nice speech. very true. After every election we hear bellyaching on both sides and it doesnt help anything

Agreed, you dislike the results, cool. That is your right, from there go work on the local level, gear up for the next election and try not to think everyone who voted different than you is the enemy. We are all just people looking to try and make things as good as they can for our family and ourselves. So don't see them as an enemy, just see them as someone you can talk to and try to make understand your point. And after that if they still don't agree with you, that is cool. Respect them enough to not make a villain out of them.

Hey, shhhhh! You can't let everyone know about my plans of world domination. I know you all will enjoy being my harem bdsm slaves but I got to work you in slowly.

And thank you sir.

Woohoo
Ssssnek for World Leader!

Yessssss!!!!!

Very well said and spoken. I agree whole wholeheartedly, even if the election didn't turn out the way everyone expected it to we have to have hope.

*nods* thanks. Hope is about all we have to keep rolling. I will say I was quite inspired at one point in Trump's victory speech where he straight up said we need to protect our LGBT community and the crowd cheered. A republican president elect said we should protect that community and his supporters cheered. I think we might be, not great, but maybe ok.

well writ, my precious snek *licks*

Thanks my sweet floofy ferret *hugs and licks back*

lil' bit lower with that tongue, darlin'
mama needs some... attention
..oh, wait, we were talking about politics

Hehe, for you, I will lick lower. And keep licking all night for you darling.

As for politics, we can start the healing with each other first.

mmm just lay back and lemme get comfy ;)

hah! if i pretend i need healing, will you go deeper?

As you wish darling. And there is no need to pretend. This activity is healing for the soul and the soul is always in need of healing. The deeper the healing, the better. Always.

you raise a good point ♡ there you go, making me all speechless again :P good thing i won't need to say much during this... ahh.. what'd you call it?

..activity x)

Hehe, glad I can make you speechless. Now lets see if I can make you scream darling. *hugs before dragging you into the bedroom*

Nice speech and notes on it.

Elections are usually divisive n emotions run high when winners are decided.

The important thing is carrying on again together... rather than forever playing politics. Or nothing will ever get done.
Regardless of whos in charge.

Amen my friend.

With that said....


WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHH *Runs around like a chicken with its head cut off screaming bloody murder*

AYEEEEEEEE

*Run around flailing *

REPENT!!!

If I have any regrets it's that Bernie Sanders didn't get the nomination he so rightly deserved. If Bernie had been the nominee I stead of Hillary there is no question in mind that he would have wiped the floor with Trump. But no the Democrats wanted a lady in the White House so badly they rigged things and put forth the Queen of the Lizard People.

WTF were the Democrats thinking? Did they really think people wouldn't be able to see through Hillary and recognize here as the viper she really is?

What's done is done I guess, no use dwelling on it, I'll just give myself an ulcer that way. Thanks for the inspiring words Hand of Blades.

I agree man, Bernie got screwed so badly and the WikiLeaks showed such a level of corruption between the media, the DNC, and the Clinton campaign it was almost laughable. Beyond that I do think that Bernie would have won and this is with about a dozen hard core Republicans I know straight up saying, had Bernie run I would have voted for him. And these are folks that have voted Republican their whole life. However Clinton felt entitled to the presidency so she just had to have a go at it. Le sigh.

Anyways, *hugs* lets try and make the best out of the next 4 years. I mean the worst that could happen is Fallout! I so wanna get a pip boy!

This. This is so true.

Many thanks for making this journal. I have been looking for someone else encouraging their watchers to keep calm, embrace their fellows and move on. This is a message that everyone really needs to hear right now.

You are welcome. I do find it funny I have been blocked at least once due to this journal, maybe more I don't know about. Say la vi I guess. But *hugs* now is the time to come together as a country. We need to heal these wounds, look at what makes us great, and what we need to improve upon so we can make American greater than it has ever been. Had Hillary won I would have made the same journal and the same call. We are Americans lets get over ourselves and get back to hugging again.

I am not actually American, but I wish all the best to you and your people. I hope you can come together and be united again one day.

Agreed, I would say both have tempers, but from what I have read, Trump yells at you, Clinton throws shit at you XD. Regardless, I also voted Johnson, South Carolina native no hope of us going anywhere but Red, but I was totally looking for that 5 percent man.

