The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Fucking hell, what a complete dickhead.
Yeah. I agree Trump is a complete dickhead. Good for Junker for pointing it out.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Juncker clearly has delusions of grandeur. He thinks he is a someone when in fact he is a drunken irrelevance.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Does anyone know what Mr Juncker was planning to do during the next two years that will be blocked by Mr Trump? It must be something significant or it wouldn't appear to Mr Juncker as 2 wasted years.
Climate change action, TTIP (although the latter may already have been dead at the EU end).
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Fucking hell, what a complete dickhead.
Yeah. I agree Trump is a complete dickhead. Good for Junker for pointing it out.
Whats happened to our JackW, has he disappeared up his own ARSE?
Spare a thought for him, I think he modeled his ARSE upon the polls, which instead of being 95% accurate where 95% crap. Garbage in Garbage out.
When the electorate is in such flux the chances of being wrong are much higher than usual.
But Prof. Linchman is still correct, remember his 13 keys that we debated here in the summer?
This was the first US election for which I refused to make a prediction.
In risk assessment, my professional field, a key concept is knowing what can be measured meaningfully and what cannot. The traditional impact vs probability plot is transformed into the confidence in prediction of impact vs confidence in prediction of probability plot. This gives you four domain:
1. risk, in the engineering sense where confidence is high on both parameters 2. ambiguity, where you know that something will happen (high confidence in probability prediction) but not what 3. uncertainty, where you know what will happen (high confidence in impact) but not its probability 4. ignorance, where you have no confidence in your prediction of either.
In the case of polling for an election, you can re-label the axes as confidence in your ability to poll a population, and confidence in your selection of the population being polled against the actual voting population.
Thus we were firmly in a situation equivalent to ambiguity above. In this domain, mathematical techniques are not very useful and can be dangerously misleading. Q methodology, scenario playing, and multi-criteria mapping can give you insights as to what might be going on, but not a mathematical prediction of outcomes.
There will be some who come forward and say that their mathematical model accurately predicted the outcome of the election. Their claims will be bullshit. They were simply the statistically inevitable sample of lucky modelers.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Fucking hell, what a complete dickhead.
Yeah. I agree Trump is a complete dickhead. Good for Junker for pointing it out.
You might not like his politics. You might think he is not a nice person.
He just got elected president, against all the odds. Whatever he may be, dickhead is not one of them. Saying that merely reflects badly on you.
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Fucking hell, what a complete dickhead.
Yeah. I agree Trump is a complete dickhead. Good for Junker for pointing it out.
Careful now. The PB Pussygrabbers, when they take a break from railing about political correctness, safe spaces & 'waaaycist', get in a snowflakey ferment when their boy gets a powering.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Fucking hell, what a complete dickhead.
Yeah. I agree Trump is a complete dickhead. Good for Junker for pointing it out.
You might not like his politics. You might think he is not a nice person.
He just got elected president, against all the odds. Whatever he may be, dickhead is not one of them. Saying that merely reflects badly on you.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Juncker clearly has delusions of grandeur. He thinks he is a someone when in fact he is a drunken irrelevance.
The fool probably regards himself as Trump's political equal, or something very close.
Cameron was right to oppose his appointment. Some of the less blinkered, posturing European leaders probably wish that they had heeded his objections.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
You can make many criticisms of Donald Trump - and Lord knows I would - you can't reasonably say that he's not well-travelled:
Thank you (and one or two others). I'm a long time reader. I thought it was time for me to try to contribute.
How rude of me. Welcome. And I agree. I think a final analysis of the voting patterns will reveal a lot of churn, most of it very worrying for the Dems in the longer term, and not a little worrying for the GOP Establishment too.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a wor:)ld he doesn't know."
Does anyone know what Mr Juncker was planning to do during the next two years that will be blocked by Mr Trump? It must be something significant or it wouldn't appear to Mr Juncker as 2 wasted years.
betway may have cut their price for Trump resigning before completing a full term to 10/1, but according to oddschecker betfred are offering 1/3 that he does serve the full term. One of those prices is wrong. I know he could die or be impeached but I don't see those probablilities making it an overround book. I wouldn't want to tie my money up for 4+ years on a 1/3 shot but I think that is the price that is badly out.
The big wrong non polling assumption I made was that the Dem campaign staff weren't total morons.
