Think Progress is not taking this well

Literally and metaphorically hysterical.

These sub-prime SJW males really know how to have a public breakdown, don’t they?

As in, we find there is no need to do any rubbing as they do it for us.

I feast on their tears. I am the Lacrymovore. Fear me. Bwahahahahaha.

Once there was a wicked witch
In the lovely land of USA
And a wickeder, wickeder,
Wickeder witch that never, ever was
She filled the folks in Munchkin Land
With terror and with dread
Till one fine day from PA
A house fell on her head
And the coroner pronounced her political dreams DEAD
And through the town the joyous news went running
The joyous news that the wicked old witch
Was finally done in
Ding-Dong! The witch is dead!
Which old witch?
The wicked witch
Ding-Dong! The wicked witch is dead!
Wake up you sleepy head
Rub your eyes
Get out of that bed
Wake up! The wicked old witch is dead!
She’s gone where the goblins go
Below, below, below – yo-ho!
Let’s open up and sing
And ring those bells out…
Sing the news out!
Ding-Dong! The merry-o
Sing it high and sing it low
Let them know the wicked old witch is dead
Why everyone’s glad
She took such a crownin’
Bein’ hit by a house
Is even worse than drownin’
Let ’em know the wicked old witch is dead!!!

A correction: I see all the results aren’t in yet so Trump’s not quite got the popular vote yet.

Amongst all this shared euphoria, can it be that we are overlooking one of our go-to sources of wisdom on Absolutely Everything?

Yes, the end of neo-liberalism is upon us and the word “Perversely” has had an Humpty Dumpty metamorphosis

Perversely, does Trump open a new political era even if it is one many outside the US, at least, would not want in the form that he says he wants to deliver it?

John Miller,
He’s not going to be revolutionary (despite the Left trying desperately to paint him as Hitler reborn). But he will nominate one or two right-leaning Supreme Court judges, and he can probably get immigration under control. I’d expect a fair bit of union-bashing too. These are modest gains by any standards, but it’s more than we’ve come to expect from a Republican presidency.

“If Trump ends up doing something truly revolutionary over the next five years I’ll be amazed.”

Given its a 4 year term if he’s still there in 5 years it will either have been a revolution with him taking over as dictator or he’s done so well gets re-elected.

Exciting opportunities in Double-Glazing telesales beckon.

Or perhaps the various telephone scamsters on the Indian subcontinent might be interested in hiring a new outreach crew who speak English with a more comprehensible–if snobbish–accent.

America failed because it didn’t elect their candidate. The problem is democracy. Dammit!

A wonderful kick in the metaphoricals for the left. Brilliant. I do hope he does a few of the things he said he would do.

Serious question.

Take the media’s version of Donald Trump.
Subtract what the media say about every republican.
Subtract what’s also true about Bill Clinton (well, not the whole of him, since there’s no evidence that Trump actually is a sexual predator)

What’s left?

Kevin B – halting the global warming religion may be beyond his power.

BiT’s plan for Trump:
– remember that you don’t run a biznis well by hiring your *political* cronies. Be very careful who you appoint.
– understand that anything which takes money and delivers or promises to deliver goods or services is a company. Make sure that unions and the political parties are registered as companies and make sure they obey the law. Especially monopoly law.
– in amuch more complicated vein, think about what might work to reduce the costs of healthcare and the deterioration of too many inner cities. Elements of improvement probably include getting rid of employer-provided health insurance, and serious consideration of some form of universal income, replacing all minimum wage BS, unemployment bennies etc. Available to all citizens who have worked (say) five years.
– for pleasure, whenever the urge strikes, talk about how much better the USA would be if it were run by the mechanisms and people of the EU. Try to hold off laughing as long as possible.

Plenty work there.

I remember Reagan’s win in 1984 (vaguely). What the media (here and in the US) said about him then they said about Trump, except they turned the volume up for Trump. They say it about every Republican candidate who wins or who looks like winning. They have shouted “Wolf” for fifty years and so why pay any attention to them at all?

The youngsters bawling their eyes out haven’t had this decades long education yet, so their ignorance is excusable.

@Rob

I’ve pointed this out a number of times today- the commentariat’s view of Trump is the same as Reagan. Ditto for May and Thatcher.

And those two did ok.

I’m just waiting for Spitting Image to announce a revival, and I’m good.

I see Paul Krugman this morning predicted a recession that would never end now that Trump has won.

Less than 12 hours later the Dow is up 270+ points.

Krugman appears to have morphed into an American Richard Murphy without anyone noticing. You need to get on top of this, Timmy. I’d do it myself, but I really can’t be bothered.

If Trump actually implements all the policies he said he would there will be a recession, no fucking doubt.

