The billionaire property mogul Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary Twitter rant against Barack Obama after the president's election victory.
In a series of highly personal attacks, Mr Trump criticised the president's victory as a "total sham", a "travesty" and a "disaster for democracy".
The 66-year-old reality television performer used his Twitter site to call for a "revolution" of the American political system, including a rally in Washington DC. He made the attacks in nine messages to almost 1.9 million followers, moments after Mr Obama was declared the election winner.
@realDonaldTrump

This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!

Other posts were deleted.
"Well, back to the drawing board!" he wrote. "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"Let's fight like hell and stop this disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us."

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Trump should analyse what happened and start understanding new paradigms...
A) the USA is not a totally waspish whitish country with black slaves anymore
B) Romney told many porkies and did some amazingly distrusted 180 degrees flops
C) some of Romney's republicans acolytes scared the crap out of people with idiotic views about rape
D) some people still remember that the GFC was created by Dubya the Minus
E) some people still see the little wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere as Dubya's
F) the Tea Party solutions to the general malaise would have enriched the rich and killed off the middle class
G) the republican religious fanatics on abortion, gay rights and other issues are completely out of touch with the times
H) Romney's policy of destroying FEMA would have proven a disaster of its own
 I) the intent of killing big bird was not a real vote grabber
J) global warming is increasing no matter what anyone says. We have to minimise its impact. Ronmey's policies would have been a disaster on this issue alone — global warming being the greatest challenge faced by the entire planet.

Only a few rich idiots in the rest of the world are in despair. No one is laughing. Most people around the world wanted Obama to win and, at the same time, all are wishing he would stop the drones.

 

Like the chicken of farmyard legend, the central nervous system of the poisonous US right wing outlived its beheading. All the networks had called the election for Barack Obama, but that clucking horror Karl Rove would not accept the fact that Mitt Romney was finished.

With a fifth of Ohio’s votes yet to be counted and Obama ahead by a slither, George W Bush’s “turdblossom” peevishly complained that it was too early for Romney to concede. In a rare sortie in the land of logic, his Fox News hosts adduced an in-house psephologist to explain why, with the precincts yet to declare leaning Democratic, Obama had beyond any statistical doubt won Ohio and re-election.

Still Rove wouldn’t have it, and what with him having blown $300m of SuperPac money in Mittens’ cause, you understood the reluctance. Even so, here was the most perfect microcosmic vignette of what this brutal election was macroscopically about. It had been a danse macabre to the death between science and blind faith; between America as she is and the 1950s version the Republicans wish her to be. Science and the present had won.

For weeks, the GOP’s flat-earthers had denied the polls. Even Reagan’s old speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, as wise and perceptive a political columnist as there is, succumbed. On election eve, she saw in her crystal ball an “undertow election” in which the fixation with swing state polling had blinded America to the enthusiasm edge, evidenced by the front yard placards and rally crowds, steering Romney to a landslide from beneath the surface. Nate Silver would look very foolish indeed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/this-election-wasnt-pretty-but-obamas-victory-is-a-triumph-for-science-over-superstition-8294590.html

Europeans are amazed Obama won the presidential election.

Leaders presiding over disastrous economies here are simply thrown out: Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Gordon Brown in Britain, Spain’s José Luis Zapatero, Ireland’s Brian Cowen and Portugal’s José Sócrates. The Greeks now have their fifth prime minister since 2009!

Surprised and delighted, you could say. But also dismayed ― at troubling aspects of the campaign.

The overwhelming response across Europe has been elation.

French President François Hollande offered Obama his “warmest congratulations” ― as did other leaders.

Hollande summed up why the re-election was so welcome; Obama, he said:

“…is fully engaged on the international scene and well aware of current global challenges: peace, economy and the environment.”

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/europe-reacts-to-obama-re-election/

 

ROMNEY PRESIDENT-ELECT WEBSITE PUBLISHED ACCIDENTALLY
Mitt Romney's campaign team accidentally publish a draft version of his President-Elect transition website, which was prepared in case he won the US election.

The software company that designed the site, SolutionStream, told the Huffington Post it had already been turned over to Romney's campaign team and was "all ready to go".

The Post said the site was taken down shortly after their conversation with Mr Thelin.
Romney had been criticised for his gaffe-filled campaign, which included:

*A secretly recorded speech where he dismissed 47 per cent of the American population as welfare-dependent people who did not pay income tax and who would vote for Obama "no matter what"

*His criticism of the London 2012 Olympics before it was being held, prompting British Prime Minister David Cameron to quip about Romney's handling of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah: "We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere."

*When asked if he was a NASCAR fan, he said: "Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners."

*When asked on television what he defined as the middle class, Romney said: "Middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/mitts-last-gaffe--romney-the-presidentelect-20121109-291o7.html#ixzz2BfmYnI6o

 

Oh dear. Mitt Romney really wanted fireworks to go off if he was elected president – so his campaign spent $25,000 on a display that was never used, the Boston Globe reports:

Mitt Romney had planned to celebrate his election as the nation’s 45th president with an eight-minute fireworks display over Boston Harbor.

The same company that does some of the illuminations for Boston’s Fourth of July celebration was poised to ignite fireworks within view of Romney’s party at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center to celebrate a win over President Obama.

A permit filed with the City of Boston said the detonation could occur any time between 7pm Tuesday, just after the first polls closed, and 12.30am Wednesday, which ended up being just before Romney conceded the race.

Instead Romney went out with a whimper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/08/republican-civil-war-2016-candidates-live

 

 

Mr Thomler nominated Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd and Kate Lundy as standout Twitter users, and said ''the entire Greens team have been growing their effectiveness''.
He said Julia Gillard had, after a ''shaky start'', managed to find her ''rhythm'' on social media.
Of the 226 politicians in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 154 have what appear to be genuine, active Twitter accounts (there are also several fake accounts). Between them they have posted 167,928 tweets, amassing 2,388,166 followers.
Mr Rudd has the most Twitter followers - 1.17 million, which is nearly as many followers as the rest of the federal politicians on Twitter combined.
The median number of tweets per account was 389, although 30 politicians have tweeted fewer than 100 times and three have only sent out one tweet since signing up to the service.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/powering-up-the-top-mp-tweeters-20121201-2ankz.html#ixzz2DqtPcG90

Let it be known here that Gus does not twit nor does he follow twits...