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Id really like to hear what it was about Hillary Clinton that caused you to vote for an idiot like Trump instead.
Did you fear that she was colluding with our enemies, the Russians, in order to win the election? Did you envision her handing over highly classified information to the Russians right there in the Oval Office if elected, and that possibility scared the bejesus out of you?
Were you afraid that her decades-long, mutually respectful relationships with our allies would somehow lead to global disdain, rendering our country a laughing-stock for ever having elected her in the first place?
Was it the fact that she is intelligent, well-educated, and well-versed in both domestic and international affairs that kept you awake at night, shivering in a cold sweat?
Was it the panic that set in when you realized she would undoubtedly appoint incompetent people to Cabinet positions or, worse yet, her Goldman-Sachs type billionaire buddies who would ignore the plight of hard-working Americans?
Did you cower in fear at the thought that our next POTUS would be someone who stood up for increased access to affordable healthcare, affordable college education, an increase in the minimum wage and might insist that wealthy individuals and corporations pay their fair share in taxes so as to lessen the tax burden borne by middle-class workers?
Did you totally freak-out at the concept that someone who was on the side of OUR country and its citizens instead of being Putins puppet would occupy the White House?
Was it her coherence when she spoke, her common sense approach to our nations challenges, her grasp of how our government works that struck such fear in your heart, you had no choice but to vote for a man completely devoid of all of the above?
Did you whimper and whine with fear and loathing when you realized that someone who wouldnt need her daily briefings reduced to bullet points and colouring-book graphics in order to be understood might occupy the White House?
Was it her remarkably successful career as a First Lady, as a senator, as our Secretary of State that led you to cast your ballot for an inexperienced, politically ignorant, self-serving Idiot who has built his (alleged) fortune by cheating his fellow citizens out of their money for the work they did for him? Was it his multiple bankruptcies that made you think he was a brilliant businessman? Was it his outsourcing of American jobs to low-wage countries that led you to believe he was the champion of the unemployed whod lost their own jobs due to outsourcing?
So Im curious. Exactly what was it about an intelligent, experienced, globally-respected candidate that shook you to the very core? What was it about a woman who has consistently demonstrated her commitment to her fellow citizens that led you to vote for a man whose only commitment has been to himself? Exactly what was it that led you to cast your ballot for a Putin ass-licker instead of someone who was willing to stand up to our enemies rather than praise them?
Seriously, I AM ALL EARS. I would love to hear why you thought an illiterate moron, addicted to incomprehensible and totally inane tweets, was worthy of your vote. I would love to hear why you thought the outsourcer-in-chief was committed to saving YOUR job. I would love to hear why you believed that a man who is incapable of putting a coherent sentence together was qualified to govern a nation, and navigate the complexities of the job of POTUS.
So go to it, Trump voters explain yourselves. Because youve got a lot of splaining to do.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)a contractor who sued trump (and finally won after years of fighting him to pay his bill), then voted for trump?
That's so incomprehensible to me... it's like this guy is from another dimension, with something other thing than a brain inside his head.
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Paint Shop Owner Juan Carlos Enriquez Took On Trump and Won
Florida paint shop owner Juan Carlos Enriquez has what you might call a complicated relationship with Donald Trump.
For three years, he waged a fierce legal battle to get the real-estate mogul to make good on an unpaid bill.
And then in November, he voted for the guy.
"Politics and business are two different things," Enriquez, 52, told NBC News.
More... http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/paint-shop-owner-juan-carlos-enriquez-took-trump-won-n747756
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)through an arcane electoral system not used by any other nation. Twice in the last 16 years we have a minority president. In fact the reason we're here on DU is because of the 2000 election travesty.
Trump exploited the gullible dupes who didn't realize that being President of the United States is a bit more complex and difficult than being a cheesy reality TV actor and a bad businessman who bankrupts casinos. He's Nixon and Max Bialystok on steroids and crack.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)Comey's thumb on the scales, Russian interference, the treasonous Republican party, etc.
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)Were accompanied by major Pluto transits to the US Sibley natal chart, when you make the three degree adjustment to account for equinoctial precession since our nation's founding. In 2000, Pluto crossed over the US Ascendant, and in 2016, Pluto opposed the natal Sun of the US - and both the Sun and the Ascendant, as well as the Moon, constitute the three most important core factors in any natal astrology chart.
NBachers
(17,120 posts)and how it will affect the elections?
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)panfluteman
(2,065 posts)Especially when the candidate in question is running primarily on his record as a businessman - which Donald Trump did. And the guy was Hispanic to boot!
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Last edited Tue May 30, 2017, 06:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Of the Hispanic population. And many of them -and I mean MANY- know where a woman's place is, KWIM?
we can do it
(12,189 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)believed the lies the right wing spread about her for 30 years.
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)Those stupid emails!
orleans
(34,060 posts)as per the idiot 27 yr old who lives too close for comfort and was all bubbly on the morning of the election and just dying to tell someone who he voted for said in his defense (after pressing me as to who i voted for and finally accused me of "you voted for trump, didn't ya?" to which i responded with a gut reaction of "*fuck* no!" :
"well, did you ever hear about whitewater?"
it was one of those kill-me-now moments.
Jim Dandy
(358 posts)Thank you.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)NBachers
(17,120 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)MichMary
(1,714 posts)he isn't Hillary. Biden would have beaten Trump, so would Bernie. So would just about any other human being on the face of the earth. Hillary has been around too long, associated with way too many "scandals" (whether real or imagined,) and has never connected with most people.
Incidentally, probably any other R would have beaten Clinton, too. See above; also, history was against her.
we can do it
(12,189 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)BadGimp
(4,015 posts)Way to go NanceGreggs!