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by chronic6l 3504 days ago
I voted for Trump. I'm also a distinguished engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA.
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I also voted for Trump. Valley startup expat with a masters degree now working for a Fortune 50 on the East Coast. Quarter Filipino. Supported Trump since the primaries.
Can you share why you think he would make a good president?
Not GP, but maybe I can shed some light:

The last 24 hours I have catched a glimpse of it as a number of people have emptied their heartfelt contempt for

* uneducated white males,

* every person who voted Trump

* etc

I don't like Trump. I was surprised at every step that he got so far. I wouldn't have voted for him myself.

But since yesterday I might have started to understand why Americans did.

Sorry to all reasonable democrats (I guess you are the vast majority) but I think your allies actually might have secured Trumps victory.

Sincerely, Someone who lives in Europe

Edit: won't answer your question on why he would be a good president, only the question you didn't ask about why he became a president-elect.

Neither will I say that he won't become a good president, cause frankly at this point I don't get it more.

I will continue to respect democracy and American people and their rules for choosing presidents.

Sorry to all reasonable democrats (I guess you are the vast majority) but I think your allies actually might have secured Trumps victory.

It's very clear that this is indeed what happened, and more directly than you think. According to Wikileaks, the Democrats conspired to tilt the Republican primary field in favor of candidates that they expected to be easy to defeat in the general election. One of those candidates was Donald Trump.

https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=pied+piper+candidates+wik...

This act of self-destructive subversion on the DNC's part shouldn't be forgotten, but for some reason hardly anyone seems to care. This memo should be a huge deal because it explains something that wasn't clear before: how Trump ended up with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of free publicity from left-leaning US media outlets, even when he was considered a joke candidate. It is now indisputable that our media outlets take their marching orders straight from the Democratic headquarters.

I will continue to respect democracy and American people and their rules for choosing presidents.

Thanks. That respect is more than we deserve.

One of the elite 30,000 people that works for google? To what do we owe the honor (and why did you list their headquarters location)?
Being a distinguished engineer at Google is definitely elite. Only a tiny fraction of its 30k employees hold that title and it probably draws a salary in the 1-2% range.