President-elect Trump

Undertoad · 01-21-2017, 11:20 AM

To me, the anomaly was that nobody expected it, because that was built into the bubbles. At 8pm EST, polls closing time, I think the NYT percent-chance-o-meter started at Hillary like 85%.

We can say that the bias was confirming what the polls said, or what the polls said was wrong due to bias, but watching that meter was watching bias overtaken by reality.

Part of my optimism is that, in his state of narcissism and needing to be liked, he looks out on the hatery and figures his best bet is to actually be effective in some direction. Like, maybe a single-payer-ish plan as a christmas present from big daddy will make all the hatery people happy.

Another part of my optimism is that Trump is something we must go through in order to get to some other side, the nature of which is currently unknown to us.

The bone is broken and it sets harder. The stem is challenged by the wind and it grows firmer. You know, that kind of shit.

01-21-2017, 11:20 AM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	To me, the anomaly was that nobody expected it, because that was built into the bubbles. At 8pm EST, polls closing time, I think the NYT percent-chance-o-meter started at Hillary like 85%. We can say that the bias was confirming what the polls said, or what the polls said was wrong due to bias, but watching that meter was watching bias overtaken by reality. Part of my optimism is that, in his state of narcissism and needing to be liked, he looks out on the hatery and figures his best bet is to actually be effective in some direction. Like, maybe a single-payer-ish plan as a christmas present from big daddy will make all the hatery people happy. Another part of my optimism is that Trump is something we must go through in order to get to some other side, the nature of which is currently unknown to us. The bone is broken and it sets harder. The stem is challenged by the wind and it grows firmer. You know, that kind of shit.

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