As of 11:40 p.m. ET, Fox News projected the Electoral Vote count as
Trump 254
Clinton 209
with Trump wins in FL, NC, WI, IA. PA and MI still too close to call.
Fox also projected that the Democrats will gain net one seat each in the House and Senate, which would leave Republican majorities intact. We'll see what today brings, but here's hoping Blossom Unains5562's image called it.
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nasdec, s%p, DJIA futures all down about 5% now
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Congrats to the Donald. He has shown that he understands a lot more about politics than many of the seasoned pols and professionals re the Presidential race this election season. He's also shown that money isn't everything in the presidential race. I wonder if Comey's last-minute retraction actually hurt Hillary.
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Joe Aripaio out as Maricopa County Sheriff. Legalizing marijuana and raising the minimum wage in the county is gaining momentum due to influx of Latinos.
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Next important day in the campaign is Nov 28 is opening day for Low v. Trump University LLC, 10-cv-00940, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego)
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First 3 things I want to see from President Trump:
1. AG Trey Gowdy - mission: clean out that place and the FBI
2. Secretary of State Bolton - mission: clean that place out
3. Supreme Court Justice Ted Cruz - mission: bring the court back to constitutionalism
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I know where Trump can get a bunch of fireworks cheap.
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Dreaming....
They can't afford to lose Tea Partier Trey Gowdy's vote in the House, or his sharp mind. He needs to stay where he is until at least the next election. But he'll work happily with the new attorney general, I'm sure, and enjoy the increased influence his increased seniority provides.
Ted Cruz would be very interesting on the Supreme Court, though President Trump already has a list of candidates. It might be fun to put him on the Ninth Circuit court of appeals for seasoning in the meantime -- he'd enjoy shaking up that lot while waiting his turn for a top spot. But honestly, for the same reason that Trey Gowdy needs to stay in the House for a while, Ted Cruz needs to stay in the Senate. The Republicans can't afford to lose his vote, and he needs to rebuild the trust of his party and his voters if he is to have any chance at the presidency in the future.
Rudy Guilliani for Attorney General -- he has strong opinions on the cases against Hillary Clinton, as well as crime, corruption, and the War on Terror. He'll be a happy warrior as he cleans out the Justice Department stables.
Another one I'd like to see return to public service is former Virginia attorney general Ken Cucinnelli. He did a wonderful job organizing the group of states attorneys general to fight Obamacare through the courts.
Joe Arpaio heading ICE -- yes!!
And John Bolton -- it would be great fun to send Mr. Bolton back to the UN after their vacation with whatsername.
Secretary of State is a bit of a pickle. The clean up needed there is going to be another labour of Hercules -- the rot long precedes Mrs. Clinton, and is going to need a prosecutor's zeal as well as a diplomat's touch to handle that side of things.
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Put Bolton back at the UN. That'd sure be fun.
Put Newt in at DoS.
Guiliani 8 years ago would have been a great AG but he looks like he's getting kinda old. Maybe Christi, especially if he has a hot line to Guiliani so he can ask for help and advice.
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I really like the idea of Arpaio at ICE!!!
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Whatis your reasoning, Pappy?
He has a good working relationship with the Russians, especially FM Lavrov. Notice that they haven't directly disparaged him.
From my sources, he has a good rep among career State personnel, unlike his predecessor. He's also expressed frustration with the Obama inner-circle.
Even if it's only short term, his staying on might buy some international breathing room for Mr. Trump and his administration to articulate a coherent foreign policy (especially if there's aspects the others won't like.)
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One thing I'd like to bury now that Clinton's career is dead is that phrase "Cuck". F you that use it. You are more about revenge than winning, get over yourself, we can use a lot of those people. Its associated with racists and Sturmers and internet dimwits. It made Trump a lot harder to defend.
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#22 Dreaming...TW, I like the way you think. Where is it best for Trey Gowdy? Joe Arpaio heading ICE -- yes!! LOL but a great idea. Soros dumped a lot of money into Arpaio's race to defeat him.
[FRANCE24] The drug trafficking trial of two nephews of Venezuela's first lady got under way in Manhattan Tuesday, with the leftist government in Caracas saying they were essentially framed.
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, 30, and Francisco Flores de Freitas, 31, were incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Haiti in November and flown to New York by US Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
They are sons of brothers of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's wife Cilia Flores. She also served as speaker of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2011.
The men have denied charges that they plotted to smuggle 800 kilos (1,764 pounds) of cocaine into the United States.
Prosecutor Emil Bove argued that the men believed they were powerful because they are close to Maduro. Their attorneys suggested however, they were not crafty enough to be plotting or carrying out the business of which they are accused.
