Your first Thoughts When You Realized Trump Won

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  1. mbk734

    mbk734 Well-Known Member

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    [video=youtube;IST6qRfVqwY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IST6qRfVqwY[/video]
     
  2. dairyair

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    LOL. Well that race of 1 will have to get over it. But its fake orange, so no actual orange race exists. How f'n silly.
     
  3. erayp

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    Many people mistakenly regard political correctness as just a nutty liberal fetish for not hurting people’s feelings. This goes to prove that PC has nothing to do with hurting people's feelings but rather it's operating principle behind political correctness is raw intimidation: If you dare use certain words, even think a certain way (determined by the left) – you are ignorant, insensitive, intolerant, bigoted or hateful.
     
  4. Hoosier8

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    Almost as many democrats voted for Hillary as voted for Obama last election so it isn't that democrats didn't vote, it is that many of them voted for Trump.
     
  5. erayp

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    That doesn't stop the media from making these false claims. The sad thing is people believe them.

    I ask... do you like being lied to? For Trump voters, why fund people who hate you, insult you, and want to mislead you and other Americans? Before the election the media distorted information, distorted polling numbers deliberately to discourage Trump supporters from bothering to vote. Yes, the lying, propagandizing jackals in media did everything they could to try to get Hillary elected. Now their goal is to cause problems for a president that wants to do things that will help the American people.
     
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    Wanna bet? I won't be AT ALL surprised if that's exactly what happens. The T word will be termed 'hate speech', and outlawed.
     
  7. FreshAir

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    that is not true, did you see the chart I posted? here it is again....

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    I agree, I think the same of fox news as I do msnbc.... I try to avoid both
     
  8. dairyair

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    So, you would then think calling a black person the n word or reference them to apes or other things actually meant to denigrate not just a person but an entire color of people has nothing to do with hurting people's feelings?
    But those who complain about people saying such things are only doing it to imtimidate?
    Explain.
     
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    And it was bright minds that concocted the idea of safe spaces on college campuses where students do not have to be confronted with ideas that run counter to the thought processes they accept?
     
  10. Hoosier8

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    You present outdated data.
     
  11. RedStater

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    "dems did not have the motivation to get out and vote... simple as that"


    Obviously...but don't forget the old saying: "Even a broken clock is right twice a day!"

    The clear conclusion is that their "Hope & Change" messiah failed so miserably that enough of them learned their lesson and that somewhere...deep-down in a place they don't like to admit even exists...against all their lefty instincts...they knew they had to give SOMETHING ELSE a chance that might actually make some changes that are truly GOOD for the United States of America!

    Obama made a promise before he was elected to "fundamentally transform the United States of America". I have to admit - he went very far toward fulfilling that promise...but certainly NOT in a positive way. Maybe next time someone with a background that is so full of dubious, radical characters makes a promise like that we'll look back on the past eight years and exercise a bit more common sense than "we" did in 2008 - and CERTAINLY more than "we" did in 2012!

    Then again - maybe we should adopt a practice of actually VETTING a candidate before electing him/her. I'm a retired Soldier of 25 years on active duty - all 25 years were in the Intelligence Community. I had to undergo repeated scrutiny over those years to get and maintain my TS security clearance - the kind of scrutiny that neither Obama nor Clinton could actually endure...you know - deep, intense background checks and polygraphs and all? Put either of those two in a room with an NSA polygrapher asking pointed questions about their past and you'll see that NEITHER would have been granted a legitimately-qualified clearance at levels required by the positions they held. They could only be ELECTED into those positions - PERIOD! Yes - they were granted clearances...but anyone in the know can attest that their clearances are given the "wink wink...sure, I guess - why not?" level of scrutiny. Ask any honest person who has had to maintain an Intelligence Community clearance and they'll tell you the same thing. They know.

    So, from the bottom of my heart - thank you, all you non-voting liberals as well as those of you who actually DID vote for Trump. Even though you'll keep that a secret, you know who you are - and unlike your cohorts who are now in the streets showing exactly WHY you lost - at least YOU had the courage to make the only logical choice this time around.
     
