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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The last couple weeks, but especially the last few days in particular, have proven that no, Trump isn't going to magically change into a decent guy once he's in the White House. The conservatives that thought he would, if he just surrounded himself with "good people", are incredibly naive, way too forgiving, and enabling his boorish behavior. This is him. This is who we have to put up with for four years.
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If Trump somehow has his own little Christmas Carol, I'll prance around and sing 'Happy happy joy joy' like no tomorrow, but until evidence shows otherwise, I'm still expecting his next to tweet to be about how Scrooge's policies on population control were just under appreciated in his time.
In a way he was, in that he was telling the people what they wanted to hear. But just because you don't always mean what you say doesn't mean you're not a dirty rotten douchebag, and Trump is going to stay a dirty rotten doucebag 'till the day he dies. It's just in what ways he's going to enact his douchebagery from here on out that he's not always consistent on.
edited 29th Nov '16 11:10:35 AM by kkhohoho
Now would be a really good time for ghosts to turn out to be really.
It's almost Christmas, guys! Make it happen!
Oh God! Natural light!
x4 TRUMP: If they're going to die, then let them die, and decrease the surplus population.
Honestly, even knowing that A Christmas Carol is a thing, that is still completely in character for Trump.
edited 29th Nov '16 11:09:24 AM by kkhohoho
Judging from electoral results, someone who knows what they're doing.
Edit: Including Hitler.
edited 29th Nov '16 11:17:46 AM by Stormtroper
And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!I don't think he means to indicate anything is illegal with it. By saying that prosecution is more likely, he's basically making a threat. Here, let me break out my Dogwhistle-to-English Translator.
"Prosecution of the Clintons is more likely due to the recount" translates to, "Y'all better cut it out with this recount business. Donald Trump extended a very fine olive branch by refusing to hold up to that particular campaign promise, but if you keep this up, we might just go get that special prosecutor after all. You've been warned. What happens to Clinton is on your head."
Trump is a con artist and, as I noted during the campaign, he runs on the PUA tactic of negging America. I'm pretty sure we can reasonably expect some more veiled threats to come from his administration. "Now I'm not saying there's anything in motion right now, but maybe y'all might want to cut back on these protests before we decide we might not need a First Amendment after all."
Sign me up for the New California Republic! I've been in Colorado most of my life, but I was born there; that means I get automatic citizenship, right? We are, after all, the party that supports Birthright Citizenship.
You can't be a Republican without mastering doublethink.
edited 29th Nov '16 11:25:35 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.We all know that Calexit is an incredibly bad idea that will never happen and is more or less an overreaction to the Trump win. But now that it's becoming painfully obvious that Trump will almost certainly never become a responsible POTUS and is seemingly intent on giving out Cabinet positions to the very worst possible people...
The New California Republic does have a nice ring to it. But we'd need Colorado and its river...
edited 29th Nov '16 11:36:09 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedTrump is best compared to Robber Baron Scrooge McDuck (part 11 of Life and Times and some of his initial comics).
Modern Scrooge may spend as little money as possible, but he loves his family, and when the chips are down, is a good manduck at heart.
Trump is not even close to modern Scrooge.
edited 29th Nov '16 11:37:54 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Scrooge is a competent businessman, Trump isn't. He's not as rich as he claims or pretends to be...hence this pathetic hawking off his businesses after he's become President.
As for Calexit...I think the way to go about it is
1) Tax Protest, because that is something ancient in America, with strong precedents (Thoreau, Vietnam War protests) and see how government responds to the absence of money coming from the richest and most developed parts of US...state government can run via donations to NG Os, some of which I believe are...tax deductible. The legal justification is clear...Trump has not disclosed his taxes, there are severe conflicts-of-interest and taxpayers can't trust if the money they are giving to the government is for Federal Employees and maintaining institutions or going into the President's slush-fund.
2) Obviously how the government responds to this will be key...but if it continues to behave badly, and California continues to be self-governing and tax dodging, then eventually secession comes into play. You have to take a stand and prove that you can go it alone, not only to the government but to your own citizens.
3) This is all non-violent and in the consensual tradition of civil-disobedience, that of Thoreau and Gandhi (who was inspired by Thoreau), two famous tax protestors. It's very important to build legitimacy otherwise the government will paint California as a liberal confederate insurrection.
edited 29th Nov '16 12:01:10 PM by JulianLapostat
What's getting me right now, btw about Trump's latest little tirade.
Nobody really burns flags. It happens so unbelievably rarely. This is just something used as a threat to harness rage. It's so damn pointless to start with this as a complete non-sequitor. And not enough people have issues with the President-Elect deciding to revoke peoples' citizenship for exercising first amendment rights in ways he doesn't like.
This is "Crazy old man saw Fox News mentioning students burning flags at nearly 7 in the morning and it got him extremely mad and upset." orthodoxy.
I don't think there's any strategy with Trump other than Anger and Fury. If it manages to work like Dictatorship, it's due to his anger being like that of a dictatorship.
You come here I will kick you right back to Colorado. Keep that state blue, or so help me! >:[
Don't know if anybody's posted this yet, but NY Times compiled a comprehensive list of everyone Trump's insulted on Twitter.
HOLY. SHIT. Really quite eye-opening when viewed all at once. This is gonna be our president, ladies and gentlemen.
Side question: Doesn't all of this qualify as harassment, which is against Twitter's rules? If so, why the hell isn't he banned from it?
edited 29th Nov '16 12:20:32 PM by speedyboris
So apparently Trump's seriously going to be doing his victory tour of post-election rallies, that wasn't just a rumor. Many people here thought that was a clear sign he was going to be a docile puppet to the GOP, but I don't think that will be the case. These rallies, beyond giving him a massive ego boost, are likely intended as a means of bolstering his burgeoning cult of personality, in addition to the obvious role they have in bypassing the media.
edited 29th Nov '16 12:18:51 PM by CaptainCapsase

"Lenin lives, Lenin Lived. Lenin will live again". That was an actual motto used in the USSR by the way.
If anyone has the time, I recommend watching this video about how Lenin was mummified, it's an incredible tour de force into explaining
how myths and ideas take root.
edited 29th Nov '16 10:31:27 AM by JulianLapostat