I didn't think I could be more bummed on this thread, but it happened.
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bawtard this isnt a joke. People's lives are changing for the worse because of shit like this.
Oh, nooo, it is funny. Peoples lives can always change for the worst anytime. Motherfuckers just mad. I like a change, see what happens, give trump a chance, he really aint that fuckin stupid. If shit goes haywire, Ill admit I was wrong.
Interestingly enough, your admittance of being wrong will not undo the potential harms that many people may experience if Trump carries out his (contradictory) promises. To those of us that are happy that income for normal families has finally started rising and unemployment is below 5% and that the more accurate U-6 rating of unemployment is finally below 10%, his "wild card" bullshit does not sound appealing (
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/07/unemployment-rate-shows-at-5-but-more-realistic-rate-is-higher.html).
Furthermore, your admittance of being wrong will be and is worth absolutely nothing in the real world. Despite your belief that this matters, it doesn't. To 18 million who may lose the healthcare that they got via the ACA, your admittance of being wrong won't mean shit (
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/17/18-million-would-lose-insurance-in-first-year-of-obamacare-repeal-without-replacement-cbo-report-says/?utm_term=.b399934b7a18). It won't mean shit to those who may face problems via changes to medicaid (
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2016/11/27/why-trumps-block-grants-for-medicaid-face-opposition/#715fb8cf20f9). For those of us under the age of 47, the Trump/Ryan threat to our Social Security and Medicare isn't appealing either (
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2016/11/16/three-ways-trump-gop-may-cut-social-security-medicare/#1dadee0c4e0e). To those who have their water, air, and land polluted as the EPA is dismantled or dramatically weakened your admittance of wrong wont' mean shit (
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-epa-freeze-grants-contracts-20170123-story.html). You won't mean shit when the FDA rolls back food safety measures and we are getting sick more often from tainted food (
http://thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/296152-trump-says-he-would-eliminate-food-safety-regulations). It is not going to mean shit to those who continue to get fucked over by the banks when Trump weakens the consumer financial protection bureau (
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/310155-consumer-financial-protection-will-remain-alive-under-trump). When he reduces the regulations on Wall Street even more (remember who got us into the recession and who benefited from the recovery?), your acknowledgement will still be worth nothing (
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-mnuchin-wall-street-20161130-story.html). It won't fucking matter to the parents who watch their public school get replaced with a for profit charter school or a religious school under DeVos who appears to have no clue about anything other than how to born wealthy and marry into more money (
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/betsy-devos-education-public-schools-233720). To those who are benefiting from the expansion of clean energy jobs your apology won't mean shit (
http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2017/01/12/trumps-epa-pick-could-setback-tennessees-economy/96467586/). To me and everyone else that has a union job, your apology won't mean a damn thing after my union is dramatically weakened (
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-blasts-carrier-union-leader-1481169666 or
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-reeder-janus-st-1221-20161220-story.html). As Trump continues to insult civil rights leaders (attempting to weaken the cause as well as anyone who dissents against him) your admittance won't mean anything (
http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2017/01/16/john-lewis-1963m). To those who fear Trump's emboldening of neo-nazis, white supremacists, and the far-right, it won't mean shit either (
http://myfox8.com/2016/11/14/church-vandalized-with-racist-message-trump-nation-whites-only/ or
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/15/you-can-all-go-home-now-police-investigate-hate-filled-note-targeting-iowa-muslim-family/?utm_term=.be98f82f7b29).
To those who fear that Trump is a existential threat to democracy, if he turns out to be the ultra-nationalistic authoritarian many of us fear him to be, your admittance of being wrong is worth nothing. He is already engaged in falsifying things that don't matter at all (
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/politics/trump-white-house-briefing-inauguration-crowd-size.html?_r=0) and he is great an inspiring hate. I don't know about you, but the idea of the president lying about something as silly as how many people came to his inauguration does not inspire confidence that the truth matters to this guy or his team at all. Governments that simply make up shit--even when there is verifiable evidence to the contrary--are very scary. Not to mention that he won't divest from his companies (severe conflict on interest), and he has stated that he will never release his tax returns, keeping all of America in the dark about his actual investments and connections (
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns.html).
Finally, as someone who likes change, what changes exactly are going to occur to you because of Trump's transition? Do you have a pre-existing condition that might block you from obtaining healthcare? Are you going to lose your healthcare with this transition? Is your union being threatened? Did Trump increase the fees on your new home that you were thinking of buying (
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-20/trump-administration-overturns-obama-s-fha-mortgage-fee-cut)? Are you dealing with struggle of dealing with a student loan, if so, you think Trump's "change" sounds better (
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickclements/2016/07/07/5-student-loan-promises-from-hillary-clinton/2/#46933fd7b1f6 or
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewjosuweit/2017/01/24/heres-what-student-loan-borrowers-expect-now-that-trump-is-president/#e54c3f264e02).
I'd imagine that you most likely live in a bubble (or think that you live in a bubble) where whether Clinton or Trump or Sanders or J. Bush had won you life wouldn't change one bit. It is easy to "enjoy change" when it is other people that may experience the negative aspects of change. People's lives can certainly change for the worst at anytime, but to celebrate that or encourage that harm is pretty fucked up. People's lives can change for the better as well. Maybe this is a better thing to celebrate and encourage.