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No, I think it is Oak.

So his cabinet is made up of the same people responsible for shipping jobs away.

I thought y'all said this dude was anti-establishment?

I would like your honest response to the fact that Trump is lining his 'oak cabinet' with the likes of every corporate shill that has brought this country to its knees. Probably the same Goldman Sachs guy that sat through Hillary's secret speeches.
I thought Trump was antiestablishment?

It's irrelevant, but Hillary won the popular vote.

Who would you like him to pick when he will be fixing infrastructure, restructuring our tax system and such?

A Dentist and a Plumber and a Baker?

That's not an answer. Trump said he'd bring change to D.C. So. Where is the change? Gingrich? Goldman Sachs executives? Tell me. Where is the change? Or did you really not believe him either?

That's not an answer. Trump said he'd bring change to D.C. So. Where is the change?

Well let me see now.
Been Prez Elect for almost a full day now.
Hmmmmmm
Maybe tomorrow, yea tomorrow he will change DC.

Perhaps he will load it all into goldman sachs and ship it to Ohio.

j/c

I'm amazed at the bitterness from the clinton supporters.

Saddened, really. It's kind of pathetic, but I know it's an indication of the furor that will be the next 4 years.

j/c

I'm amazed at the bitterness from the clinton supporters.

Saddened, really. It's kind of pathetic, but I know it's an indication of the furor that will be the next 4 years.

j/c

I'm amazed at the bitterness from the clinton supporters.

Saddened, really. It's kind of pathetic, but I know it's an indication of the furor that will be the next 4 years.

Right.

They been calling our president an non-American muslim last 8 years yet start complaining when we bring up valid questions about Trumps presidency.

I Answer Your Questions About Predicting President Trump

Did the United States Just Elect a Monster?

No. Clinton’s team of cognitive scientists and professional persuaders did a terrific job of framing Trump as scary. The illusion will wear off – albeit slowly – as you observe Trump going about the job of President and taking it seriously. You can expect him to adjust his tone and language going forward. You can expect foreign leaders to say they can work with him. You can expect him to focus on unifying an exhausted and nervous country. And you can expect him to succeed in doing so. (He’s persuasive.) Watch as Trump turns to healing. You’re going to be surprised how well he does it. But give it time.

I’ll be doing my persuasive best to help our new president unify the country. I’m not a monster either – just a little bit deplorable when the situation calls for it. And I would ask other Trump supporters to step up and be useful as well. If you helped elect Trump, you have a responsibility to calm the nerves of Clinton supporters who also have their country’s best interests in mind. Let’s all be worthy of our decisions.

How did you know this would play out like a movie?

About a year ago I started telling you in this blog that the Trump journey to the presidency would play out like a great movie script. And it did. Movies generally have three acts:

Act 1: The hero’s life abruptly changes.

Act 2: The hero encounters and solves one problem after another, in an entertaining fashion.

Act 3: The hero faces a seemingly insurmountable problem.

Finale: Against all odds, the hero succeeds.

The audience can’t always tell when the third act has arrived because all of the hero’s problems seem big until solved. I thought we reached the Third Act in Trump’s campaign about five different times since May. In retrospect, the real Third Act happened on election night when Trump was behind in nearly every poll. THAT is an insurmountable problem.

Then Trump won anyway. Like a movie.

How did I predict it would turn out so movie-perfect? I saw the following situation developing:

1. The social bullying coming from Clinton’s supporters guaranteed that lots of Trump supporters were in hiding. That created the potential for a surprise result, so long as the race was close.

2. Trump’s powers of persuasion are better than I have ever seen from a living human. That made it likely that the election would be close. And people generally vote for their party’s candidate, so that too promised a close election.

3. The mainstream media backed Clinton. That created a situation in which she was likely to be ahead at some point near the end of the election cycle.

4. The business model of the news industry guarantees lots of “scandals” on a regular schedule. Small things get inflated to big things, and I assumed there would be plenty of them. Trump has the skill to overcome medium-sized scandals and bumps in the road. That’s all you need for an entertaining Second Act.

5. Once I framed this election as a movie script, it primed you to see events that way. Our brains are movie-trained to recognize the three-act form. That’s why all movies use it.

6. Act One happened when Trump announced he was running. Act Two developed during the primaries and continued to the general election when Trump overcame one medium-sized problem after another. Act Three was defined by the Access Hollywood tape and Trump subsequently falling behind in the polls all the way to Election Day. The Finale was our collective discovery that Trump was right about the polls undercounting his support. It turns out he was Keyser Söze all along – and by that I mean smarter than you thought.

And that’s your movie.

I ask Trump supporters not to gloat too much. Be good to your fellow citizens. Be inclusive. Be useful. The country needs you at your best.

How are you bragging?

You didn't even vote for trump. You have zero credibility.

At least I can't take it from Diam cause he voted for trump.

But you didn't contribute to the win at all. Out here swapping teams like a typical bandwagon fan. At least I rode with my girl til the end.

He'll screw up and loose it. Karma. Impeach Trump. It's in the cards.

j/c

I'm amazed at the bitterness from the clinton supporters.

Saddened, really. It's kind of pathetic, but I know it's an indication of the furor that will be the next 4 years.

Were you really replying to me? Or did you use the "quick quote" thing?

That's just it. He's not. He's a corporatist. A fascist. Big Bisiness now has their CEO sitting at the head of the table.

I have had the opposite experience with our youth. I run a few websites that have a membership of about 30k young people and teenagers. These are online games that work a lot like social media. There was maybe all of two kids flipping out. Everybody else was mature and accepting. There were sides at times, but nobody was lost, vulnerable or scared.

That is nothing but liberal dramatics.

That is nothing but liberal dramatics.

You must be talking only about white kids then. Because the kids I talked to were as diverse as this nation and their worries are real. To devalue them is doing them a disservice and only proving why so many teens distrust adults.

My kids are diverse with a large percentage of lgbt. They are a mature group for the most part. Sounds like you have coddled kids who have dramatic liberal parents whoare ruining their minds.