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Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/22/2016 10:48:54 PM

Marini

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I am not starting this thread to add to the partisan squabbles easily found on 99% of the other threads on here.

But, we all know its going to happen.

It is evident everywhere that the next 4 years in the United States are going to be politically turbulent and excruciating.

This country and the world is at a precipice.
We are going to have to find some ways to work out differences, and find many middle of the road solutions, or continue to become even more fractured.

Adversity often makes people/and situations stronger, the citizenry will either become stronger, build some bridges, and learn to work together for the good of ALL the citizens, or we will all suffer the consequences.

At some point, many of us, WILL have to realize, it is not always MY WAY, THEIR WAY or THE HIGHWAY--it often has to be OUR WAY.
Or again, we all will suffer the consequences.

United we will learn to stand, or divided we may fall.

In the end, I have to believe that MOST people despite having extreme differences of opinions, outlooks, and political beliefs want what is best for our country, our families, our children's futures, future generations, and this planet that we call Earth.
Right now, this is the only livable planet that we have to live on.

Hang on to your hat's the next 4 years are going to be the bumpiest, most turbulent political ride many of us have ever experienced, in our lifetime.
I hope for the sake of this country and this world/this planet that we can actually create bridges, instead of relentless discord.

Please save the partisan bitching and bickering for every other thread on here.
I would love to see some messages of hope if possible.

Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Happy Kwanzaa/Happy Boxing Day/Happy Holidays
Peace and Blessings to all

< Message edited by Marini -- 12/22/2016 11:02:31 PM >

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 12:11:03 AM

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Too late. The US is already in the beginning stages of destruction through faction. Exactly what our founding fathers knew destroyed Greece and Rome yet failed to codify any prevention or what was...has been ignored even constitutionally.

The partisan prejudice is alive and well and will just get worse.

'We are going to have to find some ways to work out differences, and find many middle of the road solutions, or continue to become even more fractured.

Adversity often makes people/and situations stronger, the citizenry will either become stronger, build some bridges, and learn to work together for the good of ALL the citizens, or we will all suffer the consequences.

At some point, many of us, WILL have to realize, it is not always MY WAY, THEIR WAY or THE HIGHWAY--it often has to be OUR WAY.
Or again, we all will suffer the consequences.'

Will not happen. In fact I watch what's called the 'Washington Journal' on C-Span most every morning and it has become a comedy because of the unadulterated ignorance demonstrated by the callers.

Plus, none of the above was ever shown during the 8 of Obama years. The partisan bickering started day 1 and continued unabated.

Yes, it will be a tortured admin. for the country under Trump and the repubs and if 2008-16 were even a slight example and if Trump is and repubs are ere-elected. that will prove me correct.

The country will survive with the poor even poorer, the rich richer and the country on all levels...further in debt. Billion$ more will be thrown at the MIC, corp. welfare while most everything else will be cut. We will continue to have blandishments for the rich and austerity for the poor.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 12:46:20 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Marini

It is evident everywhere that the next 4 years in the United States are going to be politically turbulent and excruciating....

I would love to see some messages of hope if possible.

Well for starters, we can hope that you're wrong.

It's not carved in stone, after all.

K.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 1:56:22 AM

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The UK will break up soon..or rather Scotland will annex englpish pigdawgland for the record I do not mind the English and have indeed humped a few of their finer specimens

California will then break away, or possible fall into the pacific :(, the air will be filled with the noxious fumes of fire/brimstone, a’burning…good stuff this eh! Readers. :)…ooo, and thy heavens will hark with a tumultuous roar, split open, and it will rain down peckish, and some what irate, piranhas, and my how they shall feast….

Ah! The maniac they call Trump; a partially lobotomised half wit monstrous creature, with pussy grabbing claws for hands, spat from the bowels of hell itself, as was prophesied in the Book of Revelations he fuking is too, president elect - thanks to those pinko republican-mad hatters tea filled with pure hatred party, answers to Emperor Putin.

His scorched earth policy fascinates me..I absolutely expect the barking mad nutter to launch via twitter.

Ooo bablyon 5 or Flash Gordon?

Flash Gordon Fights Ming's Soldier to the Music of Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxjgo2DK8uQ

Babylon 5 - S3E10 Severed Dreams (was that the best episode ever?) The Council Must Be Broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHViV4HyObc

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 2:03:51 AM

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Well if he dies or gets kicked out, there's at least a good chance people would collectively feel much better about whoever replaces him.
That could bring people together, sort of.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 4:38:51 AM

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

Well if he dies or gets kicked out, there's at least a good chance people would collectively feel much better about whoever replaces him.
That could bring people together, sort of.

