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by i_feel_great 3509 days ago
Saying those things about Muslims, Mexicans and all the other dumb shit (you go Google it yourself) makes him worse than Bush or Obama.

But not as bad as Clinton. Those vicious wars in the Middle East continued and got worse on her watch. In fact, according to the emails leaked by Wikileaks, she actively solicited payments from the Saudi and the Qatari government whilst she was representing the US as Secretary of State. It took Putin to come in and bomb the fuck out of ISIS to turn the tide of the war. Whatever you Americans will suffer under Trump is nothing compared to what those poor people suffered.

You Americans should feel bad about Clinton, Trump and what your government has done, and will continue to do to the world.

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I sure do feel bad about Trump, we brought this guy in named Obama and he just amped up Bush's drone wars, and continued many of his policies. All I want is a non-nanny state government who isn't picking fights with countries we have no business being in. Long term that kinda stuff is what caused the USSR to go broke.

America needs a classic New Deal Democrat to focus on rebuilding our countries infrastructure, so our businesses can succeed. Not on restricting what people do with or to themselves when it has no effect on others.

It doesn't make him worse than Bush or Obama. It makes him more honest.

I'd tend to think that people who express themselves outside of PC-talk, are actually better than those who learned to lie and hide their mischievous thoughts behind socially accepted PC-talk. The later consistenty do much worse things. You can always label bad things under "good" PC-words. How good is that?

Trump had a consistent record of telling lies during the campaign. He may have been honest about his racism but he was dishonest about a whole bunch of other things.
He's been consistently lying about everything since the early 70s.
Just because he said some bad words doesn't make him worse than Obama and Bush.

Let's wait and let the guy do his job and then we can comment based on his actions as president.

But having people spamming the net with stupid stuff like moving out of the country is becoming ridiculous.

Look at the GOP's policies. They have full control of the legislature and Trump is going to sign whatever Ryan et al pass across his desk. That's terrifying because they're going to bolster Citizens United and continue gutting the Voting Rights Act. They also get a free "however batshit" appointment to the Supreme Court (and potentially 3 more) which strengthens their bolstering and gutting.

It'll be decades before the next 4 years is unravelled.

They aren't just bad words.

How must it feel to be a child growing up in a country where the president has demonized you, your whole family and heritage? That must influence how a person sees themselves in the world.

There will definitely be long lasting psychological consequences at minimum.