More than your posturing, gritted-through-the-teeth faux amusement, that's for sure. Congrats on being the most head-in-the-sand loser in the room. And, unfortunately, everyone has skin in the game when it comes to whom the US picks as a leader. And deeper into the sand the head goes. You - and by "you" I mean the clueless media, the sneering cosmopolitans, the partisan democrats with unwarranted feelings of superiority and the venal republicans willing to torpedo their candidate's chance for the old rulebook's sake - and your arrogance was what turned the people against you. And that, more than anything else, cost you the election. Refuse to learn from it at your own peril. Too late to backtrack and try to be funny about it now. Other than minorities, there was tremendous overlap between Obama and Trump's voters, which helped the latter over the edge. Bitter and damning to your worldview as the pill may be - though not nearly as much as the bitterness you're displaying here - you're just gonna have to swallow it. And deeper into the sand the head goes. At least, I assume that's what you're doing, and I'm giving you enough credit that you'd understand words more complex than "imbecilic". But here, for your reading comprehension's sake: The chosen, hallowed one you were alluding to with your 'select few' bit, meaning this Bernie guy, was so willing to take on the 'fight against the party', that he sold out, betrayed his supporters and became a mouthpiece for everything he supposedly stood against. "Zero-experience zero-intelligence buffoon" is the oldest bit of the utterly ineffective anti-Trump rhetoric, and you're still regurgitating it, like a baboon insisting on flinging old droppings that are already so old and dry, they crumble in its hands. Passive-aggressive smileys and playing dumb won't really help you now. Again with the arrogance, presuming that everyone, even those "imbecilic" rubes, share that one tenet. You're absolutely wrong, and feebly presuming a consensus where there is none, other than in the circlejerking echo chambers that were so soundly defeated in their predictions and evaluation of the situation. The guy played "you" (see above) like a fiddle, outwitted "you" at every turn, and, as you said, has an empire to speak of. To say he's not smart, in whatever way you mean, is almost as delusional as claiming Clinton is honest. Again with the insular, solipsistic mentality. Your anecdotes are meaningless. Your worldview is not the consensus. And, clearly, your circle of acquaintances is not the whole of the US. The sooner you come to terms with that, the better for you in the long term. And there we have it. When all else fails, resort to hyperbole and mischaracterization of another's statements. Acknowledging a person's qualities is not worship, and acknowledging his accomplishments is not an endorsement of perfection. Trump is not perfect, and I don't believe anyone voted for him under that assumption, or for any other candidate in the history of democratic elections, for that matter. And, you know, if you would have actually read my post within writing your last stand of the bern, you would have seen that I took no issue with whom you thought would have won against Clinton, but in your clueless deifying of Bernie and your oblivious lambasting of Trump with tired, trite and ineffective-from-the-start canards. And still I plainly understand more than you. That says a lot about your parochial worldview, for all your posturing as a man of the people more knowledgeable than said people and with a finger on America's pulse. Get off your high horse, take off the berning lenses and smell the coffee. Caps lock, exclamation marks and sophomoric insults won't get you anywhere, other than deeper into that stewing puddle of seething loser's resentment. Sanders got great press in Portugal, just as everywhere else, just as Clinton did, with regards to the overwhelmingly negative coverage of Trump. And then the ivory tower crumbled, and now the press and the likes of you are left fumbling for justifications - any justifications - even if that means disparaging the electorate you were lauding a couple of years ago for electing Obama. And again with the haughty, sneering posturing, cussing like a moody teenager that didn't get his way and thinks he's been unfairly grounded. Keep it up, it'll do wonders for your mental health and understanding of the world in the long run.