Yeah Bernie got screwed bad and I know several republicans who would have voted for him so the DNC screwed themselves there.

Well since I was blocked by  gamingdragon I will post my reply down here so folks can read it. Please folks if you feel so strongly you feel you have to block someone trying to call folks together maybe there are other problems than who got into the White House.

I am wrong for trying to be optimistic and telling folks to try and relax a bit and to hold the new guy accountable as he is president of all Americans not just the ones who voted for him?

As for leader of the free world, that is sort of a title that comes with being the US President. Sort of agreed upon by the media and a whole lot else.

As for Nobody wanting Hitler 2 or WW3, you are quite right. But last I checked we didn't elect a clone of Hitler. We elected Donald Trump. Now will he do good, no idea, I hope so. Will he do bad, maybe but again I hope not. This is a call to come together. A call echoed by Donald Trump himself in his victory speech.

I would recommend watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fld9B48DUkc it is his first 100 days speech. He actually has a few good ideas in here.

But anyways. Thanks for you comment. I do hope you are wrong about Trump and I hope he winds up being a great president, much like I hoped Obama would be one. So cheers and come here, I think you need a hug from an American who cares. *offers hug*

Although I understand the message you're trying to send: a call for unity at a time when the US seems to be fraught with division, I must politely state that I disagree.

I have friends who could very well be deported if Donald Trump follows through on his longstanding promises on matters related to immigration, I have numerous female friends and a significant other who would all be affected if either Donald Trump, or more likely, his running mate, Mike Pence, make good on their numerous promises to criminalize and restrict abortion and defund Planned Parenthood. Mike Pence as Governor of Indiana actually established a record of doing exactly that and there is nothing to suggest that he would not champion the same sorts of policies as Vice-President. What about my other numerous friends regardless of ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation that are covered by the Affordable Care Act which Congressional leaders and Trump himself has promised to repeal, and which they have the votes to do if it comes to it? I am covered under my parents' insurance plan because of the ACA and its repeal would render me uninsured, the same would occur to all of my friends who are in the same circumstances.

The part of the country I live in has a large Muslim-American population, can anyone really, realistically say that their lives and communities are not going to be affected by this? By the inauguration of a President who has openly called for a shutdown of Muslim immigration to the United States, whose running mate passed a bill that banned Syrian refugees from coming to Indiana solely because of the fact that they were Syrian? My losing ACA coverage would be troubling, but that's getting off easy. I'm not in a position where I fear for my future in this country the way many minority communities do.

So no, although I of course accept the democratic process, I am not going to simply idly follow along with calls for national unity if the price for that is an extremist agenda being implemented in national politics. The law of the land makes Donald Trump my President, but I will not lay down and accept that idly.

I am disappointed and angry at the outcome of the election, but I have every intention of using these sentiments productively. I'm not going to go out and start conflicts, I'm going to take action to make sure politicians who don't support the policies espoused by Donald Trump get elected to office or keep their current seats in the House or Senate.

I won't get into my own politics here as that is not really what the journal is for. While this is a call to unity for the country, I am not calling on all of us to blindly follow what ever Trump, Pence, or the Republicans call for. I am asking that we stay calm and do no demonize each other for holding different beliefs.

If this election has given you the spark to go out and work with your local governments then by all means do it. I in fact said as much in the journal. Please write to your representatives and congress. Let them know your position and how you feel. Get involved at every level. I just ask that the discourse is peaceful and at the end of it, you don't view the other side as evil, or monsters, or literally the new Hitler. That kind of logic and rhetoric is not helpful.

We as a country need to come together, have civil discourse, a good heathy debate, and learn to work together because our nation is founded on compromise and that is our strength.

I ask you pray for Trump and those he is putting around him. Pray they will have wisdom and compassion. Pray for those opposing him that they will do so out of good intentions and not for political theater and their own self interest.

My call here was not universal support of Donald Trump, but a supporting of the democratic process and supporting of your fellow Americans. We are in this together and we have to work together to make a brighter future. The American people sent a message of we are sick of being ignored and lied to I think and we need to hold Washington's feet to the fire for this one. Trump's as well. Just can we keep it mostly civil and not burn stuff down and beat each other up?

Thank you for such a polite and measured response. I may not be from the Palmetto State, but all the same, bless your heart!

