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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAgain, tell me how we got this idiot as the leader of the free world?
He is literally putting the country through the ringer!democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)His nonsensical blabbering and bragging about himself. Making up facts to justify his cray-cray beliefs.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)kentuck
(111,098 posts)We got this idiot because of FAKE News.
Like FOX News and Sinclair. They refused to tell the people the truth about what and who they were voting for and continue until this day.
They are masters of "un-information". They keep their viewers "uninformed:.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)to inform themselves as the rest of us do. They chose to be uninformed for whatever their reasons.
area51
(11,909 posts)A: The electors.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)who happen to be our neighbors.
2left4u
(186 posts)On a closed border, America first Nationalist agenda.
We won the popular vote...God only knows how many votes they stole.
Problem is to many people bash Trump publicly while agreeing with and voting for him privately.
fallout87
(819 posts)Her Emails!!!
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)"protesting" Hillary's nomination stayed home - boy, didn't they "show" us!
2left4u
(186 posts)R B Garr
(16,954 posts)against her, and many from our own party actively campaigning against her. They justify it with the most bizarre excuses, too, obviously not too bothered by Trump after all.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)that they weren't "bothered" by IQ45 - I'm thinking it was more like: "Ain't no way in hell that idiot is gonna' win - so why bother going to vote."
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Dulcinea
(6,631 posts)...told a lot of angry, frightened rural white people who are afraid of change what they wanted to hear, so they voted for him.
Coal, steel, manufacturing, all coming back. it's gonna be great. Believe me. Bigly.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and Donnie got the fluffy pillow media treatment reserved for Hollywood A-listers... Add in the usual touches of racial scapegoating, ratfucking assistance from Moscow, and the worst-timed FBI investigation announcement EVER, and you know the rest...
I also think deep down more Americans than we care to admit find politics boring and thought Trump would be entertaining if nothing else...