“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” Mr. Trump told supporters around 3 a.m. at a rally in New York City, just after Mrs. Clinton called to concede.
Mr. Trump’s strong showing brightened Republican hopes of retaining control of the Senate. Only one Republican-controlled seat, in Illinois, fell to Democrats early in the evening. And Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, a Republican, easily won re-election in a race that had been among the country’s most competitive. A handful of other Republican incumbents facing difficult races were running better than expected.
Mr. Trump’s win — stretching across the battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania — seemed likely to set off financial jitters and immediate unease among international allies, many of which were startled when Mr. Trump in his campaign cast doubt on the necessity of America’s military commitments abroad and its allegiance to international economic partnerships.
From the moment he entered the campaign, with a shocking set of claims that Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals, Mr. Trump was widely underestimated as a candidate, first by his opponents for the Republican nomination and later by Mrs. Clinton, his Democratic rival. His rise was largely missed by polling organizations and data analysts. And an air of improbability trailed his campaign, to the detriment of those who dismissed his angry message, his improvisational style and his appeal to disillusioned voters.
He suggested remedies that raised questions of constitutionality, like a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
He threatened opponents, promising lawsuits against news organizations that covered him critically and women who accused him of sexual assault. At times, he simply lied.
But Mr. Trump’s unfiltered rallies and unshakable self-regard attracted a zealous following, fusing unsubtle identity politics with an economic populism that often defied party doctrine.
His rallies — furious, entertaining, heavy on name-calling and nationalist overtones — became the nexus of a political movement, with daily promises of sweeping victory, in the election and otherwise, and an insistence that the country’s political machinery was “rigged” against Mr. Trump and those who admired him.
He seemed to embody the success and grandeur that so many of his followers felt was missing from their own lives — and from the country itself. And he scoffed at the poll-driven word-parsing ways of modern politics, calling them a waste of time and money. Instead, he relied on his gut.
At his victory party at the New York Hilton Midtown, where a raucous crowd indulged in a cash bar and wore hats bearing his ubiquitous campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” voters expressed gratification that their voices had, at last, been heard.
“He was talking to people who weren’t being spoken to,” said Joseph Gravagna, 37, a marketing company owner from Rockland County, N.Y. “That’s how I knew he was going to win.”
For Mrs. Clinton, the defeat signaled an astonishing end to a political dynasty that has colored Democratic politics for a generation. Eight years after losing to President Obama in the Democratic primary — and 16 years after leaving the White House for the United States Senate, as President Bill Clinton exited office — she had seemed positioned to carry on two legacies: her husband’s and the president’s.
Her shocking loss was a devastating turn for the sprawling world of Clinton aides and strategists who believed they had built an electoral machine that would swamp Mr. Trump’s ragtag band of loyal operatives and family members, many of whom had no experience running a national campaign.
On Tuesday night, stricken Clinton aides who believed that Mr. Trump had no mathematical path to victory, anxiously paced the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center as states in which they were confident of victory, like Florida and North Carolina, either fell to Mr. Trump or seemed in danger of tipping his way.
Mrs. Clinton watched the grim results roll in from a suite at the nearby Peninsula Hotel, surrounded by her family, friends and advisers who had the day before celebrated her candidacy with a champagne toast on her campaign plane.
But over and over, Mrs. Clinton’s weaknesses as a candidate were exposed. She failed to excite voters hungry for change. She struggled to build trust with Americans who were baffled by her decision to use a private email server as secretary of state. And she strained to make a persuasive case for herself as a champion of the economically downtrodden after delivering perfunctory paid speeches that earned her millions of dollars.
The returns Tuesday also amounted to a historic rebuke of the Democratic Party from the white blue-collar voters who had formed the party base from the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Mr. Clinton’s. Yet Mrs. Clinton and her advisers had taken for granted that states like Michigan and Wisconsin would stick with a Democratic nominee, and that she could repeat Mr. Obama’s strategy of mobilizing the party’s ascendant liberal coalition rather than pursuing a more moderate course like her husband did 24 years ago.
But not until these voters were offered a Republican who ran as an unapologetic populist, railing against foreign trade deals and illegal immigration, did they move so drastically away from their ancestral political home.
To the surprise of many on the left, white voters who had helped elect the nation’s first black president, appeared more reluctant to line up behind a white woman.
From Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, industrial towns once full of union voters who for decades offered their votes to Democratic presidential candidates, even in the party’s lean years, shifted to Mr. Trump’s Republican Party. One county in the Mahoning Valley of Ohio, Trumbull, went to Mr. Trump by a six-point margin. Four years ago, Mr. Obama won there by 22 points.
Mrs. Clinton’s loss was especially crushing to millions who had cheered her march toward history as, they hoped, the nation’s first female president. For supporters, the election often felt like a referendum on gender progress: an opportunity to elevate a woman to the nation’s top job and to repudiate a man whose remarkably boorish behavior toward women had assumed center stage during much of the campaign.
Mr. Trump boasted, in a 2005 video released last month, about using his public profile to commit sexual assault. He suggested that female political rivals lacked a presidential “look.” He ranked women on a scale of one to 10, even holding forth on the desirability of his own daughter — the kind of throwback male behavior that many in the country assumed would disqualify a candidate for high office.
