Homosexual people: “Hey, if you vote for this candidate, you are literally voting to strip me of my right to marry my spouse.”
Transgender people: “Hey, if you vote for this candidate, you are literally voting to strip me of basic civil rights protections.”
Black people: “Hey, if you vote for this candidate, you are literally voting for someone who wants to make it impossible for us to get a fair shake in law enforcement.”
Illegal immigrants: “Hey, if you vote for this candidate, you are literally voting for someone who wants to remove me from my home and send me back to a country I barely know and which is not my home.”
White people: “Tough titties, this guy says he can bring back coal jobs.”
I’m on board.
That’s the point of PC culture in general, and the bullshit fear of “normalizing” in particular. It’s makes what is a difference of opinion tantamount to an attack on another person out of “hate.” It’s crimestop at it’s finest.
Really?
This is what Trump is going to do? This is what those who voted for Trump want Trump to do? I don’t think reality is that simple.
Well shit, hope you don’t need healthcare any time soon. Then again, how likely is that, what with the relaxation of pollution standards? :rolleyes:
You should work in something about the roads too. Lefties love the highway system.
Let’s just start with the answer to the second question. No, I don’t think most Trump voters wanted that. They wanted their jobs back, they wanted solutions to problems they believed were real, and were willing to look past any complaints offered, because “it’s the economy, stupid”. That those complaints included people pointing out that what Trump promises is probably impossible didn’t seem to bother them either.
But the answer to the first question: yes. Absolutely. Trump made his position on those issues perfectly clear. He wants SC Justices like Antonin Scalia, who was virulently anti-gay, and one member at the top of his shortlist, Pryor, doesn’t just consider Obergfell a mistake, but also Loving. His vice president claimed that he wants to reverse Obama’s interpretation of federal antidiscrimination suits to include transgender issues as a part of “sex discrimination”. His only proposed solution for the problem of distrust between African-Americans and police is “bring back stop-and-frisk” and his attourney general nominee is Jeff Sessions. And his campaign started on the promise of throwing out illegal immigrants and cracking down on immigration.
That’s what these people voted for. Some of them clearly don’t understand that that’s what they voted for, but that’s what they voted for. And we’re supposed to not see this as, at the very least, incredible disrespect?
Either that, or they simply don’t care if it happens.
Or refuse to acknowledge that the people who Trump trusts have worked very hard to make it happen and have loudly and frequently talked about their desire to make it happen.
Do you genuinely think those demographics have absolutely nothing to fear in the next four years?
On a related note, taking in multiple posts so far, I really wonder sometimes whether “the market/private industry will take care of it” actually do believe that, or if they simply don’t care if it does get taken care of.
I note that you didn’t mention the egregious error you made that he pointed out. No surprise there.
Maybe a white kid was mean to him one day back in elementary school…
Then I guess it’s the coastal elites fault for not being fucking mind readers.
Yes, Ike was a famous Leftie. Of course, he would hardly fit into today’s Republican party.
I despise Trump and deeply dislike the Electoral College in principle but…
…the system we’ve got worked the way it was supposed to, more or less. Even if I hate the result, the effect of short-circuiting the system would have terrible short-term and long-term effects on the country which would be far worse than whatever the next four years under Trump will bring.
Yes, it’s terrible how the Democrats kept pointing out that Trump was lying to them.
Trump: I will give everyone a free unicorn.
Clinton: Nobody is stupid enough to believe that you…
Trump voters: Waaah! She called us stupid! We want our unicorns!
So yeah. Remind me again who the “butthurt” people are here, and good luck with those coal and manufacturing jobs and that wall and keeping all the Muslims out and the whole “making America great” thing.
You forgot guns and religion.
A question for Hillaryists: What would your feelings be if Trump had won the popular vote but Hillary had won the electoral vote?
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:smack: No skin in the game?? 
I venture the U.S. Presidency has as much potential to effect some countries as that country’s own leader has!
I would be more comfortable with the world outlook if Putin, Assad or Netanyahu were replaced with a more moderate leader — such a change would have more effect on U.S. global risks than the identity of a U.S. Congressman, or minor Cabinet Secretary. Non-Americans who don’t care who the Leader of the Free World is are probably under-informed … as are Americans who think those non-Americans shouldn’t care.
Is there any truth to the claim that the Interstate Highway System was a Cold War project, originally intended to evacuate cities and give bombers emergency runways?
I’m not sure what people expected. Political Hacks have never been known for having much spine and some are Barely Vertebrates.
(…if only I could tell the reader where to scroll for some fine examples… )
I don’t have time to do the research, although I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s been a military aspect to the project. But it wasn’t totally military–Ike did come out against the Military Industrial Complex.
But–emergency runways for bombers? I doubt even the best highway could take a B-36…
Do you walk up to huge hulking bikers in bars and tell them how stupid, dirty and smelly they are? If you haven’t been, please start doing so.
I think Trump’s a disaster but we need to eliminate the faithless elector once and for all in a constitutional amendment. The Enlightenment era brainchild seemed a logical one but more than two centuries later we see it for what it actually is: a failed Federalist thought experiment.
America has become more democratic over the years, so the idea that there is some body of wise men (and women) who should have the divine power to override the electorate seems dated to say the least. Moreover, if you take even a cursory look at some of these electors, it’s not like we’re talking about paragons of erudition. Some of these characters are little more than barely employed career civic activists.
There is a legitimate case to be made for dealing with an emergency in which we have valid reason to conclude that the president-elect has, in some rare set of circumstances, proven himself to be worthy of a collective second thought, but even in such cases, the guidelines would need to be very clearly prescribed and include both legislative and judicial branches at minimum.
In the end, I’m just not in favor of overturning the will of voters, regardless of however distasteful I find a candidate to be.