I was quite reassured by his victory speech though – he seemed quite reasonable, like the winning boxer who has previously hyped up his fight to lure more suckers into the PPV subscription.

Dennis the Peasant

“Krugman appears to have morphed into an American Richard Murphy without anyone noticing. You need to get on top of this, Timmy. I’d do it myself, but I really can’t be bothered.”

He’s been like this for quite a long time, the only thing he uses that Nobel prize for is to batter any opponent over the head.

Having read that Hilary Meltdown topic on Reddit and been listening and reading to lefty stuff I confidently predict a 2nd term for Trump as long as all those twats who threatened to leave have the balls to carry through their promises.

However as its more likely virtue signalling they probably won’t and will still be around in 4 years.

Oh, come on. It’s not so bad; look at the kitten… http://bit.ly/2fEnVBq LOOK. AT. THE. KITTEN!

Bloke in Malta – “If Trump actually implements all the policies he said he would there will be a recession, no fucking doubt.”

I doubt it. What makes you think that?

I am hoping he really does mean no business as usual. So the budget conversation, in an ideal world, would go sort of like “What the f**k is the Department of Education for? Fire them all!”

I’m sure firing the entire department of education, by itself, would lead to a recession. When Mugabe went after the white farmers every cunt who had anything fled, not just the small percentage of the population who were white farmers.

I was talking to one of my best friends, who is based in Asia, at 6am this morning. He has/had considerable equity in USD and he was trying to get it all out, before the final result was even 100%. While he may have been a bit jumpy (and I’m not sure he was even successful, as normally the trades go through in minutes, but his were still pending after a couple of hours…) this is what happens when investors are spooked by just the concept of Trump – never mind full blown actual fucking Trump.

If I have to argue this point then I’m wasting my time. As much as the likes of Worstall seems amused by the whole concept of Trump I know from his writings that he understands how growth needs a culture of economic freedom – not a dim witted strongman trying to fix things from the top down.

BiM–Same scare mongering shit as Brexit. Your various mates can sod off as well.

Protectionism is not a good idea. But to proclaim the present set up as economic freedom is a bad joke.

Western political trash up to now haven’t given a shite about the consequences that offshoring jobs have had on their own people. Just white trash after all.

In a free market jobs that go to places where they can be done cheaper should be replaced here by new, high tech work. But that isn’t happening because of the fucking state. Zero interest rates/thieving taxes/moronic regulations/inflation/shite state schools/welfare-trashed, minimum wage workforces/migrant wage-blasters and more mean that jobs go and are replaced by no or crappier jobs. The fucking polits and the high-end middle/upper class don’t give a coprolite. They can move to nice sunny climes and enjoy the London/Washington DC Bubble: Overseas division. Like all those Malteasers to bring you your expensive used-elsan coffee while you sit in the sun at a pavement café working your laptop.

Trump has won because he is smart and he has learned all through this campaign. I think that he will THINK about what he is going to do next. He has little room for effective action because of the shit nature of America’s finances. But stopping the war in the Mid-East/ not having a lovely nuclear conflict/ stopping being the world policeman-protector at yuuge expense may allow him to reform large elements of the US. An economic crunch is coming regardless of who is in. Cuntlery would only have made matters a thousand times worse and used the crisis to make the USA a full-on police state. Trump is the better choice by far.

Economic reality is soon going to give your nice little lifestyle a kicking anyway BiM. Trump is still the choice to make things less worse than The Kill would have done.

So bad is the economic state of the world that may be the best that can be hoped for for now.

Bloke in Malta
November 10, 2016 at 12:52 am

not a dim witted strongman trying to fix things from the top down.

So the dimwitted strongwoman would have been better? Better than the dimwitted strongman who’s been in office for 8 years? Better than the dimwitted strongman who was in office for the 8 years before that?

C’mon man – the only difference between Trump and Clinton is that Clinton already has a track record of doing the shit you’re scared Trump will do. The shit Trump won’t get to do because this time around even his own party can’t stand him so the Republican control of both the House and Senate is neutered.

If we’re lucky, all of us in the United States will enjoy 4 years of a government that can’t accomplish a single damn thing. For nearly half a decade the ratchet won’t tighten.

Edward M. Grant
November 10, 2016 at 4:06 am

“He will soon be purged”

Is that a Clintonism for ‘suddenly and mysteriously commit suicide’?

He died when he accidentally brutally stabbed himself in the stomach while shaving?

I was thinking more of Trump holding a TV show where people could vote for which Congressentity gets droned this week.

“Not going to happen, after Obama and a compliant Congress gave the President the power to drone any American he doesn’t like.”

+1

The left was warned by Cato as well as others that they were giving too much power to the President, but in their usual arrogance they believed they would rule forever. We can expect some screaming as those chickens come home to roost.

The more I read about the Founding Fathers the more I understand and like their thinking.