinton campaign, and said one of his accusers was not attractive enough for him to go after her, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment we knew Trump had had sexual assault charges filed against him, and that his ex-wife had accused him of rape, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

When Trump refused to release his income taxes despite having global business dealings, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

When Trump asked Russian hackers to hack into State department emails, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

When Trump said US intelligence agencies were lying about Russian hacking, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

When Trump blatantly lied over and over on almost every topic, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

When Trump hired alt-right propagandist Steve Bannon to run his campaign, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

When Trump showed he had no consistent or coherent policy ideas, didn't know the constitution, wanted to use nuclear weapons, wanted to have more countries have nuclear weapons, wanted to weaken NATO, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

When Trump spend years pursuing the idea that Obama was not a US citizen, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump showed he had no idea how a blind trust would work for his businesses, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The fact that Trump repeatedly insulted women's looks and generally acted as a bully, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The multiple shady connections of the Trump campaign to the Russian government and Trump repeated praising of Putin, should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

Trump's apparent bribery of FL Attorney General Pam Bondi, should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

Trump's transparently bogus Trump University, should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

Trump's vulgar demagoguery and multiple serious news sites saying he was a threat to democracy, should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

A long list of Republican national security experts, and nuclear weapons commanders saying Trump could not be trusted, should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

Trump's petty, shameless, narcissistic personality should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

Trump's history of housing discrimination should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The Never Trump movement within conservatism and the GOP should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump’s ghostwriter for his “Art of the Deal” book, Tony Schwartz confirmed how terrible Trump’s personality and basic knowledge was, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump proposed waterboarding and worse to terror suspects, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump said we should kill the families of terrorists, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment Trump said Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama founded ISIS and refused to retract it, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

The moment we found out that Trump lost almost $1 billion in one year, in the casino business, and then used that to not pay taxes for years, it should have ended his run as a presidential candidate.

So what the hell happened???

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What the Hell Happened? [View all] Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 OP
Emails. And Benghazi. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2016 #1
And CNN and MSNBC and FOX TrishaJ Nov 2016 #16
Nope. It was Jeff Zucker and CNN who are to blame. duffyduff Nov 2016 #2
the media was a HUGE part of it, if not completely their fault Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #11
Oh yes, they were. Zucker literally CREATED Donald Trump the candidate. n/t duffyduff Nov 2016 #42
Agreed. They became addicted to the add revenues. kairos12 Nov 2016 #58
Corporate mefia. SammyWinstonJack Nov 2016 #3
Plus a gazillion Retrograde Nov 2016 #10
Super-delegates chose poorly? Denis 11 Nov 2016 #4
No guarantee of a win either MFM008 Nov 2016 #6
True Denis 11 Nov 2016 #23
Don't start. She won the primary, she gets most of the Superdelegates. End of story. Peigan68 Nov 2016 #31
The super-delegate system is supposed to help find the best candidate. Denis 11 Nov 2016 #36
No. Common knowledge is that you don't let a losing R B Garr Nov 2016 #53
He energized a lot of voters Denis 11 Nov 2016 #54
He alienated voters from the Democratic party with unrealistic promises and R B Garr Nov 2016 #55
Should we give up on minimum wage raise then. Denis 11 Nov 2016 #57
You don't have to be a Hillary partisan to recognize when someone is trying to R B Garr Nov 2016 #61
Or someone "skipped" the southern states and openly claimed such twice? uponit7771 Nov 2016 #49
We got caught up. The Republican win was in the numbers it took to win electors. That's my takeaway. ancianita Nov 2016 #5
Really? To my my eye, when someone with so many freaking red flags is elected Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #13
Yes. What you say is true, too. Read my earlier post to get how the evidence supports all the red ancianita Nov 2016 #18
oh, I see -- thanks Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #25
Media. Bernie. Comey. Gerrymandering. Vote hacking. nt JTFrog Nov 2016 #7
Russians. lonestarnot Nov 2016 #8
I'm not saying Russians had nothing to do with it, but how did Russian get Americans Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #14
Complacent, apathetic, and no money allocation for new paper ballots for uniform voting across this lonestarnot Nov 2016 #32
ALL OF THE ABOVE Auggie Nov 2016 #9
I remember the day Reagan won flamingdem Nov 2016 #12
I was 24 on inauguration day 1981 and mostly out of it ... Auggie Nov 2016 #17
Agreed, all the above and more! LongTomH Nov 2016 #20
Comey's last minute interference tipped the election andym Nov 2016 #15
This!! I sit and think of this exact sentiment every time I see his face or everytime I hear in the AgadorSparticus Nov 2016 #19
We overplayed the Trump card. gulliver Nov 2016 #21
This is on target. She kept beating that dead horse. LuckyLib Nov 2016 #34
I feel like she needed to go more positive the last couple weeks. Tough to do with Comey's BootinUp Nov 2016 #59
"So what the hell happened???" Martin Eden Nov 2016 #22
Ratings and advertising dollars. Money matters more than truth, country or anything else. Vinca Nov 2016 #24
Bingo Martin Eden Nov 2016 #29
but did they ignore all these things, or just made people not care? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #33
They didn't ignore those things; they normalized those things Martin Eden Nov 2016 #37
hard to imagine Hillary getting away with that shit, considering how her one comment on Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #39
Shortly afterwards Hillary said shouldn't have said it. On the other hand ... Martin Eden Nov 2016 #41
definitely... some sort of strange insanity hit us during the election Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #43
1, and continue to normalize them uponit7771 Nov 2016 #50
The media followed the shiny object, then woke up scratching their heads (some did anyway) liberal N proud Nov 2016 #26
stupid Americans have turned the presidency into a reality TV show Skittles Nov 2016 #27
media made it acceptable. contrast with emails which they kept pushing JI7 Nov 2016 #28
EMAILS budkin Nov 2016 #30
but it was the media that drove that story, right? Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #35
to be fair and balanced. if trump does something negative they have to balance it out JI7 Nov 2016 #45
Holy crap-- check out the "Look who's back" movie on Netflix Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #38
Bookmarking. n/t Hugin Nov 2016 #40
America is a fucking hell of a lot more right wing is what happened sadly... Locut0s Nov 2016 #44
yeah... the right is showing their true ugly colors, and they don't even care Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #48
Because the electoral college enough right racists were located in the right states. treestar Nov 2016 #46
Hacked election results. Great list of disqualifiers, Fast. rec, nt. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #47
Purging voter lists, Russia, and CNN happened. -Steph- Nov 2016 #51
U.S. Intelligence officials said Russia targetted state and local election systems KatyBR Nov 2016 #52
Exactly! Stainless Nov 2016 #56
CNNMSNBCFox...etc workinclasszero Nov 2016 #60
I've read this a couple times now. So true! R B Garr Nov 2016 #62
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