How will your life change once The Donald is elected POTUS?

Jesus please no. A ton of people don’t like him either. I don’t think this is over.

Anyway, if he gets elected, as always my biggest personal risk is with changes to the healthcare system. He has said he will repeal ACA. I am at considerable risk right now because I was just laid off yesterday and am on COBRA, which is $580 a month for me, and I have no income. I have Crohn’s disease that, because of ACA, cannot be labelled a pre-existing condition if I do have a lapse in my health insurance. Also because of ACA I can go back onto my parents’ health insurance if I end up needing to, because I am under 26.

I will be in a much bigger bind without ACA.

A strong desire for authentic Mexican food, but at least I will now be able to get a job mowing lawns and washing dishes, since the Mexicans that do it will be gone.

Yes the preexisting condition clause is the best part of the ACA. One would hope that he has the wherewithal to keep that.

Mostly I look forward to losing my healthcare. Also Trump supporters are eager to annul my brother’s marriage.

I’m not sure if he is on his husband’s health insurance, but hopefully Mr. Trump will get him kicked off. As a kidney recipient he’s costing a bundle to the insurance pool.

And I donated a kidney for him. So without insurance I won’t be forced to feel like some kind of coddled weakling if my remaining kidney gives up. Nature will take it’s course.

Trump’s plan to deport 11 million Mexicans in 18 months sounds reasonable. It will open up 11 million jobs to real Americans.

Plus it will require millions of new immigration officers to hunt down stubborn Mexicans and pull them kicking and screaming to the deportation wagons.

I have firearm and martial arts training, and am licensed to work as uniformed security or as a non-uniformed investigator in my state. So I will probably be out there in the field, tracking my friends and neighbors like vermin.

It all sounds like a sweet deal.

I voted for Bernie in the primary, so of course I am deeply committed to staying home in November to help Trump achieve his goals

I’ll probably avoid watching anything involving him and sit back and hope for the best.

If he were stupid enough to cut back the USCG and USN coverage in the Caribbean, nullify some foreign aid programs which could shut down trade agreements, these island nations may become more dependent on drug transshipment and gambling—drug transhipment to the US, that is. But the initial reason for our military presence in the Caribbean since Teddy Roosevelt is in order to ensure that the Panama Canal remains open and unmolested, so I really don’t think our umbrella will be lifted significantly.

But there is always the second string team—the Chinese and the Russians for foreign aid, and the third string—certain Latin American countries like Venezuela and Cuba always knocking on the door. Organized crime might also take hold in places they’ve been so far denied.

I will stick a finger in the wind and see how it goes. It may not affect me at all, or it may increase rural crime here as the drug business grows. We’ll see. It’s nice right now. There are no cops to speak of, very little drug abuse among the natives out here. People pretty much take care of things themselves in their own way. That will continue, of course, but with the insertion of more drugs, it could become more violent. That’s OK. I can deal with it. And then Trump will be gone and there will be a new administration with new programs.

Trumps proposed tax plan would benefit me immensely…I could live with that.

~We would see an influx of refugees from America trying to escape the Donald’s grasp . Also when global climate change turns most of the USA into a sand filled wasteland even more Americans will flock to the border into Canada. By that time we will have a wall at the border to keep out the riffraff.~ Irony.~

Not much, just thank GOD for being lucky enough to be a Canadian.

The main change for me is that I will be greatly ashamed of living in my country and fearful of imminent war.

@janbb Actually Clinton is arguably more hawkish than Trump.

Saying that Trump is going to win because of Clinton’s unfavorables ignores the fact that his unfavorables are worse. It also ignores the fact that there’s way more left to dig up about Trump than there is about Clinton. So I don’t think it’s guaranteed that Trump is going to win. And if he does, I’d bet money that someone takes him out before he takes office.

THIS REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

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@Irukandji I am being deliberately cynical for the sake of argument. The entire world underestimated the man 6 months ago and continue to do so. People forget, he is a charismatic reality TV star who can turn on the charm. People’s memories are short.

I’ll be out of a job within a couple years.

I work in the Securities business. The stock and options trading business will shrink in a huge way when the economy tanks after Trump is elected. He has proposed damaging the full faith and credit of the United States by reneging on bond payments. When that happens, the economy will sink faster than a stone.

Trump does not understand debt that can’t be reorganized in a bankruptcy proceeding.

@zenvelo You live near me, I think. If that happens, I’ll take you out for a beer in Oakland.

@Rarebear Clinton may or may not be more hawkish than Trump – who knows what he is? But she understands diplomacy and foreign policy and he knows nothing about them.

On the positive side, I think the Democratic party will need to have a serious “come to Jesus meeting” and start purging the leaders that lead to a Trump presidency. People like the DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (and Dianne Feinstein) need to get the boot. They aren’t representing the party, and doing everything in their power to play dirty politics to get Clinton into office (including laundering big money donations to the DNC directly into the Clinton campaign to subvert election law, having democratic debates at low viewership hours to avoid people being exposed to Bernie’s message, playing games with the elections, disenfranchising democrat voters, etc.), despite the fact that Clinton is much more likely to loose to Trump than Sanders. The DNC needs to get rid of the dead weight that are pulling the party deeper into the pockets of corporate America, and corporate media.

The alternative would be a schism in the party and for a 3rd party to rise up: something akin to the FDR democratic party. I think such a party would quickly gain traction and the traditional Democratic party establishment would be forced to move left as their base of support evaporated.

Either way, the terrors of a Trump presidency would almost certainly lead to a massive upswell of support against him in 2020.

It won’t, he won’t & it won’t even if he did (booyahh)

The demographics are against Trump. Minority voters who are put off by Trump’s attitude toward them will make the difference in swing states. If it comes down to Florida again, the Democrats should be able to win. A lot of those who are not being polled because they are thought of as not being likely voters are going to register and provide the margin of victory.

This is so terrifying….

I am already close to living off the grid, so not much.
That said, I might have to learn Canadian currency.

@Rarebear Asserting nonsense isn’t cynicism. Even if you really thought that Trump was going to win, the reason you gave for it would still be a bad one.

Hey @filmfann nothing to learn it all in dollars and cents,just yours is worth more at the moment.

My biggest fear is that he will end net neutrality and let the big ISPs turn the internet into a cable TV business model. That will kill small independent sites like Fluther. That will change my life in a big negative way.

…and that fear turned out to be true :-(