America, R-E-L-A-X!

[JCPD14]

Today, Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America. While this is a great day to some, to others it's a nightmare. (Now, I do not like Donald Trump. I didn't even like Hilary Clinton. I just preferred Clinton over Trump.) People are so upset that Trump is our new President, that people have begun to protest. While most protests are peaceful, many aren't. Many have turned into riots. You're mad, I understand that. But guess what America?

Donald Trump is our President.

It's hard to digest, I know. But it is what it is. He won the election. He may have gotten some help form Russia, but he won nonetheless. I don't want him to be the President, but there isn't anything we can do about it. There is something we can do in the meantime...

That's right. R-E-L-A-X. Just like Packers QB Aaron Rodgers famously said back in 2015. Relax. Instead of stressing out over something you can't change, try going into the next 4 or 8 years with an open mind. Because you know what? Donald Trump MIGHT be a good President. We just don't know yet. I get that he doesn't seem like a nice guy, but instead of doing this..

Let's try doing this instead...

I believe the next 4 years will be great. Wanna know why? Because I believe in the American people. There was once a time when Black people had to drink from "colored" water fountains. We had to sit in the back of the bus. There was a time when women couldn't vote. There was a time when two men couldn't get married. But things have changed for the better. I believe that if America comes together, it doesn't matter who's the President. America can stand together and be stronger than ever.

God Bless America.

[BlueCoyote]

What's wrong with protesting if you disagree with something? I thought that was a constitutional right in the US?
You know, the right wingers are so funny. They always talk shit about how they get a hard-on over democracy and the constitution and freedom. But every time they get a chance, they kick all these things with their feet. The only times they love freedom is when it's the freedom to carry and shoot their guns in public and the freedom to be selfish pricks. Other than that, they hate freedom. That's why it was always Trump supporters to jumped on liberal protesters at Trump rallies and beat them half to death. Never the other way around. These people feel strong when they're in a big group or behind the anonymity of the internet but alone they're miserable little losers who are willing to suck the dick of any big, authoritarian master who swings it in front of their face.

[JCPD14]

I don't have a problem with peaceful protests, but rioting will only make things worse.

[BlueCoyote]

The women's march to Washington had something between 500,000 to one million participants, depending on whose numbers you believe. Personally, I haven't heard ANYTHING about violent protests there. But even if there were, it was a tiny minority. Say if 500 people were protesting, that would be 0.1% (or even 0.05%). I think it's disgusting and incredibly undemocratic how some right-wingers act as though half a million people came and turned Washington D. C. into something like Hiroshima after the bomb. I'm so sick of all this twisting of the facts by the Trumpsters. Besides, there have been violent protests by Trump supporters during the whole campaign and by the Tea Party in earlier years. When you have thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people protesting, it's hard to make sure every single participant remains peaceful. That doesn't mean however that the majority or even a significant minority is violent.

[BlueCoyote]

Sorry, I mean 500 violent protesters

[JCPD14]

You right. I do understand that everybody at a march/protest won't be peaceful. There will always be some that mess it up.

[samhradh_leannan]

Yes, yes, a million times yes. I don't understand this at all about the right wing. Everything is freedom, democracy, America, blah blah blah, but all they want to do is take away people's rights (unless it has to do with guns). Protesting, standing up for what you believe in, and respecting other people's rights to be themselves is the absolute epitome of the American spirit. It's patriotic to make your voice heard, not to bow down to whoever happens to be our president at the time.

[Rissyanne]

They can't help it... Liberals are hysterical.

[madhatters4]

i think it's easy to say relax... and i am relaxed but speaking for some who many not... when a candidate doesn't come out and take shots at specific members of the constituency they are being tasked with representing.
-if i'm a mexican American i could see being incensed by a president who labeled mexicans as being primarily rapists, drug dealers, and disease carriers (especially when it is factually untrue)
-if i'm a muslim i could see being incensed at the proposition that i may be asked to register OR that people like me from around the world would be categorically banned from entering the country
-if i'm a woman... well you see where i'm going

i don't think we should dismiss people as needing to relax when the most powerful person in the country (and probably the world) labels them in a way as being undervalued, worthless, a terrorist, or any other prejudicial statement.

