The OFFICIAL Trump/HRC/2016 General Election Thread...

[actaeon277]

They rigged polls so long they started to believe them.

Yup.




Holy crap. I slept 16 hours and now I have 70+ pages to read??? Ugh.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Yup.




Holy crap. I slept 16 hours and now I have 70+ pages to read??? Ugh.

Nah, didn't miss much. No one's been banned, that I know of.

 

[T.Lex]

FYI - An Army EOD vet took a Florida Senate seat yesterday. Brian Mast, good guy.

That makes 3 former Army EOD guys in Congress.

Wait.

So, when people say "burn it down" there are actually people there with the expertise to accomplish the act with a significantly greater amount of dramatic flare! That's pretty cool, if it is ever necessary.

 

[Alpo]

Kinda late for that. It be over.

 

[actaeon277]

Whole state is Red except for Phillie and Pittsburg. Go figure. The coal miners want trump...the cities want Clinton.

Imagine that. People still want jobs.

 

[BugI02]

So didn't like four more states just legalize recreational marijuana?

That seemed to get buried in the Presidential results.

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[actaeon277]

Yup.




Holy crap. I slept 16 hours and now I have 70+ pages to read??? Ugh.

Nah, didn't miss much. No one's been banned, that I know of.

Kinda late for that. It be over.

Ex-submariners are used to having to catch up on news.
I missed the entire gulf war being underwater.
I guess I can catch up on this.

 

[rvb]

Oh, I'm all for abolishing the EC, at least the winner-take-all part of it. I could live with the EC if they left that part out. Winner take all disenfranchises (I hate that uppity word but if ever there were a massive disenfranchisement of voters, it's this) voters because all a state's voting power is given to the candidate who wins a majority of votes. So 50% +1 votes for one means 100% goes to that one.

I like the EC. We aren't a democracy. We elect people to vote on behalf of us, we don't vote directly. Just as we elect representatives to vote on laws for us, we vote for the EC to elect the president for us.

No one is disenfranchised. Heck I lived in Maryland for 10 years. I didn't feel disenfranchised when I lived there either, even continually on the "loosing" side. I had my say for who should represent me to vote for POTUS. That's like saying I was disenfranchised because I didn't get to vote on legislation before congress. But that's obviously wrong because that's what we elect congress for. People feel that way because the country has become so conditioned to falsely believe we are a democracy.

People like to make a big deal that pop vote shows different results compared to EC vote, but campaigns would be run completely different under different election rules.

-rvb

 

[actaeon277]

Somebody put pajama boy on suicide watch.

I guess we're not quite there yet.

 

[indiucky]

 

[actaeon277]

I like the EC. We aren't a democracy. We elect people to vote on behalf of us, we don't vote directly. Just as we elect representatives to vote on laws for us, we vote for the EC to elect the president for us.

No one is disenfranchised. Heck I lived in Maryland for 10 years. I didn't feel disenfranchised when I lived there either, even continually on the "loosing" side. I had my say for who should represent me to vote for POTUS. That's like saying I was disenfranchised because I didn't get to vote on legislation before congress. But that's obviously wrong because that's what we elect congress for. People feel that way because the country has become so conditioned to falsely believe we are a democracy.

People like to make a big deal that pop vote shows different results compared to EC vote, but campaigns would be run completely different under different election rules.

-rvb

 

[BugI02]

Ex-submariners are used to having to catch up on news.
I missed the entire gulf war being underwater.
I guess I can catch up on this.

Pfft! 100 hours, you could have done that in a diesel electric boot

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Regarding guns and 2A. Now's not the time to get laid back and lazy about it. Trump doesn't care about 2A. He doesn't.

If you want change, you need to press for it. Write to our local reps and senators. There's no reason for Trump to take any initiative on expanding gun rights, at all. Get to him before a shooting happens and he gets pressured by the Left.

Also be wary of any lame-duck last minute anti-gun pushes from Obama.

 

[actaeon277]

Pfft! 100 hours, you could have done that in a diesel electric boot

I included the air war, and build up.

 

[actaeon277]

Fox just said Hildabeast went back to her hotel room, any bets on how hammered she'll be when she comes out.

Well, anybody would be disappointed. And I'm pretty sure this was her last opportunity.

 

[jamil]

I like the EC. We aren't a democracy. We elect people to vote on behalf of us, we don't vote directly. Just as we elect representatives to vote on laws for us, we vote for the EC to elect the president for us.

No one is disenfranchised. Heck I lived in Maryland for 10 years. I didn't feel disenfranchised when I lived there either, even continually on the "loosing" side. I had my say for who should represent me to vote for POTUS. That's like saying I was disenfranchised because I didn't get to vote on legislation before congress. But that's obviously wrong because that's what we elect congress for. People feel that way because the country has become so conditioned to falsely believe we are a democracy.

People like to make a big deal that pop vote shows different results compared to EC vote, but campaigns would be run completely different under different election rules.

-rvb

What makes us a republic is not the indirectness of the EC. It is still a republican form of government whether representatives and executives are elected directly or indirectly. When they adopted the EC the United States was already going to be a Republic. The EC came about as a compromise for specific concerns that mostly no longer exist. But yet people say things like "OMG, we won't be a Republic anymore if we elect a President as the chief executive directly!" And that is simply untrue.

Also, if we want to give smaller states a bit more elective power, okay, fine. We can keep the electoral college, because that's not the most egregious disenfranchiser of voters. Winner takes all is. And that certainly is not a requirement of a Republic.

 

[actaeon277]

Yes all those old right leaning judges will retire en masse and the court will get packed with right learners.

HAHAHAH MSNBC had to put Giuliani on!

YES.
We have to learn from this. Justices need to step down, so that we don't have a bunch dying of giving opportunities like this.

 

[1911ly]

I would like to see term limits on supreme court appointments. They get old a senile just like anyone else. This life time crap is BS.

 

[actaeon277]

Well, if we didn't have the EC, wouldn't Clinton have won?
Trump 59,479,278
Clinton 59,680,035

 

[87iroc]

Just heard a young liberal(I assume) At work make a wisecrack about cost of living going up with Trump in office. No idea where that came from. I missed all the tears this morning I think.