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It's too late to do anything about that anyway. The Paris accords are a joke. At best, the difference between Trump and Clinton was a few decades before the really bad effects start to impact our daily lives. It's pretty scary to think what will happen once the mass migration starts, considering the chaos created in Europe by just a couple of million Syrian refugees.

I don't believe in protest votes and I struggle to think of any example in the modern era where they led to significant improvements in the lives of the people who had made said protest vote. I never said anything about the intelligence of Trump voters and I would appreciate if you do not imply that I did. The DNC obviously has a lot of soul-searching to do.

Only half of the people eligible to vote have voted. Turn-out is way down compared to the previous three elections. It seems like a lot of people weren't very enthusiastic about either of these two candidates, which sort of makes sense.

Are these pictures on Nelly's main site? I can't seem to find them.

The real question of Donald J. Trump's presidency will be what happens to his supporters once they find out that a lot of his campaign promises were based on magical thinking. It's not out of the question that they don't care. Brexiteers have come back on a lot of their promises without there being any real blacklash from the Leave voters.

Clinton came to this thing with 23+ years of baggage. I personally believe some of it was unfair, but the DNC should have taken into consideration how she was starting out with a very negative image compared to a more unblemished candidate. But I personally think her biggest problem is that she isn't a great campaigner. Which has nothing to do with her being a woman and everything to do with her not being able to personally engage the electorate the way her husband and Obama can. But there are certainly female politicians who have this skill. e.g. Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland.

The thing is, Trump can't really do much about the job thing unless he truly goes all protectionist on the US economy. The irony is that would make a lot more sense if unemployment was higher than its current 4.9%. International market capitalism really only works well for any individual country if its unemployment rate approaches 0%. In any other scenario, it's better to make your own shit. And the US is one of the few countries in the world which has the scale, power and wealth to actually put the theory into practice. But again, this would make more sense if the unemployment numbers were at their 2008 levels. Also, blue-collar manufacturing jobs will mostly disappear in the West in the next couple of decades, courtesy of the technological realities. That isn't something Trump can do anything about, unless he forces US businesses and manufacturers to hold back progress. I doubt that will happen.

Trump got his votes predominantly from white men and white women (in that order). He was most popular with affluent white men. Turn-out was generally down across all demographics.

Well prior to this election cycle, I would have suggested Elizabeth Warren, but she might not have hurt her chances with her associating with Clinton in this election.

Hillary looks set to win the popular vote and could have won this thing if not for a handful of very close Trump wins in swing states. A woman other than Clinton (one who does not come with all the pre-existing baggage) can definitely win a presidential election.

He could have easily lost. Some of the races were very tight. Clinton's problem seems to be that people weren't really very enthusiastic enough to come out and vote for her. This was the lowest turn-out since 2000.

I don't expect this to set into motion the Apocalypse, but it's equally naive to believe this won't have a rather big impact internationally, if he carries out even a portion of his campaign promises. This isn't reserved just to Trump BTW, had Clinton won we would have seen some changes too, though likely less dramatic. e.g. the Iran deal was probably going to end up in the waste bin regardless of whether the US elected Trump or Clinton.

A Trump presidency will definitely cause some great shifts internationally. Expect Russia to throw their weight around more in terms of their influence on European politics. Expect China to set their eyes on more blatant sea territory grabbing actions in the direction of the Philippines, possibly Vietnam. This won't be a comic book instant-disaster, it will work more subtly and incrementally. NATO is out of the door in its current incarnation, which ironically is not great news for the Brexiteers.

Reposted from the Hillary Clinton topic: The long-standing effects of this cannot be overstated. This is almost certainly the end of NATO as we know it. Russian influence in Europe will become much greater. Obviously the DNC underestimated just how many people truly loathed Clinton. I think the lesson here is not to nominate a candidate who has a large section of the electorate already against him/her, even if the reasons for that dislike might not all be entirely fair. A purely tactical error that was made by the Clinton campaign was the manner in which they totally alienated the so-called Bernie Bros. I believe a lot of them stayed home yesterday and a decent amount of them went even further and voted for Trump instead. I think they will soon find out that the scorched earth tactic is a lot more fun in the movies/comic books they so like than it is in real life.

6. Denise Schaefer 5. Solveig Hansen 4. Rania Benchegra 3. Paige Reifler 2. Anna Selezneva 1. Brooke Buchanan

The Derby of the Low Countries is usually a big deal over here, but with how poorly the Netherlands have played since the World Cup in 2014, the excitement is rather limited for this one. There was even some talk of a player from Heracles getting a call-up!

She needs to learn the Candi-arch!

MJ's weird T&A obsession has been odd to behold for a while. I wonder how the models themselves think about it. Does she believe she has to do this stuff to sell the magazine?

6. Josephine Skriver 5. Sandra Kubicka 4. Hailey Outland 3. Xenia Tchoumitcheva 2. Rocky Barnes 1. Isabeli Fontana

6. Paige Reifler 5. Danielle Knudson 4. Rania Benchegra 3. Neus Bermejo 2. Eniko Mihalik 1. Brooke Buchanan

6. Hannah Ferguson 5. Lais Ribeiro 4. Irina Shayk 3. Megan Williams 2. Edita Vilkeviciute 1. Bar Refaeli

6. Denise Schaefer 5. Carmella Rose 4. Vita Sidorkina 3. Sara Sampaio 2. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley 1. Kate Bock

So the dude met a model on a plane and three years later they are engaged. Nicely played, sir.

6. Natasha Barnard 5. Rose Bertram 4. Natalie Morris 3. Anna Selezneva 2. Kelly Rohrbach 1. Lily Donaldson

6. Rania Benchegra 5. Josephine Skriver 4. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley 3. Edita Vilkeviciute 2. Gisele Bundchen 1. Natalie Morris