2511: I've Been Better

[memecherry]

Originally Posted by Apia

I'm still very sad because of the election.
People were too sure hillary would win. They were not excited about her, because she seemed not cool enough or left enough or whatever.
Well, now you have it. She was not perfect enough for you so you elected the devil.
I did not expect this. I try to accept it, it was an election and obviously this is Americas opinion.
Still I have lots of questions. How can Christians be behind him?
He has his 3. Wife. He cheated. His behavior is not this of a good christian. ( I left church, but I was raised very christian)
Helping the refugees, helping the poor, this is the Christian thing to do. At least on paper.

Not sure if you've noticed before... A LOT of hypocrisy at work in church... Especially Christians...

[Sparrow]

White Christian Oppression is Starbucks not having snowflakes on their winter cups. i think that's a good place to start in trying to understand the things ahead of us.

[therewillbesnacks]

Originally Posted by Apia

I'm still very sad because of the election.
People were too sure hillary would win. They were not excited about her, because she seemed not cool enough or left enough or whatever.
Well, now you have it. She was not perfect enough for you so you elected the devil.
I did not expect this. I try to accept it, it was an election and obviously this is Americas opinion.
Still I have lots of questions. How can Christians be behind him?
He has his 3. Wife. He cheated. His behavior is not this of a good christian. ( I left church, but I was raised very christian)
Helping the refugees, helping the poor, this is the Christian thing to do. At least on paper.

When it comes down to it, the Christian Republicans who voted for Trump, and Christian Republicans in general, could give a shit about Christ-like values. They literally use Jesus as an excuse to hate foreign brown people (the irony). Many of them are adulterers themselves, and yet they hate gay people because they disrespect "the sanctity of marriage", and even pass laws against us in some states. The idea that "Christ-loving" white women could vote for Trump after everything he's said about women, especially the pussy-grabbing comments, is an utter joke, and yet here we are (not to blame them exclusively obviously). Nothing he could have said would have lost him the election. He won because of two major things: 1) People are fed up with the establishment, and Hillary was the epitome of the establishment. And 2) HRC didn't do enough to address the people living in rust belt states, which are the ones that ultimately cost her the election.

Here's a great article explaining that last point, and how Trump won easily in areas where Obama had landslides in 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/up...ss-whites.html

[therewillbesnacks]

I'd also like to add to the list of why Trump won: Hillary's a woman. I'm not a fan of hers, but I'm almost certain that if she were a man having done all the things she did, she'd simply be viewed as a "tough" and "no-bullshit" candidate, and she would have had a much better chance of winning.

Not that that needed to be necessarily mentioned, but I just wanted to add that point.

[Sparrow]

feel ya. i'm not a fervent Clinton supporter, though i did vote for her, but when it came down to it i had to vote /against/ the permission for white assholes to be openly assholes, against dangerous levels of nationalism, and against Christian theocracy.

[Dean from Australia]

How Australia saw it...

[Los]

Originally Posted by therewillbesnacks

I'd also like to add to the list of why Trump won: Hillary's a woman. I'm not a fan of hers, but I'm almost certain that if she were a man having done all the things she did, she'd simply be viewed as a "tough" and "no-bullshit" candidate, and she would have had a much better chance of winning.

It's not that Hillary's a woman, it's that Hillary is Hillary. Hatred of her (and her husband) goes back decades. She couldn't undo that in one election cycle. Instead, she made it worse. The hearings and investigation aren't over either.

I don't know if they talked about it on the show, but people had their minds made up a long time ago. I bet a lot of Trump supporters paid no attention to the media coverage. If you only read Breitbart and followed Trump on Twitter, you'd have a very different view of this election.

[WittyReference]

History has shown us all around the world that when things get tough on the middle and lower classes they look to the right for easy answers.

But I just can't right now, it's still early in the 7 stages of grief. Let's make jokes instead.

Trump missed the opportunity of using this as his campaign song.



Keith has talked about how it's awkward to sing along to some rap songs now. I would've been singing along to this when I was 13 and unsure of why it made me not feel right even though the music was pretty. I must have known not to play it in front of my parents though. Ironically it was at the same time I started getting into Public Enemy.

[therewillbesnacks]

Originally Posted by WittyReference

History has shown us all around the world that when things get tough on the middle and lower classes they look to the right for easy answers.

But I just can't right now, it's still early in the 7 stages of grief. Let's make jokes instead.

Trump missed the opportunity of using this as his campaign song.



Keith has talked about how it's awkward to sing along to some rap songs now. I would've been singing along to this when I was 13 and unsure of why it made me not feel right even though the music was pretty. I must have known not to play it in front of my parents though. Ironically it was at the same time I started getting into Public Enemy.

Haha holy shit, I never knew Guns 'n Roses that well, but I had no idea they had such a blatantly bigoted song. Would have fit Trump's rallied perfectly.

That's a rad solo though, gotta give 'em that.

[kevinquinn]

Not endorsing these views and I know that a lot of liberal Christians are upset with Trump but to answer Apia's question - Franklin Graham Encourages Evangelicals to Think of Trump as Moses or David.