So much celebrations of Trump losing
I usually consider myself a - mostly - down-to-earth individual, but I too feel like rejoicing right now.
Back in the autumn of 2016, I was planning to go to my first vacation to New York - and my first trip to the US. I had bought two history books about NYC and was beginning to plan how to visit all those historical and cultural landmarks in the city (and of course Lombardi's - Jon Stewarts favourite pizza joint).
And I honestly believed that the commonly held principles of Western civilization were so entrenched, that the lessons from demagogues of the past had been so thoroughly learned, and that the ideals of the US itself were so embraced by its citizens... that a man like Donald John Trump would never become president of the United States of America.
All my naive illusions were shattered on 8 November 2016, when Trump was elected president. I packed those books away, cancelled all those vacation plans, and basically rage quit WrongPlanet for an entire year.
... now, where *did* I put those books?
Back in the autumn of 2016, I was planning to go to my first vacation to New York - and my first trip to the US. I had bought two history books about NYC and was beginning to plan how to visit all those historical and cultural landmarks in the city (and of course Lombardi's - Jon Stewarts favourite pizza joint).
And I honestly believed that the commonly held principles of Western civilization were so entrenched, that the lessons from demagogues of the past had been so thoroughly learned, and that the ideals of the US itself were so embraced by its citizens... that a man like Donald John Trump would never become president of the United States of America.
All my naive illusions were shattered on 8 November 2016, when Trump was elected president. I packed those books away, cancelled all those vacation plans, and basically rage quit WrongPlanet for an entire year.
... now, where *did* I put those books?
I also canceled my travel plans: to go to Mexico. It felt too dangerous to be out of the country at that time. I don't think my stomach has relaxed since 11/8/16. I feel so much lighter.
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I feel weirdly happy about it considering it's in America & I don't even agree with Biden much.
It's mostly the hope of a domino effect tbh.
America is more powerful than here so will be able to play hardball and get our politicians to do things like soft border in Ireland etc.
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He/him
Sure, he lost a close race ... however ...
-Republicans look to capture 8-15 Democrat House seats
-Republicans likely to keep the Senate
-More people voted Republican than in any prior president election
-Socialist is a dirty word again.
a. Some Democrats say being labeled as a Socialist lost them or nearly lost their seats.
b. AOC says she may quit because "progressives" are being blamed
https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-say ... es-2020-11
-Democrats continue to lose support from black men
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/bla ... w-n1246447
-Trump gained Hispanic vote in Texas, Florida
You are to be applauded for looking on the bright side, but the orange one still lost by over four million votes.
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From The New Yorker: Donald Trump, Con Artist? (March 2016 )
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"45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 46 This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands."
1 Samuel 17:45-47 King James Version"
It's Worth Noting That Not Everyone
Is Celebrating the Defeat of Donald
Trump; True, too Conservative
to Get Out in the Street
And Protest; And
As Indicated in
Another
Post Passive
Aggressive Enough
As Priests Who Offer Prayers
And Hope For Those New Coming
in Office by Going Over All the Days
the Church Prayed For Donald J 'Devil'
to Be Elected So Far Away from Matthew
Chapter 5, Verses 3 through 11; Yes as
Far as Any Christian Book Devil Will Sink to
the lowest
Pits
of
Trumpster
in Gehenna
but so ironically
Again Suggesting
Through Fortuitous
Christian Catholic Verse
That those Who Voted For
the Trumpster In Gehenna
Are the Real Fools; But You
See According to the Verse
Above there are some
more Solitary
Listening
to Folks
on Isolated
Darkest Web
YouTube Religious
Channels Proclaiming
Donald J As Their Religious
Assigned Prophet Where Normally
Elderly Nice Folks Who are too Naive
in Humanly Emotional Intelligence to
See When they Are Being Conned By the
Same Devil
in a
Dark
Red Tied
Suit Now Supreme;
Not Unlike Steve Bannon,
They Are Just Waiting in
The Red to Orange
Wings of
the Old
Testament
God Same Dam Devil...
With Verses As Bloody
And Evil As 'That God' Still Tales
And Inspires Folks to be now too...
Religion
is
Definitely
Scary We
Need a Book
More About Love
Thank God For Rock
And Roll, Soul Music
And Jazz That Evolves A Human Soul
Away from Ignorance, Fear, And Hate
Lest We All We aRe the Clothes of an Old
Testament God OF DEATH
OF DEATH
OF DEATH
WORSHIPPED
MOST AS LIFE
IN FEAR AND HATE
AS IGNORANCE KILLS FOR REAL
YAY! SCIENCE SAVES LIVES;
And Yes
Some
Poetry
Still inspires
More than
Fear and
Hate Dwelling
in the Ignorance of 'Cold'... hell...
i'm Pretty Sure That the Verse Numbers
45 for the David Savior And the One
Wished Without A Head for 46
was no Coincidence
or at
Least
Synchronicity
For the Words This
Trump Supporter for
His Real Messiah claimed today...
But Again, Before Trump, He was one
of the Most Rational, Nicest Predictable,
Persons i ever met...
Yes A Mathematician
But that's Not the
Part of a Brain
Now that
Breathes
A Spirit
A Heart of
Soul More
than Just
Letters
and
Words
With No Real Breath...
The Same Thing Happened
with My Mother Drown
in all the Conspiracy
Theories that
Color
Those
Lives
No Longer
Purpose Driven for Day to Day Survival...
