karniv0re's Journal: Fuck

Donald Trump is President-elect of the United States. There, that explains the title.

I've been sucked into politics for the last year, mostly by design of the media machine that started this fucking godawful election back in 2015. They built this monster, but the Dems turned him lose. I really sincerely thought that Clinton was headed toward an easy victory and that Trump would tear the GOP apart. But instead, now the Dems are being torn apart and the GOP owns both houses of congress, the presidency, and at least one supreme court seat. So yeah. Fuck.

I'm going to lay down my predictions (based not off of data but purely gut, so take it for what its worth) and we'll see how I do in a few years:

1. Trump doesn't finish his presidency. Either by way of stepping down or impeachment, he doesn't make it 4 years.
2. He doesn't build a wall, doesn't scrap Obamacare, doesn't appoint a special prosecutor to jail Hillary, doesn't ban all Muslims and doesn't deport all current illegal immigrants. Also doesn't rebuild a bunch of factories and coal mines either. Mostly because none of that is really feasible.
3. He will get much tougher on immigration and make life harder for people who have moved her or want to move here.
4. He will make some economic and trade decisions that won't be felt until after his (hopefully less than 4-year) presidency.
5. He will ease regulations on the energy industry that will cause irreparable damage to our planet. But he won't be around to see the effects, as Florida, Louisiana, California, and New York are slowly submerged underwater.
6. Already happening: Racism, xenophobia, and bigotry have been given the thumbs up by putting the supreme leader of all of that into the highest office in the land.

The rest is a mystery and I don't think even the GOP knows what he's going to do. It'll be a watch and wait game, and it's a shitty game.

In tech news, I'm slogging through my project. I don't know if I'll get it done in time. I fucking hope so. I need a win. I haven't had a win in a long time.

Bayesian Statistics is a tough class, but I'm learning a ton. I feel like I still haven't quite wrapped my head around some of the foundational principles yet. I'm going to come back to this when I get more time though.

Really, that's about all I want to talk about. It's late and I need to get to bed so I can continue work on the mobile app. So much left to do.

Hope I'm not reading this from a camp in a few years!

Deal with it.

[Z00L00K]

Deal with the fact that Trump was elected.

Looking at the figures it gives a better understanding of what happened in this election - both sides lost votes, but Hillary lost more votes compared to 2012.

Instead analyze why so many votes was lost instead of complaining about Trump. My opinion is that Hillary did appear as not being trustworthy and unsafe. Doesn't matter if the mail server stuff wasn't illegal - it was still sloppy handling involved.

Realize also that you often get the government you deserve and

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[karniv0re]

I've been analyzing this thing throughout. Both sides ran flawed candidates, but it's like comparing a brand new Buick with a bent fender to an old Volkswagen on blocks that's missing an engine and has a swastika spray painted on the side. The two aren't even comparable. Still, I think it was enough to get people to stay home. My biggest surprise, as I mentioned though, is that instead of the GOP splitting into a civil war and falling apart, the opposite is happening. The Dems are looking at how to reinven

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[JustNiz]

Thats funny that you compared Clinton to an old VolksWagen. Wish I had mod points.

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[sjames]

There's plenty of room to complain about Trump AND Hillary. Let's face it, we had a choice between a tire fire and a dumpster fire. The truly sad part is I'm not sure we didn't get the better of the two very bad choices.

Who would have guessed?

[elrous0]

Who would have thought that years of screaming at white America that they're all evil racist hicks would result in a backlash, huh?

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[elrous0]

Who would have thought that SJW's would so over-expand the definition of "racist"as to include everyone who dares vote for a left-of-center former Democrat who's only thought-crime was having the audacity to say that illegal immigration should remain illegal?

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[karniv0re]

I know I've really made it when I've got anonotrolls using throwing "SJW" around like they're being creative.

Still waiting to be called cuck or some other unimaginative shit.

Please tell me how hard it is being white in America and all the setbacks you've had.

"Hi honey, what'd you do today?"
"Just looked through every single post online being critical of Trump and posted my unsolicited feedback anonymously."
"Oh that's nice, do you want to have sex?"
"Hang on, there's another one!"