Are you fucking stoooooopid or what ? Pence will replace him in the event of his demise or other falling. Trump has not really got down on it but Pence has, as being anti-LGBT and all that. Who did YOU think would replace him ? Hillary ? That is not how the fuck it works. "Whoever replaces him", didn't your grammar school have a civics class ? The vice President, then the speaker of the house, then after that I am not sure and it has never happened. You better keep Trump alive because at least he is not religious. I am not so sure about Pence.

You know, I can understand the aversion to homosexuality many republicans have. Up until a few years ago, well actually like a decade, I considered it a defect, like a drug addiction or the like. But then I was engaged to do some wiring and HVAC work on a Gay guy's house. He was a city councilman at one point, and also Colin Powell's personal chef. We built him a $30,000 kitchen, I wanted to put cameras in it so he could do TV shows or whatever but he didn't want that.

But there were days when we got our beers and were done working, and he got off of work and we bullshitted. We also talked some business and in fact I came up with a kickass idea he wanted to do and that went great. But later we really were almost done and out on the back enclosed porch we started to bullshit, and the subject came to homosexuality.

Boiling it all down, he said that nobody would choose this. You have problems in school, get forced out of the military, certain companies won't hire you. Nobody would choose this, but when I look at a Woman I do not get turned on. I look at a hot guy I do. What do you want me to do ?

At that point I had nothing to say. What could I say ? Now Trump said at some rally that he would end Gay marriage. Obama said he was going to close Gitmo. I am all for Gay marriage, you can help make the divorce lawyers rich with the rest of us. Put in your fair share fuckers.

Insurance companies caused all this anyway. (and they let them write the ACA, what a trip) When you got healthcare in the past, whether from your employer or not, you are allowed a spouse and children. Well what the fuck is the difference if you instead put your Mother or brother on it
? Seriously, and you are alot less likely to get them pregnant.

Beam me up Scotty, I fucking mean it.

T^T

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 6:21:34 AM

heavyblinker

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

quote:

ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

Well if he dies or gets kicked out, there's at least a good chance people would collectively feel much better about whoever replaces him.
That could bring people together, sort of.

Are you fucking stoooooopid or what ? Pence will replace him in the event of his demise or other falling.

I'm pretty sure that it would depend on who the VP is when he dies you hopelessly stupid fucking moron... I was leaving open the possibility that something could happen that would change things.

And why do you need to attach more idiocy about Hillary and/or a rant about what you feel like ranting about to everything? Do you seriously think I or anyone else is aching to read more walls of your stupid bullshit?

Pence isn't a great person but he's not the incompetent fuckwad that Trump is. Avoiding the global catastrophe that Trump is likely to initiate (which seems to include the prospect of nuclear war) is more important than gay rights... I'm sure that most gay people would agree. They probably won't feel much like having sex or being in a loving same-sex partnership if they're dying of radiation sickness.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 6:40:15 AM

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

Avoiding the global catastrophe that Trump is likely to initiate

Do you think there's a real danger that Trump could end the Mideast peace that Obama has blessed everyone in the entire world with. That he could sour our relations with Russia and China, which are so wonderful right now. Perhaps anger Dutarte or something

Everyone in the entire world loves us so much right now, oh you make Trump sound so scary

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 6:53:05 AM

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Well Trump makes Trump sound crazy and the US (and more than a few 1000 US troops that didn't go...are still alive) are obviously much better off not having so reflexively right-wing...jumped into that chaos with 'some other guy's boots on the ground.

Not to mention the fact that the ME is still the military profit center it is meant to be.

Our relations with Russia was as a determined nuclear power bent on taking over all of Europe and Asia...we were told ever 15 min. for 40 years. Just what is that supposed to be now ? GWB certainly didn't change anything. Looked into Putin eyes and saw $$$.

Just what was Obama supposed to do...start a war over the Ukraine ? You ready to go ?

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 7:19:20 AM

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My year is complete.

Now the US is going to build more "nukes".

It's all been worth it after all - the hatred, the division, the final triumph of propaganda over news, the complete removal of checks and balances in the once revered American political system on the basis of the narrowest popular victory.

