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user-inactivated  ·  2484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Comey Hearing is on TV as I do chores around the house

There's no need for such pessimism. I know you've invested yourself and your resources quite a bit in the election. The fact that your investment didn't pay off as much as you - and many like you - hoped doesn't mean that the end is nigh.

America is clearly holding its own, both on governmental and citizen level, against this outside-inside assault. Just look at the people refusing to do the crazy president's bidding! It's astonishing just how organized in their discontent have come to be and how collected in their outpour of action. Separate persons and entire states are saying "No" to the narcissist-in-chief, and there seems to be no stopping to that.

I don't think the end of the US is anywhere near. This is definitely going to leave a scar, but scars remind us never to make the same mistake again. You guys surely will make it happen out there - and if you aren't impressed that a Russian is telling you that, I don't know how you ever will be.





_refugee_  ·  2482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hilary's next slogan will be "Hindsight is 2020"

user-inactivated  ·  2482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As long as she cuts the crap.

I haven't been following Obama much back when he was in office, but in retrospect, he seems like a more sincere kinda guy than you would expect from a politician in the US. Then came Trump - the man who "said it like it is", even if a) "it" is bullshit b) he doesn't believe in. The scene has been won with the audacity for bad. I'm looking forward to seeing a presidential candidate with the audacity for good.

It would be difficult to shed decades of conditioning, though.

am_Unition  ·  2482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you for this.

kleinbl00  ·  2484 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think we'll be fine. I'm probably one of the more positive Americans on here. But the future is muddy.

user-inactivated  ·  2484 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'm probably one of the more positive Americans on here.

This is such an odd statement... In part because I can't find the right word the describe the way you present stuff. It was never specifically positive or negative, in recent memory; it has been both, at times. It is blunt and it is assertive, but something... is missing.

rezzeJ  ·  2482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps the word you're looking for is 'earnest' ?

user-inactivated  ·  2482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This sounds like kb, so maybe that is what I'm looking for. Thanks.