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Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com)
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, succeeding Barack Obama and taking control of a divided country in a transition of power that he has declared will lead to "America First" policies at home and abroad. Reuters reports: As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in Washington, Trump raised his right hand and put his left on a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln and repeated a 35-word oath of office from the U.S. Constitution, with U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts presiding.
No really. Some people think America is great because, but it really is a shit hole. I mean really, mass shootings are a regular occurrence, crime is high despite having the largest prison population in the world. The military is supposed to be the greatest in the world but they couldn't even give their soldiers clean water while in Iraq. No real healthcare to speak of. The so called Obamacare was just forcing insurance companies to do things a certain way. It hardly compares to Canada, UK, or EU, all of whom have better life expectancy, better cancer survival rates, and far fewer people going broke for all of it. America has no maternity leave, no paternity leave, still relies heavily on coal for power. The primary and secondary education systems are sub par, and the post-secondary education systems that are half way decent are too expensive for most citizens to afford.
And now they have elected someone who is openly racist. His comments on Mexicans were distasteful at best. His mocking of a disabled reporter seemed like something out of a junior high school drama. And while I wont' necessarily hold locker room talk against him, his public statements are enough to know he is not capable of grasping the nuances of his position. He filled the cabinet positions with people who are incapable of running them.
I honestly don't know why anyone who isn't a foaming-at-the-mouth baffoon would ever want to live in that shithole when Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, etc all exist.
Make America Great Again? It was never really that great to begin with.
SNL is shit. It's been shit for decades. Even when it wasn't shit, it was rarely good. There are a handful of funny bits from the entire history of the show, and a god chunk of those are spoiled Fallon laughing so much that Will Ferrell has to wait and repeat his line.
Meryl Streep is overrated. About as overrated as Tom Hanks. (He's terrible, he just either shouts or mumbles. Good movies are built around him like a frosting is layered on top of a turd. I'm glad he's confined to that DaVinci Code crap now.)
Of course, those are OPINIONS (even though it's a hard fucking fact that SNL sucks ass).
I don't know what shows he talked about, but if he claimed a publication was failing he was right again. Print is dead, and it took journalism and ethics along with it. He was right about Macy's, as well.
I don't care for Trump but when people bitch and moan about him, and spread lies about him, they reveal how much of a petulant child they are. They are every bit as hateful, bigoted, violent, etc. as they claim Trump to be.
No, he won because there's a whole swatch of pout and out stupid people in the middle of the country. People who couldn't see that he was and is a con man, and that he bullshits his way to the top. He's appointed people to agencies who literally have no idea what the agency they are appointed to does. He has turned ignorance and malevolence into a virtue, and then idiots like you accuse the left of being divisive?
LOL. OK, I'll keep that in mind the next time a liberal walks into a bible study group and shoots 9 people in cold blood.
I think less of people like you because you watched an adult mock a disabled person in front of a crowd and still supported him. I think less of you because you saw a man spouting clear racism and backed him.
Both of those are false, "fake news". Trump mocked the disabled man the same way he mocked able-bodied men and women.
Trump has not expressed any racist statements; he expressed negative views of some illegal immigrants.
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