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Post by chicksfan on Mar 9, 2016 7:22:00 GMT -8
Well, in the same boat, though part of my curios side wonders what the circus a Trump presidency would look like, though I may have to move to Canada if it did happen, lol.
Not sure if enough, but a nice win for Bernie in Michigan.
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Post by slovog on Aug 17, 2016 10:02:31 GMT -8
I'm not voting for Trump until I have to! lol
Not ever voting for a Clinton and my 3rd party concerns are still there.
We'll see what happens....
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Post by drizzletown on Aug 17, 2016 19:07:48 GMT -8
Oh vey! Trump is a moron & a jackass.
He's a racist, sexist, bigot. He knows not one iota of what it's like to live, or have to live, a normal life. No exceptional ideas, just whining & fear.
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Post by eaglemaster on Aug 18, 2016 1:16:36 GMT -8
Oh vey! Trump is a moron & a jackass. He's a racist, sexist, bigot. He knows not one iota of what it's like to live, or have to live, a normal life. No exceptional ideas, just whining & fear. This might all be true, Drizz, yet why is it that someone with those "qualities" is supported by so many Republicans and gets their nomination for president of the USA? Where are all the well-meaning, forward looking Americans who want to particpate in creating their own future in the Land of the Free? It was once JFK who said "Do not ask what the government can do for you, ask what you can do for the government". Well, it was another time and other circumstances and yet, it find there are some value and truth in that quote of the 35th President of the USA. I wonder where this upcoming election will lead us all to...
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Post by thinwhitechick on Aug 18, 2016 5:06:04 GMT -8
He knows not one iota of what it's like to live, or have to live, a normal life. Hear hear, drizz!!!
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Post by erik on Aug 18, 2016 18:32:23 GMT -8
Quote by drizzletown re. Donald Trump:
I think the problem may be not that he doesn't know those things (or even that he's racist, sexist, and a bigot rolled all into one), but that he just plain doesn't give a s**t about how the rest of us live. He's clearly a narcissist and a sociopath; and if you wanted to take it a step further, he may even be a psychopath for all anyone knows.
In any case, Donald Trump is the least qualified but, thanks to a media that has enabled him basically everyday, also the most dangerous person to ever run for President (IMHO).
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Post by drizzletown on Nov 5, 2016 15:16:21 GMT -8
Too many people I know (in-laws, co-workers, etc) who are supporting Trump. I thought that there's NO WAY this moron is going to win, but now am a bit scared.
The worst part is, the religious folks that are following him, it's got to be that one issue(RvW). Because that idiot is not a follower of any morals/ethics.
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Post by erik on Nov 5, 2016 16:44:58 GMT -8
Quote by drizzletown:
To be honest, the moment Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, and made that thoroughly boldfaced lie about Mexicans bringing crime to America and being rapists, I knew in my gut that he was going to be a problem. His "Blame Everybody Else" message has been more or less a theme of right-wing politics in America since the 1960s; but until he came along, it was always done in coded terms, so as not to upset the mainstream electorate. He just bought it out into the open.
It also doesn't help that corporate media has given Trump three billion dollars of free media airtime to deliver his racist, misogynistic spiel to the nation, or that the amount of time he's gotten in the news, both print and electronic, exceeds that of Hillary, Bernie Sanders, and the sixteen candidates who ran against him in the GOP primary race combined.
I too am more than a little scared of what this country would be like under a Trump dictatorship (I don't dare call it a Presidency). He has no sense of responsibility for anything, or toward anybody but Donald J. Trump. This would be a tragedy in anybody, but it is catastrophic when it comes to the most important elective office in the free world.
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Post by chicksfan on Nov 5, 2016 18:20:40 GMT -8
Worried too, but hopefully Clinton will pull out the win. Though with Donald potentially not accepting the outcome, the threats of continued email investigations, and blocking of Supreme Court justice nominations, could be a rough one for her regardless.
The email situation didn't help matters, but the FBI publicly announcing days before the election that they were opening up an investigation into emails they'd never even looked at seems highly unorthodox to me though.
IDK, Clinton has her issues, and maybe the Dems wished they hadn't pushed for Clinton so hard over Bernie, but still, choosing between her and Donald Trump?
The saddest, and scariest part, is that his hateful, derogatory, discriminatory language is now becoming "mainstream". His words and actions are ideals that we should strive to eliminate, not embrace.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Nov 9, 2016 3:36:17 GMT -8
It's official, we're doomed. :-(
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Post by chicksfan on Nov 9, 2016 6:21:04 GMT -8
Afraid so.
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Post by erik on Nov 9, 2016 7:29:14 GMT -8
I had said this past Sunday that I was more than a little scared for what America would look like under a Trump dictatorship.
Well, now that nightmare scenario is coming to pass.
Now I happen to be a White person, and I live here in California, a state that is overwhelmingly progressive, voted for Obama twice and Hillary this year in extremely huge droves, and which also passed a number of ballot initiatives of note, including the legalization of marijuana. But my big concern is with the Black and Latino population, not only here in California, but also in the rest of the country. I fear that they are going to get targeted, and I do mean literally targeted, by White supremacists out there who have become empowered by the ascendancy of Trump to do any damned thing they want against those folks.
But I blame the corporate media for giving Trump a $3 billion megaphone with which to spew his vitriol against those who disagree with him, and not gainsaying him until it was too late. They got Their Celebrity in there; and now we all have to deal with the consequences.
And so too does the rest of the world. I can only imagine what a lot of them must be thinking.
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Post by chicksfan on Nov 9, 2016 15:05:17 GMT -8
I've been saddened by this outcome all day really.
I'm afraid it will take a very long time for this country to recover from the choice it made yesterday....
