The Next Election, Political News, and Other Forms of Comedy (US, UK, & Intl)

Peak said:
Really? Okay, I'll explain: it's all we can do. Sad, no? Like we did about Viet Nam. You were around then. You protest, or scratch your head and wonder why we madcap kids were doing that? Someday, soon I hope, they'll break open the U. S. Constitution and rework it. Scrap the f'ing Electoral College. Plurality is an obfuscating term. Try: Clinton got more votes than Trump. A fact. She should b President, but she won't be. The Constitution was written by candle light before paved roads. Rethink it.
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What else should be tinkered with when the constitution is cracked open? Open it just a crack for electoral reform and it will be blown open by everyone and his/her/its dog wanting to change it. Be careful what you wish for
 
Scherensammler said:
In the past, Germans saw voting also as a duty, not just a right.
So the turnout was around 99%, until people realized that it didn't matter who they voted for, since all the candidates were from the Nazi Party, and turnout went up to 99.5%.
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FTFY.

Pauly Chase said:
I watched the clip of the white house meeting, Obama looks defeated.
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I wonder if that bust of MLK placed strategically behind Trump was always there or if it was positioned especially for the meeting?

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Repubs don't get their way, they bitch about it and move on.

Dems don't get their way, time to bring on the destruction.
 
chogall said:
Here we go. ORexit.
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Lol we had to endure obama for 8 years of constant bullshit, failure, and 0 transparency. These people maybe as old as i am, but as weak and cowards as they possibly get. They should be put in a boat with a one way trip to saudi arabia and enjoy some of that equality they like and protect.
 
Thruth said:
What else should be tinkered with when the constitution is cracked open? Open it just a crack for electoral reform and it will be blown open by everyone and his/her/its dog wanting to change it.
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Sounds good to me. Let's scrap that thing about a President only getting two terms. You think Obama wouldn't have beaten Trump? Talk to my grand mother, dig her up, ask her why she waited until 40 to vote? Constitution wouldn't let her maybe? Gore vs. Bush. Gore got half a million more votes than Bush. Shame it didn't seem to matter. Though Bush's Iraq war did. Maybe that right to bear arms thing could be worked on. A Constitutional Convention every 25 years. Crack it wide. Tell it about electricity and motor cars. Candle light and unpaved roads just ain't enough.
 
Leitmotif said:
Lol we had to endure obama for 8 years of constant bullshit, failure, and 0 transparency. These people maybe as old as i am, but as weak and cowards as they possibly get. They should be put in a boat with a one way trip to saudi arabia and enjoy some of that equality they like and protect.
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Soon enough we shall see WAexit and Nevexit. United West Coast States of America. UWCSA.
 
chogall said:
Soon enough we shall see WAexit and Nevexit. United West Coast States of America. UWCSA.
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Too fucking bad about eugenics. Most of these people have had everything handed them to them. Liberals for the most part are weak people. Jealousy being their biggest trait. They like to protect and defend anything that suits them, but no balls to get anythig done. Im glad im deplorable as fuck. Im glad i aint broke, and im glad to be part of 'merica.
 
Jan Libourel said:
As to the claim that Hillary got a majority of the votes, she didn't. She got a plurality. No candidate who got a clear majority of the popular vote has ever lost in the electoral college, except maybe Tilden, but that was a terribly corrupt election with a lot ballot box stuffing by both sides.
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Here (Oz) it's quite possible for the "loser" of a general election to receive a true majority of votes. Compulsory voting + a parliamentary system. But most parliamentary democracies entertain that the leader of the party with the most votes may lose an election if they don't win a majority of seats - the only difference in the US is it's EC votes rather than parliamentary votes that may not truly reflect "majority rules".

One bloke in Queensland by the name of Jo was an expert at using gerrymandering - I think he originally became Premier with his party receiving about 20% of the popular vote.
 
People advocating California seceding from the union. God I hope it does. Bankrupt in less than a week.
 
In an interview with former Australian Prime Minister Keating about Trump’s presidency he immediately launched into a passionate rant about why Australia has a better and more fair society than the US:

“This whole question about sub-ordination to the United States in a sort of broad policy terms, this society of ours is a better society than the United States.

It’s more even, it’s more fair, we’ve had a 50% increase in real incomes in the last 20 years. Median America has had zero, zero.

We have universal health protection, from the cradle to the grave.

We have a retirement income system, with superannuation.

We have high participation rates in schools.

We don’t shoot our children in schools and if they were to be shot we’d take the guns off the people who shot them. The Americans do not do this.

This is a better society than the United States.

Therefore the idea we should get around like Uriah Heep as we are some sort of subordinate outfit that has to get a signal from abroad before we think for ours is a complete denial of everything we have created here.
 
He doesn't mention our extremely high prices for goods and services that warrant the increase in incomes, therefore it is all relative, therefore hos point is moot, but politician nonsense baffles brains! Those pro U.N globalist types like Keating are not Australia's friend, they started the process to sell Oz to the world so they could ruin the country and abolish it's national identity. They are not patriots, they are traitors, just like Hawke, Howard, Rudd, Gillard and Turnbull.
 
Rambo said:
Exceptionally doubtful. I can see a truth and reconciliation commission or some shit like that.
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Yep, the old toothless tiger `eh!

I don't know about America, but when they announce a `royal commission' is about to occur in Oz you can pretty much guarantee it will be a toothless tiger. It's just to bluff the public into thinking that there is a law that applies to all, but we know some are above the law.

