# The left & right are both happy. Win-win election.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048 "2016-11-15T10:03:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048/21 "2016-11-16T17:20:32Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#):
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> Interesting fact: The Emperor Nero built The Golden House, sturdy brick covered with gold leaf, complete with lake and gardening, fronted by a 120" statue of himself.
I would have thought a statue that tall would have outranked the statue of Zeus as an ancient wonder.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048/22 "2016-11-16T17:29:30Z")
It burned up, fell over, and sank in the swamp.
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### Author:  [@OriginalGangster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OriginalGangster)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048/23 "2016-11-16T18:15:54Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> These theories wouldn’t happen to originate from a file on your desktop called TRUMP\_THEORIES.TXT, would they?
They aren’t my theories, they’re out there if you look for them.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048/24 "2016-11-16T19:03:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> It burned up, fell over, and sank in the swamp.
If you’re referring to the Nero statue, so what? The Zeus statue is also no more.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048/25 "2016-11-16T19:12:02Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#):
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> The Emperor Nero built The Golden House, sturdy brick covered with gold leaf, complete with lake and gardening, fronted by a 120" statue of himself.
Someone around here does stage set design for Spinal Tap…
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### Author:  [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048/26 "2016-11-16T19:56:44Z")
> [@OriginalGangster](#):
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> > [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> > These theories wouldn’t happen to originate from a file on your desktop called TRUMP\_THEORIES.TXT, would they?
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> They aren’t my theories, they’re out there if you look for them.
Gillian Anderson just gets better and better with age.
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### Author:  [@Salvor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salvor)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-left-right-are-both-happy-win-win-election/772048/27 "2016-11-16T20:00:33Z")
The people on the left that are happy about this outcome are morons, people like Jimmy Dore from the young turks youtube channel. But there is precious little sense coming out of a lot of those people.
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