On Tuesday, the public’s verdict was rendered.
Uncertainty abounds as Mr. Trump prepares to take office. His campaign featured a shape-shifting list of policy proposals, often seeming to change hour to hour. His staff was in constant turmoil, with Mr. Trump’s children serving critical campaign roles and a rotating cast of advisers alternately seeking access to Mr. Trump’s ear, losing it and, often, regaining it, depending on the day.
Even Mr. Trump’s full embrace of the Republican Party came exceedingly late in life, leaving members of both parties unsure about what he truly believes. He has donated heavily to both parties and has long described his politics as the transactional reality of a businessman.
Mr. Trump’s dozens of business entanglements — many of them in foreign countries — will follow him into the Oval Office, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest. His refusal to release his tax returns, and his acknowledgment that he did not pay federal income taxes for years, has left the American people with considerable gaps in their understanding of the financial dealings.
But this they do know: Mr. Trump will thoroughly reimagine the tone, standards and expectations of the presidency, molding it in his own self-aggrandizing image.
He is set to take the oath of office on Jan. 20.
NYTimes
Apneaman on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 11:27 am
Old Dutch, I found this short video that best describes my feeling towards political parties, their head muppets and all the people who cling to them like Linus to his security blanket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAp7FvZ5Opw
If I ever got to the point that I defined my identity buy some stupid political party, I would just shoot myself in the fucking head. You know, I have never met anyone in Canada who defined them self by the political party they voted for. I’ve never heard a Canadian say, I’m a NDP and I hate those evil PC’s. I guess the government here can’t afford the propaganda budget to pull that one off.
Davy on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 11:36 am
“Who Lost: A Biased Media, Pundits, Pollsters, Political Parties, Warmongers, the Corporatocracy, Pay-to-Play Grifters, Neoliberals”
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/11/who-lost-biased-media-pundits-pollsters.html
“Sometimes who lost is more important than who won. Let’s review who lost the election:
1. Let’s start with the Corporatocracy, which expected to once again wield unlimited influence by funding political campaigns with millions of dollars in contributions and speaking fees.
2. A biased mainstream media.
3. Mainstream punditry: they got it wrong from the start and remained close-minded and arrogant in their postured superiority.
4. Pollsters. Having rigged the polls via over-sampling and under-sampling, they were laughably wrong. Here is a typical headline from election night, from the New York Times: Trump Takes Florida, Closing In on a Stunning Upset.
5. Political parties. As my friend G.F.B. observed, both parties ran 20th century campaigns in the 21st century. Both parties lost for this reason; both are hopelessly out of touch with a rapidly changing America.
6. Warmongers. Many Americans are sick and tired of interventionist, globalist warmongering. The only possible way they could register their opposition to warmongering was to vote for Trump.
7. Pay-to-Play Grifters. Let the investigations, indictments, prosecutions and convictions begin as soon as Trump is sworn in.
8. Neoliberals. Globalization boils down to freeing mobile capital to rove the globe for opportunities to strip-mine cheap resources, assets and labor and then move on, leaving ruined communities behind.
9. Bonus loser: Fake Progressives. Fake Progressives are perfectly fine with soaring inequality and corrupt governance, as long as everyone’s public utterances are politically correct. So the oppressor class is acceptable as long as they speak respectfully while stepping on your neck.”
Cloggie on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 12:03 pm
The “Assad must go” curse:
https://nl.sott.net/pic-of-day/356414
http://tinyurl.com/hv99gy8
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2Z_3OWgAUieZs.jpg:large
Cloggie on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 12:26 pm
Ah, here it is, July this year:
http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/the-divided-states-of-america/comment-page-1
Friday said: Since it’s inevitable, I think I will enjoy watching the right-wingers get their ass whooped… My personal motto is that once the shit hits all fanatics should be treated equal – shoot first and don’t ask any questions.
Right.
Friday, if you ever touch one of the many Trump-supporters here, like Greg, Davy, makati, Theedrich, JuanP or many others, you’ll touch me and it won’t be pretty.
I won’t warn again.
J-Gav on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 3:24 pm
Davy – As a regular reader of CHS,I get the point he’s making here. However, I would also look at it from the other side: ie Who won? A lying,scheming, misogynist fraudster. Yes, the ‘ruling class’ brought it upon themselves through their hubris and arrogant distancing from the population at large! But that doesn’t mean the Trumpster actually has a viable plan. We’ll have to wait and see what that looks like …
Davy on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 3:40 pm
Jgav, you know any politicians who are not as you described. We brought this upon ourselves by allowing a Hillary. That failure allowed for a Trump. I am not a Trump supporter but he is here and we can try to figure out how to deal with this new reality. Liberalism as we know it today is a failure. Conservatism was already a failure. What is left? Maybe we should wonder in this brave new world if Putin’s way is not the best. I voted for Trump ONLY becuase of Hillary. I wonder if there will be another election. Four years is a long way off.