I was worried for a moment there but I truly believe that the power of Christmas and the spirit of cooperation that the US has shown the world over the last four years in its domestic politics might just win the day. From chaos, the serenity and grace of the American people, helped by the goodwill of the festive period, will shine through and something wonderful will happen.

I can't help but feel more optimistic now that I know that it's not just Tweets and empty rhetoric - it's nuclear warheads too!

No chance of an itchy Twitter finger becoming an itchy trigger finger, is there?

All the best for Christmas and the New Year. Who knows what fucking lunacy it will bring?

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 7:28:35 AM

BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: longwayhome

My year is complete.

Now the US is going to build more "nukes".

It's all been worth it after all - the hatred, the division, the final triumph of propaganda over news, the complete removal of checks and balances in the once revered American political system on the basis of the narrowest popular victory.

I was worried for a moment there but I truly believe that the power of Christmas and the spirit of cooperation that the US has shown the world over the last four years in its domestic politics might just win the day. From chaos, the serenity and grace of the American people, helped by the goodwill of the festive period, will shine through and something wonderful will happen.

I can't help but feel more optimistic now that I know that it's not just Tweets and empty rhetoric - it's nuclear warheads too!

No chance of an itchy Twitter finger becoming an itchy trigger finger, is there?

All the best for Christmas and the New Year. Who knows what fucking lunacy it will bring?

Half of us feel the same about Obama. Nukes have kept us safe since WW II and Obama was determined to weaken our deterrent and he vacationed and he golfed and he guffawed with his new rich friends while the world caught fire and burned in many different ways

There's someone coming who has a mind for taking care of business, business which has been badly neglected or even undermined and sabotaged

Go cower in your safe space if you really think things are going well right now, things were going to be a bumpy ride no matter what. Russia promised war if Hillary won, and peace if Trump won.

All the alt left prophets are preaching the most dire future

I'm not so religious as they, myself

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 8:42:07 AM

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
Half of us feel the same about Obama. Nukes have kept us safe since WW II and Obama was determined to weaken our deterrent and he vacationed and he golfed and he guffawed with his new rich friends while the world caught fire and burned in many different ways

Living in a world where you're always a matter of minutes away from global nuclear holocaust isn't 'safe'... just because it didn't happen doesn't mean it couldn't have happened... and this was when the people in charge of the final decision weren't ADHD 12 year olds who can't even control themselves online.

I was wary enough when Trump was just capable of launching a nuclear attack-- the idea that he's actually ESCALATING a nuclear showdown for no apparent reason is much much worse. He's going to let Japan and South Korea become nuclear powers? South Korea whose government just fell apart because it was being controlled by a fucking cult??

So Russia makes an announcement about building their nuclear arsenal on the same day Trump does?? So is this some sort of mutual agreement to manipulate people, or did something happen? Did Putin insult Trump's hair? Sleep with one of his ex-wives? Even if this trillion dollar nuclear escalation thing starts off friendly, there is no telling where it could go if those two have a falling out-- look at what happened between the Bush family and al Qaeda.

I get that you're partisan as hell and wow, congrats, your side won and that means you're a superstar... but you need to actually think about what you're saying. I really don't think you are.

There is a difference between being in conflict with Russia and China and re-igniting the threat of full-scale nuclear war. They aren't practical weapons.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 8:47:00 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: BoscoX

quote:

ORIGINAL: longwayhome

My year is complete.

Now the US is going to build more "nukes".

It's all been worth it after all - the hatred, the division, the final triumph of propaganda over news, the complete removal of checks and balances in the once revered American political system on the basis of the narrowest popular victory.

I was worried for a moment there but I truly believe that the power of Christmas and the spirit of cooperation that the US has shown the world over the last four years in its domestic politics might just win the day. From chaos, the serenity and grace of the American people, helped by the goodwill of the festive period, will shine through and something wonderful will happen.

I can't help but feel more optimistic now that I know that it's not just Tweets and empty rhetoric - it's nuclear warheads too!

No chance of an itchy Twitter finger becoming an itchy trigger finger, is there?

All the best for Christmas and the New Year. Who knows what fucking lunacy it will bring?

Half of us feel the same about Obama. Nukes have kept us safe since WW II and Obama was determined to weaken our deterrent and he vacationed and he golfed and he guffawed with his new rich friends while the world caught fire and burned in many different ways

There's someone coming who has a mind for taking care of business, business which has been badly neglected or even undermined and sabotaged

Go cower in your safe space if you really think things are going well right now, things were going to be a bumpy ride no matter what. Russia promised war if Hillary won, and peace if Trump won.

