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ETA, I bet you can guess which way the 31% vote.
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If China invaded Hawaii in 2018 you could fast forward to 2026 and polled GOP voters would say it happened because President Obama was asleep at the wheel when it happened.
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Racism is a very dangerous thing. It makes you believe that because an educated, brilliant, and thoughtful black man did a great job as President, an ignorant white man can do just as well.
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Sexism matters, too.
Did you read that Obama plans to model his post-Presidential activities after the Bushes?
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Yeah, but even Obama was a little weirded out by the whole thing and to my knowledge heās never mentioned it since. Plus, that was never Obamaās deal. The Nobel Peace Prize committee just awarded it to him. Trump is taking credit for something he had little to nothing to do with because heās flat-out delusional. Iād say that if things go well under Trump after heās put in the hard work and itās demonstrable that his policy played a part, he can take credit for it. Until then heās still a megalomaniacal nutcase.
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Yeah, sure ā why not? You know, HO, I hear thereās still time to claim credit for two of the classroom guppies giving birth to a boatload of babies during the Christmas weekend. Over fifty babies were able to swim to safety and not get eaten by the mothers. I guess even the Planned Parenthood Under the Sea must have lost its funding. Youāre good, dude ā really good!
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Loss of Medicare and Social Security is FAR from a done deal. Even Obamacare.
There will be a strong backlash against the GOP if it attempts radical change.
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And when every single one of those 31% lose their healthcareābe it Medicare, Medicaid or private insuranceāI wonāt shed a tear ā¦ of sadness. Now, laughter, I wonāt guarantee.
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"Righteousness is a wide path. Self-righteousness is a bull horn and a blind fold."
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Trump was just elected. His voters are too invested in giving him a chance to affect change to immediately draw a line in the sand on his initiatives right out the gate. Look for Trump and the GOP Congress to move very quickly on the gutting of the safety net and crippling of the ACA while theyāre in the grace period of his early Presidency. They know they have an early window to essentially get away with murder. Theyāll take advantage of it.
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Even on ACA insurers are worried about the uncertainty, and even Trump voters are worried about losing coverage.
The GOP will break things, but then it will OWN all of it.
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I hope he never shows up.
Maybe heāll decide he loves his money most and would rather keep it and continue his obfuscatory grifting than be held to account for his incompetent governance.
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Golly, Donald claims he aroused the confidence fairy.
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O, lord ā the words āDonaldā and āarousedā in the same sentence ā¦ Iām getting sick to my stomach right now. Says Melania.
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If facts were money, the Right would be involved in a vast Ponzi scheme that would eventually collapse under its own weight.
Too bad facts arenāt money.
Edit:
Wishful thinking.
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Damage will become very real to people. There will be a backlash.
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Gosh, Donald can do everything but a press conferenceā¦
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And where will that backlash be directed? What evidence is there that the Democrats know how to direct anger into an effective political force. People were angry and confused after the financial meltdown on Bushās watch caused by a reckless and greedy financial industry.
That anger gave birth to the Tea Party.
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Aināt that the fucking truth? Anytime the GOP break something, they always get this angry look in their eyes, point at us and scream, āThey did it!ā The problem for all of us is they keep breaking more and more valuable and rare things. I fear now that theyāve gotten a hold of something so one of a kind that once itās broken, weāll never get it to work right again ā¦ ever. And I donāt really want to wait around until Avrum Cochran breaks the warp barrier.
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I stand by my plan to put a halt to spending money on all but the absolute necessities and will work to purchase necessities thru back channels whenever possible. My personal mission is to slow the economy beginning on 1/20/17 and I hope there are others willing to join me. Farmerās markets, buying second-hand via craigslist, etc. New purchases from Costco - I appreciate how well they treat their employees - as much as possible.
The blue states are the economic stimulators and the red states are the beneficiaries. Let them bootstrap themselves to their own prosperity. Or, in this case, their demise.
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