So I just woke up. This isn’t happening, right?
To be fair, America has never thought it needs the rest of the world.
Now I know we are all doomed. Canada immigration website crashes. And Fox and Fiends is now your new daily bread.
Bye-Bye…
But now, hey everyone… chilly chill just a lil… Look on the bright side. Find that silver lining. Whenever one door closes, another one opens! Opportunity’s knocking!
Invest in Canadian flag patches for American backpacks. You won’t be sorry!
I feel ya, and I also continue to reflect on how, when a lot of us expressed that same sentiment in 2000 or 2004, we just had no idea how awful and ridiculous it could get.
We are going from an articulate, polished statesman (Obama) to a world-class, bumbling boob.
Thinking ahead a little, like 4 years…Bernie is probably happier right now.
This. The election should have been about the economy, rational governance, and global security. Yet the Democrats spent much time congratulating themselves re LGBT rights. Clicking on Hillary, I cringed whenever she talked about gun control. My God, didn’t they have pollsters and researchers telling them about this huge white backlash?
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Numb.
A boob whose political career began in earnest when he attacked Obama with the most juvenile, ludicrous poppycock (the birther bullshit).
When the writing was on the wall around 11 PM CST, my wife (near tears, but too numb to cry) despairingly painted this same picture. “How can elegant, thoughtful Obama give the White House keys to that vulgar, incurious jerk? I just can’t imagine him showing Trump around the place…”
The contrast between these two men could not be more jarring.
Actually the two are quite similar. Both had zero knowledge of foreign affairs when taking office and both ran against their party’s establishment. Obama leaves office with the US in a much-weakened position in the Middle East thanks to an empowered Russia, let in to the game by Obama’s inactivity. Also with the worst relations with Israel in memory. Trump can’t do much worse.
I (echoing Mrs. Map) was obviously referring to the contrast between them as human beings, not as vehicles for Israeli policy or whatever-the-fuck.
I’m probably not as upset as most people, since I regard the House and Senate results as generally good news, and hopefully as a moderating influence on Trump.
But I am pretty angry, and part of my anger is directed at the unwillingness of people to be accountable for their predictions and be willing to learn.
I disfavored Trump so strongly that I was willing to vote for Clinton, although when it actually came to voting for her, I had such a crisis of will that I literally stared at the ballot, unable to make myself mark her name, finally marked Trump’s name… and then found myself unable to submit a Trump ballot. I ended up marking the ballot void, getting another from the elections officer, and finally voting Clinton.
This is an illustration of how odious I found Clinton.
Irrationally, I find myself angry at effete liberals whose smug confidence and willingness to casually insult Trump voters led, in some measure, to this Trump victory.
The country will survive.
The Democrats nominated someone that couldn’t beat Donald J. Trump. What were they thinking?
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We nominated Donald J. Trump. What were WE thinking???
Who’s gonna confront it? They have all 3 branches for at least 2 years. Carte blanche except in the lower courts.
This is gonna be a shitstorm of epic proportions. They will move so fast you won’t be able to keep up.
I’ve never gotten this “I would’ve voted against Trump IF ONLY CLINTONITES WERE NICE TO ME!”
Like, how are gay people supposed to react when the VP of the man they support thinks they should be thrown into conversion camps? How are immigrants supposed to react to crowds that cheer someone who thinks they’re rapists and terrorists? How do you work constructively with someone who doesn’t even think you deserve to live (also talking about the uninsured, disabled, etc currently on the ACA)?
I meant as in deal with the real feeling out there and its consequences. I mean, we’re already sorta doing that now, in that we’re dealing with one of those consequences at this very minute.
As one of those effete liberals… I feel the same way.
I am numb. I have lots of Republican friends and colleagues who I work with and we were texting last night as the results came in. They mostly laughed at me that I thought this was a disaster for our country on the world stage. Their feeling was largely that Trump was unqualified but would surround himself with qualified people and that Clinton was in their words “the devil”.
I still don’t quite understand this attitude. But it doesn’t really matter. I am genuinely afraid for what this mean for our civil rights, in particular free speech and freedom of religion. I’m genuinely afraid of what this means for our foreign policy.
I am genuinely afraid of what is going to happen when the angry mob that elected him doesn’t get what they want because it’s not actually possible.
I am weirdly hopeful that this is more a vote against Hillary than for Donald. My first hand evidence makes it seem so. But I am genuinely afraid that it’s not.
The craziest shit is the most possible.
He can’t wink and walk away from the crazy shit he said that got him elected. He wasn’t winking when he said it.
You think McConnell and whoever the next Speaker is are gonna get in his way? Long as he gives them what they want, they’ll give him what he wants. Every bill passed will be “one for me, one for you.”
Orange Hitler is President of the United States. What a fucking nightmare!
Forget about eating a bug. We are going to be eating shit every day for four years.
I think what will be instructive is how people react from here on in. Will the families of gay people ALL be okay with the government cancelling their loved ones’ marriages and funding abusive conversion camps? Will the people on Medicare and Medicaid just shrug if Ryan succeeds in defunding them? To what extent will going back to the old system of health care affect hearts and minds as its impact becomes evident?
I don’t know the answers, but I still think those are points worth pondering. I think it’ll definitely determine how far Trump and Congress (especially the latter) go.
I guess any chance of fixing the Republican Party so that megalomaniac habitual liars can’t grab control again has just been put on hold…or was that just another lie, to go along with “Don’t worry-We’ll never let him get nominated”, “We are going to revolt and remove him from the Party” and “We’re REALLY not that kind of Party-we won’t actually vote him in when the time comes. Really”?
Cite?
Cite?
See the problem here? You can’t bring yourself to correctly and accurately describe the positions on the opposing side. You distort and demonize those positions.
Then you’re amazed that your opponents don’t support your position.
I am a conservative.
Can you find examples in debate here in which I distort the liberal positions like you’ve done here to the opposing views?