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El Presidente Trump

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  • #2312
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    If Hillary never deleted any e mails, would she be the American President today?


  • #2313
    Eoin247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Eoin247


    Looking at Trump on the news today. He looks and sounds absolutely shocked.

    I honestly think he wasn't planning on winning and had big plans for his brand once he lost.


  • #2314
    Eoin247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Eoin247


    Looking at Trump on the news today. He looks and sounds absolutely shocked.

    I honestly think he wasn't planning on winning and had big plans for his brand once he lost.


  • #2315
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,838 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    I agree he looked stunned. I'd say Obama gave him a reality check.


  • #2316
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    just saw footage from one of the protests in la, people actually chanting ''overthrow the tyrant'' jesus h christ so you want a revolution against the democratically elected president then? and trump voters are the stupid ones! also talk about a lot of people with ''wall street is the enemy'' signs, highly ironic from hillary supporters considering how her campaign was funded.


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  • #2317
    Lackey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    Means Of Escape wrote: »
    " I will drain the swamp in Washington ,vote for me "-Trump

    And they did
    Regardless of what he said or did in the past people only cared about an increase in their pay packet .

    And why wouldn't joe soap with a wife and a couple of kids care about his pay packet, and if he can afford to feed clothe and educate them.
    There's nothing wrong with this.
    Only people with money ever say moneys not important.


  • #2318
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    anna080 wrote: »
    If Hillary never deleted any e mails, would she be the American President today?

    She probably wouldn't even have been among the Democratic candidates :D


  • #2319
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    anna080 wrote: »
    If Hillary never deleted any e mails, would she be the American President today?

    Her inability to connect with the working class has always been a major stumbling block as well. I honestly don't think the rust belt rejected her on tne basis of perceived scandals. She didn't know how to allay their fears and got clobbered for it.


  • #2320
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Depp wrote: »
    just saw footage from one of the protests in la, people actually chanting ''overthrow the tyrant'' jesus h christ so you want a revolution against the democratically elected president then? and trump voters are the stupid ones! also talk about a lot of people with ''wall street is the enemy'' signs, highly ironic from hillary supporters considering how her campaign was funded.

    They sort of have a point.


  • #2321
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Depp wrote: »
    just saw footage from one of the protests in la, people actually chanting ''overthrow the tyrant'' jesus h christ so you want a revolution against the democratically elected president then? and trump voters are the stupid ones! also talk about a lot of people with ''wall street is the enemy'' signs, highly ironic from hillary supporters considering how her campaign was funded.

    Saw video of kids chanting "build the wall" at Hispanic students in their school. Reports of similar happening all over the US. Muslims being attacked also.


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  • #2322
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,441 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    tonycascarino wrote: »
    It seems to me that it is a great system when it elects the candidate one wants and a terrible system when it elects the candidate one doesn't want. At the end of the day I think Clinton supporters should just face up to it in that Trump was elected fair and square.

    Well here is trumps opinion on the electoral college https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/266038556504494082


  • #2323
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭20Cent


    College electorate don't have to follow the people's vote they could still select Clinton and it would be totally constitutional. Don't think they will but the could.


  • #2324
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    20Cent wrote: »
    College electorate don't have to follow the people's vote they could still select Clinton and it would be totally constitutional. Don't think they will but the could.

    not a fear of that happening, wouldnt be worth the shitstorm


  • #2325
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    20Cent wrote: »
    College electorate don't have to follow the people's vote they could still select Clinton and it would be totally constitutional. Don't think they will but the could.

    Don't they have to pledge allegiance or some shyte


  • #2326
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,144 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    With so much drama in the WDC,
    It must be hard being Snoop D-O-Double-G ...
    But he somehow, some way,
    Keeps coming up with braindead nonsense nearly every single day ...

    Snoop Dogg apparently threatened to move to Canada. He may be reconsidering after California legalised that old green stuff. :o

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #2327
    Lackey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    Firefox11 wrote: »
    Trumps foreign policy wants to withdraw american support for its allies giving the likes of Russia and China free reign to whatever the hell they want making the world a lot less secure and a lot less stable.

    Again people are constantly protesting Americas involvement in other countries...now someone wants to end this and they're being slated for it?
    It has to end sometime...let them get on with it.
    They can't do right no matter what they do it seems


  • #2328
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭20Cent


    anna080 wrote: »
    Don't they have to pledge allegiance or some shyte

    President is picked by the electoral college. Most pledge to follow the vote but many states don't.


