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I don't like I don't like people refusing to give their kids Polio and MMR shots because they still think it will cause Autism. I also don't like making an experimental vaccine mandatory to the point where people's jobs and ability to get basic assistance was threatened before the Supreme court stepped in. Certainly there has to be a middle ground, right? The media wants us to think otherwise, but I think that the sharper 90 percent of society would agree with me. I do not think that RFK Jr. would ban vaccines, just give people more freedom and put measures in place to avoid repeating what we had with Fauci. Trump is not anti-vax and his operation warp speed helped to get vaccines out. He would not appoint someone who would ban vaccines. This is not a bad cabinet pick. Gaetz on the other hand? Yikes!

I replied to them a few days ago after a strange take on the election asking if they were in a parallel universe because the comment was so far off. Maybe I was on to something. Maybe he is in a parallel universe where slavery ended in the late 1920's.

Democrats need to be more moderate and go back to their roots of being in touch with the working class. Simple as that. Celebrities, the squad and big tech executives do not represent the blue collar and white collar workers making 30-100k. Moral issues are less likely to be a concern when a person is working two jobs and living check to check. Traditionally, the democrats have done a better job of getting that but that did not happen this time around. This country has a history of adjusting to the center a few years after the extreme part of a party gains power. This is what happened. Regular people and some newer democrat politicians seem to have gotten this after the election. Unfortunately for those on the left, , the establishment politicians, celebrities and children in university bubbles have not understood this yet and they are the most vocal on social media.

The problem that most on the left fail to realize is that nearly every thing that Trump is being accused of doing if elected was done to some extent over the last four years over the last regime. •Misinformation? What about basing your election campaign on scaring the masses into thinking that Project 2025 will be rolled out on day one despite Trump and Vance explicitly denouncing it numerous times? •Discrimination? What about denying people life saving service after a natural disaster because they indicated their desire to vote for a candidate on their front lawn? •Freedom of choice and body autonomy? What about the fact that the media and millions of dems were pushing to make employment and food contingent on getting an unproven experimental vaccine and that millions were a supreme court decision away from losing their jobs if they didn't do so? •Threat to Democracy? What about using the media to help you hide the cognitive decline of Biden for three years, throwing him under the bus once it was too obvious to hide and then hand picking a candidate to replace him without a primary? Or we can focus on the use of courts to try to put Trump in jail and the sudden mysterious dismissal of charges when he is elected. Lets not forget about two assassination attempts that many on the left tried to dismiss as not a big deal because they didn't kill him. •Being out of touch with the people? What about using the media to tell us that the economy and crime were better than ever for four years while millions of people's complaints were constantly dismissed as anecdotal or not trying hard enough? •Being hypocrites? What about the Climate Change push. telling everyone that they must buy an electric car, stop eating meat and emotionally scarring/guilt tripping so many little kids that a new disorder was named after it, while at the same time glorifying Obama for throwing giant celebrity parties at mansions and having the media real time track to see if Taylor Swift will make the Super Bowl on time in her private jet from Japan to see her boyfriend play? People saw through it and the results showed it. At worst, the Trump election is a lateral move, and that is only if he did all of the corrupt and horrible things that the media has conditioned the masses into thinking that he will do. If he doesn't, then it is an improvement.

I voted for Trump purely on a lesser of two evils approach and told myself that I would be at peace and move on regardless of the result of the election. However, after seeing how badly Harris mismanaged money in her campaign and the fact that the use of FEMA as a political tool most likely went beyond one employee, I am starting to realize just how much we dodged a bullet.

I like most of the cabinet picks so far, but am not a fan of this one, just because of the underage issue and reputation. However, I am sure that he will still be better than the socialist professors and underqualified DEI checkbox hires that we would have seen under Harris

To be quite honest, I am not sure of the exact role of the inspector general, but if they are supposed to be doing what Trump tasked musk and vivek to do, it is not being done well. I could see how this agency gets corrupted just like everything else, but the idea of the government having open books for accountability is great and one that I appreciate no matter which president proposes it. Similar to draft a first round QB, this is the equivalent of drafting a QB because the old one is not working. DOGE is like Josh Allen, the inspector general form the previous administration is like Nathan Peterman. You must not have been the only one. Dogecoin went up from 12 to 40 cents over the past week, lol.

Everything has a bias, but the mainstream media is the equivalent of a pathological liar. CNN and NbcNews tried to hide Biden's decline until it was so painfully obvious, then threw him under a bus until he resigned. Outside of the two weeks between Trump first assassination attempt and Biden's resignation, the media campaigned for the democrats 24/7. They took a clearly outlying poll in Iowa and threw it on the front page like it was a trend two days before the election. That was irresponsible at best and deceptive at worst. Fox is not any better on the other side, remember how they overpushed the election being stolen four years ago? The presence of social media is the mainstream media's worst enemy because it just takes a person with a camera to expose the lies on the news. For example, CNN might make a Harri srally look packed until a person's take a photo of a cell phone camera showing 30 people crowded in two rown and an otherwise empty room. When the system that is supposed to be providing you neutral information is lying, people tend to look at sources that they may not normally regard.

If the DOGE results in the government disclosing what theier books to the people for accountability, that makes it a lot harder to get away with wasteful spending. What is wrong with that? Why is that a bad thing?

