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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#152827: Nov 9th 2016 at 4:58:11 PM

@ the statement regarding muslims being removed: I don't know why they'd feel the need to do that, to be honest. It got them this far.

EDIT: There's a protest going on outside the White House right now with people chanting "Fuck Trump".

Good on everyone involved but I see protests like this being violently repressed as time goes on.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:00:14 PM by Draghinazzo

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#152828: Nov 9th 2016 at 4:59:23 PM

Donald Trump statement on banning Muslims from US has disappeared from his website: The president-elect no longer has the 7 December 2015 statement

[/Raises Eyebrow]

So is there any website with a list of all the campaign promises trump made and how many he already broke?

I really want one just to rub on the faces of everyone who voted on him thinking he was the anti-globalism and anti-establishment candidate.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#152829: Nov 9th 2016 at 4:59:50 PM

this is awkward.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:01:31 PM by Demonic_Braeburn

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
Grounder Main Character Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
Main Character
#152830: Nov 9th 2016 at 4:59:56 PM

[up][up]Dude isn't even in office yet.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:00:07 PM by Grounder

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#152831: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:00:45 PM

I think all the crazy conspiracy theories that Trump was running on behalf of Hillary to be an easy opponent or that she was planning to use him as her puppet once he wins can be definitively put to bed now.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#152832: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:01:45 PM

I'm not even sure how those rumors got any traction to begin with.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#152833: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:02:01 PM

[up][up][up]And by the looks of it he is already breaking his promises and toning down the rhetoric that got him elected.

Holy shit! It is like he told exactly what his voters wanted to hear!

[up][up]That along the whole system is rigged believe me

edited 9th Nov '16 5:03:02 PM by AngelusNox

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#152834: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:04:00 PM

Honestly, think I'm gonna unfollow this thread for a while; I'm just getting more and more stressed out from reading all of this.

I'll see you all when I feel better.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#152835: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:04:18 PM

[up][up] All the more ammo for Democrats to use in 2020, should any of them take our advice.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:04:54 PM by AlleyOop

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#152836: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:04:39 PM

@Demonic_Braeburn: Holy bleep on a bleep, we really do have a modern "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, don't we?

edited 9th Nov '16 5:04:57 PM by TotemicHero

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
MysteryMan23 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#152837: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:05:18 PM

@Gilphon: That's true, too. A lot of people have every right to be angry, even at the people who only voted Trump out of mistaken belief. I know if I accidentally ran into someone and hurt them, they'd have the right to be angry at me even though I didn't mean to cause them harm.

So yeah, to anyone who's angry, go ahead and process those feelings first. In fact, anyone who's sad or scared, go ahead and process those feelings first. I know I had to process my feelings about all this.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:08:07 PM by MysteryMan23

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#152838: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:05:31 PM

]It's like I've been saying; Trump's been telling the people what they want to hear without the intent of actually going through with it. He's a salesman, not a politician, and his best talent (and I use that term loosely,) is to sell his product to his intended target using whatever methods he can, even if it means giving them false promises he doesn't intend to keep. He might not even do the actual governing, instead dumping it on Pence and Trump's handpicked staff. Trump doesn't want to make a difference; he wants to be the President without actually being the President, and he'll tell anyone whatever he wants to get there.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#152839: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:07:22 PM

"Donald Trump statement on banning Muslims from US has disappeared from his website: The president-elect no longer has the 7 December 2015 statement "

I cant wait for him to said how the WALL idea is just too expensive and just make immigration harder for Mexicans

How his charming fanbase is going to take it....well, that is the funny question

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
RedRob Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
#152840: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:08:27 PM

[up][up]So you're saying he's most likely just going to sit on his ass and do nothing as President? That's the best thing I heard all day.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:08:41 PM by RedRob

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Unless I grew it. In that case, throw it in the trash.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#152841: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:08:35 PM

[up][up]I'm guessing they're going to hold a rather long-lasting grudge over this; hopefully long enough to swing them over to the Democrats for the next election.

[up]And that's also like what I've been saying; Trump probably isn't going to enact most of the policies he's been running off because he never actually intended to go through with them. He himself is not really a threat. What is a threat is those around him and how his presidency enables them to push their repressive far-right agendas, but it shouldn't be anything we can't recover from.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:10:20 PM by kkhohoho

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#152842: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:08:47 PM

He might not even do the actual governing, instead dumping it on Pence and Trump's handpicked staff. Trump doesn't want to make a difference; he wants to be the President without actually being the President, and he'll tell anyone whatever he wants to get there.

Yeah I'm pretty sure this has entirely been about his ego. I see him having very little interest in actually doing anything because being the president is hard and emotionally draining work, and he's a privileged asshole who's had everything handed to him his whole life. Claiming credit for everything while letting Pence and his goons do the dirty work is exactly what I expect.

So you're saying he's most likely just going to sit on his ass and do nothing as President? That's the best thing I heard all day.

I expect him to do a couple of things at least and those will probably be bad, probably resulting from getting pissed off at someone or something, but yes I see Pence and the rest of his cabinet being the actual policymakers employed because they're actual politicians.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:10:23 PM by Draghinazzo

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#152843: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:09:42 PM

I kinda expected as much. Bush 2.0 it is, but with even more plutocracy.

[up][up] Unfortunately while Trump himself may have run against the interest of the Republican core the people he's nominating fall more in line with their views.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:11:50 PM by AlleyOop

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#152844: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:10:15 PM

Not that Pence running the show is a good thing, it's just better than Trump doing it.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#152845: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:10:50 PM

The part of my soul that has stopped screaming now has a grotesque fascination wondering how Trump's supporters are going to convince themselves and each other how each failure or reneged promise is (insert scapegoat here)'s fault.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#152846: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:10:55 PM

Consider his personality, he is going to make embarrasing mistakes, said the wrong things and overall make an ass of himself...

AND that is going to stick this time, since Trump already lost the "outsider" effect by being in the chair, he cant play "everything is rigged" now.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#152847: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:11:28 PM

I could see Trump throwing some people under the bus. To gain power, you need a base of really upset people who want to put in someone who can change things. To stay in power, you need a base of content people.

Leviticus 19:34
Grounder Main Character Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
Main Character
#152848: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:11:52 PM

I thought that you guys would have been happier now that Trump is going back on the things you hated him for...

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#152849: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:11:56 PM

[up]x5 Exactly. Again, will a defacto Pence presidency be a good thing? No, but unlike Trump, he actually knows how to govern, if nothing else. He may damn the country socially, but he'll still keep it afloat.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:12:16 PM by kkhohoho

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#152850: Nov 9th 2016 at 5:13:04 PM

The only people I see being truly content is the avowed white supremacists and alt-right because this is exactly the big reason they voted. If they have to take it in the ass economically to give the minorities the middle finger, then it's worth it to them.

The ignorant or merely anxious people are not going to be content in the slightest.

edited 9th Nov '16 5:13:27 PM by Draghinazzo


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