i'm amused to read how wrong I was about nearly everything concerning this election. I said Trump would not get the republican nomination and I was wrong. I said he would not get elected and I was wrong. I said the electoral vote would be lopsided for Hillary and I was dead wrong. In fact, I thought the popular vote would be very close and I was wrong about that too. Hillary has received 2 million more votes than Trump but lost every swing state. Geesh, she only needed a couple and she lost every single one.
The Trumpettes have demonstrated what a queer lot they are by openly gloating and yet become infuriated if you don't agree with them that Trump deserves the presidency. They are the sorest winners I've ever encountered. You would have thought they lost. I think they are mad that he won on electoral votes and falls further and further behind as more popular votes are counted. Though they gloat, you can see that it irks them and that they almost wish Trump had won the popular vote even if he lost the presidency.
But already the carriage is turning back into a pumpkin. Trump is backing off a lot of promises and pissing some people off.
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He's not going after Clinton as he promised but 62% of his voters expected him to. Even though he acts like it's his decision, he has no authority. the Justice Dept has to make the call and he cannot in any way coerce them. They won't do it because there is nothing to prosecute. But a lot of his supporters are very angry now and calling him just another insider. Well, people, Trump and the Clintons are old FRIENDS! They've known one another a long time! No, he's not going to prosecute. He said that to get your vote.
Rush Limbaugh said he never really thought Trump would go after Clinton but he's still satisfied. Others have said that about the wall--they don't really expect him to build it just beef up the border a bit more. Well, people, why would you vote for someone you KNOW isn't going to keep the promises he is making to you??? Isn't that why you turned against the establishment politicians?? What's that? You just wanted to send a message to Washington? What message was that--that from now on we want crass, bullying, racist, misogynistic blowhards that can't get on message and don't keep their outlandish promises?? Boy, you certainly showed them!!
Then we have Mr Outsider tapping the biggest insiders in the GOP to fill posts. People who were critical of him all through the election are now thrilled to take posts in his administration. Doesn't that set off alarm bells? Of course, in two years, they'll be resigning en masse and claiming they were always against him as a president. Yes, I am saying that I don't think Trump will finish two years before he resigns or is impeached and forced out and those who wisely distanced themselves from him and then very unwisely got in bed with him will be forced to distance themselves from him again and try to make it look like they never supported him. That worked really well for Hillary in voting to authorize war with Iraq.
By then, most of his supporters will not shed a tear because they will have long since decided him to be the Great Betrayer. He's also showing a resistance to scuttling the ACA. I am predicting he will keep it because there's nothing to replace it with. In his list of things-to-do in his first 100 days, he mentioned nothing about the ACA or the wall.
The wall, of course, will not get built. He's already saying parts of it will be a fence. Of course, that's code for MOST of it will be a fence. The wall is not only hugely expensive but it will need openings for Indian tribes and migrating animals and this already compromises it. Much of the area where the wall will sit actually shifts significantly and won't hold much weight making a wall all but impossible. Maintenance would be astronomically high. The $26 billion price tag is, IMO, far too low (even though that's already way more than congress will spend). The final price will be over $100 billion and probably $200 billion. And that's not counting patrolling and maintaining the wall. No, he'll slap up a few hundred more miles of fencing and call it a day and it won't do a damned thing to stop illegals (who's numbers are declining anyway). Besides, his first 100 days list also said nothing about the wall.
He's also shifting on climate change. Before it was a hoax perpetrated by China but now there might be some "connectivity" between the climate and human interaction. That won't go over big for the Fox News crowd for whom climate change is something only damn sissy faggot libtards believe in.
He does seem intent on scuttling TPP but that leaves China in charge of forging a new alliance with former-TPP nations and will shut the US out entirely. I don't get a good feeling about that at all. Not at all.
He has also shifted on torture. Trump couldn't talk big enough about how these towelhead bastards need to be tortured until they're squirming on the floor in a puddle of their own blood but now torture is out. We're not going to do it.
I have a feeling that by the time he leaves office, whenever that might be, everyone will be happy to see him go.