  • #2329
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,589 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    As much as i dislike Trump i don't think he's any more likely to go to war then Hilary would have been, If anything Trump might be able to calm tensions with Russia. As for the people calling to overthrow Trump weren't they going crazy when Trump said he wouldn't accept the result if Hilary won. Hypocrites they don't want democracy they want democracy if it's the result they want. Personally i think America needs to change it's voting system and just go for whoever wins the popular vote but the system is what it is and the American people have to accept it.


  • #2330
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,795 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    tonycascarino wrote: »
    It seems to me that it is a great system when it elects the candidate one wants and a terrible system when it elects the candidate one doesn't want. At the end of the day I think Clinton supporters should just face up to it in that Trump was elected fair and square.

    I think objectively it's a stupid system. If Hillary had've won I'd be glad that she was in the white house but I'd think it was bad if she got it without the popular vote. The electoral system they have is stupid. I've always thought it. I love the look on a persons face when you explain the electoral system to them. It's always "WTF"


  • #2331
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    What do people think the deleted e mails actually contained?


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  • #2332
    bob50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    I am delighted to see Trump elected Pres.

    I cannot understand posters here who think the man is mad / idiot etc

    Hes a businessman and a big job creator

    the liberal left media here are shocked with the result. And it looks as if people are led and said by them. The people in America were fed up with the status quo and needed a change Obama offered changed 8 yrs ago and didnt deliver it.

    please accept he won fair and square


  • #2333
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Lackey wrote: »
    Again people are constantly protesting Americas involvement in other countries...now someone wants to end this and they're being slated for it?
    It has to end sometime...let them get on with it.
    They can't do right no matter what they do it seems

    The specifics of their world policing have been disastrous for the last fourteen years at least, driven by regressive extremist ideology and capitalist self interest. They have contributed directly to the refugee crisis overwhelming Europe right now and the absolute hell that large portions of the world's population are living through. And now, nope not taking those refugees, nope not cleaning up the mess, just pulling out and leaving things to two world powers who are potentially more of a threat to the safety and quality of life of the world's population than any of the countries they invaded and interfered in combined. Pretty reasonable to be annoyed.


  • #2334
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭20Cent


    anna080 wrote: »
    What do people think the deleted e mails actually contained?

    Offers for viagra and scams.


  • #2335
    TheOven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭TheOven


    Lackey wrote: »
    Again people are constantly protesting Americas involvement in other countries...now someone wants to end this and they're being slated for it?
    It has to end sometime...let them get on with it.
    They can't do right no matter what they do it seems

    There a difference between sending the army in and turning a blind eye to everything another country does.


  • #2336
    Depp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Grayson wrote: »
    I think objectively it's a stupid system. If Hillary had've won I'd be glad that she was in the white house but I'd think it was bad if she got it without the popular vote. The electoral system they have is stupid. I've always thought it. I love the look on a persons face when you explain the electoral system to them. It's always "WTF"

    definitely not a perfect system but with a straight popular vote the smaller states completely lose their voice, its essential to understand that at its core america isn't really a country at an organizational level, its a federation of 50 smaller states. to put it in terms we would be familiar with, the usa is the equivalent of the eu with individual states being the equivalent of a country such as Ireland. Its easy to criticize the system as an outsider looking in but it makes a lot more sense when you think of the us in those terms


  • #2337
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,250 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    Trump is an avowed isolationist. They tend to get dragged into conflicts against their will as opposed to interventionists who usually end up starting them(sometimes inadvertently).
    Trump can't even avoid a twitter war with grieving parents of a dead soldier , how will he react when he is deliberately provoked by someone trying to manipulate him into responding

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #2338
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    20Cent wrote: »
    College electorate don't have to follow the people's vote they could still select Clinton and it would be totally constitutional. Don't think they will but the could.

    I don't think it's an over exaggeration to say that such an act would most likely precipitate a second American civil war. Especially in a country where so many private citizens own guns.


  • #2339
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭20Cent


    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    I don't think it's an over exaggeration to say that such an act would most likely precipitate a second American civil war. Especially in a country where so many private citizens own guns.

    Agree.
    Just pointing out how crazy their system is.


  • #2340
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Trump can't even avoid a twitter war with grieving parents of a dead soldier , how will he react when he is deliberately provoked by someone trying to manipulate him into responding

    Nuke them with a barrage of expletives over social media.


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  • #2341
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,046 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    America wanted a change from the status quo, so they voted a big businessman.

    Think about what you just said. For even a few seconds. Please.

    Yeah, I don't get the logic either. Instead of voting in a guy who gets lobbied to by big business interests, they just voted the big business interest directly into the office instead. At least you'll get fecked over a bit more directly and efficiently, I suppose.


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