The accused also are facing the charges due to political motives, their defense maintains.
Besides the Haiti case, the two men are accused of taking part in meetings to plan a shipment of cocaine to the United States via Honduras.
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Cillia Flores known by all in Doral as Silly Flowers.
:)
Then there's my favorite, Diosdado Cabello, known to millions as Dawg Given Hair
[RT] An Australian pensioner resorted to Robin Hood-style tactics, shooting a bow and arrow at an intruder, in an effort to stop him from fleeing his home with stolen goods.
The burglar was struck in the buttocks with the medieval weapon Sunday afternoon as he tried to steal the 68-year-old homeowner’s car from the Sydney residence.
The culprit already had appropriated the man’s car keys, a large amount of cash and other property in his possession at the time of the incident.
As the robber tried to reverse the stolen car out of the garage in Wattle Grove the homeowner confronted him with a bow and arrow, causing him to crash the car into a fence, according to police, as reported by ABC.
The perpetrator then fled the car and jumped a fence towards a parked Mazda Tribute but before he reached the car he was hit in the buttocks area with the bow and arrow.
"We believe the arrow may have struck the offender in the buttocks or the lower back region," Detective Inspector Dean Johnstone said.
Police are continuing to hunt for the burglar and have inquired with local hospitals to identify anyone treated for an injury consistent with this incident.
"We're asking anyone in the medical profession ... to contact police if a person comes in with a wound [consistent] with an arrow striking them," Johnstone said.
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Doc!!! Doc!!! I took a broad head in the . . . . . . NO, I meant to say I took a penetrator in the . . . . . . NO, I meant to say I got shafted in the . . . . . NO, I meant to say I took a rigid . . . . . . No, I meant to say . . . . . . never mind.
[WDEF] KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‐ Two more people have received prison sentences in a scheme to defraud U.S. taxpayers by $10.8 million.
U.S. Attorney Nancy Stallard Harr’s office says 52-year-old Luis Carvajal of Loudon was sentenced to 30 month in prison for conspiring to submit false tax returns and commit money laundering. Fifty-year-old Amado Valdez-Morales of Oak Ridge received a 42-month sentence in the scheme.
Valdez-Morales, a Honduras citizen here illegally, also pleaded guilty to illegal entry by a previously deported felon. Once he’s released from prison, he’ll be subject to deportation.
A news release says the scheme included using fake ID documents to get refundable tax credits, resulting in $10.8 million stolen from taxpayers.
Carvajal faces about an $8 million fine. Valdez-Morales was fined $2.5 million.
Four others were already sentenced in the scheme.
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The Royal Pioneer Corps was a British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks. It was formed in 1939 and amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993. Pioneer units performed a wide variety of tasks in all theatres of war, including stretcher-bearing, handling all types of stores, laying prefabricated track on beaches, and effecting various logistical operations. Under Royal Engineers supervision they constructed airfields and roads and erected bridges; they constructed the Mulberry Harbour and laid the Pipe Line Under the Ocean (PLUTO).- wiki
Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, said on Wednesday he believed Donald Trump's presidential victory would reduce geopolitical confrontations.
"A less confrontational US foreign policy will unlock major opportunities for joint (Russia-US) trade and investment," Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, said in a statement.
Dmitriev said he believed financial markets would recover quickly "just as they did after the Brexit vote."
France would need to clarify with the United States key issues such as the conflict in Syria, Iran's nuclear deal and climate change, if Donald Trump became the US President, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Trump, "I'll answer in French: Gai kaken zhabe!"
[Reuters] Republicans in Missouri, Vermont and New Hampshire won competitive governor's races on Tuesday, though most of the 12 contests left power in the hands of the incumbent party.
Votes are still being counted in
North Carolina: Democrat Cooper held a razor-thin lead as of Wednesday morning. Republican Governor McCrory told supporters tallying an unknown number of provisional ballots could take until Nov. 18.
Montana: Democratic Governor Steve Bullock is battling Republican tech entrepreneur Greg Gianforte to keep his seat. The race remained too close to call on Wednesday morning.
[Reuters] Canada's main immigration website appeared to crash and New Zealand reported increased traffic to its website for residency visas from U.S. nationals in the hours before Donald Trump surged to victory in the U.S. presidential election.
Canada's main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major states and his prospects for winning the U.S. presidency turned markedly higher. In the following hours he won most of those states.
In New Zealand, immigration officials told Reuters on the eve of the vote that New Zealand Now website, which deals with residency and student visas, had received 1,593 registrations from United States citizens since Nov. 1 ‐ more than 50 percent of a typical month’s registrations in just seven days.
