I want to respond to a few things that were written after I fell asleep.
Y'know, if you have no context of what he's talking about.....that wasn't a half-bad speech.
I agree. I had already nodded off by then but I somehow woke up and heard probably 90% of it. I was half-expecting him to start pissing on his enemies already but it was very gracious, even optimistic. Which leads us to...
Anyway, congratulations to Donald Trump. We can only hope his promised progression of America smoothly runs it's course.
You know, I agree. Kinda. Obviously I hope Trump never gets to implement most of what he's discussed during the campaign, but maybe the weirdest thing about this whole election is that he's also championed some causes which were previously the domain of liberals, like renewing infrastructure, repatriating jobs and tackling corruption. For that handful of issues, I also hope something gets done, even if I can't stand the person doing it.
(I won't quote Mr. Ite's following post but it was obviously out of order.)
The future refused to change.
Best post of the night imo.
So what's the deal? Where did Hillary fail?
I honestly think many people just don't trust her. She was under FBI investigation since day 1. And I mean she was that fricken Secretary of State getting her emails hacked by people who don't even live in this country exposing secrets that should not have been exposed.
That really puts the country at risk and I can completely understand why someone wouldn't want to vote for her based on that alone.
and when the day is all said and done, she didn't even address her supporters. Yes, I KNOW she was shocked, as many of us were, but she could have at least given them the time of day for coming out to see her.
Yea for a lot of us, you hit this right on the head. We don't support Hillary not because she's a women. She's a big liar, and disqualified by law to be president for being under investigation in the first place. As to the dismay of everyone exempt myself on TLS, I'm at ease she's not in office. It would've been a disaster far worse than Trump could give to us.
Being on the complete opposite spectrum of everyone here I do not see in the same lens as you guys. I hope you all don't decide to drive me from the site because of this post.
Nobody's driving you anywhere. Or if they do, they'll be driving me away too.
This is democracy. Sometimes the other side wins. And when they do, you can be despondent about it or you can accept it, take some time to understand it, and then do something about it.
I don't think this has been brought up yet: Clinton is currently winning the popular vote. The margin is slim but I think she'll hold onto that lead once all the votes have been counted.
It's not an entirely meaningful statistic because people would vote differently if the actual presidency was decided by the popular vote, but perhaps it's a crumb of comfort to know that a plurality of Americans used their ballots to reject ignorance, racism and sexism.
Of course, this is the second time in FIVE elections that a Democratic candidate has won the popular vote but not the presidency. And the Democrats have had 16 years since the last time to do something about it, but they didn't, and they won't, because they know the system works for them too. I think some of us have turned a blind eye to their corruption because they're clearly still the lesser of two evils, but in the cold light of day, it's pretty hard to refute. What if you actually had more than two viable choices at an election?
Plenty of other countries manage it. Change your damn system. Get angry at the Democrats. Do everything you can to make sure this doesn't happen again.
If that's too much work for you, it's okay, I understand. Just be the best person you can be. That's really the most important thing any of us can do, and Americans are going to have to do it now more than ever.
(Well maybe not more than
ever but you know, hyperbole, I heard it works.
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