A white nationalist, which should be read racist. An Education Secretary who doesn't believe in public education. A HUD Secretary who's actually a surgeon. People arguing that Rudy Giuliani is qualified to be Secretary of State. A Commerce Secretary who's coal mines were a virtual death trap for his workers.
And Donald Trump hasn't even named his HHS Secretary yet.
He's tweeted angrily at SNL for making fun of him. He's tweeted angrily at the world for bringing up that he lost the popular vote. He's tweeted angrily at NBC for posting a picture of him with a double-chin. He'st tweeted angrily about people wanting a re-count of his win. He's attacked the New York Times on Twitter, then met with them and told them they are great. His response to Fidel Castro dying was to excitedly tweet that Castro was dead.
Just wait until someone criticizes his inauguration speech.
These are not normal times. Kellyanne Conway can talk all she wants about unity out of one side of her mouth, as long as she's slamming Mitt Romney out the other, we all know it's BS. These are not normal times, and normal unity is not in play. Not with Bannon in the White House. Not with a "Muslim registry" under discussion. Not when we have open debates going on over "whether Jews are people" and "is Islam actually a religion" on CNN. Not when the Japanese internment camps are being cited by people who want to specifically target specific groups. Not when our next President is being friendly with a Russian dictator. These are not normal times.
So you're going to have to excuse the majority of us, by over two-million by the way, who aren't planning to unify. You're going to have to excuse the majority of us who don't want to join hands with those of you who voted for Trump. Sorry, elections do have consequences. You are getting the President you want, and he's completely unacceptable to the rest of us. He's not normal. We're not going to wish him well. It's bad enough that the electoral college holds California, Chicago, and New York City hostage to Alabama, Wyoming, and Oklahoma, or that the blue-states in America basically produce the wealth here. Now we have to accept Donald Trump, a man who's main qualifications are Howard Stern, Wrestlemania, and a porno. Yeah, I'll pass. He'll take office on January 20th, and he'll be the President of the United States, but he won't be my President. That implies a level of respect he's not capable of.
Sore losers? You just refused to give a hearing to President Obama's Supreme Court nominee for a year. You just spent the first three years of President Obama's term in office screaming for his birth certificate, because you thought he was born in Kenya, because he had a "Muslim sounding name" or something. You called President Obama a Muslim, even though he wasn't one, as though that was insulting anyway. The Republican Party took no part in governing the nation with President Obama, voting nearly unanimously against the Affordable Care Act, Dodd-Frank, the Stimulus, and every other initiative he had, while even shutting down the government in 2013 after he was re-elected. Republicans wouldn't give background checks on all gun sales a vote, even though 90% of the country wanted that.
You disrespected President Obama at every turn. You disrespected his wife, calling her an ape and attacking her appearance. You attacked a family who didn't have scandals, a family man with one wife. You disrespected a constitutional law professor, and now expect us to respect the guy who bankrupted casinos. You disrespect the man who won a majority of American votes, twice, and now want us to respect the guy who's going to lose by close to 2,500,000 votes. You want us to respect the minority-election of a man who called the electoral process rigged, and once attacked the electoral college as ruining America.
This is not Bill Clinton handing power to George W. Bush, this is not Jimmy Carter handing it off to Ronald Reagan, this is not even Lyndon Johnson handing the office off to Richard Nixon. You're not going to get nice pictures like the one above, where Presidents Ford and Carter talk together and pretend they are great after a tough election. It's not going to happen.
He attacked Hillary Clinton for her husband's foundation's fundraising, while his own foundation is under investigation. He attacked Bill Clinton's infidelity, when he said he can "grab 'em by the pussy" in regards to women for himself. He attacked Hillary for giving paid speeches, and he did it himself. He said the election was rigged against him, and at least some people are believing it was rigged for him. Donald Trump will be afforded no pleasantries, no honeymoon, and no unity.
I'm sorry, but i'm not, to all of the Trump fans out there, and Donald himself. This is the new normal. You created it. Now you have to live in it. That's how life works. Voting has consequences.
Donald Trump has consequences.
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