I thought they weren't putting any effort Ito the 'firewall' because they didn't need to rather than because they were incompetent.
Was it the same Clinton campaign team who lost to Obama in 2008 because they did not understand the primary rules? Again, she got most votes but in the wrong places.
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Fucking hell, what a complete dickhead.
Yeah. I agree Trump is a complete dickhead. Good for Junker for pointing it out.
You might not like his politics. You might think he is not a nice person.
He just got elected president, against all the odds. Whatever he may be, dickhead is not one of them. Saying that merely reflects badly on you.
He is a dickhead, but is now an elected dickhead.
It turns out that you can judge people quite well with how they cope with the unexpected. And especially whether they can respect democracy when it goes against them
Many, many people are not coming off well over all this....
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
She is Maggie Haberman leading journalist for the New York Times, that should tell you a lot about that newspaper.
This article should also tell you how low quality and smug the New York Times has become lately:
"By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line."
" But I knew one senior reporter who would play solitaire on his computer in the mornings, waiting for his editors to come through with marching orders. Once, in the Los Angeles bureau, I listened to a visiting National staff reporter tell a contact, more or less: “My editor needs someone to say such-and-such, could you say that?” "
"The bigger shock came on being told, at least twice, by Times editors who were describing the paper’s daily Page One meeting: “We set the agenda for the country in that room.” "
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
You can make many criticisms of Donald Trump - and Lord knows I would - you can't reasonably say that he's not well-travelled:
The BBC have updated the Juncker article with some quotes.
Quoted by Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien, Mr Juncker, a former prime minister of the tiny state, continued: "In general the Americans pay no heed to Europe. As for Mr Trump, if I understand properly, he thinks Belgium is a village somewhere on our continent...
"My honest opinion? With Mr Trump, we are going to waste two years while he tours a world he doesn't know."
Fucking hell, what a complete dickhead.
Yeah. I agree Trump is a complete dickhead. Good for Junker for pointing it out.
You might not like his politics. You might think he is not a nice person.
He just got elected president, against all the odds. Whatever he may be, dickhead is not one of them. Saying that merely reflects badly on you.
Eh? George Galloway was elected many times. Didn't stop him from being a dickhead. Ken Livingston too.
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
She is Maggie Haberman leading journalist for the New York Times, that should tell you a lot about that newspaper.
This article should also tell you how low quality and smug the New York Times has become lately:
"By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line."
" But I knew one senior reporter who would play solitaire on his computer in the mornings, waiting for his editors to come through with marching orders. Once, in the Los Angeles bureau, I listened to a visiting National staff reporter tell a contact, more or less: “My editor needs someone to say such-and-such, could you say that?” "
"The bigger shock came on being told, at least twice, by Times editors who were describing the paper’s daily Page One meeting: “We set the agenda for the country in that room.” "
It's not 'just' health care. It involves deep changes to Medicare, Medicaid and the IRS among other things. Repeal is immensely complicated. it's not all bad, though most is appallingly bad.
I suspect the bits he'll keep are abolishing life time caps and pre-existing conditions etc.
Looking at my regular mix screen of all the news networks, a couple of factoids jumped out over the last few minutes.
The first somewhat ho hum - Clinton's likely total of 232 electoral votes will be the lowest for a Democrat since 1988.
The second I found somewhat surprising and a bit of a wow - Trump won a third of the nearly 700 counties Obama carried in both 2008 and 2012.
Taken together they may (or may not) be the glimmerings of a change.
If so, the next sign might be the 2018 midterms, where the Democrats are defending 25 US Senate seats, 10 in states won by Trump this week.
It has the possibilities of a realignment, Trump's Mid West strategy could be as successful as Nixon's Southern strategy that gave dominance for the Republicans for 20 years.
However it's not set yet, the GOP will have to deliver to those farmers and workers of that region to lock them in.
That the minorities also liked Trump's platform is also a bonus.
He might finish up surprising people and not being half as bad as they think he will be?
The wall will become a fence and the Muslim ban will become a complete restriction on migration from countries on the watch list (which will magically include Muslim countries).
On healthcare I think Obama care is dead, but there will be a mega expansion of Medicare.
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
She is Maggie Haberman leading journalist for the New York Times, that should tell you a lot about that newspaper.
This article should also tell you how low quality and smug the New York Times has become lately:
"By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line."
