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- mg330
Can you even imagine Trump's first night in the White House? His eyes stinging from the lack of gold-everything.
- oh god, hadn't even thought of that. Are they allowed to redecorate?Gnash
- To a degree but I doubt the historical preservationists that manage the White House are going to let him gold-flake everything.mg33
- lol. the next oval office:
https://static01.nyt…Gnash - trump hotel and casino presents the trumphhousedorkKn1ght
- He better not play with that oval office desk from National Treasure: Book of Secrets lol.fadein11
- scarabin6
a final thrust from the baby boomers before filling our asses with jizz and falling asleep one last time
- ughmonospaced
- ewwwGnash
- this is how 18-25 voted, apparently https://twitter.com/…scarabin
- ^ based on a surveymonkey poll, not vote dataGnash
- truescarabin
- https://mic.com/arti…whatthefunk
- one last gasp of air for the old and dying white breed.utopian
- ovaltine leaking from their cruel, twisted mouthsscarabin
- ********0
4 more years of Trump-Baldwin?
- ********0
- Ignoring the title and the knee jerk reaction causing source... this is worth a watch.********
- agreed.utopian
- maybe Alex Jones will have full access to area 51 and we will finally get to see what's up with da alienz !********
- interesting set, thanks for sharingBennn
- Persuasive if you like hearing problems repeated back to you.Fax_Benson
- Ignoring the title and the knee jerk reaction causing source... this is worth a watch.
- fadein110
How this can be considered a vote for change or a protest against the establishment when horrific characters like Giuliani are going to be calling the shots is beyond me?
How much more establishment can you get?
But it's happened - gotta deal with it like Brexit. It's easy to think the worst but who knows. A friend of mine said earlier imagine all that rhetoric was just to get a certain type of voter on board but in reality it will be very toned down. May not actually be that different to Hillary who I never liked either.
That 1st speech definitely made me think - was not what I was expecting. He suddenly looked more like a statesman.
Just thinking out loud.
- Devil's advocate post before everyone jumps on me lolfadein11
- I was surprised hat he talked about rebuilding infrastructure - roads, bridges, etc, and hiring tons of people. I alway thought the repubs hated that ideaGnash
- precisely, fadein11, precisely ... Trump has repeatedly said he would surround himself with the best people for advice ... like Gingrich :/monospaced
- That is the big question. Will he hand the keys over to the GOP 'policy' guys, or be a suddenly benevolent dictator? I'm not expecting the latter, but I'mallthethings
- holding onto shreds. Like he suddenly remembers he's a pro-Choice Democrat from New York fucking City.allthethings
- yepfadein11
- I don't think he really has, or ever intends to, do the homework to really truly do the job by himself, without aides and advisors. Hopefully he at least tries.monospaced
- I reckon he will miss New York a lot as well - will be having his fave bagel or whatever flown in each morning.fadein11
- and taco bowlsmonospaced
- SteveJobs-1
I woke up this morning to a continued surreal feeling knowing that Trump will hold the highest ranking office in the United States and I've drifted between that uneasy feeling and a slightly different one in which I really hope something good comes of his election.
But let me be clear, if anything good does come, if he is responsible in any way for a unification of this nation, or a revolution of any kind, I say with all respect due to him, it will in all likelihood be caused by the most unwittingly and unknowing acts committed with not a single iota of purpose or intention. But I still hope for it nonetheless. :/
#sosurreal
- mg333
One more moment of profundity from me, because I really can't help myself.
As somewhat of a counterpoint to my disgust with the election results, there’s definitely one thing that we can all do regardless of who won. It’s simple.
Believe in truth. Demand truth. Empower truth. Accept nothing but truth. And shun everything that isn’t truth no matter how excited or pleased it makes you to hear a lie you want to accept as truth.
