How did we elect such a weird man?

[Rollo]

His weird handshakes, where he tries to yank the other guy's arm off and pulls them off balance...

His hair. Oh, that hair. The work of an extremely vain man who doesn't have a clue about how fake it looks...

His obesity. The man has gotten truly yuge. Big fat ass. And yet he insists on playing golf without a coat, with photographers around. Doesn't he realize how pathetic his fat ass looks?

His rudeness. Shoving other world leaders out of the way, and then jutting out his chin just like Mussolini. Very weird.

His creepy leering remarks about his own daughter.

His creepy remarks about being a sexual predator on other women, including married women.

The constant exaggerating, lying, conniving.


Now, I can understand a right wing backlash. The pendulum swinging to someone more conservative for the next four or eight years.

But this bag of weirdness? It makes NO sense!

[Skittles]

1. *WE* did not

A BUNCH OF FUCKING IDIOTS DID

[Rollo]

19. "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem"...

[Skittles]

20. ?

are you saying we are not part of the solution? WE are the REISTANCE.

[Rollo]

23. You're not part of the solution if all you do is say, "I didn't vote for Trump"...

[Orrex]

24. That's not all that she said

She also noted--correctly--that a bunch of fucking idiots voted for him.

Fucking idiots. Every single one of them. Is that a broad-brush attack? Yeah? Well, fuck them. Fuck every single one of those stupid fucking idiots. Fuck them and the racist rapist god-king for whom they prostrate themselves in their idiot supplication. Fuck them.

They do not want our outreach or our understanding, and they do not deserve them. We don't need to try to understand them, because we already do understand them. We need to quarantine them for the sake of the health of our nation.


Fuck them.

[mountain grammy]

27. A bit of anger there?

I'm right there with ya!

Heard a "feel good" Memorial Day speech yesterday.. he said we're divided, but at the end of the day, we're all still "friends and share a common good." Well, fuck no we're not, and fuck no we don't.

He needed to say, people, cut it out. No more goon squad attacks. No more cheering violence. No more ignoring the racism and sexism and xenophobia that is dividing us. Call it out, every single day, every single time!

[Orrex]

28. Agree 100%

By "we're all still friends," he means "Progressives should sit down and shut up," and his drooling idiot acolytes want nothing less.


Fuck them.

[Rollo]

32. Well, saying Trump voters are all idiots is a bit of a dead end, isn't it?

How is that going to fix anything?

[Orrex]

33. Denying it will accomplish nothing

And they sure as fuck don't respond to rational argument, either, so fuck them.

Either they are idiots are they are indistinguishable from idiots.

Having proven themselves to be idiots, it is not up to me to redeem them nor to find the infinitesimal spark of non-idiocy buried deep within them.


Fuck them. When they recognize and atone for their idiocy, I will welcome them back into the land of non-idiots.

[JustAnotherGen]

36. Amen Orrex!

I'm another who says 'they'.

I can never unsee their racist bigoted sexist inbred vote.

[FSogol]

37. +1 n/t

[Rollo]

41. Who do you think is "denying it"???

WTF



.

[Orrex]

43. What is your solution?

You claim that calling Trump's voters idiots is a dead end, and you ask how it's going to fix anything.

Please tell us your solution. Tell us how you will bring these idiot racist fuckheads into the light of reason so that they can mend their idiot racist fuckhead ways and recognize that the worship an idiotic orange idol.


Calling them idiot racist fuckheads is not an attempt to fix anything; it's recognizing that they are a deliberately and stubbornly lost cause. I can waste breath and effort trying to convince them that they voted for an idiot fuckhead who would personally shit on each and every one of them if it made him a dime, or I can recognize that they are impervious to reason and move on.

[Rollo]

45. Good luck with that approach.

[Orrex]

46. What is your solution?

I am not impressed by smug but futile affectations of moral superiority. Give us your high and mighty plan for appealing to these idiot racist fuckheads, or kindly have the decency to admit that you don't know what you're talking about.


At least let me know if there's any point in reading your posts.

[Rollo]

49. And I'm not impressed with name calling and insulting...

...a substantial portion of the voting electorate.

It didn't work in 2016, and it won't work in 2018 or 2020.

I am more impressed with positive proposals and mature approaches.

Let me know if you have any.

[Warpy]

53. Um, you can't make supercilious posts condemning those who point out the obvious

without coming up with a viable alternative to them.

This isn't Twitter or Facebook.

[Rollo]

63. I've already recommended a positive, mature approach.

Not the name calling and insulting that some of you folks seem to thrive upon. It's a losing strategy. 2016 should have taught you that.

[Orrex]

61. Thanks for confirming that you've got nothing.

[Rollo]

64. Who are you accusing of denying, and what?

[Skittles]

59. and you would assume that - WHY?

[Rollo]

67. Assume WHAT?

[Aristus]

35. Skittles, you have my permission to kick this newb's ass.

[Rollo]

42. And that would make you part of the problem.

Congratulations.


