Limbaugh just reported Obama has cancelled the traditional photo-op of the two first families that follow these transition get-togethers.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:


Well, now they're saying that the polling was actually right; they just didn't interpret the results properly.

They have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to fill. We hear all sorts of blatant baloney in between actual news events, I'm sure you have noticed.

The cable news are particularly susceptible. These interviews and panel discussion appearances are highly prized, to promote the individuals, their books, their commercial connections.

It's just part of the "noise," like somebody saying something stupid on a forum.

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We diagnose them as racists in the way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession.

Great quote from the article 12131 links, above.

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Originally posted by egregore:

Electrified sign?

Conservative street artist and provocateur Sabo is poking fun at Hollywood celebrities who have threatened to leave the country in the wake of Donald Trump’s successful election by posting fake “moving sale” realtor posters at locations around Los Angeles.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-h...-fake-realtor-signs/

I vote Scott Adams for a role in the new administration. The "Dilbert" writer has been on board for a while...


SCOTT ADAMS' BLOG

I Answer Your Questions About Predicting President Trump

Did the United States Just Elect a Monster?

No. Clinton’s team of cognitive scientists and professional persuaders did a terrific job of framing Trump as scary. The illusion will wear off – albeit slowly – as you observe Trump going about the job of President and taking it seriously. You can expect him to adjust his tone and language going forward. You can expect foreign leaders to say they can work with him. You can expect him to focus on unifying an exhausted and nervous country. And you can expect him to succeed in doing so. (He’s persuasive.) Watch as Trump turns to healing. You’re going to be surprised how well he does it. But give it time.

I’ll be doing my persuasive best to help our new president unify the country. I’m not a monster either – just a little bit deplorable when the situation calls for it. And I would ask other Trump supporters to step up and be useful as well. If you helped elect Trump, you have a responsibility to calm the nerves of Clinton supporters who also have their country’s best interests in mind. Let’s all be worthy of our decisions.

How did you know this would play out like a movie?

About a year ago I started telling you in this blog that the Trump journey to the presidency would play out like a great movie script. And it did. Movies generally have three acts:

Act 1: The hero’s life abruptly changes.

Act 2: The hero encounters and solves one problem after another, in an entertaining fashion.

Act 3: The hero faces a seemingly insurmountable problem.

Finale: Against all odds, the hero succeeds.

The audience can’t always tell when the third act has arrived because all of the hero’s problems seem big until solved. I thought we reached the Third Act in Trump’s campaign about five different times since May. In retrospect, the real Third Act happened on election night when Trump was behind in nearly every poll. THAT is an insurmountable problem.

Then Trump won anyway. Like a movie.

How did I predict it would turn out so movie-perfect? I saw the following situation developing:

1. The social bullying coming from Clinton’s supporters guaranteed that lots of Trump supporters were in hiding. That created the potential for a surprise result, so long as the race was close.

2. Trump’s powers of persuasion are better than I have ever seen from a living human. That made it likely that the election would be close. And people generally vote for their party’s candidate, so that too promised a close election.

3. The mainstream media backed Clinton. That created a situation in which she was likely to be ahead at some point near the end of the election cycle.

4. The business model of the news industry guarantees lots of “scandals” on a regular schedule. Small things get inflated to big things, and I assumed there would be plenty of them. Trump has the skill to overcome medium-sized scandals and bumps in the road. That’s all you need for an entertaining Second Act.

5. Once I framed this election as a movie script, it primed you to see events that way. Our brains are movie-trained to recognize the three-act form. That’s why all movies use it.

6. Act One happened when Trump announced he was running. Act Two developed during the primaries and continued to the general election when Trump overcame one medium-sized problem after another. Act Three was defined by the Access Hollywood tape and Trump subsequently falling behind in the polls all the way to Election Day. The Finale was our collective discovery that Trump was right about the polls undercounting his support. It turns out he was Keyser Söze all along – and by that I mean smarter than you thought.

And that’s your movie.

I ask Trump supporters not to gloat too much. Be good to your fellow citizens. Be inclusive. Be useful. The country needs you at your best.

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You might like my book because the election was like a movie.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...predicting-president

A question to the brain trust here.

Anyone know the final campaign expense tallies for the Klinton Campaign and the Trump Campaign?

I'm really curious to know if less money crushed more money in this Presidential Election.

