Gleichschaltung?

[Dill]

(01-28-2017, 12:39 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: You pick your poison with the greater good in mind.

I get that people weren't crazy about either candidate most people weren't but if you thought Trump was a severe threat to our country there was only one person you could vote for realistically to block him. People had different reasons for voting 3rd party but at the end of the day the results were Trump is president and we have to live with whatever damage he will do. No going back no re-dos it will be a stain on our country forever.

The real fight wasn't just Trump vs Hillary it was Unqualified vs Qualified, Blatant Ignorance vs Intelligence, Disrespect vs Respect, Facts vs Conspiracy and the list goes on because Trump was the least qualified person ever to win the highest office in the land. There was too much at stake to be playing the same old games like all the other election cycles. Just looking at the candidates was only a portion of the battle this time around.

If it was Hillary vs any of the other Republicans I wouldn't feel this way because I think most of them were qualified except maybe Carson and Fiorina. I didn't think those 2 were completely reckless though like Trump.

It's all these points that baffle me. Did people NOT understand that Trump's election was an end to civility, the dignity of the office of president, and prudence risking the nation's blood and treasure?

If you work for Big Oil or Big Pharma or Coal, sure, you can see some positives in the short run--but in the long run, even two years out?

Voting Trump in meant a conspiracy theorist with a 6th grader's vocabulary, conception of masculinity, ethnic stereotypes, and grasp of world history would be in charge of the world's largest military and economy--a guy who got his "intelligence" from Alex Jones Infowars--and nothing really bad would come from that?

They never suspected that as soon as in office he would traverse the Executive replacing competent people with his creatures and gagging any resistance? His people will be in charge of NPR and Radio America. He wants to defund "politicized science" like climate change research, does not want the government disseminating that research anymore. Right wing bloggers will have the floor as much or more as legitimate news organizations at the White House Press conferences now.

A 70-year old who publicly made fun of another person's handicap and tweeted out comparisons of his wife and Cruz's would teach U.S. students what about standards of public behavior?

Its like the Steelers got rid of Tomlin and hired Vontaze Burfict because fans were tired of professional football coaches and wanted "change," someone to "shake things up in Pittsburgh" and make the Steelers great again. And fans believed Burfict when he said he was good at talking smack on the football field, so he should be really good at managing and intimidating other NFL owners and players agents. And even when his first 6 draft picks were all linebackers with character issues and he fired Todd Haley and Mike Munchak and replaced them with two cousins, and then decided he was going to live in Cincinnati and commute to Pittsburgh, they still said "Haters gonna hate. Give the guy a chance. Let's see how he does over the next four seasons before we rush to judgment. He can't be any worse than Cowher or as divisive as Tomlin."