.

[Aristus]

44. Sure. I'm the problem. We'll go with that.

What have I been doing with my life?

[Rollo]

50. I couldn't possibly comment on that.

[Skittles]

60. see, he is not worth my time

the obvious ones - there's just no challenge

[Aristus]

62. Fair enough.

[Rollo]

68. Is that why you miss the obvious?

For the sake of argument, let's assume you are an American.

America elects (or re-elects) a president every four years.

Translation: WE AMERICANS ELECT A PRESIDENT EVERY FOUR YEARS.

It doesn't fucking matter if you didn't vote for the winner, or if you joined the "Resistance", or if you sat out the election contemplating your navel. As an American, you're part of the larger whole that did elect Trump. You don't like it? Well, change the system so that small rural states don't give individual voters four times the say in a Presidential election as someone from California. Or, get out and organize in the swing states to vote for the best candidate. Do SOMETHING. Just don't whine "Oh I didn't vote for Trump so I'm not part of this nation any more".

Just don't get your panties all in a twist if someone mistakes you for an American.

[Skittles]

69. OMG

YOU DO NOT KNOW ME *AT ALL* SO STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS

ENOUGH ALREADY

IGNORE IS MY FRIEND!

[Rollo]

72. Again, what assumptions am I making about YOU?

[Orrex]

71. This

[DrDan]

2. what do you mean "we", kemo sabe

[imanamerican63]

3. You beat me to punch!

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[Amaryllis]

12. Me too. They stole it. The Russians and the Republicans. "We" did not elect him.

[lpbk2713]

4. His manner of expressing himself.

Speaks in short sentences. Repeats himself. Uses superlatives often.
It makes me uneasy to think he represented me in Europe.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. We didn't. The electoral college did. n/t

[DK504]

10. BOOM!

Gerrymandering put him in the WH.

[patricia92243]

11. Bingo!

[dalton99a]

6. What's this 'we' shit?

Well, the idiots and assholes thought he was the greatest thing that's ever walked on earth

[Rollo]

7. To all: I said "we" elected him because as a nation, according to our laws, we certainly did...

I'm using "we" not in the royal sense, not even in the direct third person sense, but in the collective sense. Don't take it personally, in other words.

It's not enough to say a bunch of idiots elected Trump. I refuse to believe there are that many idiots in this country.

I rather believe that Trump conned enough people to get an electoral majority. Some of those who voted him in no doubt now are regretting that decision. But his supporters seem to remain firm. So I wonder, are they deaf and blind? How could they not see how creepy this guy is?

[leftstreet]

9. You also have to remember not all eligible people vote

If you do the math you'll actually find that a very small percentage of eligible voters ended up strapping us with Trump

[Rollo]

16. Perhaps we should focus on the fact that we have a very weird president and figure out how not

...how not to let it happen again...
.
.
.
.

[FM123]

8. I thought it was weird...

... when he held Theresa May's hand at the White House but after seeing how Melania keeps swatting his hand away like a mosquito, I guess that he takes what he can get whether it's holding or shaking his very tiny tiny tiny hands

[UTUSN]

13. Haha, so true: Even mainstream Brian WILLIAMS said, "The *STRANGE* man in the WH"

[JI7]

15. "we" didn't. those who voted for him liked what he said about mexicans , blacks, women etc.

[Kablooie]

17. You forgot his perpetual, fake tan with white goggle marks around his eyes.

[VOX]

70. Those bluish-white goggle marks look like sacs of blubber.

Just seeing his goddamned jowly, grimacing mug makes me want to hurl. On the Repulsiveness Scale, he's an 11.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. There were millions of Americans who wanted revenge on people they hate, and he promised it

That was his basic appeal to those who ended up voting for him: "I'll teach those Muslims/Mexicans/liberals/black people/people in need/women a lesson, because you think they cause your problems". He was the politician most likely to be mean to their perceived enemies. His voters were hiring a thug to go and beat up the groups they despise. The weirdness reinforces his image as thug as much as making him look unpresidential.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Because he hates the same people who elected him hate and they wanted to give him a megaphone.

[Orrex]

25. That's very well stated.

The mantra during his clusterfuck campaign was "he's not afraid to say what he thinks."

What those stupid racist fuckheads actually meant was "he's not afraid to say what I think but am afraid to say."


Fuck them.

[Dulcinea]

22. My 2 cents:

He told a lot of desperate, angry people what they wanted to hear, not the reality of the situation. Look at his base: rural white people left behind by globalization with nowhere to turn.

Also, authoritarian personalities love him. They WANT to be told what to do by someone they perceive as a strong leader.

[Orsino]

26. The TV told us to.

So we did, sorta.

[Lil Missy]

29. We??? WE??? Got a turd in your pocket? Who is this WE???

Just making a point - yours is well taken.