" But I knew one senior reporter who would play solitaire on his computer in the mornings, waiting for his editors to come through with marching orders. Once, in the Los Angeles bureau, I listened to a visiting National staff reporter tell a contact, more or less: “My editor needs someone to say such-and-such, could you say that?” "
"The bigger shock came on being told, at least twice, by Times editors who were describing the paper’s daily Page One meeting: “We set the agenda for the country in that room.” "
Speedy, thanks for the background.
For most of my life the New York Times - the 'Gray Lady' - was the proud newspaper of record, along with the Washington Post. The Times memorably had (and may still have for all I know) on its masthead "All the news that's fit to print".
Those days are long gone now and it's just another liberal rag, as is the Post.
He might finish up surprising people and not being half as bad as they think he will be?
The wall will become a fence and the Muslim ban will become a complete restriction on migration from countries on the watch list (which will magically include Muslim countries).
On healthcare I think Obama care is dead, but there will be a mega expansion of Medicare.
Obamacare already puts lower paid folks right into Medicaid rather than onto the insurance market.
They need to act fairly quickly on Obamacare as it's collapsing even faster than forecast.
He might finish up surprising people and not being half as bad as they think he will be?
The wall will become a fence and the Muslim ban will become a complete restriction on migration from countries on the watch list (which will magically include Muslim countries).
On healthcare I think Obama care is dead, but there will be a mega expansion of Medicare.
Trump has to be careful and so do Republicans, those voters voted for them on the basis of delivery on at least some of those promises and results.
The Wall, NAFTA Reform, Healthcare Reform are the things they have to deliver. And to be careful about Washington corruption, "Drain the Swamp" talk is always popular.
They got Power, now they have to figure out a way to keep it.
He might finish up surprising people and not being half as bad as they think he will be?
The wall will become a fence and the Muslim ban will become a complete restriction on migration from countries on the watch list (which will magically include Muslim countries).
On healthcare I think Obama care is dead, but there will be a mega expansion of Medicare.
Trump has to be careful and so do Republicans, those voters voted for them on the basis of delivery on at least some of those promises and results.
The Wall, NAFTA Reform, Healthcare Reform are the things they have to deliver. And to be careful about Washington corruption, "Drain the Swamp" talk is always popular.
They got Power, now they have to figure out a way to keep it.
The way to keep power is to execute and deliver the program. They realistically have about 15 months to do so before midterm electioneering begins after the spring Congressional recess.
Is there such a thing as a Pro-Trump circle? Most normal sane folk are Anti-Trump. Are you my friend?
Lol.
Of course, this is PB where the right-wing fruitcakes and loons love to congregate and join in fellowship. Here Trump is adored and loved. Should have known better...
Is there such a thing as a Pro-Trump circle? Most normal sane folk are Anti-Trump. Are you my friend?
Lol.
Of course, this is PB where the right-wing fruitcakes and loons love to congregate and join in fellowship. Here Trump is adored and loved. Should have known better...
Is he?
General view of him on here is very "mixed" to say the least.
Is there such a thing as a Pro-Trump circle? Most normal sane folk are Anti-Trump. Are you my friend?
Lol.
Of course, this is PB where the right-wing fruitcakes and loons love to congregate and join in fellowship. Here Trump is adored and loved. Should have known better...
Yes. We only keep you around as a novelty pet to poke with a stick when it amuses us.
He might finish up surprising people and not being half as bad as they think he will be?
The wall will become a fence and the Muslim ban will become a complete restriction on migration from countries on the watch list (which will magically include Muslim countries).
On healthcare I think Obama care is dead, but there will be a mega expansion of Medicare.
Trump has to be careful and so do Republicans, those voters voted for them on the basis of delivery on at least some of those promises and results.
The Wall, NAFTA Reform, Healthcare Reform are the things they have to deliver. And to be careful about Washington corruption, "Drain the Swamp" talk is always popular.
They got Power, now they have to figure out a way to keep it.
The way to keep power is to execute and deliver the program. They realistically have about 15 months to do so before midterm electioneering begins after the spring Congressional recess.
True.
On the basis of political corruption a great source of that is the need by politicians for rich campaign donours, but the rich campaign donours are more of a drag for politicians who then can be accused of corruption (Evan Bayh, Jeb Bush, Hillary).
