"...What a long, strange trip it's been..."

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I wonder, is there any chance of his getting a haircut?( Please. Please.) Maybe he can take an example from Vice President-elect Pence's neat cut?
(Not my business, I know. I'm being tacky.)

I expect it to fall out (from all the stress of the office) before he needs it cut. But then again you're talking of haircuts that cost a couple of hundred $$$.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder, is there any chance of his getting a haircut?( Please. Please.) Maybe he can take an example from Vice President-elect Pence's neat cut?
(Not my business, I know. I'm being tacky.)

I expect it to fall out (from all the stress of the office) before he needs it cut. But then again you're talking of haircuts that cost a couple of hundred $$$.

If it all falls out, then all he needs is a can of Turtle Wax........

[up148]

After all its only the POOR who will suffer.

I agree. The poor and the middle class who are being pushed down and out. We have enough citizens in this country who need government help, we don't need to import any. Last night on PBS they were continuing their negativity and amazement of Trump winning, so they had two sides saying why they think it happened.

One lady (sort of Trump side) from a small town in Wisconsin commented that tax payers who have lived there forever are sick of seeing illegal immigrants (recent huge increase and she had proof) in their area who are getting government assistance to live. This is why Trump won. BS like this. We don't take care of our own citizens, but we take care of illegals, who shouldn't even be here.

I've had 8 years of seething while this problem got worse and I'm hopeful Trump really will do something about it. He's an a--hole, a manipulator, maybe a tax fraud and who knows what else, but with what Washington has done to our country in the past decade or so, they're more criminal than he is IMHO. And Clinton.....................no sense even going there.

Well meaning ideas and policies are changed all the time in this country (no child left behind was dropped and every student succeeds act replaced it 12/15 because NCLB didn't work). Time to look at our immigration laws or at least enforce the laws we have. What is going on isn't working. We are at the end of the rope and if we don't do something soon were hung.

Sorry for the political rant but I feel strongly about this.

BH

[E7]

Cut off all foreign aid, spend that money in the US

Stay out of sh*tholes like Vietnam (That place was really important to us, wasn't it?) and everywhere else we've fought since then, no more undeclared wars.

Put Congress on Social Security like everyone else.

Get rid of funding for ridiculous projects/causes

Bring back Line Item Veto


Feel free to add more stuff to this

[Mitch]

As for as the popular vote, the Democrats took office in a fairly recent election (can't remember which but might have been Obama) the same way. Popular vote went to Republicans but electoral votes went to Democrats. They didn't care then, but now they're singing the blues.

Actually, this was discussed early last week after the election results were in. It wasn't Obama, he won big both times. It was Kennedy who won the electoral vote and lost the popular vote. That is, if I didn't get my wires crossed midst all the election BS.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Cut off all foreign aid, spend that money in the US

Stay out of sh*tholes like Vietnam (That place was really important to us, wasn't it?) and everywhere else we've fought since then, no more undeclared wars.

Put Congress on Social Security like everyone else.

Get rid of funding for ridiculous projects/causes

Bring back Line Item Veto


Feel free to add more stuff to this

1) Drop the notion of building the navy fleet back up to 500 ships. The newest aircraft carrier is costing at this time a whopping $13 Billion, that we have to keep maintained and manned, plus it requires airplanes, right!!! Build new ones ONLY to replace the ones that need to be decommissioned.

Of course there's too many ex-admirals, generals, and captains, embedded/working for pentagon contractors to let that happen.

2) Put a wall up round Hollywood, not Mexico. Have employees come to the door once/wk to hand us the latest movie, TV show,etc, then close the door quickly before any of them get out. Let them do whatever they feel like inside their walled-off town (they do anyway), all we need is what they're suppose to offer us, entertainment. I don't care what they think or what their political views are, THEY'RE ENTERTAINERS FOR GOD's SAKE!!! Court Jesters!

3) Eliminate the IRS and current tax system, install a national sales tax that would affect everyone who would spend money,and that everyone whether they have a paycheck or get paid under the table. States could do the same thing.

4) Take the comedian Gallagher's advice and give everyone dart guns that shoot darts that say "STUPID" on them. After a target gets hit 3 times they get a ticket.

