Seems about right.

Of course he can't. Anything Obama does by executive order Trump can just undo by executive order. And the NSA isn't likely to see any changes Obama makes at this point, as a lame duck after spying on us for 8 straight years, as any kind of important or principled change. They'd just hand the keys right back to Trump on morning #1.

2009 was the time to throw the ring into Mount Doom. Now Sauron has it.

I told you so! Did the liberals that argued with me about these things for the last 7 years really think that the democrats would never lose another election!?!

Prediction : people keep making infuriating mistakes between "reigns" and "reins."

Trump better hope NE wins a lot of championships cause he is going to have a hard time getting teams to accept the invite.

Wasn't suzzer one of those people, too? jfc

That's actually good news.

Yes, I'm serious.

How did Obama physically, actively harm Republicans? I'm not talking about your feelings. **** your feelings, you think I'm that liberal, I am not that liberal. I want specific examples of violent reprisal against Republicans. I can think of examples under Bill Clinton. And, there are kind of some thin arguments for Obama in certain instances. Reminder: I'm talking about REPUBLICANS. Do not start talking about war. Thanks.

Furthermore, I'll concede thatt George W. Bush, broadly speaking, protected the rights of his political opponents to speak, protest, and so on. Millions took to the streets to protest Iraq. W did not machine gun them. He wasn't a very good Constitutionalist, far from it, but he was one. In the event that Trump actually starts opening fire, you are going to defect and protect our Constitution, right? (I mean, you won't. You'll cheer that they had it coming. But I want you on the record, right now, claiming that you support the Republic ahead of Trump.)

Wrt drones it mostly was just suzzer. But he did come around after taking on the whole forum by himself for months. Credit where it's due.

And with any glimmer of hope that can be dreamt up, there are horrific headlines like 'Trump wants Steve Bannon as chief of staff' to counter.

Oh dear god.

WTF are you talking about. Who said Obama did physical harm to republicans? I am specifically talking about what happened after the elections in 08 and 16. In 08 there were no violent protests. In this election there have been multiple violent protests all throughout the US just 1 day after Trump won

I don't disagree. It's mostly going to be 2-4 years of bland GOPe policies, followed by pissed off white people who wanted Her Locked Up and a wall built voting him out of office.

Sucks that SCOTUS and voting rights and money in politics are basically lost issues for the rest of my life.

There is some kindof obscure idea that the pro-business/anti-labor movement of our government actually started under carter instead of reagan. So maybe we'll see something similar here, things will get so bad for labor that they'll force things the other way.

Just the fact that the right wing media machine is so freaking good at what it does kinda scares me for the future.

Snowden currently live on youtube on the election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3svbmlMALM

Do you guys think Snowden should be pardoned?

Can he even be pardoned right now? Doesn't he have to be convicted first?

The President can pardon preemptively.

Without question.

Yes, this is how it goes. You seem surprised. I don't condone the (very minimal) violence, but I can promise many more protests should Trump try to enact the agenda he campaigned on. I'm not even taking a stand on them in this post, I'm just telling you what's going to happen. You can wag your finger all you want. Won't change a damn thing. Prepare for civil unrest.

If Trump capitulates to McConnell, Ryan, Pence, whatever, let's just say that's not the worst outcome. It is really, really bad. But I'm pretty sure we'll be able to continue voting.

BYN is worried that Main Street in [insert town in Indiana here] is going to be filled with angry minorities and SJW's. I can't imagine the traffic jams that will result from the civil unrest.

He'll watch it on TV and cheer their comeuppance. And he'll claim to be a very good person, with a wife and kids. It'll be very humorous.

I feel like there's a decent chance that Trump ends up being great. But i think the most likely outcome is that he's terrible, and the second most likely is that he's super terrible.

It's really amazing what a powerful position he's in. The republicans have majorities in both houses and most of the republican lawmakers are scared of the guy. Many of them are already on his bad side and will have to do some serious bootlicking just to get back to neutral graces. Trump seems like a guy who knows how to play a position of strength. Plus republicans just naturally love to fawn over powerful authorities.

Trump is known as a great negotiator and the democrats are the democrats so thus totally feckless and inept.

He walks right in with a supreme court vacancy. He has some kind of super power where he can say whatever he wants and nothing sticks.

He have to hope that he's a good god.

i hope him removing the promise to cancel paris climate agreement means that he and gop are aware that this is not something to mess around with

And if they do start removing the regulations i hope people to protest as violently and as loudly as necessary

Look guys, all I'm saying is A Democrat won in '08, no riots, and now A Republican has won and look, riots. The fact that one was a moderate running an optimistic, hope-based campaign and the other is a vituperative ball of pure bull***** running on a platform of authoritarian ethno-nationalism is just not relevant, REPS RULE DEMS DROOL PEACE OUT.

*Actually 21% bull**** by weight, the rest bulked up with low-grade sheep and goat****.

The Pentagon, yes that Pentagon, believes climate change is real, and really dangerous. If this is what "listening to the generals" means.... well, alright.

So we're just gonna ignore the huge rise in militias under Obama?