Trump

Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! Go mate! C'mon Trumpy! Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! C'mon mate! Go Trumpy!

There's a bangin' song in that! Gimme something to dance to...

Theres a bangin at a polling booth

The answer, my friend, is bangin' in the wind...the answer is bangin' in the wind...

(like a dunny door in a storm)

Now THATS hilarious, you and dags swap dad jokes on pm?

PM? I'm strictly an AM man, sonny-boy. Talkback.

Now young 'un, when you & Stu-bags get jiggy widdit at the discotheque tonight after today's inevitable victory, will you both be singing as well as dancing? Quite a skill, I'd wager. Like thinking and chewing gum or summat.

Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! Go mate! C'mon Trumpy! Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! C'mon mate! Go Trumpy!

Lolololololol....stop it warrior your gonna get me kicked out of my Centrelink projection

Trumpy ahead.

Reach for the tissues Benpi, Sheepshagger, voyd and co. Yaz moit wanna be contactin da HRC for what will soon follow if Trumpy gets in yo! Awwwwww

Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! Go mate! C'mon Trumpy! Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! C'mon mate! Go Trumpy!

Doof! Doof! Doof! Doof!

Doof would be you dropkick. I'm more of an acca dacca man meself.

Shillary's fave song is highway to hell.

the look on the face of the channel 7 guys...gold

Go you good thing. Fuck you left wing, pollically correct wankers.

I think he's more worried about the squiggly line on the bottom of the screen

he seems a little fixated

You angry mob won't be laughing when 'Mmerica collapses under this Fascist regime. I see that we are heading for dark times. Russia is poised & ready to take advantage.

Any predictions on the $US if Trumpy gets in ?

i predict that it will no longer be the baseline for global currencies

Disco-Stu, an AC/DC man? Why didn't you just call yourself AC/DC-Stu then? Erm, hang on...no good.

Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! Go mate! C'mon Trumpy! Go Trumpy! C'mon mate! C'mon mate! Go Trumpy!

Life at the outpost.

I'm over in the US a fair bit for work and have lots of friends and family there. Last November while I was there I was telling anyone who'd listen that I thought Trump would win the presidency because he was manipulating the media so well and owning every moment of air time. In Feb this year when I was back there I still thought that. He genuinely connected with a lot of people and Hilary didn't (for lots of reasons, some reasonable some unreasonable). And generally speaking, the American public loves a tough guy, which Trump embodies for them.

By July, my last trip there, I'd changed my mind and thought Hilary would win. The RNC was weak and aimless with speakers rambling without enthusiasm while the DNC was full of more motivated speakers that really focused the narrative well (despite the initial issues relating to Bernie's loss and the chair of the DNC). After the pussy grabbing video and Trump's weak debate performances, I figured his goose was cooked. I deal in probabilities at work and the UK elections and then the Brexit result had me thinking it was always a possibility that he'd win but I thought he was probably done.

But it looks like he might do it eh. It's pretty interesting to see. Policy wise, I think I'm most surprised his desire to curb free speech didn't sink his support among the constitutionalists in the US. Go figure.

Globally, I think it makes Australia less safe. We're safest when we're closely tied to a strong US that talks softly and carries a big stick. I'm not sure he can only carry the stick. We have a delicate position with China-US relations and Trump's positions on China might not play out well for us. Although if he throws up trade barriers that might work out well for us in fact!

What's really bizarre is just how left wing his economic positions are (and of course contradictory to his own business practices). Trade barriers and government support for manufacturing in advanced economies are the domain of the far left. But that's Trump's angle. It genuinely amazes me that right wing people support this. I'm to the right of this guy on those issues so I do find that kind of thing baffling.

I've had a morbid curiosity about what the world might look like if this happened. From memory there was a bit of that driving the brexit vote and I'd reckon there's some of that here. Let's shake things up and see what happens. It's going to be really interesting to watch!

As for the depressing stuff, the right and access to abortion is likely to be dramatically limited over the next four years and possibly made illegal if he does manage to stack the supreme court. That will be a depressing outcome because that's a generational shift.

