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lillypaddle

(9,581 posts)
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:33 PM Oct 2016

This seems surreal right now

This is America, we're getting ready to have an election for POTUS. I'm almost 69, and cannot remember anything remotely like these times. It's scary. These people are crazy. How can they get away with acting like this, encouraging violence and riots?

Will it all go away when the election is over, or is it just beginning? I'd like to be talked down, but I don't think it's going to happen just based on the various threads/topics I see being posted. How can one man have brought us to this and what can be done about it?

A horror movie, except it's real.

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This seems surreal right now (Original Post) lillypaddle Oct 2016 OP
Crazy is right Bear Creek Oct 2016 #1
I am depressed trixie Oct 2016 #2
I agree and the vitriol is unbelievable... Trashpot followers are not interested Cakes488 Oct 2016 #5
Not only that lillypaddle Oct 2016 #6
A young volunteer came to the door this morning and I immediately tensed up... hlthe2b Oct 2016 #3
Better safe than sorry. lillypaddle Oct 2016 #7
I am hitting the big 63. texanwitch Oct 2016 #4

Bear Creek

(883 posts)
1. Crazy is right
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:37 PM
Oct 2016

Just seen where Dump wants Hillary to be drug tested. Humm, maybe the coke thing is real. it seems like what they hollar about is what they are guilty of.

trixie

(867 posts)
2. I am depressed
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:39 PM
Oct 2016

I know it looks like we will win but it is so depressing to see people buy everything Trump is selling.

 

Cakes488

(874 posts)
5. I agree and the vitriol is unbelievable... Trashpot followers are not interested
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:49 PM
Oct 2016

just like their candidate in having any kind of honest debate...

hlthe2b

(102,489 posts)
3. A young volunteer came to the door this morning and I immediately tensed up...
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:43 PM
Oct 2016

Barely cracked the door (in truth to keep the dog from rushing out, but still...) to ask if he was representing the man whose name I would not "utter"... He assured me that "hell no" that HE was a real guy. LOL

I assured him that I would be RETURNING my vote for Hillary and a straight Dem ticket the very day it shows up in my mailbox so I wouldn't keep him. But, damn, I thought later... what if it had been a rabid Trump supporter... Uggh.

texanwitch

(18,705 posts)
4. I am hitting the big 63.
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 04:46 PM
Oct 2016

It is crazy time.

All the hate radio helped this happen.

I was a little worried until the really brave women came out, then the dressing room thing.

He finally crossed the line for most people, except for the really crazy ones.



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