We’ve arrived at this point, for better or worse, because a great number of people across the country are fed a study stream of falsehoods, exaggerations, and total lies. They then absorb and accept that lack of truth, which in turn empowers and emboldens candidates and the media to continue operating according to an agenda in which truth is not the primary motivator for a statement, opinion, or stance. Repeat the cycle infinitely and your opinions and decisions are thus based on absolute nonsense.Truth is non-partisan. It’s an element of human existence we depend on to know right from wrong, and good from bad. And we’re suffering as a country because of the lack of it no matter who won this election. We should really take a moment to wonder how many votes were cast on the basis of so many truth-less statements, so many lies, so many misconceptions about what the next four years cold hold for the country regardless of whether a candidate, a surrogate, a spokesman, a reporter, a journalist, or a blogger said them.
It’s depressing and worrisome when people make decisions based on the lack of truth they are presented with. No need to get into examples, but both sides in this election are at fault. We need to demand better of ourselves, our leaders, and those who want to lead, and especially those who are in the business of delivering news that should be honest, impartial, and objective to anyone who chooses to pay attention.
Here’s the rub: You have to accept this simple concept to exist in this world. If you’re willing to accept a lack of truth and honesty, you’re doing life wrong. Simple as that. And when you make it obvious, you’ll be judged by those around for you it. That’s not an attempt to offend anyone, it’s just a simple fact of life. People pay attention to what you do, how you think, and what you portray of yourself publicly. Prove to people that you are unable to think logically, and they’ll form an opinion of you that you probably don’t like.
We need to turn this around. We need to usher in a new day in which everyone regardless of political affiliation aligns around the need for us to collectively be better than this and to demand better than this. To look at a statement from a candidate and deduce that the statement is true or false based on facts, logic, and complete lack of emotion, and from that to formulate an opinion or choice that makes sense.
Remember when everyone collectively cared about our greater good following 9/11? This is one of those moments. However cliche it sounds, people need to wake up and demand better. I can’t begin to imagine how much better we’d all feel, how much more we’d all respect each other, how much more we’d all achieve together if that were possible. If we could separate fact from fiction and make informed decisions rooted in truth and logic. We would all be better people for that.
A growing division in our society is rooted in this, and it’s going to be hard to stomach and just as hard to change. I don’t know who the figureheads for that change will be, I don’t know how many will even care, but it’s worth a shot.
- Sup words guy?teh
- Kim Dotcom
2016 is the year hackers became journalists & journalists became hacksinstrmntl - Truth doesn't matter to Trump.BusterBoy
- But you get my point though, right? It should matter enough to society that Trump, or anyone like him, is roundly and decidedly shunned from the get-go.mg33
- yuekit2
Some speculation on Trump's cabinet
http://www.politico.com/story/20…
This is depressing to read honestly. Energy company CEOs and campaign donors as cabinet officials, a Goldman Sachs banker as Treasury Secretary, a climate change denier as head of the EPA? He is also apparently considering appointing Sarah Palin to some high level position.
Those of you here you voted for Trump...is this really what you voted for?
- surprise, motherfuckers!monospaced
- and no, this is what they were voting against, actuallymonospaced
- he's gonna be a puppetmonospaced
- This isn't final BTW but based on sources within his campaign including Trump himselfyuekit
- Good Christ... The very corporate leaders he's derided, the very special interests he's blasted will comprise most of his cabinet. Disgusting.mg33
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- yep and this is the exact stab in the back Brexit voters experienced right after the referendum - the reality oh so different to the rhetoric. Shocking.fadein11
- could be worse, I was picturing theses guys:
http://cdn.theatlant…Gnash - get ready for a lot of upset trump supporters who actually thought he was looking out for the little guy, and chose to hear thatmonospaced
- Waikkke up white peoplesutopian
- Georges will be in his cabinet, I'm sure of it.utopian
- Imagine Georges, Yuri, robowhatever and OMG all get key roles in the cabinet lol.fadein11
- chukkaphob1
- +********
- Alec Baldwin is really terrible at it tho. The facial expressions and voices are waaaay off.chukkaphob
- he's a caricature of donald, and it's not bad at allmonospaced
- it's really really bad and totally forced. Haha!chukkaphob
- that's because you don't like people being critical of your bullshit savior, but trust me, it's onmonospaced
- who's my bullshit savior? what in the world are you talking about, dude? you already smoking that legalized marijuana?? hahahachukkaphob
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- chukkaphob0
- yes!!********
- Facial expressions looks nothing like Trump. Meh.chukkaphob
- Close enough!yuekit
- nah, trying way too hard and totally missing the target. LOLchukkaphob
- not missing at all dudemonospaced
- totally missing. way off, period.chukkaphob
- hahaha, but your'e wrong, he's spot on and that's why people love itmonospaced
- no one loves it. Only you do. Haha!chukkaphob
- plus, even if the case was that the masses love it, it doesn't make it good and spot on...erm, Kardashians, Bieber, Trump, Hillary.... all popular but awful!chukkaphob
- you're WRONG!monospaced
- I put it in words you might understand. Because ... wrong ...
