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Happy New Year! F*ck 2016!
9 years ago
"Justice Is Fairness
Discipline is Honor
Honesty is Nobility"
-Taladrian
Discipline is Honor
Honesty is Nobility"
-Taladrian
Well Happy Gregorian New Year! All I have to say f*ck 2016, this year has been quite rough for the world to say the least! The West making some really bad choices based on emotions and prejudice, it's the year where I see Western civilization in danger of abandoning its values that made it the place that my parents immigrated to have a better life, to have freedom, and me being the first of their family born here, I'm hoping that with the current president elect, they'd still be a place for me and others like me, that hopefully we'd come back to our senses and not totally fuck things up for the rest of us(of course the elites don't get to suffer the consequences of their decisions).
I think people have been in a very "fuck the establishment" mood, however, that energy that could've been able to battle corruption, oligarchy, inequality, and for the rights of all(not just a group of people based on arbitrary notions), instead many got manipulated to vote with their prejudices and against their own interests, this year(Though really, it was the electoral college that voted in the president elect, not the people, and they failed to do their job in terms of voting against unqualified candidates, making the electoral college about as useless as a screendoor on a submarine in its current state). Facts took a hit and it seems people often aren't caring about facts anymore which to me is very disheartening, but I think 2017 as a commentator said, would probably be a year of us learning from our bad decisions.
John Oliver says f*ck you 2016!
A geopolitical review of 2016:
https://geopoliticsmadesuper.com/20.....itical-review/
As for the new president elect to be, I don't think he wants the job, and he's going to learn that being the president of the United States is way different than being a CEO or whatever the hell he does that I don't give a damn about. If you noticed Obama is in his late 40s when he became president in 2009, and now 8 years later, he aged a fair bit, Trump is already 70, I have a feeling he probably will not last long, and I think he'd quit Either that or he'll hardly get anything substantial done, though on a later journal I'll give a run down of his policies as of the present and see if it's viable and constitutional but we'll see. God willing we'll get through this, maybe he won't fuck things up, maybe it'll be another 4 years of congress getting nothing done, which I'd rather have that then anything else :P
I think people have been in a very "fuck the establishment" mood, however, that energy that could've been able to battle corruption, oligarchy, inequality, and for the rights of all(not just a group of people based on arbitrary notions), instead many got manipulated to vote with their prejudices and against their own interests, this year(Though really, it was the electoral college that voted in the president elect, not the people, and they failed to do their job in terms of voting against unqualified candidates, making the electoral college about as useless as a screendoor on a submarine in its current state). Facts took a hit and it seems people often aren't caring about facts anymore which to me is very disheartening, but I think 2017 as a commentator said, would probably be a year of us learning from our bad decisions.
John Oliver says f*ck you 2016!
A geopolitical review of 2016:
https://geopoliticsmadesuper.com/20.....itical-review/
As for the new president elect to be, I don't think he wants the job, and he's going to learn that being the president of the United States is way different than being a CEO or whatever the hell he does that I don't give a damn about. If you noticed Obama is in his late 40s when he became president in 2009, and now 8 years later, he aged a fair bit, Trump is already 70, I have a feeling he probably will not last long, and I think he'd quit Either that or he'll hardly get anything substantial done, though on a later journal I'll give a run down of his policies as of the present and see if it's viable and constitutional but we'll see. God willing we'll get through this, maybe he won't fuck things up, maybe it'll be another 4 years of congress getting nothing done, which I'd rather have that then anything else :P
Bring forth the joy of 2017!
Is that weird?
Anyways, Happy New Year.
And regardless of what happens we have Donald Trump memes.
Im looking at it this way, It would be easy for russia to invade the us when the Commander and cheif tells his army to stand down and let it happen. Russia just walks right in Easy victory.
I have the funds at my disposal and overall it's not as much as a deal as it seems, mostly it's just hopping across the border for me.
Regardless of what happens the next four years, Trump is a symptom of a larger problem. Even if he's voted out there are systemic issues with American society that aren't going to be resolved for quite some time, which overall seem to be heading for economic and social instability in the next decade or two.
