Yep. Time to unify behind President Trump. America has spoken and given us a Republican house, senate, and presidency. Time to get some change done.
Yep. Time to unify behind President Trump. America has spoken and given us a Republican house, senate, and presidency. Time to get some change done.
Prikichi (11-11-2016)
Where's 57?? After months of smug, arrogant, nose up posts about how amazing HRC is... he has gone MIA...
I don't see it as a one-sided mandate. He's elected and part of the system that will determine the course of America, but again, the people spoke more loudly for Obama in 2008 and the other side starting throwing chairs right out of the gate and shortly into his term, Republicans in Congress made it clear that there primary goal was to make him a one-term President. Now if Democrats in Congress do the same to Trump, will they be traitors to the republic?
gilesfan, they have a right to demonstrate. Nowhere in my comments is there an insinuation that they have a right to infringe on the rights of others. If the simple fact that they are protesting offends you it just goes to show that the definition of political correctness and safe spaces pretty much boils down the individual level.
jpx7 (11-10-2016)
Prikichi (11-11-2016)
And that's the key problem with foisting a fairly uninspiring, status-quo guarding, technocratic also-ran who would've been a bad candidate in 2008 and was an even worse idea eight years later—just because she'd "paid her dues" (and, more importantly, was no threat to the establishment or their corporate donors). The single biggest factor in securing victory for the nominally-left party in the country is increasing turnout; if the nominee is a tepid level-puller, the Democrats don't win, which is why I don't understand the party structure's obsession with ostensibly "safe" choices.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Can you guys even imagine how much Gatom is celebrating??? I can't even find the words to describe how happy he must be.
This, and then some. I definitely feel the pendulum is swinging a bit, such that the wave of over-policing and hyper-correcting speech, in the context of sensitive demographic and identity-politics issues, has now given a screen to a lot of folks to be entirely insensitive, under the veil of "fighting back" against those dastardly milquetoast SJWs.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Well imagine how much fun I'm having. I don't have a party. Neither of them want me, which is really pretty sweet as far as I'm concerned. Ask the folks around here though and the Repubs think I'm a Dem and the Dems think I'm a Repub. I can't sit at either "cool kids table".
I'd be interested to know what you think, in that post specifically, was an "ignorant and lazy representation of events". I wouldn't disagree with you that these post-election protests have tinge of "sore loser" to them, but at the same time it's absolutely true that "to many this election represented a step in the wrong direction when it comes to national bigotry." Hell, I personally think this election represented a step in the wrong direction when it comes to national bigotry—though I also think a Clinton victory would have signaled a step in the wrong direction, just across other axes.
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"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.