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2016 Presidential election The 472 counties won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 spanned only a small part of the acreage of the United States, but they produce 64 percent of all US output. The 2,584 counties won by Trump produce only 36 percent of US output. David Frum, Trumocalypse  © 2020 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election After the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea. Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it. This is too important an issue to be dismissive.  Mark Zuckerberg, after Facebook agreed to provide Congress with 3,000 ads paid for by Russian agents  © 2017 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election And now the gloves are off. The tiny, tiny gloves. Stephen Colbert, on Donald Trump's hiring of Steve Bannon, the ex-head of frothing Breitbart News, as CEO of his presidential campaign © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Anti-democracy Republican Party leaders including Jason Chaffetz, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Ron Johnson, Peter King, Michael McCaul and James Sensenbrenner, and Fox News dumbass Sean Hannity openly call for a coup d'état by, impeachment if Hillary Clinton is elected president © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Despite their hemming and hawing most Republican leaders closed ranks behind Trump, creating the image of a unified party. That, in turn, normalized the election. Rather than a moment of crisis, the election became a standard two-party race, with Republicans backing the Republican candidate and Democrats backing the Democratic candidate. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Does it make sense to vote for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president? Sure, as long as you believe two things. First, you have to believe that it makes no difference at all whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump moves into the White House – because one of them will. Second, you have to believe that America will be better off in the long run in we eliminate environmental regulation, abolish the income tax, do away with public schools, and dismantle Social Security and Medicare – which is what the Libertarian platform calls for. Paul Krugman, New York Times, 09/19/2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Eligible and actual voters   Eligible Actual Totals voters voters Eligible: 231,556,622 100%   Didn't: 95,214,088 41%   Voted: 136,342,534 59% 100%  Clinton: 65,514,395 28% 48% Trump: 62,853,497 27% 46% Others: 7,974,642 3% 6%   As of December 7, 2016.  Eligible based on data from heavy.com; actual on data from uselectionatlas.org © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Finally Someone With Balls Slogan on t-shirts for Trump supporters © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election For all the Republicans' talk of a top-down Democratic plot, [Christopher] Steele and [Glenn] Simpson appear never to have told their ultimate client –the Clinton campaign's law firm– that Steele had gone to the F.B.I. Clinton's campaign spent much of the sum- mer of 2016 fending off stories about the Bureau's investigation into her e-emails, without knowing that the F.B.I. had launched a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump team's ties to Russia … As a top Clinton-campaign official told me, “If I'd known the F.B.I. was investigating Trump, I would have been shouting it from the rooftops!” Jane Mayer, New Yorker, March 12, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Fuck the law. I don't give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Shut it down. Donald Trump, reacting to the news that his campaign was paying for its transition team members, as is required by federal law © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election I had NOTHING to do with making Trump president. That was Putin. – God God@thegoodgodabove, 2:53 PM · Feb 13, 2019  © 2020 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election I had nothing to do with Russia helping me get elected. Donald Trump, 7:57 AM – May 30, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election I think of this as echoing of the 2008 financial crisis. The marketplace for politicians just did something as weird as the marketplace for securities did, and it did it in part because of what the market did. Without the financial crisis, we don't get Trump as president. There are other necessary conditions. But it's definitely a necessary condition. Michael Lewis, Financial Times, December 10-11, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments – that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. And that allegation deserves the attention of every American. Robert Mueller © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win. Donald Trump, makig it clear once and for all that he's indisputably a modern Republican by promising to continue their attempts to deligitimize government and the presidency  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election If Hillary wins, there will be widespread unrest, civil disobedience, badly divided government in which half the country believes she, her daughter, and her husband belong in jail. There'll be no goodwill. No honeymoon. There will be systematic inspection of all of her actions because someone who has been a crook in the past will be a crook in the future. It will be sad. I'll probably be forced to move to Costa Rica. Rober Stone, Trump adviser, promising Republican-led gridlock if Clinton becomes president © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election If you only focus on the toxic crap, you're not being fair to the Turmp voters. But if you deny all the toxic crap, you're not being fair to the rest of Americans. Van Jones © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election In a choice between two aging boomers, victory went to the older and less evolved of the two. It's as if, by electing Donald Trump, voters angrily decided, “Enough with all this ‘audacity of hope,’ let's give necrosis a try.” James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, September, 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election In the end, the Republican Party rallied behind Donald Trump because if that was the deal needed to regain power, what was the problem? Because it had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was all a lie. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election In the “world's greatest democracy,” the candidate with the most votes lost the election, yet again © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Ironically, for many of them [working-class whites], the America that they hope the president-elect can make great again is from an era in which unions were strong and incomes more equal, the mid-20th-century period that economists call the Great Compression. It was a time when the ancestors of today's Trump voters voted routinely for economic progressives, despised conservative Republicans and largely trusted the federal government to do right by them. Michael Kazin, Wall Street Journal, November 12–13, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election It feels like we are in a world where, to me, some meaningful part of the electorate is beyond reasoning with – beyond fact, anti-science. Michael Lewis, Financial Times, December 10-11, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to. Donald Trump, after dozens of leading Republicans withdrew their support for him following the release of a video in which he boasts about grabbing women by their genitals © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. … The money's rolling in and this is fun. I've never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going. Leslie Moonves, then CEO of CBS, on round-the-clock coverage of Trump during the election  © 2021 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election It's a mess — he's going to be subpoenaed [and] deposed. He's a litigation magnet and there's no relief because you're president. The Supreme Court has held that. Donald Trump's plight described by a former chief ethics officer for president George W. Bush, Financial Times, November 3, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election It's exciting. I think you can feel we're resigned to this. An unnamed delegate to the Republican Party convention © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis Hey @Snowden, for context, how long would it take the NSA to dedupe 650k emails? — — — Edward Snowden @Snowden @jeffjarvis Drop non-responsive To:/CC:/BCC:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours. 5:19PM - 6 Nov 2016 Edward Snowden, responding to Jeff Jarvis, debunking Donald Trump's claim it would be impossible for the FBI to review 650,000 Hillary Clinton emails in 8 days, most of which were duplicates © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Make sure you get out and vote on November 28. Donald Trump's slip of the tongue revealing his worries about November 28, 2016, when he is scheduled to appear in court before judge Gonzalo Curiel in a civil suit accusing him of fraud related to Trump University, which is one of 75 civil suits he's facing for actions that took place before the election, from which even presidents are not immune © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Mike looks more like a vice-president — he's out of central casting. Donald Trump's explanation to Chris Christie of why he chose Pence as his running mate instead of him © 2023 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Most white  working-class people voted for Donald Trump and the through line that you find is whiteness, not class and not gender. It's not like he only got men; he got a majority of white women too. So if you look at categories of white people you find Trump being dominant among them, in part because of the appeal he made, but also in part because the Republican Party has effectively become in this country the party of white people. Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2017 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” Forrest Gump, whose momma was a pollster © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Of course, the Russian effort affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point. James Clapper, forner Director of National Intelligence, in his book, Facts and Fears  © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election On, Pfft! © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election The one piece of information that best predicts whether Mr. Trump won or lost a county in November was the degree of the opiod epidemic. Timothy Snyder, Malady © 2021 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Our back-up strategy is to fuck her up so badly that she can't govern. Steve Bannon, Trump's campaign manager, on the Republican Party's strategy if Hillary Clinton won the election  © 2021 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election People have talked about a miracle. I'm hearing about a nightmare. It's hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us. You tell your kids don't be a bully. You tell your kids don't be a bigot. You tell your kids do your homework and be prepared. And then you have this outcome and you have people putting children to bed tonight and they're afraid of breakfast. They're afraid of, “How do I explain this to my children?” Van Jones, election night, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election The president's intense resistance to the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia systematically interfered in the 2016 campaign – and the blame he cast instead on a rival country – led many of his advisers to think that Putin himself helped spur the idea of Ukraine's culp- ability, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. One former senior White House official said Trump even stated so explicitly at one point, saying he knew Ukraine was the real culprit because “Putin told me.” Washington Post, December 19, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Putin and Assange win big, aided by FBI, white insurgents, minority disenfranchisement — — — — — Canadian immigration website crashes after tallying begins — Trump will be told bit-by-bit what winners know and want © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election The real job killer in America is auto- mation, robotics, artificial intelligence. You're not going to lose because your neighbor's child gets a chance to go to college. You're not going to lose because a hard-working immigrant family starts a small business. That's good for you! We never made that case. And the message from Trump was a retrograde message of nostalgia: “We can go back to the way things were. You don't have to compete with a woman for a job. Or with a striving young immigrant.” It's a falsehood that gave some comfort to people and gave them permission to scapegoat others. Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election The real issue is that, in area after area, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, the American people want it. Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, creating 13 million jobs, the American people want it. The pay equity for women, the American people want it. Demanding that the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxes, the American people want it. Bernie Sanders, Democratic debate, Charleston, SC, Jan. 17, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Regrettably, it appears that the platforms may have misrepresented or evaded in some of their statements to Congress. From a report published by the Senate Intelligence Committee about the responses submitted by Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms to its requests for data about Russia's attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Rivals pounce on toxic mood to scorn US democracy — — — — — China, Russia, Iran and even Kyrgyzstan say they have nothing to be jealous about — — — — — headline, Financial Times, November 9, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election She was asked. … Little bit difficult because of, you know, it's a long ways away. Donald Trump, explaining why Sarah Palin didn't travel from Alaska to the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election That's right – lock her up! Damn right.  