2016 US Presidential Elections

[IndianHawk]

Consider China is losing manufacturing jobs to Vietnam Cambodia at 1/3 or 1/4 wages, and perhaps India.

Would Americans like jobs for a meagre $$$ in labor-intensive footwear or garment ind.? Even a trade war with China only results in shift of purchase to other foreign manufacture from China. How would that help create jobs for Americans?

There's "cheap labor" in abundance from Mexico just next door, and NAFTA, and millions of illegal Mexican immigrants. But competitive?

What is gone is gone?!

Agreed.
That is why I pointed that only automation can work and that too can only bring limited change. Jobs for Americans can only come from more service intensive approach .

Meanwhile USA is still world leader in innovation and that can transform manufacturing in the coming decades too.

 

[ezsasa]

Anybody feels this is staged, or is it just me?
Somehow i don't think the punches are real.

Posting this here because it looks like American version of Intolerance cabal is about to start there.

 

[vinuzap]

when he was young



later:

 

[pmaitra]

Jon Stewart on President-elect Trump, hypocrisy in America

@Project Dharma, what do you think of what Jon Stewart said here?

 

[pmaitra]

Trump offers Flynn job of national security advisor

President-elect Donald Trump has offered retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn the role of national security advisor, a transition official told CNN Thursday.

His potential appointment wouldn't require Senate confirmation, which is potentially helpful for Trump, as Flynn has a long history of controversial remarks and was fired as President Barack Obama's director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.

Flynn's Twitter feed -- regularly updated with pro-Trump comments -- is another source of potential scrutiny. Flynn apologized in July after retweeting a message that bashed Jewish people.

The retweet came after Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said on CNN that Russia was to blame for hacks of the Democratic National Committee.

 

[pmaitra]

There are rumours that the person Donald Trump often referred to as "Lyin' Ted" is in consideration for the post of Attorney General.

 

[Project Dharma]

Jon Stewart on President-elect Trump, hypocrisy in America

@Project Dharma, what do you think of what Jon Stewart said here?

"America is not natural, natural is tribal - we are fighting against thousands of years of human behavior and history to create something"

Wow, he's articulated perfectly what I had in my mind. For all the Mexicans who're offended that the whites elected Trump, I want to ask them what would Mexico have done if non hispanics were going over there to work, sometimes illegally? I can guarantee the Mexicans would treat them way worse than they are treated in America.

 

[pmaitra]

Cartoonist Gary Varvel: Clinton Foundation donors

 

[pmaitra]

For Democrats, the Road Back

Having counted on the allegiance of African Americans, Hispanics, gays, unmarried women, and the young — and winning the popular vote all but once since 1992 — they were seduced into believing that they could ride this “coalition of the ascendant” into permanent command of the presidency.

Democrats read the 2008 and 2012 election results as a harbinger of the future. Then came 2016.

As these groups evolve socioeconomically, their political allegiances can easily change. This is particularly true for the phenomenally successful Asian-American community. There is no reason the more entrepreneurial party, the GOP, should continue to lose this vote by more than two to one.

What he voiced on their behalf was the unspoken complaint of decades: Why not us? All these other groups, up to and including the relatively tiny population of transgender people, receive benefits, special attention, and cultural approbation, yet we are left out in the cold, neglected and condescended to as both our social status and our economic conditions decline.

For all the embrace of identity politics at home, abroad Obama has preached the opposite. Here is a man telling a black audience in September that he would “consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy” if they didn’t turn out for the Democratic candidate in November. Yet on his valedictory tour abroad just nine weeks later, he lectured anyone who would listen on the sins of parochialism. His urgent message for the nations of the world, including his own, is to eschew “tribalism” in the name of a common universalism.

To be sure, ethnic appeal has been part of American politics forever. But the Hillary Clinton campaign was its reductio ad absurdum: all segmented group appeal, no message.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442443/democrats-identity-politics-lose-elections

 

[pmaitra]

'Hillary B--tches on Here?' Man Shouts for President-Elect Trump on Allentown-Bound Flight

Click link to see video.