BobD

[rogruth]

Mitch,
How is it possible to get through an election without getting wires crossed when all of the machinations of those involved are considered?
The so called "press" doesn't help at all because they are able to expand and warp thins even more.

[rogruth]

BobD,

No way. That makes too much sense.

[up148]

Well, regardless of where we've been, this long, strange trip is going to get longer and stranger by the day. Even if the Dems had won, the USA was/is in such a state of flux, that it was going to change anyway. So, we'll see how this thread progresses over the next four years and hope there are at least a few positive notes to comment on.

BH

[gregj410]

Well, I heard, yesterday, that Trump is going to be making efforts at reviving the coal industry in W.Va. He may also have his eyes on and plans for reviving the steel industry and automotive industry in the USA . If he can pull that off, I'll lead a movement to erect a statue to him myself.

However, I'm not fully understanding how such can be accomplished without global warming not being affected. I mean, seeing then-and-now photos of mountain valleys previously brimful with glaciation, now verdant fields and forests, plus the polar bears and seals finding themselves often stranded on ice pieces, it doesn't take an academic degree to comprehend the changes.

P.S. And any suggestion that the seas are not rising, I refer skeptics to the folks in Vienna.

Ted Cruz can help make sense of this
https://youtu.be/Sl9-tY1oZNw

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Well, regardless of where we've been, this long, strange trip is going to get longer and stranger by the day. Even if the Dems had won, the USA was/is in such a state of flux, that it was going to change anyway. So, we'll see how this thread progresses over the next four years and hope there are at least a few positive notes to comment on.

BH

Well, if trying to walk or drive down Fifth Avenue in NYC between Central Park and 42nd St. and/or 56th Street, between 5th and Madison is any indication, we are in for a bumpy, F*** the People ride. Fasten your seat-belts.

[gregj410]

Well, regardless of where we've been, this long, strange trip is going to get longer and stranger by the day. Even if the Dems had won, the USA was/is in such a state of flux, that it was going to change anyway. So, we'll see how this thread progresses over the next four years and hope there are at least a few positive notes to comment on.

BH

Well, if trying to walk or drive down Fifth Avenue in NYC between Central Park and 42nd St. and/or 56th Street, between 5th and Madison is any indication, we are in for a bumpy, F*** the People ride. Fasten your seat-belts.

Tear gas would settle things down a bit

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Well, regardless of where we've been, this long, strange trip is going to get longer and stranger by the day. Even if the Dems had won, the USA was/is in such a state of flux, that it was going to change anyway. So, we'll see how this thread progresses over the next four years and hope there are at least a few positive notes to comment on.

BH

Well, if trying to walk or drive down Fifth Avenue in NYC between Central Park and 42nd St. and/or 56th Street, between 5th and Madison is any indication, we are in for a bumpy, F*** the People ride. Fasten your seat-belts.

Tear gas would settle things down a bit

Not as far as shoppers, stores, and restaurants are concerned. Their businesses have been damaged and continue to be damaged, and it's getting worse. Bus-sized piles of garbage have been building up in that section of the city, since garbage trucks have been banned from those blocks! Wait-staffs which depend on gratuities for a living have found their customer base to have shrunk to 20 o/o of normal. Some stores have had no business due to blocked sidewalks and closed-off streets, this all in , perhaps, the largest shopping/retail neighborhood in the Western World. In fairness, though, such disruptions are not his fault; rather, they are simply due to the fact of him being there. What else is he supposed to do, however. He lives and conducts business there and cannot move into the White House yet, of course. So, hopefully, the necessary adjustments will be made, soon.

His leaving during rush-hour for his residence in NJ causing the Lincoln Tunnel , in BOTH DIRECTIONS to be closed to traffic, except for his motorcade, perpetrated on the Public - The People - at that time of day, no less, is something he may want to look at further, for the sake of The People.

[HONDO74]

This is what Paris looks like today from the middle east invasion. This is what the east coast cities will look like when they get here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN0QddK8VFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEs0Mzaa6E

[rogruth]

Hondo,

Although I didn't like what I saw, thank you for posting the above videos.
I see the French officials are denying the existence of the "camps".
I suspect that the so called sanctuary cities here in the US will look
very similar in a short time. Oh how the colleges will love that. Another
cause to work on.
I'm not too worried about me. I'm concerned for my kids, their kids
and their kids.