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El Presidente Trump

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  • #6392
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    The idea of one man in charge of 320 million people is ridiculous
    it just is


  • #6393
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,174 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    It is. That's why the USA has separation of powers.


  • #6394
    KingBrian2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,360 ✭✭✭KingBrian2


    FA Hayek wrote: »
    We hear the same thing all the time when an election comes around. When people treat politics like following a football team then we get the nonsense and pathetic stuff from celebrities and the like. Oh, the other side can be just as bad, the likes of Rush and Hannity for example. Yet, people on the progressive side are famous for wanting their cake and eating it.

    You can't go wrong with Liberty.:cool:


  • #6395
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,881 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    In other unsurprising news, the FBI and CIA now agree about the Russian hacking on behalf of the Trump Campaign:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-blames-putins-personal-grudge-against-her-for-election-interference/2016/12/16/12f36250-c3be-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_clintonrussia-0755pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.74fc6c3d84af

    Didn't take long; now all the 'see, they don't agree so it's not true at all' deflections can go away.


  • #6396
    mattser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭mattser


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Chump has appointed David Friedman as ambassador to Israel. Good man, Chump, that'll help bring peace to the Middle East. You just can't fix stupid.

    His name is Donald Trump. He is soon going to be President of the U.S.A. Name calling is not going to change that. Have a nice day.


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  • #6397
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,562 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    mattser wrote:
    His name is Donald Trump. He is soon going to be President of the U.S.A. Name calling is not going to change that. Have a nice day.


    'The president', now that is scary!


  • #6398
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    mattser wrote: »
    His name is Donald Trump. He is soon going to be President of the U.S.A. Name calling is not going to change that. Have a nice day.

    I prefer Donald Chump. It's more descriptive. I look forward to his presidency and, in particular, where his ego continues to swell and his head finally explodes scattering sh1t everywhere. That will be fun to watch.


  • #6399
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    I prefer Donald Chump. It's more descriptive. I look forward to his presidency and, in particular, where his ego continues to swell and his head finally explodes scattering sh1t everywhere. That will be fun to watch.

    How dare you disrespect the 45th President of the United States like that!!

    You call him by his name, President Donald John Trump.


  • #6400
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    How dare you disrespect the 45th President of the United States like that!!

    You call him by his name, President Donald John Trump.

    President Donald John Chump is a chimp. Although chimps have more manners.

    This is fun.


  • #6401
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    President Donald John Chump is a chimp. Although chimps have more manners.

    This is fun.

    Cop yourself on and show a bit of respect to the future leader of the free world.


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  • #6402
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Cop yourself on and show a bit of respect to the future leader of the free world.

    Yes, yes, of course, you're right. The inventor of the word 'bigly' deserves some respect. President Chump the bigly chimp invented the word 'bigly' and so America is gonna be great again.


  • #6403
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,562 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Cop yourself on and show a bit of respect to the future leader of the free world.

    this term is very deceptive. theres nothing free about our governance systems, in fact they are a massive extraction system that financially benefits a few but environmentally and socially benefits nobody. i really wish people stopped using this term, it really doesnt describe what we currently have.


  • #6404
    mattser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭mattser


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    I prefer Donald Chump. It's more descriptive. I look forward to his presidency and, in particular, where his ego continues to swell and his head finally explodes scattering sh1t everywhere. That will be fun to watch.

    Sure you do, just like you did a few months ago. Suck it up. Have a nice day.


  • #6405
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Yes, yes, of course, you're right. The inventor of the word 'bigly' deserves some respect. President Chump the bigly chimp invented the word 'bigly' and so America is gonna be great again.

    That chump who you speak of son is the reason why Manhattan has the skyline it does today.

    A wonderful charismatic man who has the common touch, he negotiated his way around Mafia controlled unions in the 70s and 80s without ever becoming beholden to them. His great friend Rudy came in as Mayor in the 90s and hammered those boys. Built up the most valuable property portfolio in the the word. All down to his own hard work, initiative and timeless charm.

