Exhuminator wrote:jp1 wrote:If you had the opportunity to hire an employee who you felt was qualified to fill a position in a company you were running and he came to the interview saying all the things Trump has said, had pending charges for the things Trump has had charges for, and told you that he would not leave your office unless you hired him. Would he get a job from you?
I don't find this analogy to be parallel to the actual situation for a variety of reasons, so I'm not going to entertain it. If you want to know why I voted for Trump, go back a few pages and you'll find what I said.
Certainly it isn't parallel to the actual situation. It's much less important, which is why I asked in such context.
I looked some forty pages back and never found a clear concise statement from you about why you voted for Trump. Unless doing it because Hillary called some folks "deplorables" or because America has been leaning hard left for a while are reasons.
As far as energy is concerned the more progressive European nations have already made a push in that direction. We don't seem willing to follow. Since oil is so immensely important in the real estate business I wonder if Trump has a vested interest in holding that progress back even more?
@Sarge, no I do not agree with every single thing Hillary has said. However if she had said any of the already discussed topics that Trump repeatedly spewed forth, even once, I would not have voted for her. I will never put my endorsement behind a man or woman that represents those ideals...no matter what else they represent.
How many people have to be tortured, harassed, or killed before it seems like it wasn't worth it giving this man so much power? I'm not pointing a finger of blame, you couldn't have possibly known the outcome or how badly people would react. I'm asking when do you, at any point, feel like enough is enough?
If Trump were any sort of leader, or human being really, he would have been on television already imploring these people to stop doing this horrible crap in his name. Better yet, he would threaten to step down if it didn't cease immediately. If he gave one iota of a shit about anyone in this country besides himself. Every day he does or says nothing another American is beat, mistreated, or possibly murdered, with "Trump" stamped right beside it so everyone knows why.
Like it or not, the implication that your vote was some small part of the fifty million other votes that emboldened these acts of hate puts some of that weight on your shoulders. At least, in my opinion, it should. That's what I can't understand, the laissez-faire attitude about not being held accountable in any way for what is happening. You heard what he said, you made your decision (hopefully in spite of that), and now the consequences of it are coming to fruition and you just shrug your shoulders? This is human life we are talking about here. Not some matter of boosting the economy so people can afford a better television. Because, let's face it, the extremely poor will not benefit in the least from a Trump administration...if they survive it at all.
