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It's President Donald Trump, after all
Following the Republican candidate's win in Pennsylvania there was virutally no chance the Democrat nominnee Hillary Clinton could reverse the situation and her campain manager John Podesta sent everybody at her camp home to sleep, saying she would not be making any comments during the evening. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLol, half jock ginger nutter.
Nov 09th, 2016 - 02:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Al que no le guste qué arme un partido y gane las elecciones.
Nov 09th, 2016 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Those who gave their vote to Trump can now take a look at the news from Argentina, where another CEO was elected as president a year ago, and see their future--crystal clear.
Nov 09th, 2016 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -7Brexit re-visited, a liberal thinking political elite completely out of touch with the working class voters, Parliamentary Labour party anyone.
Nov 09th, 2016 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hillary Clinton more toxic than Trump where it mattered, at the ballot boxes.
Good choice of candidate by the Democrats, or what.
The funny thing of all this mess it that Trump has plenty of things in common with CFK and peronism: populist and basic (very simple) political speech, a primitive nationalism, seeing
Nov 09th, 2016 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse +2the World as a threat rather than an opportunity, being pro-life, conservative attitude towards social structure.....they have plenty of thing in common....
It's funny how Latin America takes a turn away from populism just as the rest of the world begins to embrace it. It is indeed opposite land.
Nov 09th, 2016 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse -2I imagine this spells good news for the Argentine tax amnesty as those on the fence about leaving money in the US will have the decision made easy for them now.
I imagine Miami is soon to become a more grotesque Chernobyl.
Well, I must say, I thought HRC was going to win for sure. I stand corrected big time.
Nov 10th, 2016 - 05:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0But, as an American, if I could have, I would have voted for Elaine for president, and her running mate, Skippy, for vice-president.
I told you all 18 months ago that Trump was going to win.
Nov 10th, 2016 - 08:19 am - Link - Report abuse +6I told you all that you didn't understand America.
Welcome back Yankeeboy. Now you have got you new teeth you are much easier to understand. I reckon all that fuss in America has been caused to bury the sad news about the new Toblerone!
Nov 10th, 2016 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0We got House of Reps, Senate and the Prez. Just got to get the chief justice fixed.
Nov 10th, 2016 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let the good times roll. More teeth than jaws.
The UK wanting Clinton in when she hates the UK and not wanting Trump when he's talked about putting the UK first in trade deals shows just out of touch British politicians are. Clinton wants us to negotiate with Argentina over Falklands sovereignty, and Obarmy hates the UK. Let's support Clinton then! Trump praises Brexit (i.e. what the UK voters wanted, not what the politicos wanted), Trump wants to put the UK first. Trump might establish a better relationship with Moscow and decrease world tension. Let's not talk to Trump ! *UK lemmings jump over the cliff * Can you talk to Trump on faceboo? I want to ask him if he supports the Falkland Islanders right to determination. Because Clinton didn't.
Nov 10th, 2016 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0YB!
Nov 10th, 2016 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Well done!
Don't be fooled that is not Yankeeboy...
Nov 10th, 2016 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/03/07/brazilian-military-regime-supported-financially-chilean-dictator-pinochet/comments#comment224328
There you can see Condorito posting on the same thread as YB....
All this silly talk about Trumpism being modeled after Peronism. Quaint argento-centrism of the worst sort, as if somehow Perón had invented populism instead of feeding at a well-used trough. ( If Charles de Gaulle and I both preferred Ricard Pastis, does that make me a French nationalist? )
Nov 10th, 2016 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Remember that Perón got his populism merit badges from Mussolini, whose hardly-new policies formed part of Perón's plans for Argentina. And before them.... similar populism has been the centrepiece for dozens of elections in recent history and there is some degree of it in a number of recent US political movements. In the 19th century the US was a seething cauldron of the sort of populism that we still see popping up today. These days anyone who strikes a chord with any segment of a working class can be branded a populist. Wasn't Bernie Saunders also a populist?
Besides, Perón is of little consequence to Americans. Trump apparently doesn't have the foggiest idea who Perón was, beyond what he might have seen in a film. Vicente Fox's baseless comparison of Trump to Perón was intended as an insult, not as a serious historical note. And besides, Perón has never (so far as anyone can tell) appeared in anything Trump has mentioned.
William Jennings Bryant was a perronist?
Nov 11th, 2016 - 05:27 am - Link - Report abuse -1lol.
NYT magazine article: “How Can Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Both Be ‘Populist’?”
Nov 11th, 2016 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[...] “For half a century, most presidential campaigns have featured one or more “populists” from the right, the left or somewhere in between. In 1968, reporters and academics pasted the label on George Wallace, whose campaign literature asked, “Can a former truck driver married to a dime-store clerk and son of a dirt farmer be elected president?” In 1972, Time dubbed George McGovern a “prairie populist” because he had a modest plan to redistribute wealth and hailed from the rural heartland. In 1996, The Atlantic observed that Pat Buchanan’s “hard-right-wing populism ... may be the shape of politics to come.” In 2012, The Hill announced, “Obama cranks up populist pitch” after the president, who previously shied away from us-versus-them talk, called for higher taxes on the rich.”
“There was a time when “populist” meant something more specific. The word originated with the decidedly left-wing People’s Party that emerged in the Midwest and the South amid the economic turmoil and rampant inequality of the 1890s.....”
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/11/09/it-s-president-donald-trump-after-all/comments#comment454289: I think you are confusing “populist” with the Populist Party - which was populist but whose platform does not define the word.
Nov 11th, 2016 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There are many flavours of populism, hepathetic, just as there are many shades of peronism.
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