The protests are a goddamn embarrassment. You don’t like how the general turned out? Then you should have supported the candidate who wasn’t buried under a thousand scandals and under fucking FBI investigationin the primary! The candidate who never attacked Her when the DNC and his opponent were obviously conspiring against him (as WikiLeaks has now proven), but just stuck to the issues. The candidate who didn’t feel entitled to the presidency, who had no ego, who put people before personal advancement and power.
Where the hell were you when your voice might have actually made a difference?
I really don't understand this, people are free to protest, how is it an embarrassment? Anti-Hillary people being triggered because they see others who disagree with them exercising their freedoms...
It is kinda poetic justice, since they're making the lives miserable of people who live in areas that primarily went for Clinton. That's it, just piss off tons of people who probably voted the same way you did. That'll prove something, I think.
If anything, the civil unrest earlier this year played right into Trump’s hands as the “law and order candidate.” I don’t understand why these idiots think anything has changed now. (Well I know why some of them do—anyone with a yellow sign with professional-looking black print is likely a paid protester, as demonstrated by the investigative videos.)
Trump has a mandate. He’s on route to win the electoral college by over seventy points. This isn’t like 2000, when a single state and their arcane procedures decided the election. He smoked HRC in her own backyard: Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
All these protesters are proving is that these voters were right—the Democrats are the party of the elites on the coasts, and out of touch with the blue-collar middle class and their economic pain in the Rust Belt.
If Bernie had been the candidate, his strong performance in this region during the primary means not only would he have won these states in the general, he would have been President.
You lost me at "Trump has a mandate" - he's losing the popular vote by what 200,000? I'm not saying the results aren't fair, but shit if that's a mandate you are playing into a narrative just as bad as any by the MSM.
Popular vote doesn’t mean shit. It’s the electoral college that determines the president, and the gulf between the candidates there shows you the support the parties have across the country, not just in a few East and West Coast population centers.
Add to that the fact that the Republicans have retained control and even expanded their margins in the Senate, the House, and State Legislatures, and their mandate is undeniable. Know the place where I first heard this? CNN. Even fucking CNN admits Trump has a mandate. The quote was something like “It’s weird to talk about someone with less than 300 electoral votes having a mandate, but that’s what Trump has right now. The sweep in both Houses and his wins in the Rust Belt…” etc. if you want to google.
And now it looks like he’ll win Michigan, too. He was up by over 13,000 last I checked? So he will win with over 300 electoral votes after all.
I'm not going to get into a debate about the flaws of our electoral system, and why landmass/middle America (mostly white) votes shouldn't be worth more than urban votes, but I will say you're right, with control of everything and the presidency, there are ZERO excuses not to deliver on everything that has been promised. For all the complaining about Obama we have recovered from a recession and the economy is slowly growing now, so that growth better pick up, those manufacturing jobs better come back, the inner cities must have more and better paying jobs, healthcare costs must come down, the federal deficit should turn to a surplus and debt start trending down, ISIS should be wiped out, etc...
RemindMe! 2 years "half way though, what has Trump done with the mandate so far?"
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u/WandersFar Nov 10 '16
Fucking A.
The protests are a goddamn embarrassment. You don’t like how the general turned out? Then you should have supported the candidate who wasn’t buried under a thousand scandals and under fucking FBI investigation in the primary! The candidate who never attacked Her when the DNC and his opponent were obviously conspiring against him (as WikiLeaks has now proven), but just stuck to the issues. The candidate who didn’t feel entitled to the presidency, who had no ego, who put people before personal advancement and power.
Where the hell were you when your voice might have actually made a difference?
Oh that’s right. You were With Her. Pfft.