Benpi, you are full of brown stuff. Wipe that chin you left wing piece of bollocks!

That morbid curiosity of yours could be fixed by stopping looking in the mirror! Wahahahaha

Go Trumpy!

Where are all the left tards? Hiding down your holes. BB, Sypper, Gobbler? Can you feel it? CAN YOU FEEL IT? wooohoooooooooo

I guess all the longboards are out on hire.

Yokal it will be all fine as long as the left aren't running things then you have nothing to worry about.

Yes, " And generally speaking, the American public loves a tough guy, which Trump embodies for them."
And the Australian public want a 'tough' guy.
Don't forget the US Senate. There are and will be forces within the administration and Republicans to temper his voice and actions.

Benski, I posted something on the What's What? thread via that old provocateur SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, where he brings up exactly some of those ideas.

"TRUMP IS REVOLUTION?!

Chuck "ŽIŽEK" "TRUMP" "CLINTON" & "To paraphrase Stalin: They are both worse" in your search engine!"

As for Disco-Stu, we get your venting-troll, clown schtick - ho ho! - BUT from Benki's post, I've got more actual info or concerns or even curiousity about Trump policy-wise than ANYTHING you've posted.

Your man Trumpy is going to do WHAT exactly to "make America great again"? What policies of his float your boat? You claim you're in the 'mkts', is his 'radical' tax-plan, say - bigger corporate tax cuts than GW Bush's by a loooong way - the clincher for you? Something else? Anything else? ANYTHING?

Woohoo, Trumpy, Leftard...blah blah blah...PARP!

C'mon, give us something, Disco. Let us understand...

I think that the campaign trail has demonstrated the opposite Tony, Trump shoots from the hip despite his administration's efforts to reduce the damage. We're about to get a reactive aggressor as the leader of the world power, right when it is at its weakest and most vulnerable.

Errr, I have posted a link to Trumps plans previously. Go read them.

I don't talk shop with imbeciles gobbler.

^^ Ditto @DS

What policies of his do you admire, and which do you think will succeed?

I can understand the sentiment but wonder what the reaction wil be when, say, the costs of goods start to rise due to tariffs. Or the economy stumbles 'cos labor in the US will never be as cheap as that in Latin America or Asia.

Piss-weak, Disco. ANYTHING?! Quick, trawl through his web-site.

"Not as dumb as you look, but not as smart as you think"

BINGO-STU!

Stu, examine Japan. Tariffs on everything. Yen stronger than shit. There goes your COGS argument.

You mean a $5 dollar an hour minimum pay rate isn't low enough? You do know that the price of Chinese goods is going up because of increasing wages right? Quality hasn't improved on anything they make.

Japan isn't as cheap as Latin America or other Asian countries - so what is the point of that statement?

Time to let these other countries get their own shit together. No point helping them. Stuff them. Trump wants to make the US strong for Americans. Who the hell cares about the rest of the world? Competition isn't about giving handouts to bums.

" BUT from Benki's post, I've got more actual info or concerns or even curiousity about Trump policy-wise than ANYTHING you've posted."

ACTUAL info ey, is that like info from buzzfeed, or info from some obscure socialist propaganda, or info that milo is of the alt right? Actual info, where do you get that...fishing?

Spot on Stu, what comes next? how will he deliver the impossible? and what will the reaction be when the Trump supporters/voters realise he is all froth and bubble.

I know several Australians living/working in the UK both in central London (anti Brexit) and in the outer cities (heavily for Brexit). Two worlds; one with a thriving economy the other in recession. The startling thing I'm hearing is the pro Brexit people and their communities are inward and backwards looking and the only answer they have is to go back to the full employment days of the 60s and 70s with the help of government money .... how is that sustainable or even possible. So the UK pro Brexit (mostly conservative low taxing) politicians have raised expectations that they will not deliver on.

Can't help but think the same will happen in the US.

Yokal so please explain how Trump getting up is going to be down the downfall of America.
I predict the markets will react positively once they get over the shock.

