general political shit

Congo Jack wrote:Yeah its cnn their polls are biased as shit and they've spent the last year on a crusade against trump wye
You can't think polls, especially ones like this, account for most of the nation's view on him
I've used this statement before here and I'll use it again, there's an unaccounted silent majority that doesn't give a fuck about and are neither contacted to take polls for things like this and are more busy with their own life than going out of their way to take a poll they didn't know exist
Plus am I mistaken or was it not CNN who confidently declared Clinton had a fucking 90+% chance of winning
I don't think CNN are in a real good place to be doing any forecasting rn

Congo Jack wrote:Maybe a lot of people aren't, but I'm still not going to take it as 100% accountable
No one I know's really flipped on him or doubted him lately, and he won about half the nation

Congo Jack wrote:Yeah its cnn their polls are biased as shit and they've spent the last year on a crusade against trump wye
You can't think polls, especially ones like this, account for most of the nation's view on him
I've used this statement before here and I'll use it again, there's an unaccounted silent majority that doesn't give a fuck about and are neither contacted to take polls for things like this and are more busy with their own life than going out of their way to take a poll they didn't know exist
Plus am I mistaken or was it not CNN who confidently declared Clinton had a fucking 90+% chance of winning
I don't think CNN are in a real good place to be doing any forecasting rn

Congo Jack wrote:You can't think polls . . . account for most of the nation's view on him
I've used this statement before here and I'll use it again, there's an unaccounted silent majority that doesn't give a fuck about and are neither contacted to take polls for things like this and are more busy with their own life than going out of their way to take a poll they didn't know exist

rt wrote:the polls weren't wrong though
. . .hillary won the popular vote by 2%, which was only a bit lower than what they were predicting

george lucas wrote:i seriously doubt the uncounted people make up another 30-40%. point still stands that trump is scoring low in this category compared to other presidents in the past ~40 years

Congo Jack wrote:

rt wrote:the polls weren't wrong though
. . .hillary won the popular vote by 2%, which was only a bit lower than what they were predicting

thats still factually wrong
plus it was on election day that cnn released that 90% chance shit

Robert Sheridan is a 40-year-old GM worker who voted for Donald Trump. He can barely contain his excitement about Inauguration Day, even though it will be a rough day for him on a personal level.

He's one of 2,000 GM factory workers losing their jobs on Friday, the same day that Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president.
Sheridan -- and thousands like him -- are desperately hoping Trump will save their jobs.

"Please help us in Lordstown," says Sheridan, a soft-spoken Midwesterner with three kids. "This is a great middle class job. You can't find one better around here."

These are GM's first layoffs in six years. About 1,200 workers in Lordstown, Ohio (where Sheridan works) are getting the ax and another 800 in Lansing, Michigan -- both key states that led to Trump's victory. Given the vote totals, many of these workers likely voted for Trump, breaking ranks with the United Automobile Workers union that backed Hillary Clinton.

Trump appeared to hear their outcry. In early January, he slammed GM in a tweet.

"General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border," Trump tweeted.

"Trump's tweet really gave us hope," Sheridan says. He's worked at GM (GM) for seven years and makes $25 an hour installing brake lines. It's the kind of pay that finally allowed him to buy a house and decent sports equipment for his kids. Other factories in the area pay only $9 to $12 an hour.

This week, Trump did a U-turn and thanked GM. The car giant announced Tuesday it would invest heavily in the U.S., generating about 2,000 "new and retained" factory jobs in the coming years. Trump cited it as another example of how he's delivering "big stuff" for America, although GM said the plans had been in the works for awhile.

But that doesn't help workers in Lordstown and Lansing. Those 2,000 workers are still losing their jobs now, GM confirmed. On top of that, another 1,300 factory workers in Detroit are scheduled to get the ax in March.

It's another blow to America's Rust Belt.

"This county has been going downhill, slowly," John Fowler, a retired GM worker, lamented as he gazed out of the McDonald's window in Warren, the town next to Lordstown. The region is about an hour's drive from Pittsburgh or Cleveland.

Congo Jack wrote:yeah it's not like teddy roosevelt changed the job market by regulating work or anything
tbh rt if you dont think the man with the most powerful office in the world cant keep american jobs in america then you dumb as shit

tfw you LET THE MACHINES REPLACE THE WORKERS!!!!