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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i heard this old song in the only radio station of my redneck town. it's weird lyrics man. i don't know what they did to them.
Moderator, well could you help me close this thread?
see, the usefulness of it is old and faded
Suchfriends lives in L.A., he said he'll never vote any day,
elections are a lie that he's always hatin'
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How dare you bro. I read that entire thing looking for a reference to myself. I will never get that 45 seconds of my life back!
If this thread has indeed "outlived its usefulness" (what "use" did it or any other thread ever have beyond providing an outlet for catharsis, pontification and lolzorz?) then anyone who feels that way can simply stop coming here and saying things — the self-help equivalent of moderator enforced thread closure.
OR...
or... we can start a new thread. Call it "President Trump support system thread" or "Adult children of Trump's 'Murica." Or, if we want to talk strategy and tactics for '18, maybe something like "Dumping Trump: Where do we go from here?" or "I survived 11/8/16 and all I got was this shitty Trump thread." Whatevz.
Anyway the thread title is meaningless. I'm happy to say goodbye to this one if we continue the discussion somewhere else.
Whether we go along and get along or fight fight fight, I, like John Oliver and all the pop-media bros who have suspiciously co-opted his "Nothing about this is normal" message on Nov. 13, feel very strongly that we need to keep this conversation going.
Those of us who are interested, concerned, terrified enough to commit time and energy and money to fighting this administration in the future will all be better off if we can spitball about logistics and keep a hawk eye on Trump and his zombie cabal of a cabinet.
The initial question "Is Donald Trump really a serious contender for the Republican nomination?" is certainly moot at this point (as Rob said, I'd say he has a pretty good shot), but at the same time, seeing that question posed that way is a constant reminder of how bizarre and alien this new American reality is. So, fuck.. change the thread, kill the thread, keep it going, who cares? But it would be counterproductive to abandon the conversation altogether.
As I've said, I have precious few people in my "real life" with whom I can talk openly about this, and this thread has been helpful to me, has helped me process and grieve and given me an outlet for the incessant bitching that is in my nature. So I think I kind of need this conversation, whatever form it takes.