Couldnt really be buggered debating nick3 so let's revisit in <2 years and we'll see where its at.

yeah floyd, that's exactly what I was thinking. And it took Nigel Farage less than 24 hours to back away from the brexit 'promise' of funding the NHS instead of sending cash to Europe (for which there was a net positive return).

turkey, no brain power to read through it all just at the moment, but looks interesting.

Fair call yocal..... Btw I could never picture a potential PM callling a whole bunch of Australian voters a "basket of deplorables"..... BIG mistake... And it's the rust belt where she's being whipped...

BTW I'm not that worried about Donald.... As I said yesterday, his running mate Pence is a bigger worry...
You seen that footage of him denying evolution?
Religious nutter, just well dressed.

Yocal will the bleeding left scare tactics about Trump be like Tim Flannery's predictions on global warming.

GW Bush and Bill Cinton both have a part to play in this..... The incestuous almost "royalty" that has taken over American politics is "on the nose"..... There was Bush senior.... Then Bill..... Then son George Dubbya, who was a laughing stock..... There was even a chance not so long ago that another Bush would be taking on a Clinton... Well, people had enough.....

sheepdog, wait a minute, are you watching The Drum and passing off the opinions there as your own? ;-) They've just been talking about an election against royalty.

China wins us election. Trumps queen Hilary then asks for it's loans back. Open for code swapping. James clavell makes a comeback as the saga continues. Yawn. Time to watch al Bundy.

Like Brexit, this is the voting public giving the finger to career politicians that no longer represent the people.

One for the people.

Jerry Jerry Jerry Jerry .....

LOVE IT! HOW GOES IT ALL OF YOU BIG GOBBED CRETINS?

YOU ARE NOW ALL OFFICIALLY PART OF A MINORITY GROUP!

WAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!

LET THE EXCUSES BEGIN!

It was Russia, it was China, it was Tasmania! WAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAA

Benski..... you write "sheepdog, wait a minute, are you watching The Drum and passing off the opinions there as your own? ;-) They've just been talking about an election against royalty."

Mate, go to the guardian live thread..... As I have stated here to floyd quite a while ago, I post there as the pseudonym "Harrytick" (as in heretic) and also used to stir up rightards on the Andrew Bolt site using the same name before it got paywalled.... You'll see a post of mine saying exactly the same thing hours ago.

Benksi, correction, not "hours ago" lol, about an hour ago....

Shagger you demented little flower. HOW DOES IT FEEL?

WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!

RIGHTARDS ARE NOW RUNNING THE JOINT!

And Bolt's site has never been behind a paywall you pathetic little makeup artist.

OWNED!

OWNED!

OWNED!

Stu, how long do you like being wrong?
Anyone here, go to Bolts site now and try to post a comment.. You cant unless you have a herald sun subscription..
And Trump isn't from the right you idiot.... He has turned the rightard republicans on their head.... The rightards couldn't even get their man Rubio up as presidential candidate.... bahahahahaha..... You really are a fuckwit.... The right are all for free trade, ask ya mate Andrew Robb.....

Wow I cant believe it Trump is going to be USA president, the guys a total dick, but on the flip side I'm glad he won just because he is the underdog and to shake things up and mostly just to piss the far left off.

Now i guess we wait and see what is going to happen?.

If the far left are to be believed the sky will be falling down tomorrow, i personally know jack shit, but my guess is not much will change the world will go on the USA will continue the shit they do like getting involved in wars and the media will still take a bias anti trump view.

All good mate. But it sounds like someone on the drum was reading your posts!

I dunno how you post in too many places man. I like it here cos there's a few interesting people and you can yarn for more than 24 hours like on those other kinds of threads. Also I can't be bothered with people who just wanna throw lame insults around and nothing else but that's about all you get over there isn't it!?!?

Indo, if he actually keeps his promises, things will change a bit I think.

Holy crap he's done it..

God save the world

Gobsmacked.

That this thread opens with BB displaying his stupidity and then having a whole bunch of idiot singing from the same hymn sheet is just gold!

Suck it up!

Australia next.

No more climate change crap! WAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA

Tissues for everyone! tehehehehehhehehe

Gary never knew that Senator Bernardi was a surfer or a Simpsons fan.
The things one learns.