The 2016 Election

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I'm still stunned. I've been disappointed at elections before (I'm looking at you Prop H8!), but never to this degree.

What have we done...? What the flying fü©ķ have we done!?!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Right there with you.

**** this.

@scaeagles - what say you if you're around?

[Gn2Dlnd]

Terrifying in its implications. If he runs his office the way he ran his campaign (and why wouldn't he?), we're ****ed.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Really? I forgot about the filter. We're fvcked.

[RStar]

This is the most frightening thing I have seen in a long time. It could quite literally be apocalyptic. Or highly amusing. Only time will tell.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

A "man" (using that term loosely) with no self-control is going to have access to the nuclear codes.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

A "man" (using that term loosely) with no self-control is going to have access to the nuclear codes.

Yes, but he can't launch anything by himself. I just hope the people around him have the ability to keep Trumphat in check.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

@scaeagles - what say you if you're around?

Someone told me my name came up....since I hadn't logged in since July and there were only 45 new posts, I'm thinking it might be a LONG time till anyone reads this.

I can completely understand all of the reactions you are having. Good lord knows that should Hillary have won I would be expressing the same sentiments.

Trump wasn't my first choice in the Republican primary. I wonder if you can figure out who my top five were. I'll give a hint - Trump was in my top five. I'll come back in a few days to see if anyone has read this or bothered to take a stab at it. If you don't know who my top choice was, well....you never knew me very well.

The government is broken. I could list all the reasons that I believe why, which would vary from yours. I could list all of the reasons that I think Trump was preferable to Clinton, and you could do the same for Clinton over Trump, and we could talk about why I hate her and you hate him and what we fear that each others preference would do.....but the fact is that Trump is NOT responsible for anything broken in government. He hasn't been in government. Lobbied, made deals with government, yeah....but he didn't break anything. I think it is time that someone who hasn't made politics a career be given a shot to fix it.

I do not like the direction of the last eight years. Obama preached hope and change, and I think most of the hope and change that was desired by many was not realized. I, personally, am looking forward to the changes coming. I have my apprehensions indeed. But I am certain that whatever Trump has to offer will be preferable to me to what Clinton would have, and hopefully will be a correction to what I regard as horrible domestic and foreign policy over the last eight years.

[Ghoulish Delight]

So let's talk appointments.

[Ghoulish Delight]

And while we're at it, let's talk reckless tweeting threatening the stock of a major American employer. Reckless foreign policy moves clearly made out of ignorance. Reckless undermining of the Democratic process with unfounded lies about fraud. Empty repudiation of a neo-Nazi movement while maintaining one of their figureheads as his adviser. Empty smoke screen of firing Flynn's SON for tweeting stupid dangerous conspiracy theories, but keeping Flynn who ALSO tweeted the SAME stupid dangerous conspiracy theory. Appointment of mortgage-exchange billionaire to oversee our economy. To name just the absurd bull**** I can come up with off the top of my head. Too much to remember it all easily.

And we're only at week -7 of his reign.

Trump is a child with no moral center. His only goal is self aggrandizement and he's handing out favor and power to anyone who will stroke his ego. His "nationalism" extends only as far as it profits him (either economically or in TV ratings), and as he's already telegraphing a 'leadership' style which will be all about enjoying the center-ring in the circus while passing off as much actual work as possible to other people. People who have outrageous agendas that explicitly reject rational thought and empirical data since anyone who doesn't fit that description has no desire to feed his delusion.