Honestly @Khan I think your scenario is more likely than mine.  I just felt like my post was coming off bitchy so I needed to come up with something positive.  The fact is I think we are the highway to hell and I'm feeling kind of matter of fact about it at the moment. I'm only wondering which horrific thing Trump will do first.

 

@JaneAusten I'm glad you are feeling optimistic and obviously I hope you're right.

16 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

 

@JaneAusten I'm glad you are feeling optimistic and obviously I hope you're right.

Optimistic I realize is too strong a word. Encouraged may be better. Trump is and will be a disaster but there are people standing up for the first time in their lives. As I said, many have been complacent for years(at least the last 40) who are finally awake. Now if the democrats sit on their asses, bicker, stay complacent and don't leverage this they can blame themselves. I'm trying to feel a bit more positive seeing the enthusiasm and knowing that our current POTUS has already said he's not abandoning us.

On 12/26/2016 at 9:17 AM, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Yet, most Republicans were still never satisfied.

 

God-willing, Trump will at most, have one term, so hopefully he won't top Obama's numbers. 

and now.....Russian malware has been identified as attacking a Vermont Utility Company. 

And guess who is in Vermont?

 

Yep.

2 hours ago, Khan said:

And guess who is in Vermont?

 

Yep.

 

Waiting for a statement from Patrick and Bernie.

Will we get one?

Something I found so sad when I saw it on the news today is that all over Europe they're putting up roadblocks in major cities and calling in extra police and military so that people can go out and celebrate New Year's Eve with a little less fear of terrorist attacks....

They interviewed people in Copenhagen and they were grateful for this and felt it was a good idea.

And in Gothenburg here in Sweden a big shopping mall decided to close early today because there were rumours that youth gangs were planning to shoot fireworks at people in retaliation for what they perceive as harassment from the police.

 

How did we get to this point where people feel the need for these extraordinary measures to be taken just so they can go out and celebrate a new year?  

Watching that and reading this thread has really made me feel a bit depressed. There's just so much hate and ugliness in the world right now, and there seems to be no end in sight. 

 

Edited December 31, 20168 yr by I Am A Swede

21 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

Watching that and reading this thread has really made me feel a bit depressed. There's just so much hate and ugliness in the world right now, and there seems to be no end in sight. 

 

 

 

If I'm a part of that I'm sorry. I'm not sorry for my posts but I'm sorry if they contributed to you feeling this way.

 

O/T: One of my oldest and best friends in the world is "A Swede." Allow me to raise a mug of Glogg on this New Year's Eve.

Edited December 31, 20168 yr by marceline

I didn't mean for anyone to feel responsible in any way for my state of mind. If I did that I'm genuinely sorry. I enjoy reading this thread even though it's content is very depressing sometimes, because it's still an enlightening read, and at the end of the day I want to believe that somehow people with intelligence and common sense, like the posters here, will prevail and we will start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

 

But of course, then you get news like this, and it all feels depressing again...

 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38481521

 

The new year has hardly even begun, but there has already been an attack.....  

2016 political luminaries remembered:

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/why-they-mattered-important-deaths-2016-obituaries-214585

Bittersweet but watching these clips may bring a bit of a smile to the faces of most. 

 

 

SHAKE MY DAMN HEAD

 

 

He will use Twitter as a means to circumvent the press, and considering all the kowtowing/tap-dancing MSM did for that man, hoping to curry favor, this is what they deserve.

 

BTW, he still hasn't done a single proper newsconference since getting the Election. 

That's because he would write down his answers and then submit them to the press via courier.

...and so it begins...

 

 

It really stinks to watch others continue help ruin the reputation of your industry. But fighting each other about only hurts the democracy

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) January 2, 2017

On 12/31/2016 at 0:47 PM, Khan said:

And guess who is in Vermont?

 

Yep.

 

Washington Post retracts story about Russian hack at Vermont utility

 

http://nypost.com/2017/01/01/washington-post-retracts-story-about-russian-hack-at-vermont-utility/