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America: Why didn't you vote?

Each day I read the news headlines or hear on TV what new and despicable act Donald tRump has committed to embarrass his country while acting OUTSIDE of the oaths and mandate of his office and at his own whim and egregiousness.
How such an embarrassing person continues to hold office without criticism or sanction tells me much about American pride - and what level it has allowed itself to deteriorate to.
Where were the sensible people who didn't vote when the past election was held? Why does this farce of statesmanship continue to rule your country?
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Why do you think your opinion matters to anyone in the US given that you do not live here and have no vote/say in what happens here?
Carla · 61-69, F
@BrandNewMan why do you think your opinion of his opinion matters to anyone in the usa, given that free speech, regardless of how hard y'all try to eliminate it, is still a thing?
@Carla I have the same free speech rights, you realize that right? I can absolutely say I think his opinions are irrelevent because he does not live in the country he is trying to influence. Don't care what you or he thinks about that. The left being violent whenevervyou disagree w someone is the truth of trying to take away someone's right to free speech. You have no room to cast that stone.
Carla · 61-69, F
@BrandNewMan give me a break. Of course you have that same right. In your comment, you allude to the idea that the op does not.
@Carla Not what I said at all. I said his opinion is irrelevent because he does not live here being impacted by any of US politics. That is my opinion .. which I am absolutely allowed to hold and express. Your "judgement" of that .. is equally irrelevent.
Carla · 61-69, F
@BrandNewMan i get it.

His opinion matters to me. I am american. Your opinion is flawed.
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Carla · 61-69, F
@BrandNewMan when you generalized by saying... "Why your opinion matters to *anyone* in the us", you included me, as i am someone in the us. Effectively telling him he hasnt the right to voice that opinion to me.

I would not have had an issue had you expressed how his opinion matters not to...you.
@Carla Yeah, I'm all tore up about that .. 🙄

You are again saying something different about my intent to fit your agenda. He can express it all he wants. His opinion as a non-citizen lacks a legal vote to go along with it. So .. in my opinion .. his opinion is irrelevent.

How is a Canadian citizen expressing opinions this way on our politics and elections any different than supposed Russian attempts to sway the 2016 election?? I'm sure you were all about that, werent you? Its a foreign national dedicated to affecting things here. No real American should welcome this crap .. from Russia or coordinated input from a bunch of Canadians. You are only supporting it here because its aligned with your own agenda to do the same thing.
JollyRoger · 70-79, M
@BrandNewMan Hey... your pRESIDENT (evil) keeps knocking on us up here.... so I have every right to express my opinion about him (I guess you missed that the last time I said it). Go get yourself a MAN (or WOMAN) who will represent your country to the world in a decent and respectful and respectable way. You have a criminal who is filling his pockets for his own gain and glory... I don't feel the least bit of remorse of stating what I think of him and of people (like you) who permit your country to be downtrodden and laughed at by the rest of the world. Yes, your country is strong (I didn't say it was weak), but it is getting weaker when it should be getting stronger. tRUMP has bluffed you into having a second term in office - his behaviour and policies were bad enough during his first term. You WILL come to realize this mistake eventually, but the sooner you do, the better! AND then ACT on it! Don't let him mock the US Constitution. Don't let him abuse minorities (you claim to be the land of the FREE?). Don't let him disable the institutions that give the American people financial, medical and educational access. BUT; You are - every day that he signs another of his ludicrous and spur-of-whim 'Executive Orders." What ever happened to your Congress? Does it still exist?