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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump wants you to quit and feel defeated.
He won 46% of the freaking vote... He didn't even win a plurality... He lost the freaking popular vote by nearly three million voters. Donald Trump and his Legion Of Deplorables wants you to give up.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)by any mean necessary. I would rather die on my feet than at the end of a rope while hearing the howling mob. That's my quote.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)but,this Psycho will be more of a challenge,but I will win the war. We have a Senator up for reelection in '18,going to do what ever I can to see this Thug go by by. Do know the Culinary Union here in Vegas is already cranking up for this Election as well as the Gubernatorial Election. Keep the faith.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)My answer is we never give up. We are about to see the greatest assault on the working poor and Seniors in the History of our Nation. Alan Grayson said best,don't get sick cause you are going to die. Heard a statement from some Rethug Congressman yesterday,well those people will have to just go to the ER's like the illegals. Whoa!!!!!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Giving up.
But I think most of us will not.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)That is what they want us to do.
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)of some american citizens, he didn't win the electorate. Stupid jerk.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)They will never have that kind of control over me.
I think this joke of a "presidency" might be just the thing to get the millennials really involved.
And we boomers are ready to fight as well.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)This one hurt.
Democrats, like FDR, are fighters. They'll be back, rested and ready, and the fight will be on!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)But we're mad as hell.
The time of old, rich, white men is over.
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)but who will throw the first punch whoever it is we will push back. we don't retreat or be like sheep.
This guy is not our pResident.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)The times they are a'changin'...sang a wise man once.
We'll be here for our country.
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)look at the Water Protectors in North Dakota they are sticking up for their land. They are the true natives of America. Look how the white man treated them and they are still paying for it.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Wondering what will happen when the gibbon takes office.
niyad
(113,280 posts)I am one of your worst nightmares, you sexual predator. an old, very cranky woman who isn't scared of you, or your minions, no matter what you think you can do. FU
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)NEVER
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I went to my first protest since I was eleven years old. There were people from all walks of life ; the young and the old, the gay and the straight, the white and the non-white, the middle class and the poor.
I ain't gonna be turned around.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Look, I'm down, discusted and fearful. We made it through Sir Ronald, DimGeorge and Cheney and I suspect we'll make it through this, could have been avoided, dark period. As Keith most eloaquently stated "resist!"
Raster
(20,998 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)Some of us are very discouraged by the outcome of the election. With good reason.
Senior citizens like me are seeing the president-elect and congressional Republican leadership taking a machete to Social Security and Medicare. This is not encouraging.
Disabled citizens like me have the same concerns about the targeting of Social Security and Medicare and ACA, concerns that are amplified by an incoming chief executive who mocks the disabled and appoints to high office a known racist who has also blamed disabled children for high education costs. This is not encouraging.
Women like me are now confronting the reality of a president and vice-president whose policies are inimical to the very idea that we are fully capable of making our own health care decisions. These men come to their new offices with records of intent to punish women, not to mention the president-elects history of objectification and sexual abuse of women. This is not encouraging.
Citizens like me who value education are mortified at the prospect of a president who blatantly defrauded thousands via his false university, and then bragged about getting off with a light penalty. This is not encouraging.
Citizens like me who are sickened by the relentless poisoning of our air and water watch in horror as the seats of power are claimed by those who are heavily invested in preserving the continuation of those toxic processes. This is not encouraging.
White citizens like me take no comfort in the false safety - or accusation - of skin color. Or religion. Or orientation. Or political affiliation. Or national origin. Especially when those depredations are promulgated by a faithless misanthrope who is voluntarily dyed an odd shade of orange. Regardless of a sizable faction that loudly thinks otherwise, this is not encouraging.
What IS encouraging, however, is the recognition of the present circumstance as a setback, not a defeat. We have worked too long, fought too hard, climbed too high to give up now. Disappointment is not disappearance, and we arent going anywhere. Rather, our resolve has been reawakened. To their great consternation, we are gathering, we are rising up, speaking up, showing up. They insist that we have lost, we answer that they only think they won. Seriously, after two and a half centuries of history, do they really believe we are going to roll over and play dead for the likes of Trump? As if.
WE go on.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028315251
milestogo
(16,829 posts)I thought he would fade into the past like an old nightmare.
I cannot believe we have to see him and hear him for the next 4 years. He is positively revolting.
bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)No mandate, no cooperation if he goes against the principles of equality this country was founded on. And zero flexibility on that.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Our goal should be to make him a one-term pResident.
Democrats need to get on the same page. Oppose everything the Republicans suggest. Filibuster to no end. Refuse to confirm nominees and pass budgets.
In other words, be a real opposition party in the same mold as the Republicans were until we are able to re-take Congress.