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calimary's JournalWelcome to DU, nwduke!
There's bound to be a continuing series.
Like these, for starters:
What Trump Has Undone
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/24/what-trump-has-undone/?utm_term=.acc280833d96
Welcome to DU, EarnestPutz.
This is one of those times when DU is an online community at its very finest. You will find not only much passion here but also much compassion.
Thank you for letting us know, The_jackalope.
I wish you both peace, tranquility, and love over the next couple of weeks. Gentle passage to her, and solace to you. Many of us here are keeping a virtual vigil with you.
I have an acquaintance who told me she voted for trump because her family did.
A family she's at odds with, most of the time, mind you. She's in her 40s and doesn't live with any of them. I had to ask her - what are you? Eighteen? Just because your family did, did you have to? How would they know? Did they give you a lie-detector test? Did they hold your inheritance over your head? Did they physically walk you into the voting booth and move your hand so it punched the ticket for trump?
Because bullshit. Because having to think for oneself (and take responsibility for it) sometimes sucks, I guess.
Welcome to DU, VaBchTgerLily!
In their faces maybe, but it won't soak in deeply enough to reach any actual brain matter that might be tucked in behind their faces.
Welcome to DU, fwvinson!
True. Russia. trump won the election by one vote: Vladimir Putin's.
Welcome to DU, ollie10!
The sad thing, as I recall, was what America was denied, long-term, by the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. What could have been. I wince when I say that (or think that), to this very day. I was a big fan of the Kennedys. I still am. I think Bobby would have been THE candidate, beating Hubert Humphrey to the nomination and going all the way.
It would have been a very sexy campaign. Absolute catnip, Viagra, caviar and champagne for the news biz. All the notes of a repeat of Kennedy vs. Nixon in 1960, the news media would have had multiple orgasms every day. It would have been utterly irresistible. RFK would have conjured up all the yearning among many Americans - for what might have been if his older brother had lived. I think he would have won. Which would have spared us Nixon, even if only for a term or two. Nixon probably would have tried again after another defeat (to another Kennedy).
The odd thing is, knowing what I know now, having seen so much of this play out because I've just been around this long, Nixon doesn't look quite so bad these days. Hell, george w. bush doesn't even look so bad these days! Compared with what we're stuck with, now, that is. I told my husband the other day that the happiest man in the country, at present, has got to be dubya. Because, thanks to trump, #43 now is no longer the proud holder of the "Worst President Ever" title, on many lists. And trump actually makes Nixon look like an oddly noble statesman. Ironic, isn't it!
Welcome to DU, LovesPNW!
And welcome to a most illuminating thread. We're capable of some real humdingers of discussion and debate and dispute, for sure.
Welcome to DU, jcmaine72!
That's a terrific label for this dude. Sure can swagger around and talk tough when he thinks he's safe. But then watch him snivel and whine and cry when he thinks he's in trouble and about to be held accountable for what he's said and done and thereby helped to enable.
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