It was clear from the get-go that ***** had no business thinking he was the least bit qualified for the job. His raging incompetence, however, goes far past anything I could have imagined.

Why anybody, ANYBODY, voted for him is beyond me.

as a joke. They thought he was goofy and funny. They liked him insulting everyone and he talked like someone who never got past the sixth grade. They thought he was good for a laugh. Also, thrown in with the mix was racism. I don't think they realized the destruction he would cause.

They just don't care. They willingly voted for a monster and continue to support "it" enough that their house reps and senators aren't curtailing it. Rather than standing by this bum they could be out there screaming for their representatives to stop this farce of a human.

He said he was going to reign in Wall Street. He promised something better and more affordable than Obamacare. He said he wouldn't spend so much time golfing.

We all know well those promises were kept.

We'll never recover from Dubya/Cheney fully, and NO--we won't recover from this 1984 presidency ever.

and broke the ground for all the Repub BS that has happened since.

Our government has been sliding into the abyss since the Kennedy assassination. When Democrats are in charge they winch it back a little. When the Republicans take over, the hard won gains are crushed under their jackboots.

I think we've had it as a sustainable democracy.

I am tired of living with the Deplorables.

If all we're left with is a stain, I'll breathe a sigh of relief.

I keep thinking of Samson and the Philistines.

I have no doubt that all of us are seen as Philistines, and it doesn't seem much of a stretch when I imagine the guy with the football thinking of himself as Samson. And you know how that story went.

Samson wasn't very smart and that's a trait he shares with Trump. I mean, Delilah asked him several times what was the secret of his strength. Each time he told her a different reason and she'd try to overcome him. That he didn't see the nefarious pattern is practically humorous.

Once he was captured and blinded, he was brought into the temple by the Philistines.

with continued aggressive gerrymandering, Russian and domestic rigging/manipulation of election results. Many keep thinking future elections are somehow going to be "normal", solve our current problems and enable regime change. Based on this past Presidential election I have little hope or reliance on the legitimacy of future elections.

how all people who r sane both here and around the world will judge our system of government and our citizens too.

I knew a number of people who didn't like Trump and would have rather had a different Republican win the primary. But when push came to shove they still voted for Trump because they wanted their taxes lowered. I think these upscale Republicans don't get enough flak for their support for Trump. They were willing to throw the country under the bus for a tax cut.

Trump is just the culmination of decades of Republicans making greed and selfishness a virtue and pretty much deciding to do whatever it takes to win and change America into a country that is becoming nastier and meaner every day. Right-wing talk radio heads like Rush Limbaugh have been using crass appeals to sexism and racism for a long time so even Trump's vulgar style is not totally new although it is new for a presidential candidate and that is probably where he will leave his greatest legacy. Politics is becoming more of a cesspit and a lot of decent people don't want to have anything to do with politics anymore. It furthers the state of corrosive cynicism and lack of trust in our institutions that leads people to not bother paying attention or even voting.

But somehow we will carry on.

Thanks for saving me the time!

We're *still* fighting the American Civil War. It's a cold war for now, but more than a few nutcases on the right would love to blast away.

The issues are the same: Should the United States maintain an aristocracy that holds most of wealth; and should people of color be a perpetual underclass in service to it? And as time passes, that "underclass" becomes an increasingly larger entity. And should that "underclass" be allowed access to healthcare? Jobs? Affordable education? A fair shake? The 1% (like slave owners) say no, that *they* are the victims of an overreaching federal government. Meanwhile, the homeless choke our storefronts and alleys, corporations destroy the planet, and we are involved in endless warfare abroad.

This war can still be lost, and it's not looking good right now.

Until we do, expect nothing to change.

Of course, this was a year or two before Trump.

“We'll never fully recover from this Presidency.”

No, we won’t.

There’ll be a Democratic president and Congress at some point, we can only hope sooner rather than later – but the irreparable damage will have been done to the judiciary, a Supreme Court populated with hateful, reactionary Trump appointees, where the states will once again be able to compel a woman to give birth against her will, deny same-sex couples access to marriage, and disadvantage immigrants, and there won’t be anything a Democratic president and Congress can do about it.

It took Obama 7 yrs just to get one major part of the process in the economy think of all the many parts we wil have to undo, that is if we come out in numbers to change the 2 chambers
We can by gathering as a unit and get back congress both we hope. We have a yr to lay ground word for this achievement. We can do this. Must do this

Since Obama was elected president, I've seen racism openly expressed like I've never seen it before. I'm 60 & grew up in a rural area & what people feel okay saying today, on TV, and in the public space - they would have been shamed back when I was a kid. No, we didn't get over the Civil War. It's been reignited. I blame McCain for bringing Palin to the national stage - she started a lot of this & the GOP condoned it with their silence.

is to hang them all from the washington monument on the 4th of july.

The time is not now, but the time WILL come where we will split into two or more nations. Bin Laden was playing the long con.

would be more comfortable joining a country with which they have a great deal in common -- socially and economically. How about the United Provinces and States of CANADA?! (UPSC for short.....).

basically most Americans are good and decent people & love their country. It may take a few years but we will bounce back.

And they will keep acting like fools and fools will keep electing them - VERY SAD!

. . . a reporter will ask Trump about his term as President.

Trump will reply: "You must be mistaken. I was never President."

a chance to rewrite the Constitution at the Koch/ALEC Constitutional convention. I'm going to begin reading "Democracy in Chains" because I need more reasons to be depressed.

And Trump has dug in, and made recovery even more less likely.

GTMO is still open. Obama tried - but it's still open.

Shrub's legacy, yes - but still open.

The Patriot Act is still on the books.

Shrub's abuses of office - his abuses of office with impunity - has given Trump a lot of ground to work with to cause more damage.

The Kochs, Mercers and other billionaires own and control the Republican Party lock, stock, and barrel. That is who the GOP works exclusively for - no one else. Citizens United has ensured that unlimited amounts of dark money can flow from these billionaires through many channels to Republican Party and campaign coffers. And that money is NOT for nothing. The billionaires EXPECT SOMETHING IN RETURN. They expect to literally control the entire US gov't and to have every policy and law (esp tax laws) written exclusively in their favor such that most of America gets or has nothing and the billionaires and corporations GET. IT. ALL. And I mean EVERY LAST CENT.

Case in point:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/26/koch-network-piggy-banks-closed-republicans-healthcare-tax-reform?CMP=share_btn_tw

AND

http://billmoyers.com/story/more-deep-history-radical-right/#.WXQ9f9AZXfo.twitter

We survived Reagan. We survived Bush 1 and Bush 2.

We will survive this. It just won't be pleasant for a while.

Just think of Trump as a colonoscopy. Keep reminding yourself the discomfort will be over eventually.

But your optimistic point of view is appreciated!

Every 10 years I get the smoothest high with the twilight sedation. Lasts all day, too!

or Dubya - the hits just keep coming

The blitzkrieg is intended to destabilize, overwhelm and exhaust the opposition.

We might be able to repair the damage, but we'll always have a scar.