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woodsprite

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53. No, you're not the only one

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:04 AM

Mar 2017

And I was appalled thinking that anyone - Repub or Dem - would think so little of and willingly discount our whole election process and possible outcomes and the effects on our citizens and our country in that way.

The comment that we needed serious, valid candidates from all parties in the running fell on deaf ears with some.

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How the hell is this all OK? How the hell can this be happening? [View all] NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 OP

Um, because her emails....? SticksnStones Mar 2017 #1

LOL onetexan Mar 2017 #34

Did you ask this question when Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota? brooklynite Mar 2017 #2

I never thought George W. Bush could be elected a second time! m-lekktor Mar 2017 #4

I did; Kerry was a mediocre candidate brooklynite Mar 2017 #11

I thought he was as well but I naively thought anybody but Bush would win m-lekktor Mar 2017 #14

I heard Kerry speak, and he was amazing. LisaM Mar 2017 #33

I agree with you... Blanks Mar 2017 #37

At least Jesse had been mayor of Brooklyn Park. mn9driver Mar 2017 #20

Ventura was not a man child who invented his own reality for the fuck of it as he Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2017 #41

I know.. to put Ventura as the equivalent of trump is just Cha Mar 2017 #43

There is no Comparison Between Ventura and Trump. Ventura would not have gotten elected JI7 Mar 2017 #46

...not to mention that he is doing all of this destruction after losing the popular vote by millions Tanuki Mar 2017 #3

He's been given a mandate to destruct. Bannon said so. notdarkyet Mar 2017 #32

It Defies Imagination.... global1 Mar 2017 #5

I wake up asking myself that every morning... Blanks Mar 2017 #6

I'm with you; it's daily depression Big_K Mar 2017 #19

Same. Hang in there mate. mahina Mar 2017 #21

A country that elected buffoons like reagan and w bush BSdetect Mar 2017 #7

Please....He is in another class altogether than those two.. whathehell Mar 2017 #26

i agree, they could have gone with Cruz, Rand Paul, the idiot Rubio JI7 Mar 2017 #47

Funny, I remember Trump being the one we wanted them to go with! EL34x4 Mar 2017 #48

it took russian hacking, comey for him to "win" and he lost the popular vote by millions JI7 Mar 2017 #49

No, you're not the only one woodsprite Mar 2017 #53

Yeah, the gop keeps getting worse until they bottomed out @trump.. it wouldn't have happened Cha Mar 2017 #44

So Strange You Would Post This WiffenPoof Mar 2017 #8

Physicists say there are parallel universes. How did I end up in THIS one? Binkie The Clown Mar 2017 #9

Beam us up, over and out of this universe please! nt Heartstrings Mar 2017 #52

I know what you mean. I grew up to the "House Unamerican Activities committee"... dmosh42 Mar 2017 #10

YES! There are Putin/Russian connections everywhere in this trump administration and Ryan... brush Mar 2017 #15

One Russian, who was an American citizen with connections, colorado_ufo Mar 2017 #30

It just defies logic, and doesn't seem real Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #12

The past almost three months have felt like YEARS! logosoco Mar 2017 #13

Because millions of Americans don't think like we do IronLionZion Mar 2017 #16

It's not ok... And we are fucking idiots. N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2017 #17

We're the victim in an abusive relationship. Initech Mar 2017 #23

This Chiquitita Mar 2017 #31

I have felt this nation sliding towards a 2nd Civil War for the last 35 years... Moostache Mar 2017 #36

This message was self-deleted by its author ymetca Mar 2017 #18

its another version of The Twilight Show "It's a Good Life" elmac Mar 2017 #22

That's a great analogy, but Anthony really did have God powers Dave Starsky Mar 2017 #56

Electoral college and the gullible white poor Politicub Mar 2017 #24

You forgot gerrymandering FakeNoose Mar 2017 #27

Not only them. murielm99 Mar 2017 #28

and hackable, black-box voting machines. nt TheFrenchRazor Mar 2017 #40

And it would be fairly easy to stop Kablooie Mar 2017 #25

Because... Dopers_Greed Mar 2017 #29

Boomers Shouldn't Be Allowed To Retire? ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #58

My point was... Dopers_Greed Mar 2017 #59

Ah! I Misunderstood ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #60

It's Animal Farm and the Pigs are in charge! red dog 1 Mar 2017 #35

very bad dystopian novels are meant as cautionary tales, not how to do it instructions uppityperson Mar 2017 #38

thread win! NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 #39

This is what Bannon hopes for. Tatiana Mar 2017 #42

Racism along with a Shit Media which Normalizes him JI7 Mar 2017 #45

Make America Fail Again Cha Mar 2017 #50

We are currently in an existential Theatre of the Absurd vlyons Mar 2017 #51

It's a total nightmare of epic porportions. lark Mar 2017 #54

4 long years zipplewrath Mar 2017 #55

I dunno... All I remember is Blue_Tires Mar 2017 #57