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I know, now it's all like there won't be a 21st-century Cold War, and we're teetering on the edge of normal relations and all that BS, and I just literally can't even right now.
his speech after the election gave me just a little hope that he's not the complete turd he's put on display for the last year and a half.
Have you seen the list of his potential cabinet appointees? With few exceptions, they are people who were shocking failures in their previous job postings.
The most shocking one of all? Sarah Palin for Secretary of The Interior!
Just think of having to endure more of her nonsensical word salad speeches for the next four years.
Have you seen the list of his potential cabinet appointees? With few exceptions, they are people who were shocking failures in their previous job postings.
The most shocking one of all? Sarah Palin for Secretary of The Interior!
Just think of having to endure more of her nonsensical word salad speeches for the next four years.
Are you kidding me? This is going to be hilarious. You gotta laugh to keep from crying.
Are you kidding me? This is going to be hilarious. You gotta laugh to keep from crying.
I would laugh if the repercussion weren't so serious....I hope the Trump that is president is different from candidate Trump- but his cabinet leaves little doubt we'll see a change.....Newt, Rudy, Palin, climate change deniers.....this isn't the makings of a "city on a hill...."
I would laugh if the repercussion weren't so serious....I hope the Trump that is president is different from candidate Trump- but his cabinet leaves little doubt we'll see a change.....Newt, Rudy, Palin, climate change deniers.....this isn't the makings of a "city on a hill...."
The horror. I cannot stand Rudy Giuliani. Never could.
The horror. I cannot stand Rudy Giuliani. Never could.
I liked him as mayor in the early years when he worked with NYPD to clean up the city, but he seemed to veer farther and farther off the deep end into the man we have today.....not to keep bringing up politics b/c the election is over and for better or worse Trump is president and I hope he is a successful one, but I can't see how he'll "drain the swamp" with this cast of retreads who were all so desperate to get back in the game and so far out of the action that they backed a long shot as their only hope...
Trump is president and I hope he is a successful one, but I can't see how he'll "drain the swamp" with this cast of retreads who were all so desperate to get back in the game and so far out of the action that they backed a long shot as their only hope...
Isn't it...interesting...that the candidate who was elected because he "isn't a politician" and who will "do things differently" has chosen failed political hacks of the worst sort to be his advisors and associates? Hmmm...
In any event, here are some thoughts from Garrison Keillor, the author and recently-retired radio personality:
So, he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president. We are so exhausted from thinking about this election that millions of people will take up leaf-raking and garage cleaning with intense pleasure. We liberal elitists are wrecks. The Trumpers had a whale of a good time, waving their signs, jeering at the media, beating up protesters, chanting “Lock her up” — we elitists just stood and clapped. Nobody chanted “Stronger Together.” It just doesn’t chant.
The Trumpers never expected their guy to actually win the thing, and that’s their problem now. They wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at the H-word, wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in the RV with a couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted owls. It was pleasure enough for them just to know that they were driving us wild with dismay — by “us,” I mean librarians, children’s authors, yoga practitioners, Unitarians, bird-watchers, people who make their own pasta, opera goers, the grammar police, people who keep books on their shelves, that bunch. The Trumpers exulted in knowing that we were tearing our hair out. They had our number, like a bratty kid who knows exactly how to make you grit your teeth and froth at the mouth.
Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like what happens next.
To all the patronizing B.S. we’ve read about Trump expressing the white working-class’s displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say, “Feh!” — go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America is still the land where the waitress’ kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use your God-given talents-- and the kids aren’t plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing for your kids.
We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is in Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four years raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the Republicans build the wall and carry on the trade war with China and deport the undocumented and deal with opioids, and we Democrats can go for a long, brisk walk and smell the roses. I like Republicans. I used to spend Sunday afternoons with a bunch of them,drinking Scotch and soda and trying to care about NFL football. It was fun. I tried to think like them. (Life is what you make it. People are people. When the going gets tough, tough noogies.) But I came back to liberal elitism.
Don’t be cruel. Elvis said it, and it’s true. We all experienced cruelty back in our playground days — boys who beat up on the timid, girls who made fun of the homely and naive — and most of us, to our shame, went along with it, afraid to defend the victims lest we become one of them. But by your 20s, you should be done with cruelty. Mr. Trump was the cruelest candidate since George Wallace.How he won on fear and bile is for political pathologists to study. The country is already tired of his noise, even his own voters. He is likely to become the most intensely disliked president since Hoover. His children will carry the burden of his name. He will never be happy in his own skin. But the damage he will do to our country — who knows? His supporters voted for change, and boy, are they going to get it.
Back to real life. I went up to my home town the other day and ran into my gym teacher, Stan Nelson, looking good at 96. He commanded a landing craft at Normandy on June 6, 1944, and never said a word about it back then, just made us do chin-ups whether we wanted to or not. I saw my biology teacher, Lyle Bradley, a Marine pilot in the Korean War, still going bird-watching in his 90s. I was not a good student then, but I am studying both of them now. They have seen it all and are still optimistic. The past year of politics has taught us absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The future is scary. Let the uneducated have their day. I am now going to pay more attention to teachers.
Isn't it...interesting...that the candidate who was elected because he "isn't a politician" and who will "do things differently" has chosen failed political hacks of the worst sort to be his advisors and associates? Hmmm...
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This is the thing I don't get- I understand wanting to change things up and elect an "outsider", but this wasn't the guy....does this list inspire anyone to think he's going to fix washington?
Help Wanted- Looking for bus drivers to drive people to Canada to a "Safe space" because their candidate lost. It's over, Hillary lost.
Canadian immigration is based on a system of points, awarded in categories including education, work experience, language ability and age. Those with the most points advance to the front of the line.
I don't think that most Hillary supporters would qualify.
There's always Haiti.
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