On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 5:52:55 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:
On 03/01/2017 02:28 PM, David B. wrote:



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they had hoped for. Despite the rhetoric, it's still going to be
business as usual. (Just a little bit worse.)

I've now watched most of his speech.

I'm hoping he will be a GREAT president of the USA! :-)




It would be nice but I don't see that as much of a possibility
In American elections there are always those idiots who are too lazy to
vote and I'm sure there were a few million in this last election that
fit that category.

However out of the 60 million or so who did not vote, a large percentage
HATED both Trump and Clinton.

Coupled to the 3 million majority votes that Clinton got, Trump has
started out with the majority of voters HATING him.


George Bush may not have been liked by some...but I know few people who
outright hated him.


Right from the start Trump is facing a huge handicap.


Had he started out by saying something to the effect that he knows not
everyone was in favor of him but he would work for all Americans, he
might have gotten some mileage with that.

Instead he whined like a 3 year old and complained about a rigged
election...even though he won it.


+1




Additionally, since it's know he is friendly toward Putin, since when is
it fashionable to be a commie sympathizer?


It's now the cool thing among the Trumpets. Trump says Putin is
cool and voila!, all is forgotten. NEver mind that he invaded Crimea,
took it by force, that he still has troops in half of the rest of
Ukraine. Forget about shooting down MH17 and bombing civilians in
Syria, instead of going after ISIS like Trump naively said he would
when Trump welcomed him into Syria. Forget about the fact that Russia
just clearly violated an arms control treaty dating back to Reagan,
by deploying new nuclear cruise missiles. No, Trumnp says Putin is
cool, so all hail Trump and Putin!



Trump has done way more that simply having shot himself in the foot.

Let's see what happens in just two weeks, when the bandaid they put on
the $20 tril debt expires. That presents a huge opportunity for Trump
to create more chaos and disruption, by throwing some gas on the fire.