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You fail to understand the reason why there is a backlash against immigration. The reason why immigrants original came to America in the 19th and early 20th century was to make a better life for themselves and their families of course, but they expected and wanted to make a better life by assimilating into American culture and uniting behind American values. But many immigrants today refuse to assimilate and have no allegiance to American culture but instead want to take advantage of the blessings of America for themselves while disrespecting our laws, harming other Americans, and cutting the cultural threads that have held the U.S. together for decades. People are tired of the prevalence of welfare based on race and ethnicity rather than meritocratic reward. And yes, even though minorities are growing in this country, we are still a majority white nation and white people got really tired of being demonized as the evil privileged elite as they saw their wages stagnate and jobs disappear. Bill Maher was right about the Democrats and the left making white working class people feel like a minority. Attacking the white majority is not the way to help minorities.
There are "facts" and there are alleged "facts." What may seem like a fact to you is not necessarily so. You're equating all your political opinions with facts while all those that happen to disagree with you are false. Ever since the presidential race, you've been regurgitating everything that late night news comedians are saying and accepting what they say without the slightest scrutiny. Even in this very journal, you failed to pinpoint a single specific policy proposal that is at the basis of your fear-mongering. What is it that you are so afraid of? Trump has significantly scaled back on his most extreme proposals and is showing himself to be more measured as the president-elect than he was during the campaign.
Lastly, keep in mind that this was not merely a rejection of the establishment. This election was a rejection of the left and the Democratic Party. Republicans gained or retained power in every branch and level of government: the presidency, congress, governorships, and local offices. Did you know that we haven't had this level of Republican control since 1928? I find it funny how you talk about elites, when it was the Obama administration that pushed a left-wing agenda on the American people against their will. You only view elites in economic terms (the rich) but you ignore cultural, political, and intellectual elites who also have the power to force their ideas on everyone else. Have you ever considered that there might be reasons why Americans so firmly rejected the previous course our nation was heading on?
But I think if obammy knew he would have did things before hand to stop that and fufill that process but dems so confident their pide piper candidate(s) would lose ...now in effect, with obamas 8 years of inaction hes handled over such power...to said greater evil,
What data you have on this I may ask? My parents came here from Latin America and the Middle East and are doing fine as American citizens, I think you're absolutely wrong on this and the data doesn't back your claim. Immigrants actually boost our economy as seen in this article by the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/busines.....conomy/398987/
To me affirmative action generally shouldn't be around however, the poverty among whites is different than that of other minorities which is a very complicated picture, but I would argue, it isn't immigrants that took their jobs, it was the CEOs and corporations that have shipped their jobs overseas, to blame it on immigrants is bullshit. It's similar to how the civil war went, the plantation owners exploited poor white farmers and convinced them that if they don't fight, freed slaves would take their jobs, look up the rebellion of Jones county in Mississippi in 1863 for a clear example of that. So I think Sanders even addressed this better than Obama, and I think would've helped them better than Trump ever will.
And to me a lot of these facts I looked it up from mostly trusted sources, I avoid sources that are definitely biased, but try to find sources that are for the most part trusted by most. If not use academic sources when I can. When I talk about elites I talk about people with wealth and influence, usually wealth and power often go hand in hand, I don't like SJWs for example, or a lot of other related stuff to that, but now we got the alt right rising on the other side, to me the cultural situation was similar to what happened in Republican Spain prior to their civil war. On one side, liberals, democrats, anarchists, socialists, communists wanted to make Spain a more progressive country, wanted to modernize not just industry wise but cultural wise(greater rights for women and workers), while on the other end the Nationalists, were made up of conservatives, monarchists, fascists, traditionalists etc who wanted to restore the monarchy in Spain at the time, and keep their traditional values which they felt was under threat under the new democratically elected left wing government, so a military coup happened in 1936, which led to a full blown civil war where both sides were extremely vicious towards each other, 600,000 deaths including many killings of political opponents on both sides, so to me what's going on now it's simply reactionary to a lot of the sweeping changes that has been happening in the country lately. A lot of progressive things that Obama put fouth such as same sex marriage was largely supported by the majority of the populace, but it's a big subject to explore.
As far as Trump goes if you've been paying attention there's quite a lot to fear especially if you look at his cabinet, I'll go into detail about it soon.
58% voter turnout in the primary. Of that 58%, it was a nearly 50/50 split, with Clinton having an ever-so-slight edge in the popular vote. As you may know, popular vote means very little, since POTUS is determined by the Electoral College, not by the populus. I voted for "None of these candidates".
Was Trump a good choice? Probably not, but neither was Clinton. There were no good choices. It all boiled down to which foot shall we shoot this election year, and in this case, it was our left foot.