[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', 'I') always lose elections. There is no one currently in elected office that I voted for, so don't blame me because the rest of you keep voting for bought-and-paid-for partisan creeps. And there is nothing at all you can say that justifies voting for Trump. Nothing at all. The man is not only a political disaster, he is everything my parents taught me not to be as a human being.

[Hawkcreek]

Anyone who doesn't see that both red and blue are bought and paid for isn't really looking.
Regardless of who is in office, the end result is more money and favors to the corporations, and less for everyone else.
Money makes the law, not wishful thinking of powerless supporters of either party.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Trump... won with a minority vote and a fluke of the electoral college.

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Trump... won with a minority vote and a fluke of the electoral college.

[vtsnowedin]

I was hoping to skip past Trumps strengths and failures and speculate about a Pence cabinet and White house staff.
If he could get them to stay on he might keep Tillerson at State,Mattis at Defense, Shulkin at VA, Haley at the UN, and Pompeoa at the CIA. But all the rest probably should go. Pence's choices would make or break his administration and he would be facing a situation as bleak as Gerald Ford faced after Nixon resigned.
Anybody have any ideas as to who he might pick.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')Just because Hillary was too stupid to understand how the electoral college works doesn't make it a "fluke."

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', 'P')ence's choices would make or break his administration and he would be facing a situation as bleak as Gerald Ford faced after Nixon resigned.
Anybody have any ideas as to who he might pick.

[Pennzoil bill]

The lack of applause for the lowest African American and Hispanic unemployment rate sealed the fact that I will never vote democratic again and at my first convenience, burn my democratic voters card and reregister as a republican.

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pennzoil bill', 'T')he lack of applause for the lowest African American and Hispanic unemployment rate sealed the fact that I will never vote democratic again and at my first convenience, burn my democratic voters card and reregister as a republican.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pennzoil bill', 'T')he lack of applause for the lowest African American and Hispanic unemployment rate sealed the fact that I will never vote democratic again and at my first convenience, burn my democratic voters card and reregister as a republican.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', '
')This whole "but the other guys did the same thing" is pretty much like "I know you are but what am I?" childishness.

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pennzoil bill', 'T')he lack of applause for the lowest African American and Hispanic unemployment rate sealed the fact that I will never vote democratic again and at my first convenience, burn my democratic voters card and reregister as a republican.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', 'I') always lose elections. There is no one currently in elected office that I voted for, so don't blame me because the rest of you keep voting for bought-and-paid-for partisan creeps. And there is nothing at all you can say that justifies voting for Trump or Hillary. Nothing at all. The man/woman is not only a political disaster, he/she is everything my parents taught me not to be as a human being.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', 'I') always lose elections. There is no one currently in elected office that I voted for, so don't blame me because the rest of you keep voting for bought-and-paid-for partisan creeps. And there is nothing at all you can say that justifies voting for Trump or Hillary. Nothing at all. The man/woman is not only a political disaster, he/she is everything my parents taught me not to be as a human being.

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')... what if anything can we do to prevent a repeat in future elections.

[Cog]

The leaders of the RNC had nothing to do with Trump's selection and they fought him all the way to the election. Trump was elected by sheer will and guts and a voting block who was sick to death of the typical political types like Jeb Bush. But since you don't understand that you won't understand why Hillary lost either.

[GHung]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'T')he leaders of the RNC had nothing to do with Trump's selection and they fought him all the way to the election. Trump was elected by sheer will and guts and a voting block who was sick to death of the typical political types like Jeb Bush. But since you don't understand that you won't understand why Hillary lost either.

[Cog]

The point that others are trying to make here is the two parties gave us two bad choices. That is false. Hillary was picked by the party, as Sanders found out at the end. Trump was picked by the people. Now you might find Trump's people as deplorable and irredeemable as he is, but that is just a cross you will have to bear until 2020. We are actually proud of what we accomplished and American nationalism is what we voted for. America First is not simply a campaign slogan with us.

I have noticed another phenomena. In spite of the fact that Hillary won the popular vote, I can't seem to find anyone who actually voted for her. I'm sure someone here will fess up to it.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')... what if anything can we do to prevent a repeat in future elections.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'T')he leaders of the RNC had nothing to do with Trump's selection and they fought him all the way to the election. Trump was elected by sheer will and guts and a voting block who was sick to death of the typical political types like Jeb Bush. But since you don't understand that you won't understand why Hillary lost either.