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Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

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184 points praneshp | 2 comments | 21 Nov 17 21:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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1024core ◴[21 Nov 17 22:18 UTC] No.15752149[source]▶
Is she planning to run for Governor again?
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patorjk ◴[21 Nov 17 22:36 UTC] No.15752267[source]▶
Some people think she may be thinking about running against Trump in 2020 - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/kevin-oleary-thinks-meg-whit...
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junkscience2017 ◴[21 Nov 17 22:49 UTC] No.15752362[source]▶
Silicon Valley is trending for like-ability about where Wall Street was in 2008. But of course she should run, as should Zuckerberg, Thiel, Altman etc because it would be a hoot watching them go down in flames.
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013a ◴[21 Nov 17 23:34 UTC] No.15752744[source]▶
If Clinton's 9-figure campaign couldn't get a handle on what the average American voter wants from their government, it would be downright hilarious to watch someone from Silicon Valley try. The region is so far out of touch, they aren't even on the same planet.
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dragonwriter ◴[22 Nov 17 00:01 UTC] No.15752931[source]▶
The problem wasn't Clinton's campaign, it was the candidate; it's amazing that a candidate that widely hated and whose negatives were rock solid from decades of political exposure still managed to get more votes than Trump, who came in with slightly higher negatives, but about whom voters had far less firm opinions.
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specialist ◴[22 Nov 17 02:41 UTC] No.15753781[source]▶
Uh huh. Overt racism & sexism, foreign meddling, systemic disenfranchisement, Johnson & Stein pulling a Nader (+2m votes over 2012), $3b of free earned pro-Trump media, Comey’s sabotage, the electoral college, and 300k opioid addicts voting for the Big Chief were all totally irrelevant.

Nope. HRC was unlikeable. It’s all her own fault.

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1. Mountain_Skies ◴[22 Nov 17 10:13 UTC] No.15755710{4}[source]▶
>300k opioid addicts voting

I'll ask the same thing I ask when people claim homeless citizens voting steals elections: why do you think opioid addicts do not have the right to vote? If they registered legally, why shouldn't they have the right to vote like everybody else?

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2. specialist ◴[22 Nov 17 18:21 UTC] No.15759091[source]▶
I’m for 100% enfranchisement. No taxation without representation.

I mention the opioid addicts specifically because their poster child Rush Limbaugh is a hard core fruit cake. I believe, but cannot yet prove, that pickling the brain turns people “conservative”, by which I mean absolutist and authoritarian.