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user-inactivated  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DON'T PANIC

I hated GWB and everyone who voted for him, but I didn't see him as a threat to me or anyone I knew. Trump will probably cause less misery globally, because GWB set the bar for shitting on the rest of the world high, but it looks like we're going to be paying for the tantrum our neighbors threw at the voting booth ourselves so he looks like more of a personal threat to me even if I think he'll have a lower body count.

Out here in redneckistan, I am finding it more difficult to empathize with the people around me than journalists writing thinkpieces about them do.





kleinbl00  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My opinion is evolving by the hour. I know this, though - they've already disappeared the muslim ban.

user-inactivated  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So this is a good sign. This means he's open to social pressures.

kleinbl00  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would argue that he's more open to social pressures than anyone that has ever held the office... but only time will tell.

I would further argue that it is this openness to social pressures that makes people conflate 3am tweetstorms with failures of judgement.

user-inactivated  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just got done listening to an NPR bit about him and taxes, where after it was explained to him that his original tax plan would involve 12 trillion in tax cuts, he revised it and walked that number back to 4-6 trillion in tax cuts depending on how the wind blows. Anecdotal, but it's something else that shows he might be open to advice.

OftenBen  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He wants to be remembered positively.

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