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God bless America, Land of the free!

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Cossy Sat 25-Jan-25 09:12:49

mum2three

Trump would not now be in office if the previous president had done a better job! Just consider that fact before you condemn all who voted for him.

What did or didn’t Biden do in your opinion? Should Obama also “had done a better job”?

Do you live in the UK mumof3?

Grammaretto Sat 25-Jan-25 09:08:44

I feel your sadness Cossy but it isn't so new honestly.

My mother, recently widowed with 3 children was staying in a hotel in New York and became very sick (food
poisoning) she had her ticket home but no money to pay the hotel bill or for treatment.

She was told she had to leave. She then spent a week in the charity hospital in Brooklyn where she was well cared for.
When she returned home having toyed with the idea of living in the USA, decided it was not for her.

It was a great country for the fit and healthy, those aspirational and young, but if you were poor and sick or both (or black or hispanic)
It wasn't for you.
That was 1957.

Babs03 Sat 25-Jan-25 07:29:31

Well said Cossy, these will be dark days for the US and many other countries that will suffer in its shadow.

ronib Sat 25-Jan-25 07:21:24

Even if somehow Trump manages to get a third term as President- by rewriting the constitution- it still needs the American people to vote for him. Trump can’t do away with elections ….

M0nica Sat 25-Jan-25 07:11:30

The Americans themselves voted for this current president, desspite everything said against him and he has a clear majority.

We just need to get over it and learn to live with it.

This is the USA today.

mum2three Sat 25-Jan-25 06:36:31

Trump would not now be in office if the previous president had done a better job! Just consider that fact before you condemn all who voted for him.

Syracute Fri 24-Jan-25 23:16:14

nanna8

I think that remark is disgusting and as bad as the things he comes out with, if not worse. He doesn’t wish anyone dead.

Well we now have had our first I.C.E. Raid in an elementary school ! Teachers are now not only have to be well versed in protecting their students against guns but their own government as well !! So if some of us wish that the gunman’s aim was a bit better at times with this last stunt, I hope you can’t blame us ! We are turning into an ugly fascist country . Disgusting and unacceptable !!

LizzieDrip Fri 24-Jan-25 23:09:13

Cossy 👏👏👏👏

Rowantree Fri 24-Jan-25 22:51:17

I have to agree with *madeleine*.

Very depressing and actually frightening too

Whitewavemark2 Fri 24-Jan-25 22:48:32

Mike Pence?

nanna8 Fri 24-Jan-25 22:42:12

I think that remark is disgusting and as bad as the things he comes out with, if not worse. He doesn’t wish anyone dead.

madeleine45 Fri 24-Jan-25 22:39:32

It was a shame that the aim only got the ear!! Cant think of a worse president but that is obviously the trend. Britain had a lying cheating prime minister who was arrogant enough to think that laws were only made for other people and we sae now another arrogant person who is a convicted criminal and they still voted him in!!

Cossy Fri 24-Jan-25 22:35:49

God help America and all who live there’

Way back in the day (1976) I spent just over a year living and going to school in California. This was the best year of my childhood, so many positives for me, but sadly not my mother, who hated every moment.

I’ve returned for holidays several times to a few different states and have family and friends still living there.

I don’t recognise the place now! Females are no longer in control of bodies, babies will be born and unwanted and grow up miserable and probably in poverty, healthcare will be harder to get, gay couples, moslims, Hispanic, Mexicans will feel threatened regarding their future and possibly expelled from the country.

So much damage in such a short time, and more to come in a country where once anyone could become anything they chose, within reason.

God help America, land of the oppressed!

Sad times.