Trump has shown in both the primaries and the election that you don't really need all that money to win, you just need popular policies, have charisma and to put physical effort in campaigning.
All the money in the world couldn't save Jeb and Hillary, politics and politicians would be better with less.
'Of course, this is PB where the right-wing fruitcakes and loons love to congregate and join in fellowship. Here Trump is adored and loved. Should have known better... '
So why bother coming to the site & posting if you find it so offensive ?
Indeed, and even though I correctly sensed how this election was going after the weekend, I still have to eat my cigars, I'm planning for the feast later tonight.
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
The list of pundits who didn't see Trump coming is a long one from many corners of the media.
Well Canada and Mexico are now willing to renegotiate NAFTA with Trump, of course no one is sure how that renegotiation will work out.
But it wont be bad for Britain to enter those negotiations as an extra actor, at least being on the table when such important negotiations takes place shows your importance (even if you are not important).
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
The list of pundits who didn't see Trump coming is a long one from many corners of the media.
Many of those cavorting with glee on pb were studiously refusing to predict a Trump victory on Tuesday.
Indeed, and even though I correctly sensed how this election was going after the weekend, I still have to eat my cigars, I'm planning for the feast later tonight.
@RodCrosby's spreadsheet on Monday evening was showing a narrow Clinton win.
It may well be that he saw value in betting against his prediction, I did. I got on Trump at 5.7 on Monday, as this appeared to be value compared with 538.
Rod's rather nasty right wing politics have proven rather in tune with the times, hence his run of form (though he did not give a prediction for Brexit). Jacks ARSE was very good in earlier times as the mood, both in the UK and in the USA matched Jack's genteel liberal centralism. Unfortunately this is out of favour at present.
Indeed, and even though I correctly sensed how this election was going after the weekend, I still have to eat my cigars, I'm planning for the feast later tonight.
Gurkha Grand Reserve cigars would be most appropriate.
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
The list of pundits who didn't see Trump coming is a long one from many corners of the media.
The list includes pretty much everyone prior to 9pm EDT Tuesday.
In response to your statement The electorate hasn’t changed much in the four years since Barack Obama won re-election in some places - Georgia for example - it's changed quite a bit in those four years.
That woman should be made to rewatch that every hour, on the hour. And we should be able to tune in to watch her cringe. Is she supposed to be a pundit?
The list of pundits who didn't see Trump coming is a long one from many corners of the media.
Given the government whipped his appointment to the justice select committee, this is potentially awkward news for the government as well as Keith Vaz:
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https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/797059872126865412
That makes 3 times. Assuming Leonard Cohen is a cat, he only has 6 more left.
In risk assessment, my professional field, a key concept is knowing what can be measured meaningfully and what cannot. The traditional impact vs probability plot is transformed into the confidence in prediction of impact vs confidence in prediction of probability plot. This gives you four domain:
1. risk, in the engineering sense where confidence is high on both parameters
2. ambiguity, where you know that something will happen (high confidence in probability prediction) but not what
3. uncertainty, where you know what will happen (high confidence in impact) but not its probability
4. ignorance, where you have no confidence in your prediction of either.
In the case of polling for an election, you can re-label the axes as confidence in your ability to poll a population, and confidence in your selection of the population being polled against the actual voting population.
Thus we were firmly in a situation equivalent to ambiguity above. In this domain, mathematical techniques are not very useful and can be dangerously misleading. Q methodology, scenario playing, and multi-criteria mapping can give you insights as to what might be going on, but not a mathematical prediction of outcomes.
There will be some who come forward and say that their mathematical model accurately predicted the outcome of the election. Their claims will be bullshit. They were simply the statistically inevitable sample of lucky modelers.
He just got elected president, against all the odds. Whatever he may be, dickhead is not one of them. Saying that merely reflects badly on you.
The PB Pussygrabbers, when they take a break from railing about political correctness, safe spaces & 'waaaycist', get in a snowflakey ferment when their boy gets a powering.
I thought they weren't putting any effort Ito the 'firewall' because they didn't need to rather than because they were incompetent.
Cameron was right to oppose his appointment. Some of the less blinkered, posturing European leaders probably wish that they had heeded his objections.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/11/11/safety-pins-brexit-donald-trump-election/93639074/
Many, many people are not coming off well over all this....