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Post by drizzletown on Nov 9, 2016 20:22:27 GMT -8
I was physically shaking last night. Once I realized it was a reality, it was all over for my body & mind. We're ****ed, unless they can filibuster every damn plan he has in mind for four years. LOL
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Post by erik on Nov 10, 2016 19:48:56 GMT -8
It just goes to show that it is time to scrap the Electoral College and do voting for president like we do for the other elective offices around the country: the Popular Vote. Had we done it that way, Trump would have lost, because the popular vote favored Hillary by 1.2 million--a narrow margin even when compared to 1960, 1968, and 2000, but still large enough to make it indisputable.
But as we've seen on TV since the moment Trump was declared the winner, there have been literally dozens, if not hundreds, of protests all over the nation. Just last night, as many as fifteen hundred protestors took over the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. And I think these are going to be just the start of a prolonged period of massive civil disobedience the likes of which we've not seen at least since the 2003 Iraq invasion, and maybe even the 1970s.
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Post by chicksfan on Nov 10, 2016 20:29:59 GMT -8
And his tweet after becoming elected.
"Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!"
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Post by drizzletown on Nov 10, 2016 22:18:11 GMT -8
I thought they took his twitter account away from him, 'cause he was sounding even more like an idiot. The hate is already starting. High school kids harassing their Hispanic peers. Heard of racial slurs in parking lots and postings of proposed deportations. Back in time 50 years.
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Post by erik on Nov 11, 2016 7:22:53 GMT -8
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Or worse. Just this morning, I heard of a female Muslim student attacked outside of a high school in Woodland Hills, in the San Fernando Valley, for wearing clothes appropriate to her religion.
Really, we more than ever need to stand up to this kind of bullying, misogyny, sexism, and bigotry by any means necessary.
And Trump really shouldn't even be sounding anything out of his filthy sewer. He has a divided country on his hands, and it is indeed his hands that have caused it to be as divided as it is at the moment. There isn't going to be a "honeymoon" period for him like there was for either of his two predecessors, not even close.
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Post by Bingo on Dec 7, 2016 13:45:27 GMT -8
It just goes to show that it is time to scrap the Electoral College and do voting for president like we do for the other elective offices around the country: the Popular Vote. Had we done it that way, Trump would have lost, because the popular vote favored Hillary by 1.2 million--a narrow margin even when compared to 1960, 1968, and 2000, but still large enough to make it indisputable. But as we've seen on TV since the moment Trump was declared the winner, there have been literally dozens, if not hundreds, of protests all over the nation. Just last night, as many as fifteen hundred protestors took over the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. And I think these are going to be just the start of a prolonged period of massive civil disobedience the likes of which we've not seen at least since the 2003 Iraq invasion, and maybe even the 1970s. Ironically - if these quotes from 2012 are genuine - Trump himself seems to have once agreed on both points. (I saw the quotes, posted in good faith, by someone involved in photography for Miranda's "The Weight of These Wings" project, so I can't vouch personally for their authenticity - however, they are sourced to an established business news site) If accurate, they date from four years ago, when Trump initially believed that Romney was ahead in the popular vote, but losing the electoral college (In the end, of course, Obama won both - and Trump apparently deleted several of the tweets - but, if true, they bear considerable irony in light of the recent situation that Trump is now benefiting from.) electoral college tweets
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Post by chicksfan on Dec 7, 2016 19:14:31 GMT -8
This off the freaking rails, now he's blaming Carrier's workers for it fleeing to Mexico.
Continuing attacks against his own citizens.
Donald J. Trump 1h1 hour ago Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues
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Donald J. Trump 2h2 hours ago Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!
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This is scary folks.
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Post by erik on Dec 7, 2016 19:25:07 GMT -8
I am not surprised that he blames everybody on the lower end of the economic food chain; he's a typical shill for the one percent. Hell, he is the One Percent Incarnate. And how the white working class could ever think that he'd do anything meaningful for them is totally beyond me.
He considers the white working class of America to be, to use a term coined by Joseph Stalin, "useful idiots". He really doesn't give a flying f**k about them.
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Post by erik on Dec 11, 2016 11:12:59 GMT -8
This is how serious Trump has been getting about attacking anyone who criticizes him in even the most minor of ways, and how he has enabled others to do likewise anytime he gets "attacked": www.yahoo.com/news/trump-turns-his-twitter-attacks-on-private-citizens-raising-concerns-222713161.htmlI don't give a damn what side of the political fence you're on, Left or Right; Liberal or Conservative; Democrat, Republican, or Independent. You do not ever do this kind of s**t. This isn't just bullying anymore; this could actually result in out-and-out MURDER.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Dec 11, 2016 23:33:49 GMT -8
This is how serious Trump has been getting about attacking anyone who criticizes him in even the most minor of ways, and how he has enabled others to do likewise anytime he gets "attacked": www.yahoo.com/news/trump-turns-his-twitter-attacks-on-private-citizens-raising-concerns-222713161.htmlI don't give a damn what side of the political fence you're on, Left or Right; Liberal or Conservative; Democrat, Republican, or Independent. You do not ever do this kind of s**t. This isn't just bullying anymore; this could actually result in out-and-out MURDER. He's talking about this Jones guy keeping jobs in Indiana, yet his tie company is based where? Bangladesh? I hate this jackass with a passion.
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Post by drizzletown on Dec 12, 2016 7:14:01 GMT -8
He's an embarrassment to the office and the country - that rambling, moronic mouth. I know he's going to try his best to undo every positive change this country has made in the last 50 years. I just hope that in four years, we can repair the damage.
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Post by drizzletown on Dec 12, 2016 7:22:06 GMT -8
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