Okay, so now that the hangover from drinking all those liberal tears has worn off, what’s the speculation on the future? Well, anything I say is clearly not worth the electrons and photons it’s printed on … I adamantly thought Hillary would win. In fact, I put money on it in the form of several hundred standard-capacity magazines. But, take it with a grain of salt..
Obama has two months to throw out a slew of spiteful executive orders and pardons to throw gravel under Trump’s wheels. Not only is he a man with nothing to lose at this point, he’s a man with nothing to lose AND an axe to grind.
Trump himself is impossible to pin down. There’s photos of him out there gladhanding with Clintons and saying warm things about Hillary. Clearly, Trump is enough of a player that he says what he needs to at that moment to get what he wants. That means, really, we can’t say with any certainty what his position on guns is.
And the Republicans….they were willing to throw Trump under the bus and dance on his grave. Now…well…Paul Ryan was on TV with a mouthful of crow. I think they realized that for all intents and purposes, T. was a third-party candidate. They’ve either gotta get on his coattails now and at least look like theyre playing ball or they risk angering his very motivated base. Could it be enough to turn the Republican party back to the right? We shall see.
I really do think the big surprise in the election came from something we all thought about but didn’t think would happen – people who were going to vote for Trump kept it to themselves. Thats why the polls were wrong.
Anyway, as a paranoid right-wing anti-government survivalist, I’d say: change nothing. Keep doing what you’ve been doing. Don’t let your guard down and think the threat has passed because of who won the election. We know our enemy didn’t get elected, but we don’t have enough to go on to know that the person who did win is our friend.
“people who were going to vote for Trump kept it to themselves.”
Yes and no. The Adaptive Curmudgeon made the observation (a couple weeks ago) that there sure was an awful lot of Trump signs, and not many Hillary signs out there. And his readers (including me) agreed. Personally I can say that I was seeing Trump signs (and flags, and home-made billboards) on properties that I’d never before seen political signs. I think the folks figuring the polls were just not asking the right folks, not paying attention to the right things. Cause here at least the Trump voters were doing their damndest to throw it in the faces of their neighbors…..
Yard signs mean nothing. Particularly in heavily partisan neighborhoods.
I think Zero has the coat tails thing backwards. Look at almost every single Obama state that flipped, they all had popular GOP Senators running for reelection, and they all outperformed Trump. Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. That right here won it. Every Senator their son more votes. We knew this was going to be a Republican wave year.
Republicans did what they always do, they came out and they voted. Many, in fact most, voted Trump reluctantly. Meanwhile, Hillary lost the race. Minus nearly ten million votes from Obama ’08.
Bottom line: Comey and Rubio pulled him over the top.
Zero, you are right to be wary of Trump, particularly on 2A. I for one am glad we kept the Senate, because he would happily partner with Schumer and sell us out, if he thinks it would pad his ego. I just hope Ryan can keep him in line.
My $0.02:
Obama will throw out no such pardons.
1) There’s no love lost between himself and Shrillary.
2) Pardoning her, or her cronies, gains him nothing.
3) Long before the day, he will be notified that if he quietly retires, he can enjoy what shreds of legacy he has left. But that conversely, should he attempt to thwart a principled investigation and prosecution of the Clinton machine, the first act under a new administration will be an exhaustive search of his birth records and long form birth certificate, with a view to expunging every appointment he made, every act and order he signed, every law with his signature, and, indeed, the self-same pardon(s), and he will be made an un-president in perpetuity, for cause.
And likely deported back to Kenya, after serving federal time himself for identity theft, fraud, etc.
(If the Dems and the GOP thought his supporters were fired up so far, let HopeyDopey issue a pardon or twelve, and see what volcanic rage gets unleashed after that.)
And then Shrillary et al will suffer the exact same prosecutorial fate, pardons vacated because null and void, except there won’t be anyone left to intervene on their behalf, and the Democrat party leaders will be politically in the same place the NSDAP leaders were in Germany circa 1947.
And Obozo will decide instead, in short order, to watch a lot of basketball for the next two months, and retire to play golf and give speeches for fat checks, and let events follow their own course while appearing neutral and unsullied by it all.
Shrillary made her bed, now she can lie in it.
She’s looking at anywhere from 1000 to 660,000 years of federal prison time (1 year per violation of the federal records-keeping laws, and 10 years for each count of mishandling classified documents).
