Juliajms

^ That's kind of how this thread went.

Trump names Priebus as chief of staff, Bannon as chief strategist. Could be worse in the COS position I guess.

I know you're right, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around having a President who actively wants bad things for our country.

Trump needs to make a statement asking his supporters to stop the violence. Not that I think he has control over what he's unleashed, but the very least he could do is try.

I'm sure many of us will be taking refuge in soaps and fiction. If only soapnet were still around so I could get my daily RH fix.

And the celebrities (including Oprah and Warren Buffet ) coming out to tell people to calm down and give him a chance.

I don't know, but I do too. Over the last couple of days I've broken into uncontrollable laughter a few times (once I stopped crying). It's the sheer absurdity of it all. No doubt Trump will stop in a the white house a couple of times a month to check on the progress his minions are making.

I think Lena's belief in Millennials is unfounded.

I think it's possible they can get the economy to grow considering they are going to completely gut environmental regulations and probably worker protections. If they do manage to create growth the benefit will go to people at the top though. I fully expect inequality to grow. I'm not in a place where I can feel badly for the people who brought this on themselves, although I suppose I will get there eventually.

I've been thinking about the fact that DT got 53% of the white female vote. At first I found that pretty shocking, but then I really thought about it. Although I grew up in the white working class over the years (because of education) I've become part of the liberal elite. I let myself forget how many women aren't even feminists. If you don't believe you are equal you certainly aren't go to stand up for other people's equality. I really wonder where this whole debacle leaves the democratic party going forward.

I keep thinking of new terrible things that are going to come from this. All the poor kids that won't get universal preschool, all the young women who won't have access to abortion. That first day I was in a state of shock, but the full weight of it is really sinking in now. Here is an article written by a young Muslim. Very, very sad. https://newrepublic.com/article/138649/president-donald-trump-means-muslims

That tweet is spot on. In the email dumps we saw that the Clinton team considered outing Bernie as an atheist. They decided against it, but the Republicans would not have been so kind. Jews poll way better than atheists, Even Muslims are seen more favorably. 51% of people polled are less likely to vote for an atheist. I've also seen polling that shows 40% of people will not vote for an atheist under any circumstance. So Bernie is a Jew by birth, an atheist in practice and a social democrat, which the majority of the people read as socialist (even though it's different). He was not going to win. Can you even imagine how riled up the alt right would have been if a Jew had been running in the general election? They already think Jews run the world, it would have been a nightmare. Selfishly, I'm very grateful that didn't happen. Anyone interested in seeing the polling on how various religious affiliations effect votes should check out this link, it's pretty interesting. The second chart down is where they compare religions. http://www.pewforum.org/2016/01/27/faith-and-the-2016-campaign/

Ugh, and I hope I'm wrong but I imagine it's going to be awhile before a woman gets another shot at the top of he ticket.

I know, this is so hard. I thought I was too cynical to cry over an election, but I found myself doing just that this afternoon.

The evil part of me hopes Trump takes revenge on the Republicans who didn't support him. I'm sure I'll be over these ugly thought in a day or two.

He was pro Hillary in the article I posted. He was just saying why the thought Trump would win, not why he should. I don't know why he would regret it when he said some flat out awful things about Trump and said he was voting for Hillary, even though he had once sworn he wouldn't. I don't see anything in there that is even slightly pro Trump.

I don't know, but that article I just posted was spot on.

After reading this, I think Michael Moore is clairvoyant. He really nailed it. http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/

I hope so too or that there is another program you will qualify for.

I'm sorry. With any luck it will take them awhile to repeal the ACA.

The sad thing is I can hardly name one serious policy Trump is going to enact. He changed his mind so much I'm not even sure what he's planning. I guess we can look forward to Christie and Guliani in some roll. Awesome.

I don't think that's going to take long at all.

I'm having a hard time processing this. I feel like I need to understand the details of exactly how this happened and how so many people got it wrong. I guess for now it's time for ambien and sleep.

I never said that. Anyone who reads this thread consistently knows I've been skeptical of Hillary. The problems go back far past the email investigation. What I said is I don't think Bernie (who I liked) or Biden would have necessarily won. Not that we'll ever know for sure now, but let's not forget Bernie is a Jew. Not just a Jew, but almost certainly an atheist (as am I) and I doubt he was going to lie about that, which polls consistently show is a no go. Hillary never pressed him on it in the primaries, which is why it wasn't an issue.

I can imagine. Plus all of the refugees who are going to be turned away. Then we have issues like climate change, Obamacare, so many reasons to be depressed tonight.