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I don't ever recall any past President or First Lady thanking the Secret Service publicly?

Don't understand the question.

But George W. Bush, prior to this election, was a man I respected.

http://www.washingtontimes.com...e-w-bush-was-santa-/

from the article:

I started covering the newly elected president in 2000, when I was in my 30s. Back then, as a reporter for The Washington Times, we went everywhere the president went.

In December, we never left Washington, D.C., until the day after Christmas. Never. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, would always depart the White House a few days before the holiday and hunker down at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. After a few years, I asked a low-level White House staffer why.

I still remember what she said: “So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.”

Who was “us”? Hundreds and hundreds of people, that’s who. Sure, the reporters who covered the president, but also dozens and dozens on his staff, 100 Secret Service agents, maybe more, and all of those city cops required whenever the president’s on the move in D.C.

For me, that one-day delay was huge. My kids were 6 and 8 years old when Mr. Bush took office. When he went home to Prairie Chapel that last time in 2009, my girl was driving, the boy was 6 foot 1. But in the meantime, I was home for eight Christmas mornings, playing Santa, stoking the fire, mixing up hot chocolates.

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and there was this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3aaWlUmpc

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Originally posted by icom706:
A question to the brain trust here.

Anyone know the final campaign expense tallies for the Klinton Campaign and the Trump Campaign?

I'm really curious to know if less money crushed more money in this Presidential Election.

Donald Trump pulled off one of the biggest upsets in American political history last night and he was able to do it after spending nearly half of what the Clinton campaign spent. According to Reuters, Hillary Clinton raised over $520 million for her campaign compared to only $270 million for Trump, much of which came out of his own pocket. Given the current popular vote count those spending figures equate to roughly $8.80 per Hillary vote versus $4.57 for Trump. Moreover, those spending figures don't even factor in the money spent by the various Super PACs where Hillary likely outspent Trump by a hefty margin as well.





http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...ce-much-vote-nothing

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Originally posted by Ripley:
Limbaugh just reported Obama has cancelled the traditional photo-op of the two first families that follow these transition get-togethers.

Just heard Zippy after the meeting.

He didnt sound happy.


Trump: "We left a lot of situations".

Lol. Go get 'em Donald!!

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by lbj:
Oops, too bad for Time magazine.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/oop...win-hits-newsstands/

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“Like everybody else, we got it wrong,” said Tony Romando, CEO of Topix Media, the Newsweek partner that produces special issues for the magazine.

"Like everybody else"? No, sorry, not like "everybody else". You should say "Like all the other out-of-touch, snobbish, boorish, closed-minded, over-educated (or simply ignorant and stupid) leftists in America, we got it wrong."

That's everyone that matters to him.

Butt-Hurt Crying Hillary Voters Compilation
Paul Joseph Watson






Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grD_IINiH9c

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Originally posted by sdy:

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and there was this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3aaWlUmpc

Try to imagine our next ex-president doing that. I dare you.

This is great news!

I hope Trump will tell the Russians to F-Off.

I think he will!

sounds like Obama did cancel the family photo op

https://www.washingtonpost.com...ting-since-election/

Trump entered the White House through the South Lawn entrance, avoiding news cameras and the eyes of the president's staff.

In a sign of how tensions between the two politicians have not disappeared in the immediate aftermath of the election, the White House did not arrange for the traditional photo-op between the current First Couple and the incoming one, a custom that George W. Bush and his wife Laura observed when the Obamas visited the White House in 2008.

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because regardless of what George & Laura Bush did in the recent election, he was a president w class.

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Originally posted by icom706:
A question to the brain trust here.

Anyone know the final campaign expense tallies for the Klinton Campaign and the Trump Campaign?

I'm really curious to know if less money crushed more money in this Presidential Election.

I'd like to know the average size of the Clinton and Trump campaign contributions.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by icom706:
A question to the brain trust here.

Anyone know the final campaign expense tallies for the Klinton Campaign and the Trump Campaign?

I'm really curious to know if less money crushed more money in this Presidential Election.

I'd like to know the average size of the Clinton and Trump campaign contributions.

Well, if Trump really contributed over $100 million, that'll raise the average quite a bit.

Pic of meeting - Trump in his new office

After his meeting with Trump, Obama will welcome another high profile visitor with his own large media contingent when Lebron James and the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers arrive for a South Lawn ceremony with the president.