I don't intend to demonize anyone. I will hold people accountable for their own stated beliefs and positions, especially if these beliefs happen to be hostile to other people, but remaining calm is a skill of mine.

And believe me, I was a history major in college and hold it as one of the two parts of my degree, so I'm very wary of any comparisons to the Nazis which people are too ready to make in US politics. I can certainly do as you say for the Republican Party as a whole, which I do hold and always have held to still have many good people within it. I cannot in good conscience do the same for Donald Trump or Mike Pence. Their election is a setback to this nation and they are an enemy to my beliefs and to those I hold dear. But the Lord says we must love our enemies, so I will try, at least to do that.

I will as you say, pray for kindness and compassion in Trump and those who share in his government. Though I fear it will be in vain, all the same, I will try.

And hold the phone, I thought you liked it when people beat each other up?

You are quite welcome sir. I always find a good dose of southern hospitality goes a long way.

I am glad to hear that and I agree with you. There is no reason to find the other side evil but you can hold people accountable for their choices and views and we should do that with Trump and Pence.

I agree, both parties have amazing people in them and to quote Regan here for a moment, there is so much that they don't know. I think falls on both parties. I believe that both have great points with supporting the poor, helping people out, and a rising tide raises all ships. Now if only both sides could calm down enough to find the good in the other then we might, just might have a system that works again.

Thank you for offering up your prayers. Hopefully it will do good. As my dad always said, he didn't always like the President of the USA, however the position alone deserves a certain amount of respect and you should always, always pray that they make the best decisions for the country.

As for the phone *looks at it* Well fuck yeah I love it when folks fight. However those fights are a different kind. When I fight it is for pride, putting my masculinity on the line, and for claiming the right to breed the loser silly. Politics deals with more than just me and my opponent. So we got to be a lot nicer. Now you want to burn off of frustration, anger, and excess energy. Well we can slip into the ring, work it all out and like I told Sober engage in some healing of the soul with a series of hard, rough, sweaty thrusts of body against body, once we figure out who is on top of course.

This is literally the best journal I've read. No fear mongering, no bellyaching, no vicious attacks (you can spank me if you want though.)
Thank you for your civility and common sense. *salutes*

Not doing anything special man. It is time for us to come together and heal. Has to start somewhere. So I challenge you, go hug someone you disagree with, let em know you respect em though you don't agree. And my god please for the love of all that is fuzzy can we get back to the porn on my furry porn site! Everyone loves dongs and fish tacos, lets grab em all by the...wait a minute...CRAP!

XD

So two years later, Trump turned out to be a complete and total Nazi, and a traitor, as did his supporters, and it looks like it's going to cost us our entire democracy.

Sometimes, people really are just racist.

Which it is why it is important for people to get involved and to get focused on 2020 election. Been looking at Tulsi Gabbard and I have to say she is my preferred candidate the Democrats are presenting so far. Hoping she does well in the next round of debates.

Tulsi Gabbard appears to be a Russian asset whose marching orders are to sabotage the most promising candidates, based on her history and statements. She's also an Assad apologist and the only Dem in the field I'm aware of of who actually claims that Russia had no role in influencing the election. There's a reason Republicans are always talking about how she's the best of the Democratic field. Because she's arguably the worst, and they want you to support her.

If you're looking for a centrist Dem, at least go with Biden. He's an idiot but doesn't appear to be treasonous.

Biden is my second choice overall. I mainly like Tulsi for her antiwar stances and a few of her polices on criminal justice reform and some of her environmental policies. I honestly though Biden would have beaten trump in the general election in 2016 and wish he would have run then. Sadly now he keeps making the most inane and stupid comments possible for some reason. But all in all glad I didn’t vote for trump in 2016 but third party was my only real option that cycle due to my home state always swinging right so aimed to get a high enough percent for the libertarian party to recover public election financing this go around but seems that is falling by the wayside with the crowded democrat field.

Well like I said, Biden's foot-in-mouth aside, he doesn't seem to be actively working against the United States like Tulsi does. Though I don't want him to win the nomination so I guess if you want to go with Tulsi in the primary, go for it, since he's definitely not going to win, and that's one less vote for Biden.

Can’t vote in the democrat primary due to my state having that you can only vote in your parties primary. Chipped in to a few different candidates so far such as Biden and Bernie so will see how things play out and will do a good deep dive on folks when it gets down to one or two to see who to support as best I can.