Visits to New Zealand Now from the United States were up almost 80 percent to 41,000 from 7 Oct to 7 November, compared with the same period last year.
Rod Drury, the chief executive of NZ-based global accounting software firm Xero, said the statistics matched up with interest his company has been seeing from prospective U.S. national employees concerned about a Trump win.
Drury said what started as a joke was becoming a reality.
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Get out. The self purging of liberals would be just as welcome as the Tories after the revolution. We don't want your kind, we don't need your kind so please exit stage left.
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...enough to drive millions of its own into this country? Not quite Venezuela, but you don't have to swim as far which is tough on a low calorie diet.
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Van Jones is at least willing to consider South Africa, which considering his viewpoints and the education Besoeker has given us on SA politics, seems appropriate...
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AMERICAN DIGEST NEWS SERVICE
DATELINE: OTTOWA, November 9, 2016
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau today ordered all 215 members of Canada's armed forces to the porous southern border to stem the tide of tens of millions of disgruntled members of MoveOn, Democratic Underground, IndyMedia, Daily Kos and other assorted weeping moonbats that have begin to surge towards the socialist haven to the north in search of asylum.
"We feel their pain," said the PM, speaking to two reporters at a hastily called press-conference, "but we simply can't let in any more 'sunshine' Americans. We did that during the Vietnam years and our mental health care system is still groaning under the load.
"To let in more of Les fou Americans at this point would pretty much overload the sidewalk spaces already staked out by Canada's homeless."
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I hear North Korea is always looking for good people to populate their labor camps.
Somehow I think that would be an excellent fit for them. They get their free meals, room, board, plenty of water being forced fed into them by the gallon.
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I've looked at some of the media outlets around the world, Pravada, BuenosAiresHerald, GuardianUK, and the foreign leadership appears supportive or confused about the new Trumpism. However, suddenly the outlets are asking for donations as ad revenue is plunging. That is the first time I have seen that. The Soros and Obama sugar daddies are out.
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Just got up at 3AM and took a shower and then looked at Election results. Trump Wins. Made some coffee. Gonna take the day off.
Now lets see how he performs. Jobs, Moslems and mexicans. and the State dept. and the FBI appointments. Say bye-bye to Obama. And Clinton still has six Investigations to clear. Hollywood has to wash its shorts. Californicate voted wrong and lost. Trump will have to appoint new people. And then work with Congress....we have the Senate and the House but they are old Regime. Slow and careful and remember who your friends are. Start looking for the Future and replace people from the Past. Re=Build the Military and the Organs of Intel and the FBI. Cut the Bureaucracy . Retire a lot of people, replace them. Prepare for the next Presidency and make sure it is strong and Constitutional by packing the Supreme Court with your own. THAT will last a century in results.
Cut a deal with Putin and get out of foreign wars, Re-establish the borders and deport where necessary. Re-establish respect for Law. Cull the Media. Be ruthless with the Media. They are hardly your friends. Use ridicule and pick your targets. Make the American people laugh at the Media.
They work for themselves and not the American public. The Purpose of a Thing is always itself.
Uproot Clinton. Leave her to dry out and rot. Map her supporters in Congress, remember them.
It turns out money doesn't buy votes like it used to. On the other hand, it was nice of him to donate that much to our economy -- very Keynesian of him.
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Hupack Shinesh2768: Well-stated. Trump will have to begin early. He needs to organize starting like today or yesterday. There is a lot to do. The second American Revolution begins.
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He should announce he will not press the investigation of the Clinton Foundation. Heal the country, yaknow? It's gonna dry up anyway. No play, no pay.
See what that does to the talking heads. Than announce he'll nominate Clinton for Supreme Court. Would the media laugh at that, or would their heads explode?
I'm not serious, of course, but it's intriguing, no?
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IMO, he should encourage the Clintons to move to Switzerland and give up USA citizenship.
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I agree, Bobby, with the don't press for Clinton indictments. Ford got excoriated for "pardoning" Nixon but it was the right thing to do at the time.
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...and then he was stupid enough to run for election. Got the nomination from the 'party' and lost to Carter. BTW, his competitor in the primary was to win the Presidency in 1980. Four years of delay that still has consequence, See - Iran.
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Nixon would have been impeached had he not been pardoned. We got Carter as a reaction to the things going on in the Nixon administration. IMO that what the Clintons have done should be looked over very carefully. We don't know the full extent of their criminality, espionage, obstruction of justice, perjury, destruction of federal records, treason and who knows what the hell else.
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I wonder how upset the Democrat core is to lose this one? Now the Republicans will OWN the likely financial collapse, after which the Dems will emerge with no opposition forever?