    Donald reigned as The King of New York. Now he he reigns as the King of the Unites States.

    You will respect him my son.


  • #6406
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,562 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    That chump who you speak of son is the reason why Manhattan has the skyline it does today.

    A wonderful charismatic man who has the common touch, he negotiated his way around Mafia controlled unions in the 70s and 80s without ever becoming beholden to them. His great friend Rudy came in as Mayor in the 90s and hammered those boys. Built up the most valuable property portfolio in the the word. All down to his own hard work, initiative and timeless charm.

    Donald reigned as The King of New York. Now he he reigns as the King of the Unites States.

    You will respect him my son.

    the leader, the leader, the leader!


  • #6407
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    mattser wrote: »
    Sure you do, just like you did a few months ago. Suck it up. Have a nice day.

    My day is bigly and it's gonna be great again. I'm building a wall to keep my neighbours out and then I'm gonna frack the sh1t outta the back garden. After that, I'm gonna tweet a few brainfarts, get my teeth whitened and grab me some pussy. It's gonna be huuuge.


  • #6408
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    That chump who you speak of son is the reason why Manhattan has the skyline it does today.

    A wonderful charismatic man who has the common touch, he negotiated his way around Mafia controlled unions in the 70s and 80s without ever becoming beholden to them. His great friend Rudy came in as Mayor in the 90s and hammered those boys. Built up the most valuable property portfolio in the the word. All down to his own hard work, initiative and timeless charm.

    Donald reigned as The King of New York. Now he he reigns as the King of the Unites States.

    You will respect him my son.

    Dad? Is that you?


  • #6409
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Anyone expecting any dramatic developments at the electoral college meeting on Monday?


  • #6410
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,562 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Anyone expecting any dramatic developments at the electoral college meeting on Monday?

    surprise visit from the kardashians maybe?


  • #6411
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    surprise visit from the kardashians maybe?
    Kanye is cosying up to Trump...


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  • #6412
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    You will respect him my son.

    Maybe he needs to show some respect for the people who voted for him and stop pretending this so-called "Thank you tour" is about thanking people and not about him massaging his own ego and unable to let go of the cheerleading


    Last night, he finally admitted that his own supporters were "vicious, violent, nasty and mean"



  • #6413
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,562 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Kanye is cosying up to Trump...

    disturbing really, reality tv has gone all political! be prepared for disturbing things to happen!


  • #6414
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Kanye is cosying up to Trump...

    We welcome Kanye. He's red pilled.


  • #6415
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,562 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    We welcome Kanye. He's red pilled.

    say wha?

    ....refer to #6452


  • #6416
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    Maybe he needs to show some respect for the people who voted for him and stop pretending this so-called "Thank you tour" is about thanking people and not about him massaging his own ego and unable to let go of the cheerleading


    Last night, he finally admitted that his own supporters were "vicious, violent, nasty and mean"


    Chump the chimp's useful idiots lapping up the brainfarts. I wonder what the collective IQ was?


  • #6417
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    say wha?

    ....refer to #6452

    Flashing Flashng.................Lights......... Lights.....


  • #6418
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JafSyi4ZZ7w

    Figured that is what happened. It usually happens from the inside. Russia didn't hack the DNC emails.


  • #6419
    HellSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭HellSquirrel


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Anyone expecting any dramatic developments at the electoral college meeting on Monday?

    Depends how you define dramatic, I guess. I expect there will be a couple of "faithless electors" who will protest - probably more than in any other election, but I would be downright bewildered to think there would be 37 of them!

    I'd give my upper limit of potential faithless electors about ten - which is an extraordinary number, admittedly - but that so many -might- turn "faithless" might well give the American people food for thought on getting rid of the electoral college, for better or worse.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/many-faithless-electors-may-vote-against-donald-trump-should/
    Interesting explanation of how it has gone in the past.

