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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#168001: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:09:56 PM

[up][up] Benjamin Franklin said it best: "He who gives up a little bit of Freedom for a little bit of Security deserves neither."

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#168002: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:16:25 PM

Hillary gives Bernie the Cold Shoulder during inaugural lunch

Queen ain't got time for that bullshit

😂😂

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#168003: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:19:55 PM

[up][up] Seeing as I'm a nitpickey little bastard, here's the full quote: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

You know what? We need a new Ben Franklin. And a new Abraham Lincoln. Anyone got any candidates?

edited 20th Jan '17 6:21:01 PM by kkhohoho

StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#168004: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:22:17 PM

I think perhaps this will be more like the 1960s than the 1860s, a second cultural revolution. The Republicans may hold power as of now, but there are still more who oppose them and Trump than support. That was clear from the 3 million more votes Clinton got, and from Trump's inauguration's low turnout. Trumplings will continue to try to bully and intimidate, to make their enemies feel alone and helpless so they won't speak or fight back, but we aren't alone. The country is still at a crossrodes right now. The fight has only just begun. Don't let yourself be deceived.

edited 20th Jan '17 6:23:42 PM by StarOutlaw

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#168005: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:28:31 PM

And don't forget...most of the world hates Trump. He'll go down in history as either a laughingstock or a monster, and tons of people around the world, regardless of their beliefs, despise him. There is no way he's going down in history as being a hero or a great man, because too much of the world knows he's a blithering idiot.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#168006: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:32:18 PM

[up]Including over half of his own damn country.

StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#168007: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:39:17 PM

More than half. More like two thirds, and growing. I will never respect Trump or his supporters, no matter how much they keep saying they won. When you have to lie, use foreign espionage, exploit the system and still wind up with 3 million less votes, you did not win it. Trump stole it, like the thief and con artist he has always been, and I want my fucking country back.

edited 20th Jan '17 6:40:05 PM by StarOutlaw

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#168008: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:39:52 PM

[[quoteblock}]Hillary gives Bernie the Cold Shoulder during inaugural lunch Queen ain't got time for that bullshit [[/quoteblock]]

Why is that a good thing? She should be trying to heal the rifts within the Democrat Party.

Bernie's movement is the one with all the energy. Don't shun them.

edited 20th Jan '17 7:20:58 PM by MadSkillz

NeoTerraKnight Since: Apr, 2014
#168009: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:41:18 PM

[up]...Because it was them that allow Trump in WH to happen? For all talk on progressive values, they are the ones that are all talk?

Falrinn Since: Dec, 2014
#168010: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:44:21 PM

There's definitely a strong possibility that it only feels like a Civil War is inevitable not because it is, but because the chances of it are much higher in a purely relative sense now then they have been in living memory (or at least, living memory for most people on Tv Tropes).

So if it's been <1% since at least the end of the Vietnam era, it's maybe spiked up to 10% over the next 4 years. That's frightfully high given the consequences of even a small-scale civil war, but it still probably won't happen.note .

One thing I am certain of is that the country is going to be changed in a very significant manner over the next four years. I'm just not sure how, and I'm going to do what I little I can to make it ultimately changes for the better.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#168011: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:46:38 PM

I'm not sure that the blame for Trump can be laid squarely on Sanders' shoulders, nor his more reprehensible supporters.

Anyways, I would not go so far as to say that Trump didn't "win", but the win itself was dicey and shows that there are some big problems with the US political system that should be addressed going forward.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#168012: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:52:35 PM

So a thing on Twitter: as of today, mass numbers of people unfollowed the POTUS and FLOTUS accounts, for obvious reasons. Then they noticed that Twitter had them following them again. It automatically re-followed them, without input or consent.

Right now people are re-unfollowing them seemingly without incident. But it's still creepy.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#168013: Jan 20th 2017 at 6:53:35 PM

[up] Could be that there were so many leaving POTUS, that the Twitter system couldn't process them all leaving.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#168014: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:01:38 PM

I respect trump suporter in the sense they are people who can voted for what they want, but their "I win, NOW KNEEL BEFORE ME!" or their "You need to tought out but I can whine about Obama because is my freedom" drive me insane, again I saw that in my country(hell my tesis is about polarization) and I know what you are living: that sense they are two country overlaping in the same natural space somehow, its going to be a surreal experience to many of you, trust me in this.

But if something, time will give you the reason.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
optimusjamie Since: Jun, 2010
#168015: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:02:28 PM

I've got one of Cheeto Benito's posts on my feed, and I don't even follow the twat.

Direct all enquiries to Jamie B Good
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#168016: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:05:43 PM

[up][up]How has that worked out? Did any of them cool off and come back to reality, did they get pissed off if/when they didn't get what they wanted, or are they still pumped up?

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#168017: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:09:16 PM

I don't use Twitter or any social media site anyways (Unless you count Deviantart). Only reason I go on Twitter is to look at nice Japanese fanart of games.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#168018: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:12:14 PM

America: A Tale of Two Nations. (Written by Not!Charles Dickens.)tongue

edited 20th Jan '17 7:12:44 PM by kkhohoho

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#168019: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:19:34 PM

"How has that worked out? Did any of them cool off and come back to reality, did they get pissed off if/when they didn't get what they wanted, or are they still pumped up"

Well, depend, it you talk about chavez he live and die with popularity, in fact he win the election against is oponent and them with the mayor election he pretty much crush the opositon, have him stay alive the oposition would pretty much erase from the political field.

Now, if you talk about Maduro, who have more of trump flaw(poor talking skill, tough posturing) them...well, everyone fucking hate is guts and chavismo is pretty much taint to dictatorship, deal with colombian drug cartel, cuban influence(what, sound familiar to you?) and being a general pain in the ass, last time I saw Maduro have a good 25% suport....probably is less by now.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#168021: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:27:50 PM

I believe they were talking about the common folk who aggressively support them.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#168022: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:36:32 PM

Trump's First Executive Order: Canceling a 0.25 percentage point premium rate cut for Federal Housing Administration-backed loans that had not yet taken Effect. Republicans (including Ben Carson, Trump's pick for HUD Secretary) find the move hasty, and Democrats condemn the move in its entirety.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#168023: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:37:43 PM

I would agree with the idea that Hillary shunning Bernie is a bad thing. Of all the people we could conceivable blame for this situation, those two are the ones that deserve to be blamed the least, and the ones that should be showing unity the most.

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#168024: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:37:46 PM

"...Trump has tapped lawyer John Gore, who defended the University of North Carolina system in a legal challenge over the state's anti-LGBT law, to be the deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division...If Jeff Sessions is confirmed by the Senate as attorney general, he would oversee Gore."

Huh, well we already knew that the power of the federal government would cease to work on behalf of its citizens at noon today. One more thing we must pick up the slack for...

Gonna need a long list... note 

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#168025: Jan 20th 2017 at 7:41:39 PM

re:Twitter and Facebook re-subscribing users to @POTUS: News to me. I'm on Twitter, and my subscription to @POTUS got moved to Obama's @POTUS44 archive account rather than the @POTUS account that Trump's using now. Good thing, too. Saved me from having to unfollow Cheeto Benito.

edited 20th Jan '17 8:01:48 PM by TrashJack

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary

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