Edit: Found video:

Spoiler: Video

 

[katsung47]

US Green Party leader raises funds for vote recount in 2nd state

AFP AFPNovember 25, 2016

Stein has raised more than $4.8 million of her $7 million goal, enough to fund a recount in Pennsylvania, her website said on Friday.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-green-party-leader-raises-funds-vote-recount-164719327.html
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[Nicky G]

US Green Party leader raises funds for vote recount in 2nd state

AFP AFPNovember 25, 2016

Stein has raised more than $4.8 million of her $7 million goal, enough to fund a recount in Pennsylvania, her website said on Friday.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-green-party-leader-raises-funds-vote-recount-164719327.html
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Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Indian-American Kamala Harris a potential presidential candidate for 2020: US daily
The Washington Post named 51-year-old Harris, whose mother was from Chennai and father from Jamaica, as one of the top contenders.

Kamala Harris, the first Indian-American to be elected to the US Senate, is a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 2020 elections, a leading American newspaper said today.

Harris, 51, whose mother was from Chennai and father from Jamaica, is one among the six Democratic leaders, whom The Washington Post said are the top contenders to bag the party's nomination for the 2020 presidential elections.

Interestingly four of these are women. The other three being outgoing First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from New York.

Other two potential Democratic presidential candidates according to the US daily are Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey and Governor John Hickenlooper from Colorado.

"Harris will not officially become a US senator from California for more than a month, but she is already regarded as national-candidate material in four years," Washington Post columnist Chris Cillizza wrote in his article.

"It is not hard to see why. She is the first African American woman elected to the Senate since Carol Moseley Braun in 1992. Harris also represents the largest and most Democratic state in the country, a huge financial launchpad to a presidential bid," he said, noting that through mid-October, she had raised more than USD 13 million for her Senate candidacy.

"Her law-and-order background -- she was elected and reelected attorney general in California -- also will appeal to many Democrats. Whether Harris wants to -- or will be ready to run for national office so soon after being elected to the Senate remains to be seen," Cillizza said.

Harris is a two-term popular Attorney General of California. She was elected to the United States Senate from California in a landslide. She was endorsed by outgoing US President Barack Obama, in her Senate race.

The Washington Post columnist also said First Lady Michelle has true star power. "She gave the two best political speeches of the past two years -- the first at the Democratic National Convention in July, the second in New Hampshire in the fall, an emotional condemnation of Trump's America," he said.

"Obama has one thing -- with the possible exception of Booker -- that the rest of the people on this list lack: true star power. She would start the race not only totally known by base Democrats but also absolutely beloved. The issue for Obama is that being a candidate in your own right is very different from being a surrogate for a candidate," he wrote.

However, Obama in the past has said she has no interest in running for office.

 

[pmaitra]

This is a satire/parody involving some popular songs and Hillary Clinton.

 

[Project Dharma]

Indian-American Kamala Harris a potential presidential candidate for 2020: US daily
The Washington Post named 51-year-old Harris, whose mother was from Chennai and father from Jamaica, as one of the top contenders.

Joe Biden told reporters he would run in 2020 a couple of days ago talking to reporters. If that is the case, he is the next Democratic nominee and depending on how the Trump Presidency goes also the next President of the United States.

 

[ezsasa]

Joe Biden told reporters he would run in 2020 a couple of days ago talking to reporters. If that is the case, he is the next Democratic nominee and depending on how the Trump Presidency goes also the next President of the United States.

So there are gonna be lots of jokes on biden's hugging habits post 2020.

 

[katsung47]

Trump behaves like a dictator. If he doesn't like someone, he'll put him(her) into jail. He accepts election results 'if I win', otherwise..... Why he is so arrogant and arbitrary? Because he is the candidate of the FBI. That's their culture - lawlessness. He is a full reflect picture of it.

 

[pmaitra]

Trump behaves like a dictator. If he doesn't like someone, he'll put him(her) into jail. He accepts election results 'if I win', otherwise..... Why he is so arrogant and arbitrary? Because he is the candidate of the FBI. That's their culture - lawlessness. He is a full reflect picture of it.

Trump said during one of the Presidential debates that he was going to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Hillary's emails. However, after winning, he said he does not want to hurt the Clintons, and that he would neither push for her prosecution, nor obstruct the Congress from continuing their probe.

 

[Sakal Gharelu Ustad]

Trump said during one of the Presidential debates that he was going to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Hillary's emails. However, after winning, he said he does not want to hurt the Clintons, and that he would neither push for her prosecution, nor obstruct the Congress from continuing their probe.

Clintons are established elites. No one is going to touch them.

 

[pmaitra]

Clintons are established elites. No one is going to touch them.

True, plus, it will look like political vendetta.