I have mixed feelings about Trump's choices and was one that voted more against Harris than for him, but I absolutely love this idea. People do not realize just how ineffective government spending is. I have always wanted the government to have mandatory open books. Once the wasteful spending is cut, there will be a lot more to go around for all of the vital services and programs.

Can't be any worse than making selections solely based on DEI checkboxes.

More people getting news from Social media is what happens when news turns into propaganda riddled media entertainment designed to tell their fan base what to be pissed off at next. Both sides do it. Just like wrestling fans can choose between WWE and AEW for their favorite brand of sports entertainment, people can choose between Fox and CNN for their preferred brand of media entertainment based on their ideology.

I do not know if what Trump has in mind will work, but I do know that what we have in place now is not working. We all know that the US is less competitive than ever academically, but it is even more than that. I have heard countless horror stories from various people both personally and online on how ineffective schools are including teachers and admins in school districts. If you have one or two disruptive kids, everything slows down at the others kids expense to coddle them. Entitled and bratty kids rule the roost and teachers cannot do a thing. Much higher ratios of functionally illiterate kids in middle school and high school. Teacher are taking retirement as soon as they are able and school have made teaching less enticed by changing pension qualifications from 20 to 40 years and replacing previously good health benefits with the same high deductible junk that most of us are stuck with. If I was a college student, why would I want to be a teacher now?

The primary difference between me and all of the whiners on the left is that I would defend their freedom of speech and rights to express these opinions instead of trying to suppress them like they would have done to the right if Harris won.

I think that the difference is best explained by a combination of a record turnout due to COVID in 2020 and 15 million Biden voters either deciding to vote for Trump or no one at all this time around. No need to referencing cheating for either year. The people spoke.

What is it like in your parallel universe? I know that it is a much different reality in this one, but things must be really bleak in yours. I am so glad that after ten years of bullying, the virtue signaling, authoritarian far left has finally lost its relevance. Now maybe the rest of the normal US can work on healing and improving the messes in this country. Now comments like your last one will only serve as relics and reminders about how not to repeat a dark time in history.

MVS is tearing it up in the minor league today.

Because gatekeeping and virtue signaling were totally effective for the democrats this time around. Don't you ever tell others not to do the exact same exact thing that you do on your original post.

Eliminating the incel ones that no one would get near anyway, I wonder how many of these women will actually go without having sex for the entire four years of Trump's presidency? Honestly, if someone does, I am impressed that they at least stuck with their principles. For the remaining 99.9%, they are just looking unhinged and unstable.

The ways that the dems campaigned reminded me of the mentality that the capital district has in the hunger games series. I grew up during the Reagan/Bush Sr/Clinton presidencies when it was quite opposite. The change still shocks me sometimes. I think that the great recession made the Republicans rethink how they were being perceived and started that seed. After they hand picked Romney in 2012 despite the people wanting Ron Paul or Herman Cain and got blown out, they were ripe for a populist candidate (believe it or not, the establishment Republicans were going to try to push Jeb Bush on us in 2016.) Trump to his credit, took advantage of that. Sanders tried to do the same thing for the dems, but the elite friendly superdelegate rule prevented him from getting the same type of success. I wonder if this result will make the dems rethink their strategy in the same way as the Republicans were forced to start doing in 2008?

I believe that the great Tone Loc best expressed this sentiment in "Funky cold Medina" when he stated. "Aint no playin with a man, it's the 80's and I'm down with the ladies." after his shocking discovery about his date Sheena.

It is strategic projection. If you look at how Hitler came to rise, he often told the masses how the socialist and communists were going to do everything that he ended up doing to scare people into following him. If the far left and media keep pushing the Trump is Hitler narrative, it creates a convenient distraction so that they can do those exact same things themselves. Also, why aren't any of the posters on the left here saying something rational like "This was wrong, I am glad they fired her, but don't think that all of FEMA did this." instead of assuming the worst about the people in need who were denied service and trying to justify it?

I watched a little of Jimmy Kimmel's now infamous tone deaf late show pity party meltdown on youtube. On his own site for the late show, 80 percent of the top comments were critical and in disagreement with his rant, some ripping him and calling out his mentality as what cost the left the election. Again this wasn't a right wing source or news network sharing it, it was directly from his own show page. People are starting to see how out of touch the elite left is. I actually enjoy watching their post election meltdowns, because if they haven't learned from it by 2026 or 2028, nothing will change. Somehow, she actually looked better when she was heavier.

Stop for a second. Do you really believe that there will not be another election in 2028? Be honest with yourself, even if Trump wanted to do that, he would be stopped so fast by almost every other Democrat and Republican before he got started. If you really think this is possible, you have bought into the media's fear mongering hook, line and sinker. Back to reality, Trump was elected president by a majority of Americans including millions who voted for Biden four years ago. This is because the left went too extreme. If Trump tried even a fraction of what the media claims, those people and more would vote democrat the next time around. You see, this country has a history of shifting back to the center if one party goes to far to an extreme. Can we all on both sides stop buying into every fear mongering propaganda piece and rant that we see on the internet and do our own research (actual research and not a google search/click the top result on the first page)? Lets rely on more than "but I saw in on the news and a really angry college student with pink hair tweeted it, is MUST be true". The country will be so much better off if we do this.

The dems and media dug into the project 2025 narrative despite the fact that most voters have instant access to a Google search and can easily find out within 15 seconds that Trump denounced it. This is a part of why they lost in a resounding way.