11:36 AMKeyser Söze
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Don't take it personally, because at least you are entertaining. The
reality is, this isn't much of a discussion group about anything, and it
is overpopulated with snarling deplorables who are too old for sex so
they get their jollies trying to pick fights and insult other posters.

The Trump Administration is going to be an unmitigated disaster for this
country, and it is going to hit the male Trump voters the hardest.

Garrison Keillor had an interesting essay on the future. Here's an
except, with which I agree almost entirely:

"Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country
will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white
males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like
what happens next.

To all the patronizing B.S. we’ve read about Trump expressing the white
working-class’s displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say,
“Feh!� — go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for
bald-faced stupidity. America is still the land where the waitress’s
kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians,
but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband encourage good habits
and the ambition to use your God-given talents and the kids aren’t
plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping it up for the candidate
of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing for your kids.

We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is
in Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four
years raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen,
traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the
Republicans build the wall and carry on the trade war with China and
deport the undocumented and deal with opioids, and we Democrats can go
for a long , brisk walk and smell the roses.

Don’t be cruel. Elvis said it, and it’s true. We all experienced cruelty
back in our playground days — boys who beat up on the timid, girls who
made fun of the homely and naive — and most of us, to our shame, went
along with it, afraid to defend the victims lest we become one of them.
But by your 20s, you should be done with cruelty. Mr. Trump was the
cruelest candidate since George Wallace. How he won on fear and bile is
for political pathologists to study. The country is already tired of his
noise, even his own voters. He is likely to become the most intensely
disliked president since Herbert Hoover. His children will carry the
burden of his name. He will never be happy in his own skin. But the
damage he will do to our country — who knows? His supporters voted for
change, and boy, are they going to get it."

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Yup, the Republicans control the three branches of government. The
disasters that happen over the next few years can rightfully be blamed
on them. I hope I am around to fully enjoy the fruit of Republicanism:
more hate and distrust, no real job training, more wealth going to the
already wealthy, harder times for the middle and lower income folks,
racism, more polluted air and water, the much higher health care costs,
the reversal of rights, the imposition of more police state tactics,
lowering of wages, bigger deficits, rising unemployment, expanded
shooting wars, cuts in education, food inspection, drug testing, and so
forth and so on.

I don't have to worry about what the Republicans do to **** this
country...so I'll go for long walks and smell the roses.
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How humble... All this coming from the greatest rec boats agitator.

Ok, so Garrison's a sore loser too.

Oh well