We go from exemplary people like the President and First Lady, to an over-flowing septic tank of human excrement. Sheâs never been more right. For the first time, in eight years, I feel hopeless. Utterly hopeless.
Me Too
With a pervading sense of impending doom
And I feel like Cersei watching the Sept burn. All sorts of people will suffer, but none more than his voters.
She says we should support Trump because itâs the right thing to do, using Barack Obamaâs transition as the wrong thing to do. I disagree. Barack Obama was, and is, fundamentally a decent, honest, and intelligent person with a genuine vision to improve the nation. Trump is neither decent, nor honest, nor intelligent, and his only vision comprises how to fill his pockets with money from all the suckers he sees out there in the nation. It is fundamentally wrong to welcome this vile little thug into the White House, or into government in any way, shape, or form.
Look at it this way: weâll finally get a chance to see if those people who insisted that the country had to hit rock-bottom before embracing the progressive agenda are right. âIâm voting for Bush[Trump] because heâll screw things up so badly that weâll have Democrats in charge for a generation!â
The classiest family on the way in, during and the classiest family on the way out that this country has likely ever seen. Good on them, some people must act that way and for all the people saying Obamaâs legacy is going to be undone by Donald, I think how the Obamas handled themselves is the legacy.
Now the rest of us, well, we donât necessarily have to be polite, classy or respectful and since we donât have a spotlight on us like the Obamaâs, we can be angry, aggressive and unrelenting in pushing back the new Trump party that endangers us all.
This is America, folks: The country that brought you uncommonly bright and accomplished people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and George Washington also brought you morons like Andrew Jackson and all the forgettable morons from him through Lincoln, Warren Harding, George W. Bush and now DT (who is easily the dumbest of them all).
Because of the acquiescence of the GOP Congress to DT, and DTâs extensive connections to monied interests + his fascist leanings, DT represents an unusual and ominous threat to our Democracy.
Andrew Jackson was probably the most destructive President we had - wiped out the national bank, legitimized ethnic cleansing, legitimized ignorance in government, pandered to racist Southern politics and set the stage for a civil war by postponing it 30 years, and yet somehow is regarded as popular because he was known as a populist and got credit for preserving the union. He actually made the tensions much worse.
Trump could very well be our generationâs Andrew Jackson - leave a destructive trail but come out as simply âcontroversialâ.
ââŚit is important for the health of this nation that we support the commander-in-chief.â
Strongly disagree with this.
I know what you mean. If fact, early in the day though it is, I think Iâll have a nice glass of Shiraz.
Come on, itâs not that bad yet. Certainly I have no hope for Trump, that he would ever intentionally do something good for the country. But it seems clear to me that he is walking a tight-rope: heâs highly unpopular, is pushing an agenda which is highly unpopular (especially when it becomes clearer to people what it really is), and is highly corrupt and incompetent. And above all he is clearly hiding stuff, presumably extremely damaging stuff. It seems quite possible, probable even, that things could change in an instant and Trump will come tumbling down, bringing down at least part of the Republican establishment with him. Look how many twists and turns there were in the campaign. Why assume weâve seen the end of it?
Thatâs one thing that gives me hope.
SNAP OUT OF IT!!! (doing my best Cher âMoonstruckâ imitation)âŚThis will not last. Itâs time to straighten up and fly right. Get out party back together, get out states figured out, get some great younger candidates to move on up and figure out a strategy longer than the next 4 years. CâmonâŚwe canât give in to Cheeto Jesus or the orange people have won!
I truly believe Obama had the right idea about economics, and it was working. Steady, even growth
from the center out. Not dependent one any kind of bubble,or consumer rip off that just makes the rich richer,and the poor poorer.
The fact that stock market has been going up just means corporations are salivating about being able
to screw average Americans even more then they already are. I am not looking forward to the next four years. My only hope is that may no be as bad as I am expecting.
Where there is humor, no matter how dark, there is hope.
Allan: âWhat does that Jackson Pollock painting âsayâ to you?â
Museum Girl: âIt restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, G-dless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void, with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos.â
Allan: âWhat are you doing Saturday night?â
Museum Girl: âCommitting suicide.â
Allan: âWhat about Friday night?â
I agree completely. Slow and steady wins the race. The Râs will deregulate and create asset bubbles like they always do. Capitalism on steroids always lead to an eventual disaster.
I guess I donât wish suffering on his voters. Much. When I think about it.
But next time, could we please run a candidate with Cerseiâs deliciously coldblooded appetite for vengance? But maybe more Daenerysâ politics.
Or would Cersei not run well in the Upper Midwest? Might she read too Yankee patrician/Chicago noveau riche?
I wish I could heart your entire post 1000 times, but I especially agree with this part:
Totally agree. I admire and respect Presidet Obama and First Lady Michelle. I admire their desire to give Trump what they didnât have coming into the White House. I am impressed that they try to go high, while the other side went low. I get it. As true leaders, they want to bring people together. Itâs a classy attempt on their [part.
However I remember what they went through. I recall the attacks, the hate, the names, the nasty way they were depicted as apes, the birther nonsense, the fact that they called him âthe otherâ, an experiement, the depictions of him with the negative stereotype of food stamps, chicken and watermelon, heing shouted âyou lieâ at his address to Congress, the pic of all other presidents shown and with his having a dark box with two cartoon eyes, etc etc. I also remember President Pepe was one of the people that piled on. And I wonât forget nor will I forgive all those that took part. No way will I stop ringing the alarm against Pepe. He will NEVER have my respect and he will recieve a lot of pushback from me. I feels sick - absolutely ill at the thought of Trump and First Lady Ivanka in the White House. Bad guys do win and Iâll be damned if I make it easy for them.
I agree this is possible. In fact, is it possible that if he does âtumble downâ the damage he does to the GOP will be so bad that in a few years, weâll look back and decide weâre glad he got elected, because his (and his sycophants) utter incompetence and lack of character will seriously damage the GOP for years to come?
I admit that viewpoint requires looking at the world through some heavily tinted rose-colored glasses, and 99% of the time Iâm walking around feeling like this is going to be an unmitigated disaster. But I do indulge in brief fantasies where it goes the other way⌠where the âshort-fingered vulgarianâsâ policies create a huge anti-GOP backlash. Granted, even in that case, the country likely suffers serious damage first. But is it possible that in the end, it gets more than compensated for?
Again, I think itâs unlikely to go that way, but can anyone state with certainty that it wonât? Iâm willing to be convinced that this brighter-side-of-things view is impossible. Then I can be depressed 100% of the time!