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What should our first comments be to (Original Post) cilla4progress Oct 2016 OP
Start with... Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #1
!! Bucky Oct 2016 #15
If she wins? To be truthful? "Take that .Kiss my ass." apcalc Oct 2016 #2
We could offer to buy one of Trump's saltpoint Oct 2016 #3
Honestly? They aren't worth the time to even acknowledge that they exist. tonyt53 Oct 2016 #6
What I usually say is Lets get to work! Cracklin Charlie Oct 2016 #7
"Pathetic! You ran a pathetically ignorant candidate." longship Oct 2016 #8
Would you mind MFM008 Oct 2016 #9
Love it! cilla4progress Oct 2016 #10
"Let's talk and figure out how we can all create a better country." nolabear Oct 2016 #11
but, but heaven05 Oct 2016 #14
Sure. You don't have to build a bridge when you're on the same shore. nolabear Oct 2016 #20
good points heaven05 Oct 2016 #21
Oh I hear ya. Being raised in the Deep South is good training for loving the unfathomable. nolabear Oct 2016 #22
I agree LeftInTX Oct 2016 #23
Silence semby2 Oct 2016 #12
LOL: MANDATE! FSogol Oct 2016 #13
WOMAN-DATE. nt msanthrope Oct 2016 #34
I plan on celebrating positivley with those interested in doing the same. NCTraveler Oct 2016 #16
"Pssst... I can now tell you: Bucky Oct 2016 #17
Oh shit....I'm gasping for air. nt msanthrope Oct 2016 #35
"don't jump, he's not worth it" oasis Oct 2016 #18
Pfftbpfftbpfft! longship Oct 2016 #19
I'll say the same thing peggysue2 Oct 2016 #24
Cheers! at midnight on the 9th pkdu Oct 2016 #26
bad teams celebrate their victory before they play the game Dem2 Oct 2016 #27
Don the Con is fired! Rob_Jacobson23 Oct 2016 #28
Buh-bye shenmue Oct 2016 #29
Maybe something soothing like this? csziggy Oct 2016 #31
Ask how we can work together? guillaumeb Oct 2016 #32
Get Over It Bobcat Oct 2016 #33
Thank you! Glamrock Oct 2016 #36
The white supremacist & Nazi dog whistles is what got ever Republican we know over to Hillary. grossproffit Oct 2016 #39
The plan is moving forward right on time. Rex Oct 2016 #37
Be Gone! I cast you out, unclean spirit. Be gone from this creature of God. Be gone... grossproffit Oct 2016 #38
Treat them with the exact same dignity and respect they'd extend to us PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #40
 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
6. Honestly? They aren't worth the time to even acknowledge that they exist.
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:07 AM
Oct 2016

Let 'em go back to their secured caves and watch FoxNews until Trump TV is available.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
11. "Let's talk and figure out how we can all create a better country."
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:56 AM
Oct 2016

I'm serious. I see no percentage in shaming, dismissing and enraging a pretty big segment of the population who are angry and scared to death. I'm not saying we welcome the bile but that we offer hope mixed with a confident guiding hand. I honestly want peoples' lives to improve, because if ever we've needed an era of cooperation to lift this country up, it's now.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
14. but, but
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 11:31 AM
Oct 2016

a major percentage of that "big segment" who are "angry andd scared to death" are angry and scared to death of a pretty large segment of this population, AA's, most minorities and south of the border people looking for and willing to work for a better life, and they hate the woman I hope will be POTUS. Mainly because she is a woman and not white male as they have made clear with our present POTUS for the last 7+ years.

While I share your desire for all beings of the human race to have hope and confidence of a better life no matter where they live, those you want to try to lift up will only do it while standing on the backs and stomping 'others' into the dirt because of the color of their skin, their gender, place of birth and sexual orientation.

I'm willing to cooperate. Are they?

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
20. Sure. You don't have to build a bridge when you're on the same shore.
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 02:16 PM
Oct 2016

What's the alternative? As I said (I think) we can't let people do harm. We make and keep laws, we protect people and work toward the world we say we aspire to, which is a good one for everyone, not just those we agree with. But we have to also try to understand that people who are in pain would rather be angry than feel despair. It's a perverted form of hope but it's hope. And they're about to lose it. We can either extend a hand to help them find pride and work, and most important help their children become productive and invested in the country that we are inevitably becoming, or we can keep them isolated by shame and clannish pride and they will suffer and lash out forever.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
22. Oh I hear ya. Being raised in the Deep South is good training for loving the unfathomable.
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 08:14 PM
Oct 2016

My people are nuts. And they're good people in so many ways. And DAAAAAMN they're deluded in so many.

I'm recommending the book Hillbilly Elegy to everybody these days. It's the best memoir about being the first one to go to college and become successful in a family that are Trump supporter types I've ever seen. It captures the desperation, the clannish love for one another and distrust of others, the inability to thrive in the most basic of ways but the willingness to go an incredible distance for those they love, and the mixed pride and mistrust of the kid who left home and became one of "them." He tells it with affection and sorrow. He wants their lives to be better, in spite of themselves. So do I.

LeftInTX

(25,208 posts)
23. I agree
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 08:20 PM
Oct 2016

The only Trump supporters I know are a few at the senior center. Most of us there are supporting Hillary. These are just conservatives and not raving lunatics.

Otherwise, I don't know any Trump supporters.

 

semby2

(246 posts)
12. Silence
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 11:20 AM
Oct 2016

I'm not going to say anything to conservative coworkers (who are always very loud asses spouting propaganda during every campaign).

But if they say something I'll be sure to have some great comebacks!

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
16. I plan on celebrating positivley with those interested in doing the same.
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 11:57 AM
Oct 2016

Neither Trump or his supporters have a role to play in such a historic event.

It will be our day.

peggysue2

(10,826 posts)
24. I'll say the same thing
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 08:29 PM
Oct 2016

that was said to me (quite smugly) after the 2000 SCOTUS-decided election:

Get Over it!

 

Rob_Jacobson23

(3 posts)
28. Don the Con is fired!
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 08:50 PM
Oct 2016

I think this is a perfect comment for the Trumpsters, who will be in deep mourning on the 9th. It's simple, and to the point.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
32. Ask how we can work together?
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 09:04 PM
Oct 2016

Trump has exploited anger and encouraged division. Mockery can only deepen the divide, not bridge it.

Glamrock

(11,794 posts)
36. Thank you!
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:01 PM
Oct 2016

Man, the supreme court was the golden ring in this election and you guys handed it to the dems on a silver platter! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
39. The white supremacist & Nazi dog whistles is what got ever Republican we know over to Hillary.
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:15 PM
Oct 2016

They didn't sign up for that shit. They're seeing their party in an entirely different light now.

It's not over, yet.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
37. The plan is moving forward right on time.
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:08 PM
Oct 2016

Muhahahahahahaha. Rubbing hands together and laughing optional.

grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
38. Be Gone! I cast you out, unclean spirit. Be gone from this creature of God. Be gone...
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:13 PM
Oct 2016

From the movie the Exorcist.

I always knew that line would come in handy. I just didn't know where.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,839 posts)
40. Treat them with the exact same dignity and respect they'd extend to us
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:24 PM
Oct 2016

were Trump to win.

Which means we can be as mean, petty, arrogant, hateful, rub their faces in it as we want.

They need to fully understand the bit about Do Unto Others.

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