As they say 'the Devils Workshop' Ripe for
Trump Fox News for all that EnTails of
Devil's Breath of Ignorance of Fear And Hate Still...
There is Rationality Of Mind; And Rationality of Spirit, Heart, Soul
The Two And More Intelligences Are Surely Not Necessarily Good
Bed FellowS in Same Human Nows...
It is Pretty Clear We aRe Not Necessarily So Far Away from More
Home Grown 'Suicide
Bombers Here'...
Truly in this
Way A Uniter
More than a Divider
Like Biden is A Real 'God Send' of Love With a Lesser God of Death...
Anyway; Seeing this, this Morning From 'the Really Nice Guy'
Ponders my Wonder
What the
'Quiet ones'
Are Doing Today...
We Honestly Had People
Yelling in the Streets in
Anger Not Far From Our
Neighborhood in Trump
Town USA; Ain't Worried
About them Folks; They Got Out it
Out of their System; they will have a Nicer Day Now...
The Shock, The Denying Reality, The Anger, Today
A Tear in A Beer
And Life
Will Go on
For those Who
Do the Whole Grief
Routine and Don't Get Stuck in Anger
Festering to Life Long Hate
And Potential
Premature
Death
And
Other
Destructions...
i NeeD A Tear in A Beer
THeME Song For This; That is A bit
Out of my Genres; Gonna Have to Do Some Research...
It's Like What i told
Myself After
the Last
Election'
Get Over
It QUICK;
ENJOY YOUR
FREEDOM WHILE IT LASTS FOR REAL NOW...
i utilized A Full Range of Emotions of
Course in Poetic Muse for 4 YearS in Dark hehe
Helping a Bit More with all the Light Muse Generating
5 or so More MiLLioN Words Here and THere...
iN Freest
Verse Yes
FLoWinG
EPiC
Long
Form
Poetry
Just
For
Fun
With
MUCHO
Public
Dance;
8,000 Or
So Miles
In 4
Years
Adding
to the
total
Miles
More
Just
For
Freedom
And Fun; Don't
Need Many TearS iN
A Beer Songs.. hehe..
Not
FoR Me
At Least...
A Greatest
Avenue to Regulate
Emotions and Integrate
Senses NoW is Free FLoWinG
Art Wings of Soul iN Flight
SPiRiT Wind HeART oF SoUL
Oh Lord this is getting Long
i'll Save the Rest oF iT FoR A 'Depth of The Story'... Soul... Deeper...
Hehe; There is Always More Than one Path of Dance And Song to take; hAha...
Thanks
to The
Freedom
For Those
Who Still Do
Take Full Advantage
Making the Lives Sacrificed
For This Freedom Worth All the
Blood And Bones We Dance And Sing Upon
The Avenues
Bringing
This
Freedom
For Joy And TearS Even
Freer For all TO JUST DO FREE...
MOST ALL RELIGION
As practiced today at least
SU8KS
IN THIS
COUNTRY And Others too...
FREEDOM Dances And Sings FREE
IN WAYS OF LOVE THAT ALLOW SU8KS
TO DancE SiNG Too
Just More
FlesH NoW
And Blood
To Pay For Free...
i SWear though; those
Verses 45-46 Up THere from
That Old Bible Is Now For Real
Still NeW Age Stone Cold Evil Dead...
Yet, Still The Bones; The Cold, Older, Deader
Soul Old Bible Bones Exist For Freedom's Breath...
For THere
is More
than
one
Way
to Do 'Super Freak'...
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It's mostly the hope of a domino effect tbh.
America is more powerful than here so will be able to play hardball and get our politicians to do things like soft border in Ireland etc.
I never cared about Biden that much, I only voted him to get the orange guy out of office. I am pretty sure lot of people did.
My online friend asked me about dementia so I told him "if that happens, we have the vice president that will take over."
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Daughter: NT, no diagnoses.
The Democrats are splintering.
The moderates want their party back from the Socialists.
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The Democrats are splintering.
The moderates want their party back from the Socialists.
Wait? how are they splintering when they haven't even consolidated power yet? wishful thinking
The Democrats are splintering.
The moderates want their party back from the Socialists.
Wait? how are they splintering when they haven't even consolidated power yet? wishful thinking
AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses
https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-say ... es-2020-11
Memo to centrist Democrats: Stop blaming progressives for House losses
https://www.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinio ... swMW3r_cTD
Biden faces power struggle between Democratic progressives and moderates
https://www.ft.com/content/e922ddea-666 ... dbfd0fc009
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The Democrats are splintering.
The moderates want their party back from the Socialists.
Wait? how are they splintering when they haven't even consolidated power yet? wishful thinking
AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses
https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-say ... es-2020-11
Sounds like she means right after she was first elected, not recently. Candidates aligned with her views keep outperforming centrists, so she's probably not still that discouraged.
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Sounds like she means right after she was first elected, not recently. Candidates aligned with her views keep outperforming centrists, so she's probably not still that discouraged.
She is being blamed for espousing Socialist views that supposedly helped Trump win back House seats.
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Sounds like she means right after she was first elected, not recently. Candidates aligned with her views keep outperforming centrists, so she's probably not still that discouraged.
She is being blamed for espousing Socialist views that supposedly helped Trump win back House seats.
If she's smart she'll work out a deal rather than cause a schism.
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