I was shocked that someone who i and many others i know don't consider fit for office could have won the election.
I think it was the comments of Rumsfeld that made a lot of sense - he was saying he didn't think anyone in history has ever taken the office of chief executive with less government or military experience.
And that is why he was elected. People are seriously fed up now. They've been that way for a couple decades and they are willing to vote an actor or pro wrestler as governor.
They are sick of the wishy-washy mealy-mouthed candidates that talk the talk but nothing changes. This week Trump said we would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Well - it IS. It's stupid to "pretend" it isn't. It's like pretending that Taiwan isn't a separate nation. Clinton, Hillary, Obama, Bush - they've all at one point or another have SAID Jerusalem is the capital.
TRUMP had the balls to make it so. It was saying the emperor had no clothes. Let the Palestinians throw a tantrum.
The left will whine about how bad a decision that was - while in the past, they've said it too. They just weren't going to go out on a limb and DO it.
We have North Korea. Back in the 90's, they were starting to build a nuclear plant. They whined that oh no, it won't be used to create nuclear fuel. We need it for our electrical grid - even though it will produce far more power than our nation needs.
Yes, we need it. And we gave them *money*. We have been dancing around them for two decades. Bush called them part of the axis of evil - but he did nothing. People LIKE Trump because he's tired of the crap.
A "president" will smile and act all presidential and diplomatic. Trump will bust 'em in the chops. About goddamned time.
I have members of my family who are very liberal - mention "FOX news" and then run out of the room - it's like tossing a firecracker. A few have actually MET Trump - and toned down their words.
They're still opposed to him - but they're willing to wait and see, because he's not the monster the press creates.
As to Gays being born that way does the science of climate change also convince you it is real or are you a non believer in that respect?
*Skeptic*. One, I know a couple climatologists and their opinion is mixed - what I believe is close to what they believe - global warming or climate change is occurring - it won't end the world - the change will be small and it won't destroy the world and a lot of what people posit as the indefatigable truth is simply not so or overblown to hysteria. Moreover, the changes that are proposed are piss in the ocean - they won't do anything, at least not on a global scale.
Basically - don't worry about it. If we're going to kill ourselves off, we'll do it long before the planet does. We have either plenty of time - or nothing can be done about it. Or both.
The other is - if they can ever manage what I think science SHOULD do - make a prediction that actually comes true. I've been hearing of the dangers of climate change since Bush I - and none of the catastrophes have come to bear.
None of the weather patterns - the violent weather we were supposed to have - is significantly outside patterns having occurred before, when we were NOT pumping gases into the atmosphere.
When they can say - arctic ice gone in five years - and it IS - then I will reconsider. But it still strikes me as Malthusian hysteria.