Davy on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 3:50 pm
If you want to get a taste of failure ahead then read this:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-10/trump-reveals-policy-goals-building-wall-end-war-coal-repeal-obamacare-dismantle-dod
Yet, nothing but talk so far. They are going to be lucky to get the talk out before shit hits the fan with all those other people who were not a part of Trumps victory who will raise holy hell for this new direction.
onlooker on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 4:00 pm
Get real people. US is hell bent on military domination and war. The illegals are going nowhere. We want their cheap labor that nobody else will do and cannot be done by automation. They probably will dismantle Obamacare. But so what it is not really very popular anyway. Coal is not needed while they have the shale fracking. So alot of hot air. Besides a President of the US is just a figurehead, puppet paper tiger.
Apneaman on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 4:26 pm
Old dutch, I don’t see any mention of Hillary in that quote, let alone me supporting her or her party or any political party in any way shape or form. It’s faulty logic to assume that my dislike of one group automatically means I support their opponents. I don’t, and anyone who reads my comments regularly knows that I take shots at everyone. It’s what court jesters do. I have tried to enlighten you to this before, but I guess you are completly Americanized in your thinking – 2 teams and nothing else. No other beliefs than American left or right exist in the entire universe and it’s been that way since civilization started. Automatically assuming that anyone who disagrees with your politics is on the other team is also more self flattery and paranoia. You and ALEX and the rest must feel really important that most of the world is spending every waking moment trying to scam y’all. Agency Agency everywhere BOO!!!! A few hundred years ago you guys would be the ones blaming crop failure and storms on demons and witches and trying to burn them at the stake. Agency Agency everywhere BOO!!!!
The offer is still up old dutch. You have 2 1/2 years of comments of mine to sift through old man.
P.S. I’m flattered that you went to such effort on account of me………….are you sweet on me old dutch? ……….Ahh
P.P.S. Spare me your threats retard. Either get on a plane to Vancouver or STFU.
Apneaman on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 4:43 pm
Some more reality kids
Controversial promises vanish from Donald Trump’s website
“They include the “Donald J. Trump statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration”, in which he called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”.
Also gone is his promise to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement, the list of his potential Supreme Court justice picks and details of his economic, defence and regulatory reform plans.
The Trump campaign did not respond to emails seeking comment on the changes.”
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/317853/trump's-controversial-promises-vanish-from-website
makati1 on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 6:12 pm
Ap, as you know, anyone with two functioning brain cells understands that campaign promises are just that, pure bullshit. Rarely has any politician made good on his/her promises. Why? Because, for the most part, it is beyond their power to do so. Our current prez is a perfect example. Trump will not fare much better. I do hope he manages to reign in the military and the Federal Reserve, but that is unlikely. Until after the great crash and/or world war 3.
Next year, we get to see if the nationalism virus has spread to Europe. They have several key elections. I am especially interested in the German one as Merkle is another Hillary and needs to be put down.
Just more signs of the times, and they ain’t pretty.
Apneaman on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 7:20 pm
Mak, I think it’s almost impossible for westerners who are now lowly have nots to get their expectations met. What are these politicians going to do, put the low hanging fruit back on the tree? The best that they could do without war is make a few tweaks to create some jobs to quiet the angry. Folks want jobs and an end to corruption and the legalized corporate rackets. Captains of techno industry want illeagles at low low wages, no benefits, poor safety standards and no bathroom breaks on their time or better yet robots. Do people really think Trump can make super powerful corporations close up shop in third world countries, ship the factories to america and hire all native borns with good wages and safety? Just the thought of trying to force corporations to do such a thing is anti capitalist. I do not think these people understand how capitalism works. As long as the global economy staggers along, the R&D and advancements in automation will continue. There are literally millions of people around the world working on it. Some of the techno claims may be hyperbolic, but make no mistake they are getting better at it and more jobs are lost to automation everyday while at the same time another 250,000 hungry mouths come into this world everyday. Sounds like yet another pickle to me.
Robots Will Take Two-Thirds of All Jobs In the Developing World, UN Says
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/robots-will-take-two-thirds-of-all-jobs-in-the-developing-world-un-says
93% of Investors Say AI Will Destroy Jobs, Governments Not Prepared
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2016/11/10/93-of-investors-say-ai-will-destroy-jobs-governments-not-prepared/#418af7092a91
Oh and 62 people out of 7.5 billion have half the wealth in the world.
Richest 62 people as wealthy as half of world’s population, says Oxfam
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/richest-62-billionaires-wealthy-half-world-population-combined
Since power continues to concentrate and history shows power never gives itself up except on pain of death and not even always then, let’s contemplate on where or how it’s all going to play out.
makati1 on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 7:24 pm
Ap, which is why I still believe we will have a world war soon, and the total collapse of the world financial system. Putting a timeline on it is impossible as there may still be a few rabbits left in the hats, but … soon.
Apneaman on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 8:18 pm
Day two after election and the betrayal is so obvious. Drain the swamp huh? More like filling it up.
