Trump has won!

Thank you very much DaphneBroon,

Marmark I am very sorry to hear that and will gladly swear and cuss on your behalf. It is more than enough to summon up the courage and energy to be stoical and facing up to a terrifying brain operation without the added stress of having it postponed.
It is JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH .
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Well,it's certainly not right at the moment.
My dear nephew,52 years old,married with 2 teenagers,has just been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour.Hopefully it can be removed,and was scheduled for today,
Its been put off until tomorrow,lack of beds.

Maybe not, but that's democracy.

Yes, we know that, but change isn't always for the best. Just because the majority think so doesn't make something right.

Despite whatever,s said on social media or any other media.The majority of ordinary people are sick to the back teeth of the way things are today.Its alright for the privileged lovies ensconced in their gated palaces,who don't have a bleddy clue how the rest of us live,[or bleddy care] most of them.
We have voted for change,it's almost a cry for help.
Ok,I agree he may not be the best,but the alternative was unthinkable.
The majority agree.

Still not shouting <sighing > (yawn emoticon)
Why address that post to me anyway?

MargaretX I think you are being unfair to list only the bad things that have come out of America, if indeed they did originate there. I am sure that pornography, for example, predates the Declaration of Independence by centuries, if not millennia.

The United States has given the world some of its greatest statesmen, and ideals of liberty and freedom.They may not be obvious at this moment but I hope that in time America will rediscover the true foundations of its society.

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Not aware I was shouting at anybody grannypiper , just a polite request for clarification.
Or did you get it wrong?
Surprisingly, I do not have the time to trawl through both threads to find out what the heck you were talking about .
I repeat

I didn't hear any shouting grannypiper, only a polite request

Daphne,do you think everyone sits on their computer every waking moment ? some of us have things do.Go back and read the thread and please stopshouting calm down or you will do yourself a mischief

Nope, still grannypiper is it something I said?

I am not sure what this relates to grannypiper?
Could you give me the times of the posts you mean to help me find them please?

DaphneBroon, it was suggested on the other thread by someone who doesnt agree with the OP of this thread that she should take her views and open a new thread

I had a look and I didn't see any other - hence the title and first sentence in the first post.

I am not sure that it would have occurred to me that a thread labelled 'A bad day for the world' was about the result of the US election rather than fears for the result. In fact i do not necessarily think it is, but will go to that thread to say why

To Moderators- could the two threads be joined (with the 'bad day for the world') - please.

There is a bigger problem than Trump wining the presidential election
The republicans have also gained the majority in all the 'Houses'.
So no-one to put the breaks on.
He is the most powerful president since the 1920s.
I fear he will be a One Man Band.
Unlikely to listen to any of his advisers.
The ultimate power trip!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA - watch and weep

Answer to OP yes he can. I was watching a roundup of the campaign on Monday and I think what truly horrified me again was his mocking of a disabled journalist - a UK politician would not have survived that

When you consider what the world has gained from the US- pornography,brutal film scenes,junk food, GM crops, Barbie wowmen, cosmetic surgery, Creationism, etc then what you have as president now is what America really is, and we might as well get used to it.

Somehow together with Brexit its hard not to worry.

My DH stayed up all night, but kept popping in to wake me up with news (!) I may as well as stayed up too as am frazzled now.
DH has just stomped off for a shower and will be in a bad mood all day.

I think the title of this thread is non-committal, unlike the other thread - and there were some posters who thought Trump may not be a bad thing .....!


I thought DH was joking when he brought my and the news so I laughed.

Not laughing now.

I expect that Monica either started this one first or didn't see the other thread( have done that myself).
We shall have to wait and see how things work out, it is a shock, the polls always seem to be wrong about everything now, hardly worth having them.
There are checks and balances on a President, he cannot act as a dictator.

Why do we need yet another thread? Haven't we got enough space for this topic on threads such as "A bad day for the world "?

Oh and pedant alert, Im68now it's *there's" not "theirs "

Nobody is saying there can't be two threads Charley was just stating fact.