Maybe we should just elect Trump president

As if it couldn't get worse for Jules…..

The only group that Trump did better than Romney in that wasn't non-college educated whites (41%), was in counties where the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, heavy drinking and lack of regular physical activity (43%).  They do overlap a lot, but even controlling for race, education, age, sex, income, marital status, immigration and employment, Trump improved greatly among the obese over Romney.

ECONOMIST:  if diabetes were just 7% less prevalent in Michigan, Mr Trump would have gained 0.3 fewer percentage points there, enough to swing the state back to the Democrats. 

It can get worse.. Sen. Sessions for Atty General… this is a bad guy… Pompeo for CIA..Flynn for Nat Sec Advisor… these are all unsurprising appointments but still bad and sad…

this is among the scariest things i have ever seen… give it at least 2 minutes:

Trump Rally Footage Set to Pink Floyd "In the Flesh"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGgd3Tew_WY

well done.  now i'm going to have nightmares.

somewhat similar (but i can't imagine anyone sitting through it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5qpfNfv8Qw

^gee man doesn't sound like something I want to watch…

Watched, the in the flesh one . . . God, it was beautiful!  The power of Trump, can really hypnotize you.  I, can see that now.

Anybody have relatives who voted for Trump and if so how are you handling it?

This summer I was at the in-laws and there was a new story about Trump kid killing animals for fun and my father in law shouted at the TV "So, Hillary wants to kill babies."

Sure enough, he voted Trump. "I don't really like Trump, but I had to vote against Hillary." My mother in law voted Trump "because I like his economic package better." (My in-laws are economically comfortable, they're not coal miners for Christ sake.

I'm thinking no visits to them until Trump is out of office.

He just or Trump Organization (whatever that means) agreed to pay out $25 million to settle Trump U fraud lawsuit


Its hard to root for the guy or not get depressed…


Everyone in my family voted Hillary although part of me wonders if my dad didn't but says he does.. he seemed awfully cheery on the phone last week….."oh well! what matters is you're doing well!"

Listen, Trump, embarassing or not, is our President and that is just the way it is.. lets hope he gets his shit together, gets lucky, and stays out of the way….and has the sense to resist all the pressure he will get to get involved in foreign conflicts…

I know shit is bad when I'm feeling relieved that Mitt Romney might actually join the Trump administration.

Like, he's awful but compared to the crime scene currently underway, he's at least not a complete slobbering idiot.

Kanye West didn't vote, but would have gone Trump – and thinks people should stop focusing on racism.

Goodbye, legal pot . . . Hello, Jeff Sessions.

walkie,talkie wrote:
Goodbye, legal pot . . . Hello, Jeff Sessions.

of all the things Sessions will do this is the least of my concerns….not to mention I think it is largely a state issue….


I hate Sessions but he bet big and early on Trump so this is not a surprise….I think he was the first Republican sitting politician to endorse Trump

NAZI rally in DC SAturday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protests-expected-as-white-nationalists-meet-in-dc-saturday-and-celebrate-trump-win/2016/11/18/2b495d02-adaa-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html

wow….how surreal…….



I say let them celebrate..

On May 3, 2013, the Palmetto Playground in Brooklyn, New York was renamed to Adam Yauch Park in memory of the Beastie Boy, who died in 2012. Today, the park was defaced with swastikas and graffiti that read ?Go Trump,? Billboard reports. Find an image below. Yauch, like the rest of his bandmates, was Jewish. There has been a spike in hate crimes and racially-charged attacks around the country since Donald Trump was elected president.

How sad….

Now that is not celebrating.. that is breaking the law…

I guess at least Yauch is glad not to be around for "President" Trump…

miss him.

The people who are boycotting Hamilton would never actually see it so I don't really get the purpose of the boycott.

It really takes the word chutzpah to a whole new level.. Trump, the guy who did not apologize once despite insulting John McCain's service, the disabled, women, Latinos, muslims, people with small hands, a goldstar mom, a Miss Universe for her looks, you name it….now demands an apology because the cast of a NYC musical said there was no reason to boo his VP but they hoped the VP would uphold core American values as embodied in the play he was attending?


I read someone said that this was an attempt to distract from the Trump U settlement but I'm skeptical because nobody cares about any of the issues surrounding Trump and since he is the new president it is the "job" of the establishment and the media to give him the legitimacy he so poorly earned…


I'm supporting him and hoping for millions of great jobs, end of ISIS wthout war, huge infrastructure plan to rebuild our nation, way lower taxes, economic boom, end to inner city problems, you name it.. but based on some of the post election shenannigans he is pulling and the people he is surrounding himself, so far, on national security I have to say I am rather skeptical…

I read an interesting article on why the dollar has strengthened and the thinking about reflation as part of a Trump admin.. I have to admit I was not familiar with the term reflation….I do hope we do not have inflation - which the article I read said is completely different- but I have always worried that a scam artist like Trump would try to get out of honoring our debts at face value…

Shemp wrote:
The people who are boycotting Hamilton would never actually see it so I don't really get the purpose of the boycott.

This.

That's, because they can't get, tickets