[Curmudgeon]

I may disagree with you and I think the next four years will be ones of incredible serendipity, even for those who initially opposed "The Donald", but your point is well taken.

No Republicans staged riots when Obama, Clinton, Carter, etc. were inaugurated... and when they DID protest (Tea Party), they assembled peaceably in front of their state capitols and county seat buildings, and actually *picked up after themselves" and left the grounds around them in better shape than they found them.

[Jager66]

lol that is actually true too, never thought of that. good point.

[Kirah]

No kidding. Just look at this mess!

thehill.com/.../protest.signs_.png?itok=e5XLH1HI

[RhythmBlack]

the Boston Tea Party was a destruction of property, just saying.
People protested Obama. Out of every protest, some people will riot.
Peaceful protest is fine, but rioting ends up discrediting the protest as a whole

[John_Doesnt]

The shit hit the fan before this. He already elected corrupt officials from Goldman Sach's to run the treasury. He elected Rick Perry to run the department of energy (the man who couldn't remember the department of energy when he said he'd eliminate it among 3 branches of government).
He illegally elected his son-in-law with a special interest.
He's still holding onto his corporations to be run by his family.
And let's not forget he's in bed with Putin.

How fucking retarded are these people to think that everything is okay?

[Bobbyhill1]

hilary was no different, in fact worse. I'd rather trump be ''in bed'' with putin then having no fly zones enforced by Hilary in SYRIA. although trump is not the best, you should be happy that hillary did not get elected.

[John_Doesnt]

@Bobbyhill1 typical Trump supporter logic "Durp trump is better because hilary was evil".
That doesn't answer for your corrupt fureur.

[HarryBenton]

There's a furore over the Fuhrer.

[John_Doesnt]

@Bobbyhill1 you didn't vote? You're the worst kind of American ever. Anybody who doesn't vote has no right to criticize politics in the US. Even though I think Trump supporters suck; the people who don't vote are spineless, freedom hating, anti-American liars.

[Bobbyhill1]

your opinion is almost as generic as every other person with the same logic. ''oh you didn't vote for the two worst choices? shame on you!'' Please, dont act self righteous. I am guessing you voted for hillary, which in turn means you voted for world war 3. YOU are the worst for supporting such a disgusting thing, not me. I have every right to say how much of an idiot you all look like. Oh, and just for your information, your vote doesn't matter, it never did.

[John_Doesnt]

@Bobbyhill1 if you don't vote then you don't support democracy. You could have voted for Satan and I would have more respect for you than not voting. We're done talking because you think democracy doesn't work.

[Bobbyhill1]

hahahahahha. democracy? we are not a direct democracy nor were we ever! those two candidates are politicians who do not care about you or me! its the same old game with every elect.

[Bobbyhill1]

blasting her poop hole? how gross lol

[Anonymous]

Um last time I checked we have a right to protest against a man who represents hate. And personally I think it's great that's we're showing him that we're not gonna take his shit and if he's gonna run our country, it's gonna be our rules. And we don't owe him a chance because he has clearly demonstrated to us his backward and rasicist views and that doesn't change all of a sudden just because you won an election. So stop trying to tell others to stop protesting because guess what it's gonna happen whether you like it or not so give it up already and stop wasting your time.

[JCPD14]

I don't want people to stop protesting, I want them to stop rioting. I don't want him to be the President either, but he's the President. Sadly, no matter what we do, it will stay that way for a while.

[amphet11]

Most people you know have said worse, he just isn't politically correct, these riots and protests show more hate than he ever did.

[samhradh_leannan]

Telling the citizens of our country to just sit quietly and deal with every atrocity that is thrown that them because "it happened, he's our president" is possibly the worst advice I've ever seen in my entire life. I'm not saying that violent rioting (where people are getting hurt) is justified, and I agree with you that people need to stand together in order to build a strong country. But protesting when we're unhappy and making our voices heard is necessary for making progress and ensuring that our government is serving its citizens, not itself. If people are upset, they have a right to show it. Holding hands and singing "Kum ba ya" is is a fun way to spend an afternoon, but it doesn't force the government to listen.

[Phoenix98]

All I have to say to them is get the fuck over it.

And the liberals behavior throughout this whole ordeal is honestly disgraceful they acted more like children throwing temper tantrums and bullies then grown adults. Not that I am surprised they are only the party of tolerance, acceptance and unity when they get their way. But boy when they don't hide your children and lock your doors because they are coming for you.

[pavlove]

oh, sorry, i misread that as hide your chickens because I assumed you live on a farm based on your little speech

[Phoenix98]

@pavlove *rolls eyes* don't start anything, pavlove.

[pavlove]

Anything

[Unorthodox91]

it's true: america could relax and take the trump d up their buttholes, or they could do everything in their power to prevent this douchebag from getting detrimental legislation through the whitehouse (a bit like how the republicans fucked up most of Obama's plans).

[JCPD14]

I just don't think we can do anything about it. He got voted in by the Americans, it would be hard to kick him out.

[Unorthodox91]

you can't kick him out, no. that doesn't mean you have to sit back and let him make devastating changes in policy and legislation. if more Americans had protested against iraq war rather than sit back and let bush do his thang we might not be in the situation we are with the middle east today.

[oddwaffle]

Since you are going to be screwed whether you want it or not then you might as well RELAX and hope it's not going to be as bad when you bend over?

It's not time to relax or protest. It's time to make preparations for the other shoe to drop. Stock up gold, food, blankets or whatever you need because things are going to get really rough. Find ways to be frugal, save money until it hurt so much you are bleeding. Don't have babies for the next couple years because diapers are going to get expensive.

Obama got the last laugh after he left Trump 20 trillion of debt. Trump is going to extort some of the money from every banks and lenders if he is following his old book. "Reduce the debt, no interest, extend the deadline or I go bankrupt and give you an old hat to liquidate!"

Then he would stop paying people and make some people quit. There will be a big squeeze in spending somewhere down the road and a slow down in the economy in the next couple years.

[danyalovettie44]

Exactly... protestors just need to get their shit together. Just freaking deal with it!!!

[pavlove]

hey everybody a seventeen year old on the internet thinks that people should just deal with it. Call off all the protests immediately!!!

[j8k322597]

@pavlove lol, she's right though, he's president, so stop bitching about it, nothing is gonna change that. all these people saying "not my president" are ignorant as hell, because as long as they live in the united states he is. So they need to just leave, or get over it.

[danyalovettie44]

@pavlove Back off. You're really ignorant to judge me by my age and to complain about Trump being president. He's been in office for two days, not even a year! Judge him only until he's been in office for a while.

[pavlove]

A seventeen year old says I'm being really ignorant and also told me that I'm only allowed to judge him after he's been in office for a while. I guess I'll stop, I mean she's SEVENTEEN guys!

[pavlove]

@j8k322597 I mean this is not the only time a nation with a bad leader has had some form of rebellion. It just didn't usually happen with countries so powerful. He says he's a President of the people but the majority of the people don't want him as president. Other countries including China are already threatening us. It's pointless to piss off the rest of the world when TRADE is one of the major reasons we got rich in the first place. We're certainly not going to find any more resources.

I don't know, though. We'll have to see. Businessmen have somewhat good track records at running governments, but there's more going against him than just that including his temper, his inexperience running any form of government, and his lack of support from his own people.

[danyalovettie44]

@pavlove It doesn't mean I don't know what's going on in the world. Wow, you're really ignorant... I wonder what you were like when you were 17.

[Curmudgeon]

And meanwhile, a 17 year old shows more common sense than a 24 year old man-child who has yet to hold down a real job and pay real bills for any length of time.

[echoaj]

They did get their shit together and did the most American thing they could do; Exercise their freedom of speech.

[danyalovettie44]

@echoaj He's president. You can't do anything to change that. At least give him a chance because he hasn't been in office for long.

[echoaj]

why are people seeing this all wrong? We know we can't change him being president. Saying "give him a chance " doesn't make sense because we have no option but to give him a chance considering we can't do anything about him being president. I think by that you mean don't criticize him till he has been in office for a while. Unfortunately, there is much to critisize about him already.

This protest is more about sending the president a message that we did not like his negative divisive rhetoric during the campaign trail and that we want him to represent all of us. And stop putting billionaires in his cabinet. Or the system is corrupt as it is already.

[echoaj]

our system*

[danyalovettie44]

@echoaj Maybe once he starts making a change, you'll see him differently.