This article should also tell you how low quality and smug the New York Times has become lately:
http://deadline.com/2016/11/shocked-by-trump-new-york-times-finds-time-for-soul-searching-1201852490/
"By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line."
" But I knew one senior reporter who would play solitaire on his computer in the mornings, waiting for his editors to come through with marching orders. Once, in the Los Angeles bureau, I listened to a visiting National staff reporter tell a contact, more or less: “My editor needs someone to say such-and-such, could you say that?” "
"The bigger shock came on being told, at least twice, by Times editors who were describing the paper’s daily Page One meeting: “We set the agenda for the country in that room.” "
The first somewhat ho hum - Clinton's likely total of 232 electoral votes will be the lowest for a Democrat since 1988.
The second I found somewhat surprising and a bit of a wow - Trump won a third of the nearly 700 counties Obama carried in both 2008 and 2012.
Taken together they may (or may not) be the glimmerings of a change.
If so, the next sign might be the 2018 midterms, where the Democrats are defending 25 US Senate seats, 10 in states won by Trump this week.
In exit polls 49% said they had an unfavorable view of the Democratic party
I suspect the bits he'll keep are abolishing life time caps and pre-existing conditions etc.
However it's not set yet, the GOP will have to deliver to those farmers and workers of that region to lock them in.
That the minorities also liked Trump's platform is also a bonus.
He might finish up surprising people and not being half as bad as they think he will be?
Do you see the problem here?
I think he intents to keep the pre-existing conditions part of Obamacare, but everything else is up in the air.
On healthcare I think Obama care is dead, but there will be a mega expansion of Medicare.
https://twitter.com/YesCalifornia/status/796449502110609409
Somehow the SNP has set up shop in San Francisco.
Those days are long gone now and it's just another liberal rag, as is the Post.
They need to act fairly quickly on Obamacare as it's collapsing even faster than forecast.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gave-trump-a-better-chance-than-almost-anyone-else/
The Wall, NAFTA Reform, Healthcare Reform are the things they have to deliver.
And to be careful about Washington corruption, "Drain the Swamp" talk is always popular.
They got Power, now they have to figure out a way to keep it.
He's throwing away campaign promises so quickly and publically I'm wondering if he might utterly reposition himself as President.
Dr.Sam Wang was so bad that he is eating a bug.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3927702/Trump-not-need-build-wall-Illegals-say-ve-given-trying-cross-won-election.html
General view of him on here is very "mixed" to say the least.
On the basis of political corruption a great source of that is the need by politicians for rich campaign donours, but the rich campaign donours are more of a drag for politicians who then can be accused of corruption (Evan Bayh, Jeb Bush, Hillary).
Trump has shown in both the primaries and the election that you don't really need all that money to win, you just need popular policies, have charisma and to put physical effort in campaigning.
All the money in the world couldn't save Jeb and Hillary, politics and politicians would be better with less.
2nd was fresh air,
Nate placed for third.
If you'd used Nate's analysis and applied it to the Betfair market you'd be quids in.
If you'd have used Sam Wangs' you'd be bust.
'Of course, this is PB where the right-wing fruitcakes and loons love to congregate and join in fellowship. Here Trump is adored and loved. Should have known better... '
So why bother coming to the site & posting if you find it so offensive ?
I'd rather be *at* the table!
http://www.cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizons-autumn-2016--issue-no-8/populism-as-a-backlash-against-globalization
It may well be that he saw value in betting against his prediction, I did. I got on Trump at 5.7 on Monday, as this appeared to be value compared with 538.
Rod's rather nasty right wing politics have proven rather in tune with the times, hence his run of form (though he did not give a prediction for Brexit). Jacks ARSE was very good in earlier times as the mood, both in the UK and in the USA matched Jack's genteel liberal centralism. Unfortunately this is out of favour at present.
In response to your statement The electorate hasn’t changed much in the four years since Barack Obama won re-election in some places - Georgia for example - it's changed quite a bit in those four years.
Nice article, by the way.
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/797195487271153665
The government's thinking in doing so is baffling.
Keep an eye on Jared Kushner, Trump's son in law and Ivanka's husband.
He just closed down his newspaper.
It probably means he got a big government or White House post, Kushner and Inavka are the powers behind the throne.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/797190459026210816
You should call it Trumpton and assign names to the characters of Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub