Mmmm, saltwater.
c-c-c-combo breaker - President Trump!
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Mmmm, saltwater.
I think this is what it comes down to, at the end of the day. I almost always vote democrat and even I feel this way. I had a first-class ticket on the "hope & change" express 8 years ago, but it's just been more of the same bullshit in Washington. Do I like Trump? Not really. But I also don't think that he's going to round up Mexicans and muslims and ship then out of the country (or build a stupid wall). I also think he's a lot more socially-liberal than your average GOP politician. I think he has near-equal disdain for the do-nothings on both sides of the aisle in congress, and I am looking forward to him eschewing politics-as-usual and calling people out on their shit.
Obviously we don't know what kind of president he will be, but whatever happens I hope this is the start of some real change in the way the government looks at its own job, and how it looks at the American people. I may be a college-educated Californian, but I am also in the middle class. I can easily understand where Trump supporters, who I think are largely disenfranchised working-class folks (rather than hateful racists, as the media would have you believe), are coming from. I've long said that the Democratic party is the party of the lower class, while the GOP represents the upper class. For a long time no one has given a shit about the people in this country that actually get the work done. The middle class used to be what made America "great" and the government turned their backs on us.
I guess maybe I'm more of an angry white guy than I realized...
I hope you're right, but he is a businessman, and you can take from that what you like.
What's important for me is that I keep my house, my job, the money that I earned and saved for retirement, and my safety in my own country. Moreso with this election, there's a tremendous amount of uncertainty of "what comes next." I'm hoping that "what comes next" isn't hightened anxiety and manufactured fear.
"We'll see", I guess.
My weed became legal, so I got that going for me at least.
DJT laid out a gracious victory speech. He knows how to win. His trouble seems to be losing.
Memes are flowing like salt
2-party system. I honestly feel more people voted against Clinton, then for Trump. Hillary Clinton is a highly despised individual and has been for decades. All the spin, all the hype, all the celebrity endorsements cannot erase two decades of dealing with that cunt. I absolutely believe to more people were afraid of Clinton than Trump.
So...what happens in a 2-choice vote when many people hate one of them? Simple, the other wins by default.
I sure as hell didn't. I fully expected Clinton to win by a small amount.
We've know that for decades.
The saddest part about all of this? Under 120 million people voted out of the possible 218 million that are eligible...which is pathetic. 100 million lazy fuckers couldn't be persuaded to get off their ass and cast a simple vote.
And also Trump talked about how shitty political correctness is. There's a huge backlash against that shit now, and rightfully so.
As is often that case, you and I agree concerning many things.
Washington...all of it, is a total, ineffective disaster. We haven't had a non career politician in the Oval Office in our lifetime (maybe Reagan...but that's 50/50 at best).
People are just sick of it all. Obama was a good wake up call for many...hope all you want an see where that gets you in the end. Nowhere.
Trump is independently filthy rich, so buying a guy out like that isn't easy. I can't say it cannot be done, but it would be tough.
This is going to be an interesting 4 years for sure.
One last thing, just like you said...all of this idiotic fear mongering is absurd. No stupid wall is going to be built, gays aren't going to be burnt at the stake, nor are Muslims. People need to calm down and really think about this rather than just foolishly panicking and freaking out.
And it is so true. Its great. Great reality. Really fantastic evening. You know I have people ask me if its real all the time and I'll say it here and now and then that I love it. I love the truth, its like a magnet. Just kiss...
Tanooki
War Room Troll
As a 28 years former Californian I agree with this post. I've not long voted democrat but republican, but not as a blind partisan. Trump to me I can see has been largely muddled and/or lied about by the press and the clinton machine. He had been a democrat, but his fiscal side leans right...he's what was once called a blue dog democrat, someone I could see supporting if I didn't find other bits of him repulsive. He's socially liberal economically conservative which is not a bad thing. The middle has had their balls crushed fora while because the vocal majority(minority?) of both sides have painted the left as socially and economically nuts for taxation and welfare programs as the right has been painted as heartless party of old farts guarding their precious.
This is exactly the way I feel and the reason I voted Trump. Maybe he's all talk and no action, I guess we'll see, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Let's see if he could shake things up and at least try and make things better. The economy and outsourcing would be my first focus.
I would also like to add that this is the first time I voted during a presidential election and I don't back any political party.
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We were fucked either way. Trump is going to make us squeal like a pig and talk dirty. Hillary was going to drug us and fuck us in our sleep and play dumb about it. We'd wake up with sore holes and Saudis in the room laughing, wondering what they did to us.
Either way, fucked.
Either way, fucked.
I love how everyone knows what's going to happen.
MrMj got it right.
Dude'll pick his cabinet and surround himself with members in a cabinet who know what to do. Meanwhile when there's a world summit he'll represent America. The end.
Congress is more important.
MrMj got it right.
Dude'll pick his cabinet and surround himself with members in a cabinet who know what to do. Meanwhile when there's a world summit he'll represent America. The end.
Congress is more important.
Looks like the overwatch symbol.
johhnnyD14
Hardened Shock Trooper
yeah it is i drew it but it kept getting erased
Oh, Brock.
Going to the moon for real this time. Make the Moon great again.
Send all the Muslims to the Moon.
So with trump being elected will I be able to keep my politician if I like him?
Because if he leaves the country, I don't think that they will let him back in.
Because if he leaves the country, I don't think that they will let him back in.