    The electoral college was an interesting idea, but it may have outlived itself. Not just because candidates focus too much attention on certain key states, but also because a lot of roadblocks have been put in the way of Electoral College members doing their job. Some states have made it a legal requirement to vote the same way and another three states punish Electors who turn faithless. If the point is, as the founding fathers talked about, to ensure that said electors won't vote in an idiot because the people have, then putting these blocks in their way is somewhat unConstitutional, I would have thought. It's already got to be hard enough for most ordinary people to vote against the will of their state, publically and with a chance of screwing said people. On the flipside, if Electors are only obliged to treat the popular vote in their state as suggestions, it theoretically puts a very small group of unknown people in charge of electing the next president.

    Both of those outcomes seem dubious. Yet, I also see why it was set up in terms of weighting states.

    Unless Trump takes personal offence at some electors turning faithless (and you can bet he's going to attack them on twitter by name, and potentially endanger their lives in doing so) and pushes to destroy it because of that, which isn't, y'know, outside the bounds of possibility with this man, I don't see a majority Republican Congress turning against it. The EC removes some of the weighting towards the cities, which tend to be Democrat strongholds even in otherwise regionally Republican states. Most will probably prefer to hunker down, hope to survive the Trumpster fire for the next four years and get a sane one next time rather than risk screwing future prospects in an America that the Republicans have been deviously weighting in their favour for the last decade or so.

    Overall, no, I don't expect anything to change, but I don't think Monday is going to exactly help the division in the country at the moment.


  • #6420
    HellSquirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭HellSquirrel


    As a matter of interest, to all "sides" - in that position would -you- turn faithless elector? Against Trump for the liberals/conservatives that hate the guy and if it was Clinton or Sanders for the Trump supporters?

    Seriously, really think about the consequences of it before you answer. At -this- point, I would probably be considering it, but I'll be honest and admit that I don't know if I could have been the first or second, especially if it meant going against my own party And it would probably take an outright Trump to make me do it.


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  • #6421
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    HellSquirrel wrote: »
    Depends how you define dramatic, I guess. I expect there will be a couple of "faithless electors" who will protest - probably more than in any other election, but I would be downright bewildered to think there would be 37 of them!

    I'd give my upper limit of potential faithless electors about ten - which is an extraordinary number, admittedly - but that so many -might- turn "faithless" might well give the American people food for thought on getting rid of the electoral college, for better or worse.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/many-faithless-electors-may-vote-against-donald-trump-should/
    Interesting explanation of how it has gone in the past.

    The electoral college was an interesting idea, but it may have outlived itself. Not just because candidates focus too much attention on certain key states, but also because a lot of roadblocks have been put in the way of Electoral College members doing their job. Some states have made it a legal requirement to vote the same way and another three states punish Electors who turn faithless. If the point is, as the founding fathers talked about, to ensure that said electors won't vote in an idiot because the people have, then putting these blocks in their way is somewhat unConstitutional, I would have thought. It's already got to be hard enough for most ordinary people to vote against the will of their state, publically and with a chance of screwing said people. On the flipside, if Electors are only obliged to treat the popular vote in their state as suggestions, it theoretically puts a very small group of unknown people in charge of electing the next president.

    Both of those outcomes seem dubious. Yet, I also see why it was set up in terms of weighting states.

    Unless Trump takes personal offence at some electors turning faithless (and you can bet he's going to attack them on twitter by name, and potentially endanger their lives in doing so) and pushes to destroy it because of that, which isn't, y'know, outside the bounds of possibility with this man, I don't see a majority Republican Congress turning against it. The EC removes some of the weighting towards the cities, which tend to be Democrat strongholds even in otherwise regionally Republican states. Most will probably prefer to hunker down, hope to survive the Trumpster fire for the next four years and get a sane one next time rather than risk screwing future prospects in an America that the Republicans have been deviously weighting in their favour for the last decade or so.

    Overall, no, I don't expect anything to change, but I don't think Monday is going to exactly help the division in the country at the moment.

    It's not going to help Clinton because there will be only a handful of faithless electors and they will vote for another Republican. Best outcome is that there are enough faithless electors to further inflame divisions within the GOP.


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