Donald Trump Recruits Corporate Lobbyists to Select His Future Administration
“But the Trump transition team is a who’s who of influence peddlers, including: energy adviser Michael Catanzaro, a lobbyist for Koch Industries and the Walt Disney Company; adviser Eric Ueland, a Senate Republican staffer who previously lobbied for Goldman Sachs; and Transition General Counsel William Palatucci, an attorney in New Jersey whose lobbying firm represents Aetna and Verizon. Rick Holt, Christine Ciccone, Rich Bagger, and Mike Ferguson are among the other corporate lobbyists helping to manage the transition effort.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/08/trump-transition-lobbyists/
All the same people who have been fucking the working man over for decades with their legalized rackets. Same shit different POTUS.
onlooker on Thu, 10th Nov 2016 8:52 pm
The way it has , is and will play out is the same. Naive,indoctrinated and ignorant masses believing somehow you can make cosmetic changes within the system and get real change. The system and its exploiters and beneficiaries as AP said will not submit to change until and unless forced. And the masses will not force any change until the lights go off or physical discomfort ensues ie hunger etc. Yet the momentum is too great now to effectively be stopped or deviated by human agency. One way or another the collapse dynamic will ensure
Cloggie on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 4:45 am
Friday said: Controversial promises vanish from Donald Trump’s website
Wrong again.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-idUSKBN135284?il=0
P.S. I’m flattered that you went to such effort on account of me………….are you sweet on me old dutch? ……….Ahh
I thought you were a Google expert, apparently you are not. All it took was the request:
“inurl:peakoil.com apneaman shoot first”
…to find back your murderous quote.
Spare me your threats retard. Either get on a plane to Vancouver or STFU.</
War will come to your town alright, although in the end it will become Chinese anyway. Talking about the Chinese takeover of Canada, Toronto is next:
https://twitter.com/wmiddelkoop/status/796947217701621760
Vancouver maybe nominally Canada (its Asia really), but it is full of useless nihilistic lefties like our Friday:
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/796908865589805056
All these spineless little commie people, the "huddled masses", agitating against Trump. People unfit to live on a Darwinian planet. Secular christians, equipped with two giant Other Cheeks, inviting everybody to hit on it. To weak to defend itself. The law of nature is without mercy, you can have it China:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4486/8rrlwfhb_jpg
Meanwhile the US left (+Hispanics) is flirting with secession:
http://www.yescalifornia.org/
Kick California out of the union and give it back to Mexico. It would mean getting rid of 55 secure Democrate electoral college votes. America is big enough for everybody to have his own home country. The USSR fell apart along ethnic lines, so will North-America. Long before peak oil will kick in.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 5:46 am
Detailed electoral map on county level just in:
http://www.infowars.com/map-shows-sanctuary-city-islands-of-blue-in-sea-of-red/
No surprises: cities are blue, the rest is red. Until recently the idea world-wide was that the cities have the future. They don’t, not in a depleting world. In the future you need land, not bureau’s in skyscrapers.
If the US will get rid of California and the rest of the West coast, as well as the South-West and the Eastern seaboard, you have your old, constitutionalist, confederate flag-waving post-imperial American America restored:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River#/media/File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png
Donald Trump has no intentions to split up the US, he is a civic nationalist, not a white nationalist, although at least he wants to halt further white dispossession with his Mexico-wall. But Gorbachev had no intention either to split up the USSR, but it happened anyway, a few years after he rose to power.
http://tinyurl.com/j9cxo2p
Some Brit working himself in a rage and rants against Trump and Clinton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs
He says that the left had won the cultural war and now this.
No they didn’t, the postwar Left merely operated in the slipstream of the leftist 1933-1945 Roosevelt-Stalin coalition. But the USSR fell flat on its face and after 2000 was liberated from the NWO-left thanks to Putin. In Russia traditionalist conservative populist normality was restored.
Now America and the rest of the West are next. The West, the last communist entity on this planet. “Communist” as in One World aspirations, thanks to the US military and NATO. But it didn’t work out that way. Russia and China formed the SCO-alliance. Ukraine couldn’t be used (so far) as a spring-board for war against Russia. The entire Middle-East, formerly dominated by the US, is now one giant mess and no longer dominated by the US. Instead fundamentalist Islam is awakened and dreams of a global Caliphate. They won’t have that but they will have their Caliphate, dominating the upper half of Africa and the ME, anyway. Erdogan is already contemplating reconquering Greek islands. In Europe nobody is advocating a rapid Turkish membership of the EU.
Worldwide people want to live in nations of their own and don’t want to become overrun by aliens, just because the US deep state wants that to happen.
Even the chief columnist of the stinking leftist der Spiegel has to admit that the West is over:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/us-wahl-donald-trumps-wahl-ist-das-ende-des-westens-a-1120608.html
“Trump des Willens”.
Poor left, boohoo.
According to Augstein, Germany is alone again, now that the overlord has gone. Proud Germany clearly has to learn to walk on its own again, like the rest of Europe. Don’t worry, they will walk on their own feet in no-time. If poor backward Russia can learn to walk on its own feet again after the oligarchic nineties, European countries certainly will.
Davy on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 6:10 am
I don’t like what I am seeing with the new administration. He is wadding into the swamp instead of pulling the plug. I never expected him to do much right. His message was flawed from the start that was obvious. He did rid us of Hillary and pulled the rug out from under the current corrupt establishment. That had to be done because they had corrupted to a point of danger. This was individuals and networks within the system. The system is beyond reform in my view. Now it appears a new bunch of corruptible will be installed. It is too early to know the true direction of course. It is a pity we can’t have more WikiLeaks to have a better account of what is going on.
