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Red Oak

(697 posts)
32. Excellent! However, obviously many of your neighbors held their nose and voted for Trump.
Mon Nov 28, 2016, 12:15 PM
Nov 2016

I think you are saying that the economy is recovering so no one should have voted for Trump. For many, many Americans, that is not the case. They are hurting badly, held their nose and voted for an orange idiot that made promises the he can most likely cannot keep.

There are many unemployed, wages are stagnant to down for years, there are many more underemployed. To say things are getting better in the last quarter, even the last year, is a bit too little, too late after eight years of a Democrat holding the Presidency. It is a natural cycle in the US for that spot to swing back and forth between parties anyway, for us to hold the office in the face of a prolonged recession was a more difficult that usual task.

I suggest we really concentrate on help the 99%.

Manage trade to bring jobs back to the USA, provide universal health care, enable low cost educational opportunities to invest in our future, rebuild our infrastructure. In short, a policy of helping the American people rather than the business owners, CEOs and Wall Street.

We will win elections.

And most people would not make such a claim. Unfortunately a minority has voted for guillaumeb Nov 2016 #1
"Fasten your seatbelts" longship Nov 2016 #10
That clip never fails to make me smile. narnian60 Nov 2016 #21
AND you can enjoy an abbreviated version as a GIF ... 66 dmhlt Nov 2016 #25
K&R shraby Nov 2016 #2
This is great! madaboutharry Nov 2016 #3
Thanks for sharing this...the analogy is so apropos... iluvtennis Nov 2016 #4
"You may be the growing majority, but you ain't there yet" Bohunk68 Nov 2016 #22
sure you can call it that...I second ur monicker - Cowardly Lying Orange Cokehead Caligula iluvtennis Nov 2016 #40
At least he would have been a live person in a suit, some voted for an empty suit. lonestarnot Nov 2016 #5
Spot-On! Martin Eden Nov 2016 #6
K&R! DemonGoddess Nov 2016 #7
K&R for sure! montana_hazeleyes Nov 2016 #8
It is strictly, absolutely, totally, completely, undeniably, 100% the fault of every last person world wide wally Nov 2016 #9
I have mixed feelings about wishing ill on the people who voted for him renate Nov 2016 #41
They only need to be smart enough to switch off Fox News... world wide wally Nov 2016 #42
Excellent metaphor triron Nov 2016 #11
An excellent post from the pilot. They only way they would have EVER voted YES... Red Oak Nov 2016 #12
So... hippywife Nov 2016 #26
Yes, or they would not have voted for Trump Red Oak Nov 2016 #27
Interesting... hippywife Nov 2016 #28
Excellent! However, obviously many of your neighbors held their nose and voted for Trump. Red Oak Nov 2016 #32
I'm not saying that at all. hippywife Nov 2016 #34
I think it is more ths chart... Red Oak Nov 2016 #39
Captain Drumpf! keepapart Nov 2016 #13
Thank your friend for me for having such good common sense. He and I would get along fine. politicaljunkie41910 Nov 2016 #14
Or maybe "running the Trump empire" isn't really much. raging moderate Nov 2016 #24
... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2016 #15
Winner Coyotl Nov 2016 #19
... 2naSalit Nov 2016 #30
And Keep in Mind... kebob Nov 2016 #16
I can fly the plane... Oldtimeralso Nov 2016 #17
More amazing still, if you'd come in second place and then they made you Captain. Coyotl Nov 2016 #18
K&R! gademocrat7 Nov 2016 #20
but but but Hillary had a private server!!!! Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #23
This guy is now being attacked on Facebook by the Alt-right mainer Nov 2016 #29
No surprise there.....nt 2naSalit Nov 2016 #31
This is essentially what Plato said about democracy, though he used a ship instead of an airplane tclambert Nov 2016 #33
1 Angry Dragon Nov 2016 #38
Make Southwest great again! Initech Nov 2016 #35
K&R. Paladin Nov 2016 #36
I showed this to my now-retired... 3catwoman3 Nov 2016 #37
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