President Trump
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jeriendhalI don't normally post anything political here, but right now I can't sleep. My stomach is literally in knots.
I am so sick to my stomach. I cannot believe this.
From everything I see right now, Donald Trump is going to be our next president.
A man so lacking in empathy he mocked a disabled reporter, insulted the parents of dead soldier, fat shamed women, ogled women, ogled his own daughter, cheated on his first and second wives.
Spent a week after stumbling through the first debate insulting a woman on Twitter who had spoken out against him.
Made admiring comments about Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, a nation where opposition reporters are regularly murdered.
Pushed the Birther lie that Barack Obama wasn't really an American citizen, was somehow a secret Muslim that would take away our guns (newsflash, the President can't repeal the 2nd Amendment without the states agreeing to a new constitutional amendment) and put the country under Sharia Law (which is as impossible as putting the country under Catholic Law, or Jewish Law, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster Law for that matter)
Has cast doubts on our very electoral system, stated without any evidence that it was rigged.
Has appealed to every dark impulse of America, stoking the fires of xenophobia against immigrants, against refugees.
Stated that our military is falling apart, when we outspend the next eight nations *combined*.
A man without any realistic economic plan. Who's great business sense involved four bankruptcies, cheating his contractors, and being PROUD of not paying taxes for almost twenty years.
Who is such a great philanthropist that he uses the funds of his foundation to buy $20,000 paintings of himself.
Who gained the endorsement of the official newspaper of the goddamned KKK
Who we are giving control of our nuclear arsenal, and who stays up to 3 am sending Twitter insults to his opponents.
Who for at least the next four years will be deciding who to nominate to the Supreme Court.
This is the man who is going to be our president.
The only, the one and only, bright spot in all of this is that four years from now we will have a chance to choose again.
But I have no idea what damage will be done to us in the meantime, and that frightens me.
I am so sick to my stomach. I cannot believe this.
From everything I see right now, Donald Trump is going to be our next president.
A man so lacking in empathy he mocked a disabled reporter, insulted the parents of dead soldier, fat shamed women, ogled women, ogled his own daughter, cheated on his first and second wives.
Spent a week after stumbling through the first debate insulting a woman on Twitter who had spoken out against him.
Made admiring comments about Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, a nation where opposition reporters are regularly murdered.
Pushed the Birther lie that Barack Obama wasn't really an American citizen, was somehow a secret Muslim that would take away our guns (newsflash, the President can't repeal the 2nd Amendment without the states agreeing to a new constitutional amendment) and put the country under Sharia Law (which is as impossible as putting the country under Catholic Law, or Jewish Law, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster Law for that matter)
Has cast doubts on our very electoral system, stated without any evidence that it was rigged.
Has appealed to every dark impulse of America, stoking the fires of xenophobia against immigrants, against refugees.
Stated that our military is falling apart, when we outspend the next eight nations *combined*.
A man without any realistic economic plan. Who's great business sense involved four bankruptcies, cheating his contractors, and being PROUD of not paying taxes for almost twenty years.
Who is such a great philanthropist that he uses the funds of his foundation to buy $20,000 paintings of himself.
Who gained the endorsement of the official newspaper of the goddamned KKK
Who we are giving control of our nuclear arsenal, and who stays up to 3 am sending Twitter insults to his opponents.
Who for at least the next four years will be deciding who to nominate to the Supreme Court.
This is the man who is going to be our president.
The only, the one and only, bright spot in all of this is that four years from now we will have a chance to choose again.
But I have no idea what damage will be done to us in the meantime, and that frightens me.
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Date: 2016-11-09 11:22 am (UTC)Assuming there's still an America left by that time; I'm not entirely sure there will be.
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Date: 2016-11-12 07:48 pm (UTC)What the fuck?
I fully accept Clinton's hardly perfect - her hawkish approach to foreign policy is far from what I would advocate, not to mention being on such good terms with Kissinger. But to equate those flaws with being - well, as you spell out above? As the phrase goes, "I can't even".
One lesson the Democrats should, sadly, learn from the Republicans is to find some propaganda point and then just keep bashing away with it. But what becomes the point of the entire electoral process then? And yet, that's precisely what won them this election, despite having a sexual assaulting racist, and hero of the KKK, as their candidate: drumming home every single day that she's shifty, untrustworthy, dishonest, corrupt, and oh, those emails! Substance is irrelevant - it's the process of tainting someone by maintaining a solid line of attack. It's a foul mechanism, and yet, through it, they'll have the presidency, Congress, the Senate, and the SCOTUS.
Early appointees include oil lobbyists, a climate change denier, an FRC fellow, and we're hearing floatings of the Breitbart editor being Chief of Staff, Kobach migrating from Kansas, Palin getting in there somewhere, and if we're really lucky, Arpaio too.
Oh, and he'll have full access to the NSA, and nuclear weaponry.
I'm not so much wishing I could find a very isolated island, so much as a safer planet.