I am so glad this election is over, you'll never know! I'm an elderly white grandmother raised in the rural South in the 1940s, and I so want everyone, no matter their color or beliefs, to get along...at least, to learn to respect one another, and I feel that Trump deliberately went 100% in the other direction, and I'm mortified that he is now the president of our country.
Yes, our country and our government definitely needs many changes, but electing a butthead like Donald Trump who doesn't respect anyone it seems is not going to get it done. Words are cheap and he expended a LOT of cheap words. It's one thing to say them, it's another to make them happen. He'll need help to make them happen, and I don't believe he'll have that help. Something inside me makes me feel he is the downfall of America, and I'm usually a very optimistic person with a smile on my face. Oh well, I'll continue doing what I can to make my little spot in Central Florida be the best it can be.
Thank you so much for your comments.
I'm with you there....even though I'm black married to a white man. For the first time in my life, I was afraid to go outside today. Why? For fear the police here, led by Trump's hate speech, may assault me in my own neighborhood. I've never committed a crime in my life. I have a master's degree. But I'm afraid that if a white police officer, emboldened by Trump's "Lets do away with political correctness", and go after me not knowing that I'm not the boogie man they are looking for.
I went on Twitter, and the "Make America Great Again" crowd are gleefully repeating Trump's talking points. Telling people of color and Muslims, "We (white people) don't have to be PC anymore to protect you people." So now, Trump supporters will see nothing wrong with telling "like it is" according to them. Examples:
Men putting up pictures of a kitchen and captioning the photo telling women that the kitchen is where they will always serve best.
Trump supporters, male and female, openly calling black people the "N" word, bragging that they don't have to spare anyone's feelings anymore.
Supporters now calling Muslims "terrorists" and "you can pack up and leave now."
Telling Latino's to start walking until they get past the Mexico border. Citizen or non citizen.
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And when Trump gets what he said he wanted from day one, "Hey if I pull this off, I go into the history books!" His supporters will find that there are zero infrastructure projects that can be done in, say, rural Nebraska. Then they will see Trump for the fraud he is. Him and his family are only here to sell Ivanka's apparel, Trump ties and MAGA hats...all made in China. And Trump supporters will buy it with what little money they have. As long as they can obviously hold on to their whiteness and feeling of supremacy over the black/brown boogie man that Trump convinced them are hiding under their bed. This feels like the Willie Horton ads of 1988 perpetrated by Bush senior. Remember that?
You know LBJ said it in the 1960's: If a politician can convince the 'lowest' white person that they are better than the 'best' black person, whites will vote for you while you pick their pocket.
He was right...then and now...
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SouthunLady
8 years ago
My hope is that he'll do something so heinous, we'll impeach him. I lived around some of the lower income, socio-economic, illiterate people he's pandered to while I was growing up and those same people still ride around with guns in their gun rack in their trucks, are ignorant and proud of it, and unfortunately, they're still the same way and they've taught their little children to be just like them...mini-me's. It's disgusting.
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sonyaintexas28
8 years ago
My hope is that he'll do something so heinous, we'll impeach him.
After all the bullsh*t I think the democrats won't have the energy to do it. The republicans spent 8 years scorching the earth. I hope the Dems won't continue the non-sense. We've collectively had enough.
I watched Trump with Obama today in the Oval Office. To me, Trump looked small, scared, voice quivering and looked like he wanted to cry. Yes folks....ish got very real for the scorched earth candidate.
The awesome thing is Obama is going to be in town for 2 more years waiting for Sasha to finish school. He stated he would help Trump whenever he needed it. Pretty good even though Trump denounced him as the worst president ever.
Screw Donald Trump. Now that he got the real low down on what he signed up for.....he looks stricken. Good. I swear, I hope the stress puts him in the hospital. Then when he starts working the job, let the public abuse him as much as the MAGA racist flamed Obama. He has it coming.
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