We're so f*cked

[Philly]

Pretty basic stuff.

Sanders insinuated Clinton was dishonest during the primary and turned people against her (because Americans trusted her so much prior to that!)

Sanders stayed in the race too long and hurt her chances

Sanders forced her to go to the left and it alienated moderates (lol what)

Everyone on the left who didn't vote for Clinton is a brocialist punk who wouldn't give Clinton a fair shake (meaning they weren't born 18+ years ago and developed opinions throughout their lives, but were spawned out of thin air when Sanders announced his candidacy)

[NAB]

[John Galt]

so the next thing that's pretty big on the block is dec 4th referendum in italy to change the constitution

italy set up a government that is pretty awful, but they did it to try and stop their problem with populism. i mean, il duce.... but some reformers want to change all that. on dec 4th, the senate may become subservant to the house, and the house would be guaranteed to have 54% of the seats to the top party, somehow. the idea is to stop gridlock, since currently both houses have equal powers. in exchange the senate is removed from the democratic process and is instead selected by regional governments and has some power but less.

anyway. lets say it passes, and the reformer gets his way. well... currently beppe grillo, a comedian, is polling like 4% below the ruling party (sound familiar?). they talk about leaving the euro (though not the eu... yet) and are anti immigration, you know, lets make italy great again. at least they aren't talking mare nostrum... anyway, lets say the referendum passes. an election could be held rather quickly afterword as the president hols that power and the 5-star movement of beppe could be in charge with guaranteed majority for up to 5 years.

if the referendum fails, the current prime minister has promised to resign. the resignation would undoubtedly cause the government to go into a snap election and thus, the euroskeptics gain power. i think it's clear that polls are all wrong, and especially if the thing fails then the snap election would not bode well for establishment

so 2016 ain't over yet. i have a feeling we'll get a NO. so at least it won't be guaranteed majority, but italian parliament is wonky anyway and so it still gives disproportional votes to the top winners, which could cause the 5-star party in the resulting snap election to have some huge amount of seats and gain power. i assume LN, the right wing populists, will also be in on this. so we'll have populists in charge of italy to ring in the new year. then france is on the chopping block

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[Philly]

[broken robot]

Ugh, I was really hoping the crater-size defeat would knock the wind out of this kind of liberal stupidity, but eh, no one said delivering the coup de grace to root-and-branch corruption and a vacuous "above the fray" ideology would be easy. Too much inertia in the structure.

[Spider]

So. Should we maybe start a Trump Tweets thread? Because this is starting to get funnyscary, as opposed to scaryfunny.

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[Spider]