I imagine Trump administration will not be as stupid as the Clintons were near the end at least in the beginning. I am amazed at how overt her corruption was in the final stages. I am wondering if the fact that someone so powerful was brought down if that event in itself will clean the swamp to some degree. It does not look good though. It may just be political spoils and nothing to do with justice and moral hazard. I am really discouraged, not that I had much optimism. Justice takes a lot of energy and the enjoyment of the spoils so much more inviting.
My biggest concern is with Russia. Will Trump attempt to meet Putin half way. Can they have a relationship as great leaders must? Trump is not a great leader but he is in a position of great importance for the world. Will the deep state coopt a Trump Putin relationship? Is there any chemistry anyway? This for me is the whole election. For me it does not matter who won liberals or conservatives (minus the Clinton corruption) both political directions were going the same direction. The American political landscape is basically one force or farce following one direction and that is a false affluence and a misdirected global interventionism. If Trump can bring detente to Russian American relations then the rest is immaterial. If we can take WWIII off the table at least for 4 more years then his election will be a success. The rest is just more of the same.
The American and the global economy is in a collapse process. There is no other word for it. You can’t fix a macro momentum. It is like fixing climate change. You can’t because these forces are beyond human dimensions even though they were created by humans. Trump will bring down the country no different from a Clinton administration. The difference is the flavor. The difference is who will benefit from the transfer of wealth.
The country and the world is facing the headwinds of collapse in brittle stasis. Anything done today with the economy will have consequences and unintended consequences and likely only negative as is the case with any mature ecosystem with all niches filled. It will be a matter of how negative? When negative is the only option then it is a matter of degree and timing. A real leader at this point would address our current affairs as if a collapse is going to happen and we all know this is not in the cards so the results are a matter of how much will new pro-growth policies impact the collapse process. It is a matter of degree of negative. A good leadership would reduce the degree of negative and that would be the positive. There is generally no positives to a catch 22. The one effort that will be a positive is détente with Russia. The rest is just moving chairs around on a sinking ship.
Shortend on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 6:52 am
Believe me..Trump will put a new meaning to being “stupid” and “corrupt”…look who is surrounding himself with.
Should be entertaining….
BTW…anyone to take seriously ANYTHING this person promises is a simpleton.
Davy on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 7:12 am
These are the consequences to making waves when in a swamp you can never leave. Trumps economics is going to throw the world into turmoil at a time when turmoil may break the back of the global economy. The question is when and how fast? The global economy was in this direction anyway. Will an earlier hard recession be better than delayed one. In crisis there is change but some crisis may be too much change to survive. We need change if we want to buy time to survive in an unwind of globalism. This is the nature of risk management in a collapse process. We also need real leadership in a crisis. The only place I see real leadership now is in Russia. We are again in uncharted waters of collapse with new forces in play.
“Central Banks Intervene, Scramble To Halt Emerging Market “Carnage”; Futures Slide”
http://tinyurl.com/zwvextv
“Developing-nation assets have been roiled since Trump’s surprise win in Tuesday’s vote and central banks in India and Indonesia were said to have intervened Friday in support of their currencies. Futures indicate an 80 percent chance that the Fed will raise rates next month and expectations are building for more increases. Ten-year Treasury yields have climbed above 2 percent for the first time since January amid speculation the president-elect’s plans to cut taxes and boost spending will widen the U.S. budget deficit and stoke inflation.”
“There’s been a big rotation out of emerging markets into U.S. dollar assets,” said Jeffrey Halley, a market strategist at Oanda Asia Pacific Pte in Singapore. “An emerging market is a market you can’t emerge from in an emergency. It’s one of the best lessons I’ve ever learnt in 30 years in the market. When everybody runs for the door at the same time, the door’s very small.”
Davy on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 7:28 am
Are these goals possible or just hopium?
“Who Said “Assad Must Go” And Where Are They Now?”
http://tinyurl.com/hsdzjtv
“The Working Class Won The Election”
http://tinyurl.com/p7zzjt7
PS I never thought I would align perfectly with PCR.
Ghung on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 8:12 am
Davy experiences buyers remorse. Who’ve thunk?
Ghung on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 8:16 am
Obama Went Unchallenged, Now Donald Trump Will Have a ‘Kill List’
“‘Instead of dismantling the surveillance state and war machine, the Obama administration and Democrats institutionalized it—and it will soon be in the hands of a maniac’ “ ….
Ghung on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 8:21 am
“”What horrors are in store for us during the reign of President Trump is anyone’s guess, but he will have all the tools at his disposal to wreak havoc on our rights here at home and countless lives of those abroad,” …… “We should have seen this coming, and we should have put in place the safeguards to limit the damage.””
(from above link)
Apneaman on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 9:36 am
Old Dutch, isn’t all that banking and corporate scum Now on Team Trump part of your NWO?
