>"If I become president, we're all going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' again."
But that doesn't change the fact that he did promise these things.
I think some of his ideas are good, some are disastrous, and some are crazy. But it'll be interesting to see which get fulfilled and which don't.
For the record, some people already say "Merry Christmas", so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again, which I seriously doubt will happen.
How is it offensive? If a Muslim were to wish me a happy Ramadan I'd be cool with it, or if someone of Chinese descent wishes me a happy New Year on their New Year's date, that's ok too. When did people become such wimps that they think a well-wish is an insult?
Do people also get offended when someone says "bless you" after a sneeze?
This whole argument started when some people decided that "happy holidays" was an affront. Stores forcing their non-Christian employees to mention Christmas to their non-Christian customers in every interaction is weird and no one involved likes it.
Walk a mile in their shoes and maybe you'll understand why some people get offended at things you don't get offended at. Is there anything that offends, disgusts you? Is there anything that causes you to react with anger, sadness, fear, or any other such emotion? If so can you imagine someone that would not be similarly offended? Can you imagine that person saying, "Why is Mikeb85 such a goddamned wimp?"
When I'm abroad and people greet me with their local greetings with which I have no cultural grounding, understanding or commonality, I also don't feel offended, rather, I find them interesting.
These kinds of nonsensical diversion into trying to become bland entities stripped of their own identity might contribute to the attraction of people like Trump.
PS. I've worked at Chinese [with lots of Chinese ex-pats] companies where people say Merry Christmas way more often than in American companies where you might get a Merry Christmas one-to-one but not in a group setting, as if they are ashamed to say it. Rather odd.
I don't believe that most people are so intolerant as to allow themselves to be offended when they hear "Merry Christmas". If they truly are that intolerant to western customs, then I don't think it's right give them a pass. Tolerance goes both ways.
He got the keys, might as well try to do some of the things he promised and win again.
This is thinking from the era that was still at least ostensibly about truth and facts. Future elections need be about no more than who can give poor people the loudest, simplest explanation for why they're poor.
Look at VA income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_locations_by_per_capi... vs. http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/... Poor areas are vastly more likely to vote republican.
Arlington county median income $101,000: 77.0% Clinton vs 16.9% trump.
Lee County $50,014 income: 17.4% Clinton vs. 80.6% trump
Trump was very popular with the rural uneducated and thus poor.
PS: DC get's a bad rap, but once again top 5 income compared to state and was only beaten by other heavily democratic states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income 4% of DC voted for Trump.
Look here: http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls All four different exit polls clearly show Trump winning in all the higher income brackets.
A lot of these items are subjective, as well. What, for instance, qualifies someone as a "great legal scholar?"
> Global warming is real, but it's not man-made.
And quite some are bound to be broken:
> The wealthy should pay more.
> Cut taxes for the wealthy big time.
> Cut taxes for the wealthy big time. (Percentage)
Not necessarily. If he lowers tax percentage for the wealthy and they evade less, the $ amount payed will be larger.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trumps...
