I am talking to a lot of Democrats who want Trump to succeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Working class dem here. The dems talk a big game about helping us, but are more interested in what their donors want. They’ve been ignoring voters for too long, and now I’m the one who will get screwed with Trump policies. They can suck it too.

Dems have gotten higher minimum wages, stronger OSHA requirements for workplace safety, guarantees in worker rights, the ACA, food and drug safety, cleaner air and water, more job growth (by a factor of 96 to 4) etc.

What have republicans done for the working class? Serious question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those democrats are foolish and short sighted. It's incredible that in their position of comfort, wealth, and education, they cannot think intelligently, but they expect poorer, less educated people to be smarter.

People voted Trump because they are fed up with our society, and they are desperate for change. If Trump is as bad as we think he is, society only gets worse.

What do these successful democrats think happens when society gets worse? There will be more shootings of successful people in the streets.

What exactly would you have them do?

Voters voted and the GOP will control the house, senate and white house.

It is what the voters wanted.

[Anonymous]

The thing is, that the Reagan and Bush years succeeded in dismantling regulation, pushing most government work onto contractors and creating the huge wealth disparity we live with now which causes many of our problems as s society. These three things have still not been fixed and we deal with the safety issues and the threats to democracy they create.

Even when terrible things happen due to Republican administrations and their hatred of government, people don't connect the dots.

I get that it feels good to think you know better and that eventually people will see what a hellscape they've created, but they won't. Things will just be worse and someone in the future will blame Dems for things Republicans did. So, fight like hell for the scraps of civility we have left, friends. No one is going to fix it all and hand it to us on a silver platter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Democrats ran a poor campaign based on whether voters would hate Trump. It was the same in 2016 and didn't work.

Voters were bamboozled into believing trump's BS....again.

And the media, after the election, started talking about how good the economy is, and with the fall of Syria, how good the policy in the middle east is, etc. The corporate media did nothing to educate voters about the dangers of Trump and his appointees, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been pleasantly surprised that the Democrats are taking such a congenial approach. I genuinely expected widespread rioting and large protests. I'm still expecting continued assassination attempts. But in general, the Democrats appear to be accepting the results of the election, which was a pleasant surprise. It gives me hope that we might not be as close to disintegration as I had feared.

The assassination attempts, if you want to believe them, were from people who are republicans. The democrats don't just riot. The right used the floyd protest as cover to start the fires, looting and police killings. Look it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes.
And we can start on December 20. If the democrats don’t get everything they want for the CR, then they should not help Johnson pass it.

The democrats need to stop being patsies. No more compromise. The democrats tried that with the lankford bill and it was a disaster.

LOL - No more compromise!

When has a democrat EVER compromised? Just hilarious.

The ACA was a compromise.
the bi-partisan border bill that Trump killed was a bending over backwards compromise that STILL didn;t go through.

Note, the 2017 tax cuts was 100% GOP and 0% dems. Did the GOP compromise? What was the last meaningful GOP bill that the GOP compromised on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes.
And we can start on December 20. If the democrats don’t get everything they want for the CR, then they should not help Johnson pass it.

The democrats need to stop being patsies. No more compromise. The democrats tried that with the lankford bill and it was a disaster.

Maybe if that tool Hakim Jeffries would stop referring to his colleagues as "extreme MAGA republicans," he would get some cooperation.

Oh my God. You have got to be kidding. When Obama definitively won his election all the Republicans got together and resolved to oppose everything he did. The GOP is on its own.

It’s not the GOP that’s on its own but the Democrats Jeffries saying he wants to work in a bi partisan way with the extreme MAGA Republicans rings hollow

you believe the likes of MTG, who is a devout racist, will work with Jeffries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those democrats are foolish and short sighted. It's incredible that in their position of comfort, wealth, and education, they cannot think intelligently, but they expect poorer, less educated people to be smarter.

People voted Trump because they are fed up with our society, and they are desperate for change. If Trump is as bad as we think he is, society only gets worse.

What do these successful democrats think happens when society gets worse? There will be more shootings of successful people in the streets.

What exactly would you have them do?

Voters voted and the GOP will control the house, senate and white house.

It is what the voters wanted.

Yeah I'm not sure what else people want from us.

And hey maybe some things will actually be good! Trump is the worst human and a complete moron who wants a lot of terrible things and is appointing largely terrible people. But there may be a thing or two that will actually make life better. I heard someone on NPR yesterday talking about a new alliance between Rs and unions that could lead to some stronger worker protections. Seems unlikely for lots of reasons - but who could get mad if that happened? Elon, I guess, could get mad.

Anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been pleasantly surprised that the Democrats are taking such a congenial approach. I genuinely expected widespread rioting and large protests. I'm still expecting continued assassination attempts. But in general, the Democrats appear to be accepting the results of the election, which was a pleasant surprise. It gives me hope that we might not be as close to disintegration as I had feared.

The assassination attempts, if you want to believe them, were from people who are republicans. The democrats don't just riot. The right used the floyd protest as cover to start the fires, looting and police killings. Look it up.

I was talking with some friends last night about perhaps storming the Capitol in January. But I don't think anyone's heart was in it. Trump is coming in as a lame duck with maybe one real year to try to do what he wants. We have to survive this, is how I see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know that deporting all the illegals will be expensive, but what’s the negative part about cracking down hard on crime? I think everyone in the country will be happy to go to the stores again and not need to ask an employee to unlock an item for us.

+1
-Democrat

[Anonymous]

Trump in August: "From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down, and make America affordable again. Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down and they’ll come down fast."

Trump now: “It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."


Trump is already making excuses for his failures.

[Anonymous]

Trump rang the opening bell at NY Stock exchange this morning - and all major indexes are falling.

Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump in August: "From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down, and make America affordable again. Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down and they’ll come down fast."

Trump now: “It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."


Trump is already making excuses for his failures.

This is what I said would happen. When his first 100 days are a fail, he'll blame Sleepy Joe and the disaster he left things.

When the first year is a fail, he'll blame the Democrats. He'll stress it takes time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump in August: "From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down, and make America affordable again. Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down and they’ll come down fast."

Trump now: “It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."


Trump is already making excuses for his failures.

He is terrible. If something good happens, he takes credit for it regardless if he has anything to do with it. And if something bad happens, he blames somebody else regardless if he had something to do with it. He is useless but that's what people want. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Right, but making promises, and worse, that voters believe him, that he will reduce prices on day one, when, as we know, a president doesn't set prices...that would be socialism.