Bahahahahahaha Two days to bend them over and start another 4 year ass reaming Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
And only day 3 for all the Trumpateeres like you to start the excuse making. Bahahahahahahahaha
Donald Trump Recruits Corporate Lobbyists to Select His Future Administration
“AS DONALD TRUMP finishes his campaign with a promise to break the control of Washington by political insiders, his transition team is preparing to hand his administration over to a cozy clique of corporate lobbyists and Republican power brokers.
“Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you the American people,” Trump says in his closing campaign advertisement, followed by flashing images of K Street, Wall Street, and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein.
But the Trump transition team is a who’s who of influence peddlers, including: energy adviser Michael Catanzaro, a lobbyist for Koch Industries and the Walt Disney Company; adviser Eric Ueland, a Senate Republican staffer who previously lobbied for Goldman Sachs; and Transition General Counsel William Palatucci, an attorney in New Jersey whose lobbying firm represents Aetna and Verizon. Rick Holt, Christine Ciccone, Rich Bagger, and Mike Ferguson are among the other corporate lobbyists helping to manage the transition effort.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/08/trump-transition-lobbyists/
Lloyd Blankfein, holy fuck! they don’t get any more NWO than that scum fuck.
Bahahahahahahahahah
Apneaman on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 9:51 am
Trump Campaigned Against Lobbyists. Now They’re on His Transition Team.
“President-elect Donald J. Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has complained have too much clout in Washington: corporate consultants and lobbyists.
Jeffrey Eisenach, a consultant who has worked for years on behalf of Verizon and other telecommunications clients, is the head of the team that is helping to pick staff members at the Federal Communications Commission.
Michael Catanzaro, a lobbyist whose clients include Devon Energy and Encana Oil and Gas, holds the “energy independence” portfolio.
Michael Torrey, a lobbyist who runs a firm that has earned millions of dollars helping food industry players such as the American Beverage Association and the dairy giant Dean Foods, is helping set up the new team at the Department of Agriculture.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/politics/trump-campaigned-against-lobbyists-now-theyre-on-his-transition-team.html?_r=0
Ok old dutch, this is your cue, to attack the sources in the hopes of distracting from the painful FACTS and posting 47 ALEX FUCKING JONES videos
Bahahahahahahaha Oh I slay myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBujhiZT4U
Davy on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 10:38 am
Nope, Ghung, did what I had to do. Trump is better than a crime family who was looking for a reason to teach Russia a lesson thereby taking us to the brink of MAD. You have been quiet lately I guess in mourning.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 11:15 am
Couldn’t care less about “corporate scum” or lobbyists. From a European perspective it is important that Washington no longer behaves as if it owns the world or should own the world and draw us with it into conflict with Russia. The US global empire is impossible anyway, but not everybody in Washington understands or wants to understand that. Detente with Russia is all that is needed. And that the multicult ideology is abandoned. For that purpose that Mexico-wall needs to be built, as promised to the Trump electorate.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 11:18 am
This week’s cover of der Spiegel:
http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-1071026-thumbflex-qjkn-1071026.jpg
“The End of the World”
(as we know it)
Ghung on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 11:51 am
Yes, Davy, I mourn,, not because of the election outcome so much (I kept my hands clean of this presidential election), but because, on this Veterans Day, I mourn that the principles that so many served to protect have been squandered and subverted to such an extraordinary degree. I mourn for my Grandchildren because they are pretty much guaranteed to live in an era when their contemporaries will throw shit at the wall because they are so completely clueless. That’s what you did.
Opposing Hillary was no excuse for defaulting to Trump. It just wasn’t. It was absolutely no justification for destroying whatever checks and balances remained to our system. Mitigation has been disposed of. These people have a mandate to do anything they want, and they will. Take a hard look at who Trump is considering for his cabinet and other positions.
We’re so much more fucked than we were a week ago.
Apneaman on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 12:02 pm
Like I said old dutch, here y’all go with the rationalizations and excuse making and you will for the next four years. Any thing contrary to the many totally unrealistic false promises will get run through a series of tribal brain filters as many time as needed for y’all to square all the circles. In the end you will do what all primitive tribal people do and find a way to blame the other tribe for Trumps reneging on promises he had no intention of keeping.
No wall will ever get built. The US can’t even maintain its current infrastructure and if most people were aware of that, they would want any monies spent on fixing the bridge they drive over ten times a week commuting to work, over a fantasy wall.
Study: 58,000 U.S. bridges found to be ‘structurally deficient’
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/18/fewer-bridges-need-repairs-but-task-still-monumental/80512038/
In addition, all the commuters and all drivers want them pipelines fixed up too, so there is no more leaks and explosions leading to shortages, price hikes, gouging and frustration.
The American Infrastructure Report Card from ASCE – D+ & 3.6 Trillion dollars by 2020 to get it back to normal
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
Hey let’s continue to completly ignore the backbone of our economy (infrastructure) and build a wall instead. Let’s build a sky wall while we’re at it to stop the hundreds of thousands who fly into the country legally and become illegal after their visas expire. SKY WALL 2020.
Davy on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 12:26 pm
“That’s what you did.” Sure Ghung like you are placed to draw judgment by putting your head in the sand when a real man would step up and face a messy choice of bad or worse. Opposing a criminal family and a supporting corrupt establishment is every excuse of an enlightened citizen to step up and sacrifice his morals and values to see that a horrible candidate and a disgusting establishment behind her were checked. Ghung it is called checks and balances. It called having balls and getting your hands dirty as opposed to keeping your finger nails clean.
