(December 19, 2016 at 8:49 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(December 19, 2016 at 8:15 pm)A Theist Wrote: I wouldn't count on it. They're still in blame mode. Pointing their fingers and scratching their heads in disbelief.

They (we; well, at least most of us) may feel better in 2 years (or less).

Not by continuing with the same trend of trash campaigning and alienating their largest base of voters the way they've been doing over the last few years.

(December 20, 2016 at 5:29 am)A Theist Wrote:

(December 19, 2016 at 8:49 pm)Jehanne Wrote: They (we; well, at least most of us) may feel better in 2 years (or less).

Not by continuing with the same trend of trash campaigning and alienating their largest base of voters the way they've been doing over the last few years.

There's nothing like a thrashing defeat to get people organized!  My guess is that the honeymoon with Trump will be short-lived.  For starters, there are some tapes floating-around with unedited scenes from The Apprentice show that likely have The Donald saying the N-word.  Likely, those will surface in the next 12 months.  But before then, a number of Republican moderates will hold-on to Obamacare, as The Donald's cronies will try to repeal it, only to find-out (as they already know) that there is nothing to replace it with, except, of course, to line the pockets of the insurance industry even more.  Finally, the sleeping giant, the AARP, will get involved, and 2 years from now, the House will flip to Democrat rule with the Democrats gaining a seat or two in the Senate.  Another four years of stalemates will produce a slightly more conservative judiciary and a more moderate Democratic candidate.  In four years, Trump will have been on his way out, a 1-term President, even less respectable than Jimmy Carter.  In the end, he won't be able to deliver on any of his "promises".

Hello America, welcome to the gaggle of tin pot dictatorships. Hope you don't find the whip hand too heavy, and don't mind the permanent cancelling of elections in 2017.

(December 20, 2016 at 1:15 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: Hello America, welcome to the gaggle of tin pot dictatorships. Hope you don't find the whip hand too heavy, and don't mind the permanent cancelling of elections in 2017.

Better hurry up and leave the country while you can, then. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

(December 20, 2016 at 6:17 pm)A Theist Wrote: Better hurry up and leave the country while you can, then. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

And this kind of talk is why a little more than half the country feels disenfranchised. How incredibly shitty of you to say this. You're forgetting this is everyone's country. The "govermnent" is US. WE the people.

Dissent is....American.

(December 17, 2016 at 9:13 pm)Tonus Wrote:

(December 17, 2016 at 11:37 am)Jehanne Wrote: Will the Electoral College dump Trump?

I doubt it very much.  Then again, I thought Trump would lose by a comfortable margin on election night.

But I expect that the worst you'll see is a few defectors taking a 'principled stand' that won't change the election results but will lead to stories about how they and their families were targets of death threats and racist slogans written on their cars.  And at least one of those stories will be a fake one where they did it themselves.  Because that's right about where we are today.

Basically the world is living in an episode of South Park nowadays.

With one minor difference: The world isn't as funny.

Either way America is screwed.

(December 22, 2016 at 8:33 pm)Mermaid Wrote:

(December 20, 2016 at 6:17 pm)A Theist Wrote: Better hurry up and leave the country while you can, then. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

And this kind of talk is why a little more than half the country feels disenfranchised. How incredibly shitty of you to say this. You're forgetting this is everyone's country. The "govermnent" is US. WE the people.

Dissent is....American.

apparently A theist thinks you must love trump to love America rather then for the love of America dislike trump

just goes to show his America is a superficial one

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as for calling certain people the base anybody who was really willing to consider trump was never really with us to begin with