Reuters Interview: Trump says he thought being president would be easier than his old life

[sir whoopsalot]

[quote] "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."[/quote]

Even with all the constant vacations you're taking?

Piss off and take what's left of your following with you.

[Splarg]

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52164888]I really want to understand why anyone is supporting Trump, but I can't because not one person who supports Trump has laid out [B]logic[/B] I can follow on the subject.

Not once in over a year and a half.[/QUOTE]

Apparently a lot of Trump supporters are not blind to objective problems with his policies but say they don't regret voting for him because they like the way he talks so much. I think they're too emotionally invested in stuff like immigration and this idea that you can somehow go back to a place where everybody has a good job and people don't make fun of you for being a republican.

Someone on NPR was just saying how they're shocked how he has this solid percentage of supporters that continue to go along with everything he says and that they just don't care about policies as much.

[Mr. Sarcastic]

[QUOTE=srobins;52160451]I'm going to be so upset if I die in the next 10-15 years, before I get to see how we all look back on the Trump presidency and just wonder how the fuck this was our lives for [b]eight[/b] fucking years.[/QUOTE]

I sure as hell wouldn't be upset if I died within the next 4-8 years. I wouldn't have to live through the inevitable collapse of our way of life as a result of climate change and destruction of the oceans for one.

But I'll spare you the pain of the next decade or so of life on earth with a prediction based on my study of history.

The 2016 elections will be used as a reason why you should never assume an election is over before the votes are counted.

People who are responsible for electing this mess of an administration will claim they had no part in it. "I was sick the day of the election." or "I actually voted for Clinton." They know damn well what they did and they'll take it to their graves.

Future generations will be horrified that this happened but will assume safety in the notion that "no one would fall for that in 2030." They will be wrong.

American Millenials will largely regard the Trump Administration as an old shame. "I drink to forget those years." or "I never thought I'd see this happen in my life." We will be determined not to see it happen again, but that warning will fall on the deaf ears of our children.

Future historians will never again assume that humanity will act reasonably when they are given the choice and this era will be know as the time when the world passed the point of no return on climate change, while the Obama era is seen by most historians as the last years of American prosperity before the world went to shit. Their conclusions will be perfectly ironic to what people living through the Great Recession would believe at the time.

[elix]

[QUOTE=Splarg!;52166005]Apparently a lot of Trump supporters are not blind to objective problems with his policies but say they don't regret voting for him because they like the way he talks so much. I think they're too emotionally invested in stuff like immigration and this idea that you can somehow go back to a place where everybody has a good job and people don't make fun of you for being a republican.

Someone on NPR was just saying how they're shocked how he has this solid percentage of supporters that continue to go along with everything he says and that they just don't care about policies as much.[/QUOTE]
This is basically an operating definition for a cult of personality. It's no way to run a nation.