“We’re so much more fucked than we were a week ago.” We are still alive Ghung. Your default by doing nothing was an action that was taking us on the path to war with Russia. Russia was being blamed and targeted by this administration and surely worse with a new Clinton administration. There was already a cyber incident with Russia that was very dangerous. I guess that doesn’t matter to you on this Veterans Day. You know let’s just put everyone at risk of full blown war by keeping our hands clean.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 12:57 pm
Finally some serious media self-reflection about the complete failure to foresee the Trump presidency:
https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/796696626366533632
peakyeast on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 3:29 pm
Welcome back cloggie. Happy to see you again.
Ghung on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 3:57 pm
Davy sais; “Your default by doing nothing was an action that was taking us on the path to war with Russia.”
Complete bullshit. I refuse to make such Faustian bargains, and your attempt to blame me is juvenile.
Davy on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 4:26 pm
Ghung, thought you said you washed your hands of this election. Maybe you should have voted. I am thinking maybe you are the one with buyers remorse.
Ghung on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 4:41 pm
Meh…. I’m just sick and tired of partisan destruction from both ends of the political spectrum, mainly by people who never stood up to be counted; faux patriots who never put their asses on the line or did a fucking thing for their country. I get a lot of crap from people who simply don’t have the bona fides to question me or what/why I do things. I’m done.
BTW: I’ve been “quiet” lately because I’ve been on the fire lines, trying to keep my neighbors’ houses from burning down.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/unit/3056/
I’ll be down there somewhere, if I’m not cutting fire breaks around my own property.
makati1 on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 5:05 pm
Ghung, unless unicorns exist, we are on the path to a world war with Russia and China. You and I did not vote because we know it is only a matter of degree, not change. Hillary is an open war monger. We don’t know what Trump is, yet, but he is NOT in charge of the insane asylum, only one of the inmates.
I don’t now how a world war will be averted, no matter who is elected where. I have been watching history videos of both world wars from different countries viewpoints and we are on the same path today as then. Only, now we have nukes and oceans are not a moat. I hope I am wrong, for my family’s sake but I see blood on American soil this time. Lots of it.
What is the saying? “A failure to learn history is to repeat it.” We seem to never learn.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 5:29 pm
Today in Warsaw an anti-Islam “Fortress Europe” march of 100,000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhVWMoj7bs
A “rival” leftist march drew merely 10,000. Leftism is out in Europe, at the street level that is.
The pan-European character is underlined in that German Pegida-members were invited to speak:
http://www.tatjanafesterling.de/
This is a yearly event. Last year’s event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7xqwm_c1_k
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/marine-le-pen-says-trumps-victory-marks-great-movement-across-world
“Marine Le Pen says Trump’s victory marks ‘great movement across world'”
Right-wing French eye candy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XpI-IaQGWc
Dutch right-hand man Frans Timmermans of Jean-Claude Juncker (EU commission) here today in a speech in Finland drawing conclusions from the recent events:
“We will listen more to the citizens”.
Sure Frans, too little, too late.
The NWO is in its death throes. France and Germany are the last countries to be liberated.
Won’t be long.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 6:01 pm
Tens of thousands are protesting in the US against Trump, see city map:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/us-wahl-2016-proteste-gegen-donald-trump-schrecken-usa-auf-a-1120861.html
Their strategy: keep protesting until December 19 and destabilize the country in an effort to persuade the electors to not vote for Trump. In theory it is a possibility to sabotage a Trump presidency in the last moment.
Shortend on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 6:15 pm
Ain’t going to happen…didn’t stop Bush Junior from invading Iraq..they will be ignored or dispersed like that failed movement occupy Wall street.
makati1 on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 6:17 pm
Cloggie, the ‘Snowflakes’ will melt long before December, due to global warming… or the next distraction. lol,
Apneaman on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 6:29 pm
Old dutch, sabotage implies a criminal act. The electors can legally vote how they like if I remember correctly. The only thing that would sabotage is your wet dream.
Davy on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 6:46 pm
Ghung, Good luck with the fire lines. I burn warm season grass here on the farm. It is hard and dangerous work. I bought a NATO issue gas mask that works great when the smoke is heavy.
makati1 on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 7:17 pm
Ap, Most of the E.C. electors are NOT allowed to vote independent of their state, by state law. In some cases, if they do, they pay a $1,000 slap-on-the-wrist fine. In other cases, they go to jail. There are some who are allowed to vote independently if they wish, but it rarely happens. There are social consequences that may be life threatening. Especially this time.
That is how I understand that the Electoral College works.
Anonymous on Fri, 11th Nov 2016 8:18 pm
When the war-oil cartel criminal cabal, fronted by the imbecile GW Bush (the dumber), stole the 2k election from the faux-environmentalist Gore, his ‘supporters?’ kicked up a small fuss, but nothing came of it. And that was a pretty blatant case of election rigging. You know your ‘election’ system is crooked when your bought-and-paid for injustice system upholds the theft, lol.