And you know why we're saying that? We're saying that because, if I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth – a tenth – of what she did, I would be in jail today. Michael Flynn, responding to the audience when it began chanting “Lock her up!” after he mentioned Hillary Clinton in his speech at the Republican National Convention  © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election They came from the valleys, they came from the rivers, they came from the cities, they came from all over, they voted in one of the greatest elections in the history of our country. Donald Trump, March 22, 2018, reminiscing about his 2016 victory © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election This was many things. This was a rebellion against the elites. True. It was a complete reinvention of politics and polls. It's true. But it was also something else. … This was a whitelash. This was a whitelash against a changing country. It was whitelash against a black president in part. And that's the part where the pain comes. Van Jones, November 9, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election To believe that Trump's presidency came out of nowhere, without warning, is the political version of creationism.  I, on the other hand, believe in devolution. The election of a serially bankrupt, functionally illiterate reality TV host was the logical consequence of the five decades preceding it, which, with apologies to Edith Wharton, I'll call the Age of Ignorance. Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. ¶ Now some of those folks are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. … the other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they're just desperate for change. ¶ He seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead- end. Those are people we have to under- stand and empathize with as well. Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Trump supporters, from most to least important: Vladimir Putin and his Russian hackers digging/creating dirt on Democrats ↓↓↓ Julian Assange and his Wikileakers distributing Russian-dug/made dirt ↓↓ Stephen Bannon, of Breitbart News, & Sean Hannity, Fox News dumbass, spreading conspiracy theories ↓ Uneducated blue-collar whites mistaking Trump for someone who cares for anyone other than himself © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Trump's rebellion was born at the intersection of two toxic American myths, the post-racial society and the classless society. Matt Taibbi © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Virginia had already removed 41,637 voters from the Crosscheck list—tens of thousands of voters whose only crime was having a common name. If all Crosscheck states follow Virginia's pattern, removing about 12 percent of the voters on their Crosscheck list, over one million voters will lose their right to vote by Election Day, November 2016. Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [Interstate Crosscheck is a software package funded by Charles and David Koch and used by 30 states to identify nearly 7.2 million people with similar names who it deems “suspected double voters” that the states remove from their voter rolls without arresting or convicting the “suspects”] © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Vote your conscience Ted Cruz, at the Republican Party convention, reneging on his promise to support the Party's nominee, whoever it is © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election We got elected on Drain the Swamp, Lock Her Up, Build a Wall. … This was pure anger. Anger and fear is what gets people to the polls. Steve Bannon, in a 2018 interview © 2023 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election “We have three major voter suppression operations under way,” says a senior [Trump campaign] official. They're aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 27, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election We know there's no other way it could've happened than the hand of God.  Steve Bannon's argument that convinced Jeff Sessions not to resign after one of Trump's humiliating put-downs © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election We Shall Overcomb Inscription on sheets of toilet paper sold at the Republican convention © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election We the people of the United States, in order to dissolve what unity we have, establish injustice, insure domestic idiocy, provide for the common offense, promote the general despair, and secure enmity toward ourselves by our posterity, do ordain and establish this obnoxious political spectacle, the election of 2016. “Preamble” to  P. J. O'Rourke, How the Hell Did This Happen? The Election of 2016 © 2017 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Were you paid $1,500 to be a thug? Donald Trump, to a black rallier seated near the podium who he ordered to be removed without realizing the man was a supporter who sat up front so he could give Trump a note saying he'd get more black votes if he showed blacks more respect © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. O.K.? Donald Trump, when asked, if he were to lose the election, would he accept the results and concede to assist a peaceful transition of power © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election What is the T doing to that P? John Dingell, Democratic congressman, on the Trump-Pence campaign logo © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election What the geographic numbers do show is that the specific subset of Mr Trump's voters that won him the election – those in counties where he outperformed Mr Romney by large margins – live in communities that are literally dying. Even if Mr Trump's policies are unlikely to alleviate their plight, it is not hard to understand why they voted for change. Economist, November 19, 2016, commenting on the fact that an index of public-health statistics pertaining to life expectancy and the prevalence of diabetes, heavy drinking and obesity is an even better predictor of a county's change from 2012 to 2016 in the share of eligible voters that voted Republican than the % of non-college whites © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election When around 8 a.m. [1:00AM New York time] the most important result of our work arrived, we uncorked a tiny bottle of champagne … took one gulp each and looked into each other's eyes … We uttered almost in unison: “We made America great.” From an email the US government obtained from an employee of Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA), which was responsible for manipulating the election in favor of Trump via posting to social media Quoted by Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, June 2020  © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
2016 Presidential election When you learn that the bank you borrowed money from is actually owned by a drug cartel, should your first reaction be, “Well, we got a good interest rate”? The simple reality is that the Republican Party was in buiness with Russian intelligence efforts, what used to be known as the KGB, and precious few leading the Republican Party seen to give a damn. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com