I have never wanted 45 to fail. I just knew that he would.
He is incapable of leadership, and I knew that going in.
I tried to warn everyone I possibly could. Most people refused to listen.
A lot of them are still refusing to listen.

This country is not an airplane and 45 is not a pilot.
If the pilot fails and the plane crashes, everyone dies.
This is very different.
With 45's failure, the country doesn't crash and everyone doesn't die.
With 45's failure, the country survives, but it is irreparably damaged. Some
people will die. People are already dying because of 45. Not many seem to
care very much about it because a lot of them plan on voting for 45 again.

Once again, someone on fb has gotten it wrong, and posted someone
else's thoughts, which were also wrong.

The pilot at least had to pass his license. What qualifications did Trump have? He certainly didn't have the manners or IQ of a statesman. He wouldn't even reveal his income tax to show he was a wise and honest business man. It's about time the people applying for these jobs could prove they were suitable. Criteria should be written for the top job just like any other job.

Trump has already failed over and over again.

Eff that. We vote for a reason, the electoral college screwed us. That is where the rest of politics is supposed to step in and prevent a small cabal of idiots with trash thoughts from gutting the country.

I think we all hoped for the best, and at this point it's too late to hope he won't fail. Best we can do now is try to mitigate the damage and try our best to make the election in 2020 fair and uninfluenced.

There's a point when you have to stop hoping and face the facts. The being on the same boat or aiirplane analogy may have been valid for a short period of time, but when you witness your pilot doing crap that's stupid, idiotic and just plain dangerous every fucking second he's sitting on the pilot's chair, you stop hoping and you prepare for the worst, you prepare for the inevitable crash. Just hope you won't die.

My wanting anyone to succeed or fail has zero, zilch, nada, zip to do with them being successful or not. That's on them, not me.

Jezus fucking christ.

If the pilot was drunk, you would not want to have to hope he would still fly you home safely. You would want a different pilot.

I see the point but with Donald Trump there is no best to hope for. He is not POTUS material, period. As for your airplane pilot, I have never wondered about them in any way when I was on a plane.

There have been Presidents I wanted to fail because their policies were or are terrible. Whether you want them to fail or succeed depends entirely on whether you support or don't support their agenda and their policies.

The situation in the UK is closer to that post than the US I think.
Three years ago we had a referendum on Brexit. The results were 52% - 48% to leave. In poker terms that would be a coin flip. Whilst it committed the govt to do this, it left the 48% screaming what a bad idea it was. They have supported everything they could to stop or delay it. It has led to the break up of old friends and families and 3 years of chaotic govt.
Now we have a govt with a strong majority and it will happen anyway. Those of us that disagreed with both the referendum and the results of the election can only look on the bright side (if any) and try to make the best of it.
The US situation is rather different. A pilot would have to passed as competent to fly. Okay, that was like the election. If he consequently then broke the law by smuggling, he failed a drug or alcohol test or was in breach of the airline regulations say by asking a rival airline to dig up some dirt on his coworker or boss? Then he would be subject to disciplinary action or worse.
Pilots are subject to periodic review. These now include psychiatric tests to avoid the situation that occurred when the Lufthansa guy killed himself, crew and all his passengers. Judging by the way your POTUS now speaks. I really think that he has become unhinged. Whilst this is sad, he cannot be left alone to reap whatever destruction he wants to.

@dave1459 I think Steve Garrington is making a false equivalent.

Many hate Trump; but few - if any - want him to fail.

Many wish him ill...they laugh at his diet, his absurd lies about his height and weight...but I seriously doubt anyone has made any plans to do him harm.

I concur with his last sentence; there's no winner in a divided nation...

But no one "hates" for no reason. No one wants our nation to "fail". But we do want - and need - a new "pilot".

You hate someone who has professed love, concern, or care for you/yours...but then turned his/her back. They lied.
They deceived.
They cheated - and got caught many, many times.

So our love turned to distrust....and finally to hate.

No one wants "the plane to crash" but when we see a pilot doing dangerous things that proves that we shouldn't be on that flight....and we can do something about that pilot?

Then we who love our nation will be damned sure that we will do all we can to get that pilot under arrest.

Oh, sweetie, That ship has Sailed!

Trump failed he should have thought of it when he voted

The passengers also don't get to vote for who they want as a pilot. If we went by the suggestion in the article... We'd be doomed! The country has been highjacked by someone even more dangerous than the 9/11 highjackers. He will do FAR MORE damage than they did and kill more people than they did. He also makes us more unsafe than they did.

I voted for Hillary, not because I liked her... Far from it. It was an anti Trump vote because I knew he was a corrupt horse's ass. When he was elected though... After a week of feeling gutshot. I thought the same thing, "Well, he is my president now and I need to support him!"

And then he opened his stupid fucking mouth and all the lies started coming out! No sir... He is NOT my president. He should not be YOUR president either.

I will donate my time and money this election cycle to making sure he is removed by whatever legal means are necessary!

There are a couple of logic errors presented in this clipping.

Pilots in the USA undergo a fitness regime to ensure anyone who is legally allowed to fly is competent. Few other occupations have such rigid training and testing. Presidents are decided by majority vote, which says nothing about actual fitness or competence. It's not at all equivalent.

I don't know anyone who wants a president to "fail" in the manner the clipping suggests, either. People who don't like Trump, for example, just want him out of office. That is a substantially different proposition altogether.

I understand the point the article is making. I think a much more reasonable job of framing the argument would help. Straw-man positioning of the arguments made against a particular president are counterproductive.

Excellent

I see the article's point very clearly and yet, no surprise at all, there are comments already showing how hard they wish 45 to fail. The crash part of the story has not gone through yet..... Let's keep tryng. Excellent metaphor.

What if while on the flight you realize that the pilot is wild, disrespectful, clumsy, narcissist, insults and changes constantly the cabin crew, he thinks he's a genius surrounded by idiots? You don't want him to fail but you don't want him to EVER pilot a plane... ever again!

Although, I wouldn't worry or even think about what described on the first part of the text, I must say it was very well put. Although I believe politicians should be changed regularly like nappies (or diapers, as you prefer) and for the exact same reason...

I support your post enthusiastically! After an election the sides are supposed to come together in mutual support. You don’t have to like the president, but it seems like good sense to respect the judgment of the electorate rather than to continuously slur and demonize them. The overriding principle is that not everyone can have his way.

Maybe we should be working for the best. Seems the politicians don't.
I agree. There are no winners, not even in life, for it is a come and go issue. Interesting thoughts