[Guilded Lilly]

30. Semantics on "we" aside, I hear you and most definitely

Share the WTF horror and disbelief.

The more pressing question is how do we get him and the even more dangerous anti-humanity, treasonous Republicans out of power!

It IS mind blowing. It defies decency. It is somedays too much to wrap one's brain around.
But if we are to save our country for decades, we have to fight relentlessly to abolish the "weirdness" and the accompanying horror now.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

31. If you figure it out, PLEASE let us know!

If I was to sum up how I feel right now, I'd probably say that it is quite like Marty McFly and Doc Brown winding up in the bizarro alternate 1985 created by Biff stealing the sports almanac and giving it to his younger self to make him rich and powerful and change his future. I feel like something similar HAD to have happened here. There just seems to be no logical reason why so many people- and technically more people total turned out for Hillary- turned out and voted for Trump despite all of the above (personal appearance issues aside) and what's maddening is that too many of the people whom voted for Trump- or voted against Hillary from the left- are people WHO SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER! The choice should not have been starker or easier. However, ultimately, I think that what happened was Trump was "normalized" by the MSM as a more-or-less typical Republican candidate (whom also, inexplicably was able to appeal to some working-class/union folks whom believed that he would bring them back their jobs) while Hillary was relentlessly smeared by people on all sides as an elitist and "professional politician". After all this is over with Trump, I sincerely hope that we, as a country, stop sneering about "professional politicians". I don't know about anybody else, but I want a "professional politician" who knows what he/she is doing in the Oval Office.

[Aristus]

34. The weird people who voted for him.

Add the collective audiences for Honey Boo-Boo and Duck Dynasty and that's his electoral base.

People who think getting married at Wal-Mart is the height of sophistication qualify as pretty weird...

[JustAnotherGen]

38. WE didn't do anything

'They' did - with the help of the Russians and EC.

One thing I noticed in your op - it doesn't touch his so-called policies and legislative agenda. When you drive to that - it's obvious that there are good Americans and bad Americans. The bad Americans who voted for him are against our Federal Republic, against the Constitution, and against inclusion of ALL Americans in society.

[kentuck]

39. It was the success of propaganda and "fake news"...

People were persuaded that Hillary Clinton was worse than Lucifer himself. Anybody was better than her. And they chose Donald Trump because he was a businessman and not like the rest of those "politicians" in Washington.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

48. He ISN'T like the rest

He's worse

[LisaM]

55. Fox News - and the businesses and other places that continually have it on - are a huge part of it.

Early this morning I was bouncing around CNN, MSNBC, and Fox just to see what was on the docket for each. CNN and MSNBC were both covering the Russian/Kushner angle. Fox had a nutbag "presidential historian" claiming that backdoor access to foreign enemies goes back to John Quincy Adams (including the "Hillary sold all our uranium to the Russians" lie), followed up by some bizarro piece on Hillary trying to run in 2020. I usually can't watch Fox for more than a minute, but this was reaching even for them. Haven't they done enough harm to Hillary? Can't they let up even now? Add to that, their attention to actual issues is almost non-existent. They flat out don't cover the news.

[oasis]

40. A coalition of haters put him in office. They were blinded toTrump's faults.

The ignorant assholes will now pay a big price.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

47. Don't you mean:

Yuuuuge price?

[BamaRefugee]

51. The truth will eventually come out about the voting machines being tampered with

AND THEIR HEADS WILL EXPLODE WHILE THEY'RE LOADING THEIR GUNS.
There are already trickles of news stories about this, and they're only going to get bigger. There's no way that in certain counties EVERY SINGLE WHITE VOTER turned off FOX and actually went into the daylight and voted.

The voting machines in the Midwest will be the Grassy Knoll of 2016.

[gopiscrap]

52. He didn't win

they fucking stole the election

[Doreen]

58. Yes they fucking did.

[StevieM]

54. The FBI completely destroyed the reputation of his opponent.

What Comey and his cronies did was pure evil and cannot be allowed to happen in a true democracy.

But it was allowed. And it was treated as if it was valid. That made it impossible for Hillary to win.

It is to her credit that she ran a good enough race to force Comey to come charging out of the closet in the final 11 days and completely rig the election, since she had it won so decisively. By forcing Comey to be so blatant in his actions she laid the groundwork for our country to recognize the horror of what was done--and make it harder for it to happen again in the future.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

56. Republican voters messed this up because he shouldn't have even gotten the nomination.

They had like ten people running and some how they picked they picked the worse one of the bunch.

[dchill]

57. There is no "WE" in "STOLEN."

[Calista241]

65. Just think. We have another 3 and 1/2 years of this shit show waiting for us.

The drama alone should mean we win the 2020 election.

[Rollo]

66. Yes, except everyone thought Trump's bizarre campaign would never work, either...

We need to highlight his many horrible attributes without alienating large swaths of the electorate.

If they are indeed idiots, let's make them useful idiots.