All the alt left prophets are preaching the most dire future

I'm not so religious as they, myself

In what way have nukes kept us safe, safe from what? Nutsuckers? W? Iraq? Gitmo? Uh, we can blow up the world with our nukes how many times? Do we need more than one?

The nutsuckers have kept the military-industrial complex safe, and now they are going to auger in the citizenry even deeper. There is nothing in the constitution that gives the government authority to make anything easier for corporations to rape the citizenry.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 8:52:24 AM

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But the stupid is strong with the alt-morons.

So is the denial.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 8:55:17 AM

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I keep imagining scenarios where Trump takes too much meth, starts raving about a cabal of Islamic Mexican Feminists on Twitter... and after 5 minutes of incoherent babbling decides the best course of action would be to nuke Iran before it's too late.

At that point, Pence will have a special pink telephone where he can call one of the taxpayer-funded hookers, and as soon as she shows up Trump can grab away and within moments he'll forget what he was so upset about.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 9:39:48 AM

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At some point, the foreign interests and/or conflict of interest, let alone that support is weak, could become so troublesome things can't continue as they are.

Or, he'll talk a lot, tweet a lot, boast a lot, but do nothing, thereby keeping out of trouble, kinda.

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 10:09:50 AM

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

I keep imagining scenarios where Trump takes too much meth, starts raving about a cabal of Islamic Mexican Feminists on Twitter...

are you saying that rm is Trump?

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 10:22:28 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Marini

I am not starting this thread to add to the partisan squabbles easily found on 99% of the other threads on here.

But, we all know its going to happen.

It is evident everywhere that the next 4 years in the United States are going to be politically turbulent and excruciating.

This country and the world is at a precipice.
We are going to have to find some ways to work out differences, and find many middle of the road solutions, or continue to become even more fractured.

Adversity often makes people/and situations stronger, the citizenry will either become stronger, build some bridges, and learn to work together for the good of ALL the citizens, or we will all suffer the consequences.

At some point, many of us, WILL have to realize, it is not always MY WAY, THEIR WAY or THE HIGHWAY--it often has to be OUR WAY.
Or again, we all will suffer the consequences.

United we will learn to stand, or divided we may fall.

In the end, I have to believe that MOST people despite having extreme differences of opinions, outlooks, and political beliefs want what is best for our country, our families, our children's futures, future generations, and this planet that we call Earth.
Right now, this is the only livable planet that we have to live on.

Hang on to your hat's the next 4 years are going to be the bumpiest, most turbulent political ride many of us have ever experienced, in our lifetime.
I hope for the sake of this country and this world/this planet that we can actually create bridges, instead of relentless discord.

Please save the partisan bitching and bickering for every other thread on here.
I would love to see some messages of hope if possible.

Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Happy Kwanzaa/Happy Boxing Day/Happy Holidays
Peace and Blessings to all

Unfortunately virtually every post so far has been proclamations of trying to stop anything Trump wants to do and reviving the slander of Reagan that he wanted to blow up the world and was so stupid that he would start WWIII the first time someone looked cross eyed at him. Fortunately the worst comes from Canadians so they can't do as much damage as Americans could.
Personally I don't think Trump will be that great (I voted more against Hillary than for him) but at least with him we have a chance of a decent president.
We can at least try. I detest Obama (purely based on his policies) but hoped it would work out for the country, never wanted him to die after getting rid of Biden. How about we give him a chance?

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 10:24:24 AM

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I wish to respect the wishes of the OP and keep this non-political. However, even the thread title suggests an opening for the typical right/left debate. Still, I am going to try to add without falling into that chasm:

The truth is: I was never a supporter of the direction I believe we're going to be traveling for the next four years, but for personal reasons, I feel a lot more hope today than I would be feeling had things gone the other way.

Michael

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RE: Surviving the next 4 turbulent and excruciating years - 12/23/2016 10:35:47 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

I wish to respect the wishes of the OP and keep this non-political. However, even the thread title suggests an opening for the typical right/left debate. Still, I am going to try to add without falling into that chasm:

The truth is: I was never a supporter of the direction I believe we're going to be traveling for the next four years, but for personal reasons, I feel a lot more hope today than I would be feeling had things gone the other way.

Michael

Agreed, I have serious concerns about Trump but I think Hillary would have meant the end of the republic, it is time to make lemonade.

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