I said basically the same thing last night to my wife of Kelly-Anne. She doesn’t strike me as a real genuine person but I think she did an outstanding job representing Trump and keeping the train on the tracks despite the train continually trying to jump the tracks. She was his rock.
You know, he might not give her any type of bones at all. He might be really pissed at her for winning him the election. I’m not sure he’s not crapping his pants right now that he actually won.
GOP took the House, took the Senate and took the Whitehouse yet with Trump as POTUS, we could still have gridlock! The next four years is gonna be so fascinating.
Do the “anti-Hate” riots start and become violent? I’ve watched Republicans bend over backward on social media today to be gracious, and Democrats post vitriolic reaction again and again. A pundent on CNN even just referenced internment camps. I’m disgusted by the Democratic reaction. No chance of unity because the press and Democrats won’t allow it.
On the campus of my alma mater, they had an open forum where people could talk about the election. I guess that’s a slight step up from having a cry in. The funny thing is, they held this forum in the main quad area. When I went to school there, that was an area where you had lunch while trying to pick up chicks. Today, it’s where they meet to talk about elections. That is how far we have fallen as a society, where college kids now talk about their feelings instead of trying to get laid.
One thing I like about Trump is I think other nations will be scared shitless of him. I really don’t mind the rest of the world being scared of America. Other than Great Britain, Canada, Israel and maybe Japan, I want the rest of the world to sweat.
Yes, I’m kind of an a-hole.
And most countries get this. The left in America is the odd bunch out
That is so wrong on so many levels.
So you support corruption then?
In the 1940’s, teenage boys (some who lied about their age), went to storm the beaches of Normandy. Today’s teenage boys need a safe space if you mention trigger phrases like “America is a melting pot.”
I think it was a combination of two things. Young voters (read liberals) were not highly motivated to get off their duff and go vote for Hillary. She just didn’t inspire them they way Obama did. They went to election parties but didn’t bother going to the election booths. Old people, on the other hand, vote and they voted Trump.
It’s probably very hard for pollsters to factor in the likelihood that the people they pole will actually cast their vote.
I do think that people got tired of being demonized for wanting to vote for Trump, especially by those claiming to be the party of diversity, tolerance, and inclusion. They hid their true vote from pollsters I think, and gave a collective FU at the voting booths.
When Trump told Jorge Ramos to basically shove it at a press conference, I had a feeling it would be the start of something big.
That’s what concerns me, Aragorn.
My good friend Push and a couple of others kind of were critical of me when I said (paraphrasing) that I didn’t want to see daily flights of C-5’s full of Flag-Drapped Coffins because Trump wanted to start waving his Dick in order to prove how much “tougher” he was on Isis, (or Assad or whomever) than Obama was.
That’s a real possibility…and it does have me somewhat anxious.
That’s what he’s offering - being an asshole on behalf of America. I can tell you the Canadian prime minister is a closet homo, I honestly can’t wait to hear what nickname Trump comes up for him.
I think this happened socially. You know, with friends, coworkers and family but I don’t see why people would be hesitant to tell pollsters how they were really going to vote. Having said that, I can confirm my Mom told me she wouldn’t tell a pollster who she was really voting for. Maybe there were a lot more out there like her. That thought process really baffles me.
I will tell you why in my opinion: I saw this play out even on an operation. If you were a white male and said you were going to vote for Trump, you were labeled a racist. We (military) are not allowed to discuss politics on duty, but, if you are in some stinking wadi waiting for Johnny Jihadi to come along, then the rules go out the window. I saw an interview on NBC news, where a journalist was interviewing a pumpkin farmer in Michigan. “Why did you vote for Trump?” Well, my taxes have doubled over the last 8 years, my profits are down, the transportation cost have doubled, and DC doesnt give a shit"
I didn’t talk about it a whole lot because everybody I know was voting for him. Once that was agreed to the only thing left was to go vote. My sister is the only exception. During the last election she laid into one of my (our) brothers with all of the same stupid slander- He’s racist, stupid, etc. and ruined their relationship. After the fact, she asked me what I thought, and I told her that it was a stupid thing for her to do, and she would get no sympathy from me.
So this go round she kept her mouth shut.
I think it was all of the above. I mean, I called the election wrong so who am I, but I really do. There were 3 kinds of young people:
Young people who were voting for Hillary because they’re liberal
Young people who were voting for Johnson because they were sick of Hillary AND Trump
Bernie Sanders die hards who wouldn’t vote for Hillary because she’s evil.
Category 1 thought the election was in the bag because Trump (frankly I didn’t give him much of a shot either), so many did not vote.
Category 2 and 3 voted their conscience, which did not help Hillary.
Old people were tired of being demonized and belittled, so they and blue collar guys Hillary had taken for granted, ignored, insulted, and told she was going to put out of work united to say Fuck You.
Actually for me it’s not that–Hillary was Hawkish so that I feel is a wash. For me it’s a combination of Trump blowing some stupid deal because of a 3 am twitter tantrum, or him starting a war because of the same. David Atwood is fond of saying that when Presidents speak economies shake. Same could go to war.
In short, it’s not war because Hillary is hawkish, it’s the unpredictable reasons for starting shit–probably on accident–that worry me. Like Quayle-itis only much worse.
That combined with the fact that I see Trump as a semi-isolationist. Not as bad as Johnson or Sanders, but more unpredictable so potentially more problematic. I am not one who wants to be a hawk. However, I do accept that we need to be involved in world trade, politics, and such to keep our sphere of influence and prominence. I do not like the regime change thing, or the seemingly totally uncalculated way we handle the Mid East or other shit holes sending good men to their graves.
How does anything I wrote in the post you quoted suggest that I support corruption?