kelownabomberfan

I think your biggest mistake was always taking Trump literally. Not just on this issue, but almost every issue. That's not seeing things through Trump colored glasses, or at least, I'm not looking through your Hillary-colored glasses. Yeah, sure he was probably setting things up if the results were close, and leaving his options open to challenge. Why would he say he would accept the results if another year like 2000 happened and the whole election hung on a few votes in one state? Then everyone would say that he would have agreed in advance not to challenge, and would be pilloried for not accepting the results, even if they were really close. But then he won in a giant landslide, so really the whole point in my opinion is moot.

Trump said "we'll see," when asked if he'd accept the results. At no time did I think that meant he'd not accept the results. It was so obviously political posturing, and not something to take literally like so many did.

Hillary is way up in the popular vote because of the huge concentration of Democrats in California. If the vote was purely based on popular vote then Trump would have spent more time on the West Coast. As it was he left the West Coast to Hillary and focused on the battle-ground states that Hillary assumed were in the bag. And that's one of the main reasons she lost, she was out-maneuvered by a much smarter election team.

He was pretty coy about what he would do, and was leaving his options open. That was my take. Joe Scarborough's take too. Do you honestly think that he would demand recounts (and be able to raise $9 million from the public) to get those recounts done, if Hillary had kicked his ass as hard as he kicked Hillary's ass? I doubt it. Trump's a business guy, and he understands cost/benefit, unlike the Green Party. Everyone knows that these recounts are a waste of time and money, and the most likely result is that the Green Party is going to bank most of this dough after the Wisconsin recounts turn up nothing.

Yes, I agree. I think Joe was just pointing out how the media jumped all over Trump and yet are silent when Hillary does the same thing. And he's right, this is why the mainstream media is going bankrupt in the USA.

I hope you named them Poplawski, Tyrone and Walby!

Ken Dryden?

What a giant tool!

and who is sitting in houses in Regina not on their official list?

His dead dog told him to put it up.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/trudeaus-turn-from-cool-to-laughing-stock/

Marco Belchior!

Playing on a line with Thorburn as a rookie: Michael Corleone kiss of death.

Praising evil dictators on behalf of all Canadians - not my Forte!!

As much as Tim Kaine wanted the Ohio State killings today to be gun violence, sadly, it was gun violence that ended the actual violence....

This is pretty nuanced all right. I wonder how complicated this guy thought Castro's legacy would be, right before the bullet from Fidel's gun crashed through his head and he was executed.

I agree with you, but at least we weren't a world laughing-stock when Harper did his eulogy, like we are now thanks to Justin.

A friend of mine worked for a Canadian company in Cuba for five years. He actually was one of these guys who believed all of the nonsense about Cuba being a "socialist paradise" and how Castro was a social justice hero who had brought health care and education to the people. It didn't take him long after starting work in Cuba to realize that was all PR bunk. He also as a Canadian had some more freedoms and saw some of the large estates that Fidel and Raul live on, while the majority of the country languishes in poverty, with no hope. He said that the people have been lied to and indoctrinated for so long that there will be no counter-revolution. The only hope is for the Castros to relinquish power and bring in elections. And that's not going to happen, as there are what, 8 Castro sons that already run almost everything? The most disheartening sight for him was seeing fields full of food just rotting, because the state-controlled agriculture department was so inept that they couldn't or wouldn't give the order to harvest the crops on time, and no one is allowed to harvest anything until told to do so, on pain of arrest and probably torture/death. He couldn't understand that. So needless to say, he was partying on Saturday night.

Just like when Kim Jong Il died.

Reminds me of 2001. Only this time Calgary lost. So glad.

Another hash-tag has started on Twitter, this time making fun of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party, who put out a similar glowing statement about Castro, completely glossing over Castro's mass-murdering past by just saying "for all of his flaws". Now #forallhisflaws is trending on Twitter as the British get into the act of using the same mocking comments about Corbyn's horrific comment as many were doing with #trudeaueulogies.