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Nixon would have been impeached had he not been pardoned.
He'd already resigned allowing Ford to take the office, he no longer was eligible for the immunity of office that impeachment was required to remove before any legal action (ie obstruction) could be taken.
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I agree, Bobby, with the don't press for Clinton indictments.
Absolutely not! No quarter, no mercy. Nail this treasonous piece of filth to the wall, shut down the Clinton's money laundering and influence peddling empire. Prosecute, prosecute, prosecute. With extreme malice.
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Fidelity to the Constitution, and to the rule of law, means fairly and justly review her actions with utter impartiality. If you fail in that fidelity, you fail the trust of the American people. Go where the truth leads, no more, no less!
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The left and the media will continue to prosecute Trump and the right at each and every opportunity. Go after the corruption of the cancerous left now that the House, Senate and Presidency is Republican.
No more Chelsea.
No more Bill.
No more Hillary.
What a thrill!
Baraq is leaving,
Moochelle too,
Janet Lynch
and Jawn the fool!
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We are either a nation of laws or we are not. Laws are not for some and not for others. There are consequences to breaking the law. Our laws and our Constitution are the contracts and agreements by which we have agreed to live as a nation.
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I thought Obama sent the Queen the "Best of his speeches" at one time? If so, the Queen might consider sending them back to Obean for his legacy. Does Obama have a legacy at this point in time? I think plans for the dismantling are ongoing by Trump.
[Jpost] Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States and its commander-in-chief, a stunning achievement for a complete novice to governing whose campaign was written off by the nation's political class.
He defeated Hillary Clinton, the first female presidential nominee of a major party and a former first lady, senator from New York and secretary of state.
The election of Trump may be the greatest political surprise of the modern era, after the Republican nominee trailed national and state-by-state polls for over 100 consecutive days.
Who now remembers the Wikileaks email wherein Mr. Podesta laid out exactly how he wanted the polls skewed? It seems that published polls, along with masses of Soros money, no longer influence votes as once they did. Think of it as evolution in action.
The New York real estate tycoon‐ with no experience in public service‐
...but plenty in sales and marketing...
has proposed a ban on all Muslims from entering the US homeland, a wall on the nation's southern border with Mexico, a trade war with China, a softening with Russia and a ruthless war against Islamists across the Middle East. Biggest defeat to globalism since Battle of Tours
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Trump has been portrayed as an unpredictable lunatic who'll use nukes just to see if they still go boom. It's going to be interesting to see how that affects our diplomatic negotiations.
"Hey, Prince, baby, you'll never guess what Don told me just before I got on the plane..."
"I'll sign. I'll sign. What do you want me to sign?"
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I was going to catch the 11 pm news before I went to bed, but fell asleep in my chair reading sometime after 10:30, woke up again about 1 am and went straight to bed, and knew nothing about it until the radio went off this morning and the news came on a few minutes later.
After a few seconds of being absolutely stunned, I leaped from my bed (instead of turning over for a few more winks as I usually do) shouting, "We did it!"
Still grinning.
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Barbara, do you think I'll stop getting fund raising e-mail from the 'pubs now?
Donald Trump has won the state of Pennsylvania, the Associated Press reported, giving him a total at least 275 electoral votes ‐ and the presidency.
Earlier in the night, Trump won the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, Fox News reported, netting the Republican 16 electoral votes and making Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House extremely narrow ‐ and increasingly unlikely.
Trump’s win in Pennsylvania marks the first time a Republican has won in the Keystone State since 1988. In Wisconsin, Trump broke a 32-year losing streak for the GOP, becoming the first Republican since Ronald Reagan to carry the state.
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I told my wife Clinton wouldn't concede, that she'd lawyer up. She also be saying that the election was stolen from her by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
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Trump wins bigly. The voters gave him the House, Senate, and Presidency. Obama, you are fired. Remind Obama as the door slams him in the ass that the American voters and the country won.
Oil prices tumbled on Wednesday as vote counting showed Republican Donald Trump doing better than expected in several crucial battleground states in the US presidential election.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The controversial detention of the iconic Afghan woman Sharbat Gula has unveiled new harrowing facts regarding the alleged misuse of the funds allocated by National Geographic and the American photographer Steve McCurry.
According to the reports, the social media in Pakistain is rife with the alleged embezzlement of the funds which were supposed to be delivered to Sharbat Gula.
The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistain Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal took to the social media by posting his views regarding the alleged misuse of the funds, involving a well known Pak journalist.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[RT] An Australian pensioner resorted to Robin Hood-style tactics, shooting a bow and arrow at an intruder, in an effort to stop him from fleeing his home with stolen goods.