wrong.monospaced - haha! Mono, go listen to a popular band like Nickelback or One Direction. Cause, you know, if it's popular and well known, it must be good. LOL! oh lord.chukkaphob
- So chukkaaphobe is really passionate about this********
- So fired up about this. Such an important topic. Haha!chukkaphob
- yes!!
- pinkfloyd3
QBN is freaking out, they can't downvote the Donald.
- Beeswax2
You fucked up big time USA.
On one side there was an honest, sincere, anti-establishment man like Bernie Sanders which would be the best thing that the world would have for a long time and on the other side this total shit show.
Blame yourself for dissing Bernie for showing out the reality "You don't need corporate money or their help to do something positive!"
- sted0
- pango0
I blame cubs.
- allthethings1
From Michael Moore's one-man show/Trump movie:
MICHAEL MOORE: Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said, "If you close these factories, as you’re planning to do in Detroit, and build them in Mexico, I’m going to put a 35 percent tariff on those cars when you send them back, and nobody is going to buy them." It was an amazing thing to see. No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives.
And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—the Brexit states. If you live here in Ohio, you know what I’m talking about. Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant, because he’s saying the things to people who are hurting. And it’s why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump. He is the human Molotov cocktail that they’ve been waiting for, the human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them.
And on November 8th, Election Day, although they’ve lost their jobs, although they’ve been foreclosed on by the bank—next came the divorce, and now the wife and kids are gone, the car has been repoed, they haven’t had a real vacation in years, they’re stuck with the [bleep] Obamacare Bronze Plan, where you can’t even get a [bleep] Percocet—they’ve essentially lost everything they had—except one thing, the one thing that doesn’t cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution: the right to vote. They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be [bleep] over and [bleep] up. It doesn’t matter, because it’s equalized on that day. A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job: one. And there’s more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class.
So, on November 8th, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain and take that lever, or felt pen or touchscreen, and put a big [bleep] X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives: Donald J. Trump. They see that the elites who ruined their lives hate Trump. Corporate America hates Trump. Wall Street hates Trump. The career politicians hate Trump. The media hates Trump—after they loved him and created him, and now hate him. Thank you, media. The enemy of my enemy is who I’m voting for on November 8th. Yes, on November 8th, you, Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, Billy Bob Blow—all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system, because it’s your right. Trump’s election is going to be the biggest "[bleep] you" ever recorded in human history.
- pinkfloyd2
On the plus side, we don't have to worry about detritus migrating to the U.S.
- wat?detritus
- On the plus side, we don't have to worry about detritus migrating to the U.S.pinkfloyd
- http://www.catholic.…detritus
- I'M ALREADY HERE, MOTHERFUCKER.
IN YOUR AMERICAN BRAIN CANOODLE
SHIT FLAP BITCH TWANG. AYE, MON THEN YA BUFTIEdetritus - *coughdetritus
- Georges will be coming to America.utopian
- lol detritus your
CAPS-LOCK IS ON :)))sted - we can play with his toyspinkfloyd
- Im not touching his toy...pango
- so you were worried yesterday?Fax_Benson
- nah, not reallypinkfloyd
- it's called a joke, jackasssspinkfloyd