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    My first thought was we are in for a new post Carter era like the Reagan years.:clapping:
     
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    feel free to post data you feel is more up to date
     
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    My first thought was- "WOW, the fire has been lit, we ain't seen nothing yet"..;)

    "The United States is like a giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate"- Winston Churchill

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    We had many respectful debates on the subject and I'm glad you are coming around and accepting this with dignity
     
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    That's the key, respectful debates. I am more than willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt until he proves otherwise. I would have done the same for Clinton. Well, maybe not as much with Clinton as she is/was a known commodity, Trump isn't, at least in my mind. I think I knew what to expect from a Hillary Clinton presidency, a President Trump, I really don't know. So it is wait and see. One thing that I understand when it comes to campaigning is it is very easy to states things, say one would do this or do that or not do anything. There isn't weight of the world sitting on a candidates shoulders. But once one becomes president, that changes and in quite a lot of areas, a president's hands are tied, at times a president is left to react instead of acting, a lot of different things. Sometimes what a candidate said he would do or not do isn't an option once that weight settles upon his shoulders. So we shall see.
     
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    It was a roller coaster ride for the left. It was pretty even keel for the right.
     
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    The Left should be furious with the Mainstream Media AND the cooked polling that they paid for. Between them they deliberately LIED to their own side. Their goal was to make the Right feel that it was pointless to go and vote; but nonetheless they LIED to their own side in the process.
     
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    It was pure orgasmic like pleasure, fireworks were going off in my brain.

    The fact that Trump beat the entire liberal establishment, the rotten rinos

    and all of the lying left wing media, it was truly an amazing night I will never forget.

    To think of all the so called experts that were shown for the fools they are.

    The fact that the lying liberal pollsters had hillary up by as much as 12 points 2 weeks

    before the election. I could go on and on.

    The cherry on top was the reaction of the left, I was switching from channel to channel

    watching all the horrified and sad faces, I was in hog heaven.......Life is gooooood.

    I love watching the rioters destroy the liberal cities, the more they show their azz

    the more it helps us.

    Trump is the gift that just keeps on giving, every day is like Christmas for us and

    hell for the liberals. Every appointment or decision Trump makes will be met with

    hollow calls of racism and temper tantrums.

    I am having the time of my life watching Trump rub their liberal faces in it.

    I still have to pinch myself every now and then, God this is Great.

    Thank God in heaven.............
     
  20. Sam Bellamy

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    Something tells me they will forget soon enough. I liken the left to a religious cult.
     
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    My first thought, great, no more Clintons. Then went to bed and slept like a fat baby.:flagus::clapping:
     
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    When obama was first elected I was in shock but it didn't take long until I thought to myself, well he's who America wants so I'll just sit back and watch and hope I was wrong. I'm glad some people like you are doing the same with Trump and it's just to bad the leftest can't grow up and accept defeat like adults instead of having temper tantrums in the street and all over their media. No honeymoon period for Trump that's for sure.
     
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    I wasn't in shock. He was a GS candidate. They chose him over Hillary and installed him in the White House. A great investment. Obama served them well.

    As for Trump. A bit of fresh air. I think he will serve Americans far better than Obama. However we can all see that everyone will try to make his job difficult. Obstructionism is the name of the game. I wouldn't underestimate Soros and his mates. They could go all the way to stop him.
     
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    The traditional honeymoon period of 100 days I think has been over for quite a spell. Although one could say Obama had a 2 year honeymoon after he won due to the huge majorities he had in congress which included 6 months or more of a filibuster proof senate and the rest of the time with 59 senators. The problem Obama had is he put all this huge advantage he had into one piece of legislation, the ACA and ignored everything else to include immigration reform or anything else he wanted. Perhaps Obama thought he would always have these huge majorities throughout the presidency. The argument of why he didn't tackle such and such in his first two years is very valid.

    We may never see another honeymoon period until all this polarization eases off. I like you gave Obama the benefit of the doubt, but when he didn't listen to the American people who opposed his health care program, Obamacare, ACA, whatever you want to call it. I totally lost faith in him, he was just a president that didn't give a darn what the American people as a whole thought, wanted or didn't want that put his political agenda ahead of the people as a whole.

    Romney I didn't trust to begin with, so I voted for Johnson in 2012 and followed that up voting for him once again in 2016. So I'm not tied to either major party. Never have been. So for me Trump is an unknown, until he starts to do things, he has my benefit of the doubt. Then it will either become positive or negative as Obama's became negative over time. Over time being the key here.
     
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    Yes, I have no expectation that either the DNC and nor their Mainstream Media allies are capable of learning or of changing where their own faults are concerned.
     

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