{"id":6612,"date":"2017-01-29T19:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T19:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2017-01-18T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:36:07","slug":"linked-what-the-hell-just-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/29\/linked-what-the-hell-just-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;What the Hell Just Happened?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3456,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/medium.com\\\/@davepell\\\/what-the-hell-just-happened-441c82bb3096#.dpyh0zyau&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20201009225823\\\/https:\\\/\\\/medium.com\\\/@davepell\\\/what-the-hell-just-happened-441c82bb3096&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 04:14:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-17 16:12:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 03:17:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-29 10:32:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-06 17:13:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 16:16:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22 09:44:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 15:09:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 15:24:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 16:28:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 13:03:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 21:29:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 08:12:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 08:12:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3457,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Douche_and_Turd&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251006035657\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Douche_and_Turd&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 04:14:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-29 10:32:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-06 17:13:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 16:16:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22 09:44:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 15:09:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 15:09:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@davepell\/what-the-hell-just-happened-441c82bb3096#.dpyh0zyau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via DavePell<\/a> (a medium blog):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Next Few Months: There can be no tolerance of acts of hate perpetrated by those who feel emboldened by this slim victory. But it doesn\u2019t mean shit if I say it or if Obama says it. Trump has to say it. (And sadly, as history has shown, that might not work either.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve all decompressed after this wild election cycle, I came back to this blog to see how on or off Dave was and he was pretty on. I spent a lot of time talking to people in New Hampshire and Florida about their thoughts on the outcome of the election and i\u2019m in full agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals underestimated the Trump support and I think they can blame social media\u2019s algorithms for only showing then things they approve of and for not reading news papers, blogs or watch television stations that lean right. Actually, both sides should look in the mirror and at the other side of viewpoints sometimes so they can understand what is going on. In addition, there are a lot of people in these United States that are unemployed, broke, in debt and they see the entire news cycle talk nothing about weed, gay rights, women\u2019s rights and acceptance. Those things are great but when you are making minimum wage and your jobs are going overseas and you never hear about your rights and your privileges (because no one dares talk about men\u2019s rights), then you take a chance and vote for a candidate you may not fully understand but hope has your best interest at heart.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump delivers on his promises, there will be some positives. I think we can all agree on that and I hope we\u2019ll stop discounting the people who feel left out by the modern age. One infuriating aspect of Hillary\u2019s concession speech coverage by he media is all of the people talking about how sad it was for the progress of women. You should not vote for something because it breaks a glass ceiling. You should vote for the things that represent your viewpoints and ideals. I did not vote for Donald Trump but I did not vote for Hillary Clinton because she\u2019s a woman and her winning would be historical. I voted for her because I liked what she stood for as an individual.<\/p>\n<p>If Hillary Clinton won and was a woman, that\u2019s great but part of the problem we have with acceptance and rights of the ones underrepresented is that we lose sight of true progress and only see progress for the sake of progress. At my work, if I\u2019m asked to hire the best candidate for the job, I don\u2019t look at everyone\u2019s racial background and gender, find the minority and then decide if they\u2019re a good candidate for the job. We are voting for progress at the expense of real progress. Unfortunately, in this election cycle, we truly had to pick between a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douche_and_Turd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Douche and a Turd Sandwich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it bothers me the things Donald Trump said enough so that I didn\u2019t vote for him. If more jobs come back to America, wages increase, they replace the Affordable Care Act with something better and the rotting infrastructure of this country starts to improve and the lifetime politicians are kicked out of DC, I\u2019ll consider his presidency a success. Let\u2019s just pray that this step forward isn\u2019t met with two steps back of bigotry, hate and racism that we\u2019ve all fought so hard to make progress on. I don\u2019t want an asshole businessman in the white-house. The Federal government is a business. It\u2019s the largest company in the world. We are all employees (tax-payers) and we fund the government so sure, I\u2019m guessing he has some good ideas but it\u2019s hard to tell if any of his promises will come true and with a side of hate and bullying is not who I want our children looking up to.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll se how it goes. The best thing we can do over the next 4 years it to remain informed, consider reading viewpoints from all sides, donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Archive Project and keeping our heads high.<\/p>\n<p>Consider reading Dave\u2019s Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via DavePell (a medium blog): The Next Few Months: There can be no tolerance of acts of hate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1IE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7177,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/linked-donald-trump-campaign-ramps-up-2020-re-election-fundraising\/","url_meta":{"origin":6612,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Donald Trump campaign ramps up 2020 re-election fundraising&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via PublicIntegrity: $67,867: Amount Rubio\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign earned renting out information about its supporters. $146,425: Amount Fiorina\u2019s presidential campaign transferred to a pro-Fiorina super PAC. $700: Amount the campaign of Sen. 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