[Intraluminal]

Your MyTake is absolutely, fucking, fantastically spot on.

I hated Hilary, but I hated Trump just a *little bit* more. While my expectations are low, it's not impossible that he'll do a good job, and I'm willing to watch for a while before I make up my mind. I'm not happy about the repeal of Obamacare, but it was a very poor compromise anyway.

[pavlove]

All i can say is that there are consequences to every action. It's naive to think any one person is so infallible that he can say the things he's said, continues to say even more strongly in his inaugural speech, and then proceeds to do mere hours after becoming president and think that oh well he's our president.

he changed the rules with succeeding to become elected as president and now is the fallout.

[samhradh_leannan]

Yep. If people are happy that he's our president, that's great for them. But people who are unhappy should speak up. It's their right and their responsibility. Protesting and demanding to be heard is how we create change. Telling people to sit back and relax because there's nothing they can do is not only pessimistic, it's downright inaccurate- and, frankly, rather unpatriotic.

[pavlove]

@samhradh_leannan it's just so interesting that no one was really saying all that much while Trump was running for president. if anything they were talking more crap about Hillary Clinton. Yet now SO much seething hatred for the man. It's like there's this guilt that they didn't speak up earlier or maybe resentfulness that he got to be President and be such a horrible person. i thought it would slow after he won but its multiplied ten fold

[samhradh_leannan]

Maybe that's what it is. People didn't want to vote for Hillary- which is understandable- but it's like they totally forgot that not voting for Hillary meant voting for Trump. I think they voted for Trump as some sort of protest vote, but they didn't expect him to actually win.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

You believe in the American people, yet we collectively voted him in in the 1st place. The same people who voted for the collective options of trump and Clinton... seems a counterintuitive and extremely ironic, in my opinion. With that said, I agree. I think he's an idiot and doesn't know how government works, but whats done is done. move on. people need to get over it. Blowing up cars and rioting isn't going to do anything. People need to get real and get a life

[Anonymous]

I also believe in the American people, it is interesting though, how much media attention these protests are getting. I think it's just more media hyperbole, because their pet candidate lost.

God Bless America.

But not biased politics or biased media outlets.

[Anonymous]

"There was once a time when Black people had to drink from "colored" water fountains. We had to sit in the back of the bus. There was a time when women couldn't vote. There was a time when two men couldn't get married. But things have changed for the better."
Trump was elected by a numerical minority who wants to undo this evolution.

That's why the US have a problem now. A BIG PROBLEM.

[Opinion Owner]

Trump was elected using just two arguments: nationalism and hate.
A bad receipe.

[Jager66]

I'm sooo happy Trump is fucking over Political Correctness! All those fascist special snowflakes are finally being put on display for the world to see.

[echoaj]

I don't mind the protests as long as they don't turn out violent. The women do a much better job at protesting than the men.

[Kirah]

Too bad they littered the streets with their garbage. They didn't even bother throwing their signs away once it was over, they just threw it on the ground. Disgusting.

thehill.com/.../protest.signs_.png?itok=e5XLH1HI

[echoaj]

Kirah, that's not them littering. They purposely placed their signs in front to of Trump Tower as you can see in the photo. It's statement to send Trump a message from the people he represents.

[Kirah]

That's no excuse. Littering is littering.

The poor oppressed wimminz, now the "privileged" men have to clean it all up.

[echoaj]

@Kirah That's ok, Trump can clean it up, he needs the exercise anyways.

[Kirah]

@echoaj except he won't, since he clearly has better things to do. Instead, the underprivileged cleaners will have to clean it all up instead. The ones working a minimum wage.

There is no male privilege, there is simply wealth privilege.

[echoaj]

@Kirah More jobs are being created for picking up signs, though. people need jobs. God bless those women <3

[HarryBenton]

Trump is the one who should relax. His feud with the media is only going to have one winner.

[Kirah]

You don't get it, you guys! Le Drumpf will *literally* put gays in prison amirite?

[Anonymous]

I agree with everything you said expect the whole gay marriage. But like you said there is not much we can do about it but relax.

[samhradh_leannan]

Relax, and wake up next week in Nazi Germany.

[Coconutty]

@samhradh_leannan Yes

[CT_CD]

Cam Newton is better