That, and the likely naming of someone like former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani as the next AG, are the reasons her concession speech (after the tranquilizers kicked in the next morning) was so relatively gracious and conciliatory, after spewing pure vitriol for over a year.
As to the rest, Trump’s election hasn’t cancelled any of the Trillions in federal debt Obozo racked up by running the presses at Treasury 24/7/365 for 8 years. That reckoning is still due, and it will come.
Everyone should keep preparing for bad times and bad things, go long and bullish on weapons, ammunition, long-term food, medical supplies, and means to provide power/energy. If anything is found at yard sale prices, jump on it.
What Trump gets us is some respite from the pressure on all fronts, and hopefully a little breathing space while the statist minions crawl under the porch to nearly die, and the flood of Aloha Snackbar practitioners and undocumented welfare recipients is staunched before it reaches full Johnstown Flood levels.
We bought perhaps a few months to years, and hopefully a somewhat softer landing.
We have, unfortunately, not gotten to a place where the plane isn’t going to crash.
Gravity will have it’s due.
You’r not paranoid if …
I’m glad that there’s not a buying panic or impending AWB 2017 to fear. Gun owners put Trump in the White House, and the NRA was an early and unshakeable proponent for Trump’s campaign. Trump is many things, but I don’t think he’s the type to forget a debt or back-stab an ally. He owes gun owners and the NRA big.
The NRA called me yesterday for one of their special “renew your membership for 5 years for only $120 blah blah blah” drives. I was happy to contribute. I only give money to places where I can see proof of results, and the NRA certainly has not disappointed.
“I don’t think he’s the type to forget a debt or back-stab an ally.”
You apparently aren’t very familiar with his business career.
His election gives us all a little more room to continue our prepping. We also get in on some awesome gun and ammo deals over the next few weeks and months. We all know the dealers stocked up thinking they were going to make a lot of money if Hillary won. It will be buyers market!!!!!
Your right, change nothing, all we got out of this is a break for a few years. Now we have more time to stack it high and deep. For our kids we get more time to train and prepare them for what they will have to face and endure.
no, the polls weren’t wrong. they were made up, propaganda intended to fool us into staying home, intended to make us believe the election wasn’t rigged. but we weren’t fooled, and showed up in such numbers that all their cheating was overwhelmed. so, yeah keep stacking and racking. it ain’t over by a long shot.
awesome.
I have a feeling that instead of a slow crumble and an increased police state for all under Clinton, what we’re going to get under Trump is a faster crumble for anyone or any community that isn’t wealthy and an increased police state for anyone that isn’t white.
Ya know, Michael, if you are so concerned that Mr. Trump will be able to visit DOOM upon his adversaries, and upon those that he does not favor, that might be an indication that FED.GOV is waaaayyyy too big. Or is that just me?
+1
Drove an hour to pick up some cases of ammo at good price…I thought we were doomed to 8 years of Hillary and her gun control agenda…better safe than sorry…
I am now more willing to do some longer range days. I also will be doing a little diversification in the gun collection. I’m still grinning like an idiot. While it’s true Mr Trump is a complete wild card, his statements regarding the 2nd Amendment have put me in the most positive mood I’ve been in for 8 years.
I honestly don’t know what to think. Just happy that the establishment is freaking out, they deserve it. Trump is an arrogant ass, but that doesn’t mean he won’t do some good stuff. I’m keeping my right foot mashed down to the floor because I have forgotten how to brake or just like a breakneck pace.
As disgusted as I am about the past election cycle, I’ve been laughing a lot these past 2 days.
http://i.imgur.com/We9NzYk.jpg
Well as glad as I am it’s just OVER, I’m still pretty pleased with the outcome. So much for selling over-priced mags and rifles to help out with the retirement but the up side is that we have a reasonable degree of certainty that we won’t get a AWB in the near future.
Back to buying springs n’ things for the irons I have.
Oh and more food.
Any fixing or corrections of this economic mess brings pain and lots of it. The people in the streets the last 3 nights can’t handle an election result that went the other way. Imagine what are they going to do when the pain comes. We just had the intervention, now on the way the rehab center, what comes next is the withdrawals. we have few months, use them wisely. Pray for a hard winter, it keeps the weak indoors and on the other side of the mountains.