Fast forward to last week, the trump wins, according to the corrupt uS electoral college own rules, and fairly at that. Result?, protests by so-called ‘liberal types’ (I guess?), break out in the uS calling for the result to be overturned.
I presume the hoped-for end result of this protesting, is for the the even more corrupt, dried up old….hag, shillary to take over? A serial war-monger, psychopath, and loyal servant of wall st and the pentagon? Not a whole new election, w/o either of them in it? Guessing not.
Cloggie on Sat, 12th Nov 2016 3:26 am
Welcome back cloggie. Happy to see you again.
Thanks peaky, but for the moment I won’t write outside this thread. Was just here to celebrate the Trump victory.
In the moment European (and American) politics are more interesting than peak-oil or CC/GW. Your fine country Denmark showed the rest of the world what we should do: abandon fossil fuel and radically move into renewables:
http://www.renewablesinternational.net/per-capita-ranking-of-countries-for-wind-and-solar/150/537/88470/
Denmark is still a top of the bill country. We all should follow the Danish example and learn to live with the damage caused by our carbon sins of the past (and present).
Perhaps I’ll post on special occasions every now and then.
Makati said unless unicorns exist, we are on the path to a world war with Russia and China.
Don’t think that will happen, thanks to Trump. You should be relieved and grateful to Trump that it is now unlikely that the Ps will be a war zone.
Cloggie on Sat, 12th Nov 2016 8:52 am
http://pi-news.net/wp/uploads/2016/11/trump_pc-440×308.jpg
Cloggie on Sat, 12th Nov 2016 9:16 am
The Trump victory was the victory of the white male:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/donald-trump-warum-weisse-maenner-ihn-gewaehlt-haben-video-1719863.html
Which white males?
The difference is gradual, not abrupt, nevertheless the Euro’s of German and Italian descent (or Axis power descendants for short.lol) voted for Drumpf, uhm… make that Trump. Anglos were more evenly split between Clinton and Trump:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-and-the-white-vote?utm_term=.vuDZN09mm#.ekjzPEa66
Quite in line with most of the American posters here.
Cloggie on Sun, 13th Nov 2016 6:09 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-f4sDQn4Ck
It was fun to watch Rachel Maddow in despair (20 times over in my case, see link above), with Paul Auster we go more in depth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster
Video taken shortly before the election. He pretends to be “confident” that Klinton will win, but between the lines it is obvious that he isn’t confident at all. In reality our kosher friend is in despair about America. Even admits that the US political system is broken and that the present division is comparable with that at the eve of the Civil War (1861).
Poor mr Auster. He and his tribe just lost America, like they gradually lost the USSR between 1938-1953 and Russia after 2000. Donald Trump, who clearly models himself after Vladimir Putin, represents everything Auster is afraid of.
America has found its own Gorbachev… and perhaps a Milosevic and Putin in a single package deal. The Gorbachev part is already in, now Milosevic could be next and oversee CW2. There is still a remote chance that the American left will initiate the secession of California and other US provinces and make the breakup as bloodless as that of the USSR. Don’t hold your breath though. If not it is essential that we in Europe get rid of Merkel as soon as possible and put ourselves in a position to come to the aid of our cousins in North-America if things really “collapse” as in: the ethnic tinderbox explodes. Or that we in Europe at least can escape from the US empire before Trump gets assassinated or sabotaged otherwise by media and establishment, including the Reps.
2017 is going to be a crucial year, with elections in both Germany and France (and Austria and Holland). Everybody who worries about peak-oil in 2016 should get his head checked. Conveniently the elections in France precede those in Germany as Germany is still reluctant to cross Rubicons before France does.
P.S. What happened to boat? Moved to Canada? Poor boat was so convinced that Klinton would win.
http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/population-growth-is-part-of-migrant-crisis
boat said: If breeding creates nothing but mixed races in the future we will be in good hands. Old white guys haven’t done the best for humanity so far. Along with the old guys from other races. Women will probably run the world at some point and I hope they do better.
Listen you devirilised Swede with US passport: it is thanks to “white guys” that you can write posts like these in your warm study with central heating, the fridge full of food and beer and a computer and network to broadcast the self-defeating message. The whole world knows it and hence ventures to make it to our shores and parasitize and overrun us. Women are glorious in matters of eros and motherhood, but in positions of power they are not a iota better than men (Hillary “we came, we saw and he died” Clinton, Madeline “it was worth it” Albright, Victorya “f* the EU” Nuland, that UN-Powers boggard, etc.).
P.S.2 for those who still can’t figure out who is/was running Anglosphere and hence the West:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2016/11/pride-narcissism-and-overprivilege-at-the-bbc/
We are in a transition alright. A political one in the US, leading eventually to a geopolitical transformation: a retreating America, a multi-polar world with Eurosphere (post-EU Paris-Berlin-Moscow) and China the dominating “poles”. And for those who think that “we are living in interesting times”… they need to be warned that this time we are talking about a movie… starring you. Forget about beer, popcorn and Dolby Surround Sound. Bring your own script. Sooner or later it is going to be the breakup or the Soros-SJW-BLM-Gulag. Take your pick. And give us a few years to “refactor” Europe and make a 1776-difference.