Remember too...Hilary is above the law. Why? Because laws are for the little people. If you are important enough and in the establishment you don't have to be held accountable, but the public are not supposed to know that so they hold commissions to baffle public brains into believing myths that everyone is equal under the law.
 
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Pauly Chase said:
Repubs don't get their way, they bitch about it and move on.

Dems don't get their way, time to bring on the destruction.
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I get your point, but they don't really destroy much. What has BLM actually accomplished, besides encouraging more racists to become cops? What did OWS ever manage to do? KONY? Making a rainbow flag your Facebook status after gay marriage passed?

Tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
 
Pauly Chase said:
Repubs don't get their way, they bitch about it and move on shut down the whole fucking government.

Dems don't get their way, time to bring on the destruction pout like little bitches.
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Repaired.

Looney left Dems and conservatives are both big fat gaping pussies.



Peak said:
Sounds good to me. Let's scrap that thing about a President only getting two terms. You think Obama wouldn't have beaten Trump? Talk to my grand mother, dig her up, ask her why she waited until 40 to vote? Constitution wouldn't let her maybe? Gore vs. Bush. Gore got half a million more votes than Bush. Shame it didn't seem to matter. Though Bush's Iraq war did. Maybe that right to bear arms thing could be worked on. A Constitutional Convention every 25 years. Crack it wide. Tell it about electricity and motor cars. Candle light and unpaved roads just ain't enough.
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Lolwut.
 
Trump now saying he is up for keeping parts of Obamacare. And walked back the Muslim ban. And is open to other ideas on trade.

<snicker>

The next four years are going to be so much fun.

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Rambo said:
this is likely the pre-existing conditions stipulation.

we knew that was never going to happen.

who the fuck knows what this means?
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Well the individual mandate is the only way to pay for it, so dis gon be gud.

The trade thing is obvious, green light go. Already leaking that Newt is angling to not just keep NAFTA, but add UK now that they are leaving the EU. This is glorious.

The best part is pretty much summed up by Mencken. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Joe Steelworker is getting ready to get Trumpism long and deep up the ass.

People like me are going to rake cash for a few years. Only trade off is large swathes of our populace are scared shirtless now.
 
^I thought Trump is keen on dismantling NAFTA, not expanding it.

I'll just tell a little personal story. The best and most loyal friend I ever had owned a small welding business that afforded him a modest but sufficient living. After NAFTA, nearly all the work that was the mainstay of his business was moved down to Mexico, and he was forced to close down his shop. He went into a state of depression and eventually drank himself to death a few years later. He had other personal issues, but I really believe NAFTA had a major role in sending my friend down to a very untimely grave.
 
Thruth said:
Isn't anyone thinking of MicheleO? For 8 years she has been the worshipped as the sexiest woman the White House has seen. .
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Better than Jackie Kennedy? Oh, gimme a break! I know that Julia Gardiner Tyler was celebrated as a great beauty in her time, but she doesn't look like much by contemporary standards. At least my first cousin (many times removed) Dolley Madison had quite an impressive rack. Grover Cleveland's bride looked pretty damn good, at least at the time that fat guy married her, and there may have been others that surpassed Michele. I always though the latter looked kind of mean!
 
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Jan Libourel said:
^I thought Trump is keen on dismantling NAFTA, not expanding it.

I'll just tell a little personal story. The best and most loyal friend I ever had owned a small welding business that afforded him a modest but sufficient living. After NAFTA, nearly all the work that was the mainstay of his business was moved down to Mexico, and he was forced to close down his shop. He went into a state of depression and eventually drank himself to death a few years later. He had other personal issues, but I really believe NAFTA had a major role in sending my friend down to a very untimely grave.
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Jan, I'm truly sorry for you loss. As you yourself say though there were other issues. If someone can't deal with job loss and such that's indicative of deeper problems. Partially it's the problem with the entire American ethos, starting with our Puritan founding. The way Americans define their self worth by their job is insane. It's also the reason you see all this unrest in the rust belt as these people were indoctrinated that what they were doing before was "real" work. I've said it a million times, being a bartender is a more valuableto society, highly skilled and respectable job than pushing a button on a steel brake a thousand times a day.

I wish we had more bartenders too, I can think of like half a dozen, and I live in a metro area of 2 million people.

I'm also dubious NAFTA would put a welding outfit out of business. It is such a hyperlocal business. Did NAFTA let the Mexicans drive back and for across the border to weld stuff? Aren't you in LA? That's a hike.
 
doghouse said:
Jan, I'm truly sorry for you loss. As you yourself say though there were other issues. If someone can't deal with job loss and such that's indicative of deeper problems. Partially it's the problem with the entire American ethos, starting with our Puritan founding. The way Americans define their self worth by their job is insane. It's also the reason you see all this unrest in the rust belt as these people were indoctrinated that what they were doing before was "real" work. I've said it a million times, being a bartender is a more valuableto society, highly skilled and respectable job than pushing a button on a steel brake a thousand times a day.

I wish we had more bartenders too, I can think of like half a dozen, and I live in a metro area of 2 million people.

I'm also dubious NAFTA would put a welding outfit out of business. It is such a hyperlocal business. Did NAFTA let the Mexicans drive back and for across the border to weld stuff? Aren't you in LA? That's a hike.
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You are not your khakis!
 
Lowest overall voter turnout since 1996. A few points over 50% of eligible voters. Based on this, Americans should be protesting their apathy not what they think might happen policy-wise across the narrow range of social justice issues they are carping about.
 
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