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USA Election - Who would you vote for? POLL

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  • 04-11-2020 11:36am
    #1
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,716 ✭✭✭✭


    A bit of harmless fun folks, for the day that's in it. If you had a vote, who would you vote for and why?



    Joe-Biden-would-have-become-the-oldest-US-President-in-history-if-he-had-beaten-Trump-784222.jpg


    - Biden

    - Trump

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen

    Who would you vote for? 236 votes

    Biden
    62% 147 votes
    Trump
    37% 89 votes


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    #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Neither.


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    #3
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,949 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    You forgot Kanye


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    #4
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,672 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    None of the above.


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    #5
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,127 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Howie Hawkins - for the name alone.

    In a country of over 300 million people they could surely have found someone better on both sides. Trump is a loon and I don't care much for Biden and his antics either - plus his memory lapses would be a concern too. Democrats should have walked this.


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    #6
    Enquiring
    Registered Users Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Enquiring


    I think these candidates are an embarrassment for America. These 2 are the best they could come up with? Two creepy, old men.


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    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,868 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Enquiring wrote: »
    I think these candidates are an embarrassment for America. These 2 are the best they could come up with? Two creepy, old men.

    Whoever leaves the us multinationals in Ireland alone!
    Trump- he's a better chance of being still alive in 4 years and he didn't start any wars in fairness.
    I think the us economy was going well before corona also.


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    Enquiring
    Registered Users Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Enquiring


    enricoh wrote: »
    Whoever leaves the us multinationals in Ireland alone!
    Trump- he's a better chance of being still alive in 4 years and he didn't start any wars in fairness.
    I think the us economy was going well before corona also.

    Honestly, the border issue is far more important. Whoever would be more supportive to us on that is favourable.


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    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Kim Jong-un or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    May as well keep the entertainment going.


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    minerleague
    Registered Users Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭minerleague


    Enquiring wrote: »
    I think these candidates are an embarrassment for America. These 2 are the best they could come up with? Two creepy, old men.

    +1, In fairness I wouldn,t have voted for hilary clinton either last time. Off topic but clips of Ronald Reagen been coming up on youtube here, know nothing of his politics but he could tell a good yarn


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    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Trump. If everyone that's gives out about trump had the same ambition about becoming president as they do about giveing about him, it would suit them better.

    I think most bad conversations about him simply boils down to jealousy.


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    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    In fairness thank fuk We're not in the US ...


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    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,520 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Trump. If everyone that's gives out about trump had the same ambition about becoming president as they do about giveing about him, it would suit them better.

    I think most bad conversations about him simply boils down to jealousy.

    That’s simply untrue.
    He’s a genuinely bad person. That’s not jealousy it’s just what he is.


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    billyhead
    Registered Users Posts: 9,674 ✭✭✭billyhead


    I'd spoil my vote.


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    #15
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Trump cares more about how he is thought of rather than actually leading.
    I believe he has done more to de stabilise american democracy than any other leader


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    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    _Brian wrote: »
    That’s simply untrue.
    He’s a genuinely bad person. That’s not jealousy it’s just what he is.

    Genuinely bad person??

    How many wars on foreign soil has he started? or even continued?

    NONE

    Who's the last American president who can say that


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    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    I said in the other thread in politics that a Biden win is much more advantageous for Ireland than Trump.
    A Biden win would make the US a lot less attractive as a trading partner for the UK and would force the UK to make concessions to the EU in trade talks. This will significantly impact agri-foods.

    Trump, on the other hand is set on the destruction of multilateral organisations like the EU and the UN, so his policies would be much more dangerous for Ireland.


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    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,520 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Genuinely bad person??

    How many wars on foreign soil has he started? or even continued?

    NONE

    Who's the last American president who can say that

    So that’s it.
    The only way you measure a person as good or bad is if they have started a war ??
    Jez you’re setting the bar fairly low there.


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    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    _Brian wrote: »
    So that’s it.
    The only way you measure a person as good or bad is if they have started a war ??
    Jez you’re setting the bar fairly low there.

    So the "genuinely bad person" did not start or continue any wars on foreign soils in his 4 years in office

    No answer me this - how many lives (both American and Non) were lost whilst Dozy Joe was last part of an administration?


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    jaymla627
    Registered Users Posts: 6,525 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Panch18 wrote: »
    So the "genuinely bad person" did not start or continue any wars on foreign soils in his 4 years in office

    No answer me this - how many lives (both American and Non) were lost whilst Dozy Joe was last part of an administration?

    Its been buried pretty well in the past but if the democratic administration's led by obama had left libiya alone and stayed out of the Syrian conflict isis would never of mothballed into what it was and million of lives would of been saved, along with the issue we are now seeing in mainland Eurppe of Muslim led jihad attacks, but Trump is the megalomaniac


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    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,582 ✭✭✭White Clover


    I'd say Biden has it.


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    #22
    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    Its been buried pretty well in the past but if the democratic administration's led by obama had left libiya alone and stayed out of the Syrian conflict isis would never of mothballed into what it was and million of lives would of been saved, along with the issue we are now seeing in mainland Eurppe of Muslim led jihad attacks, but Trump is the megalomaniac

    Never let the truth get in the way of a good story


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    #23
    jaymla627
    Registered Users Posts: 6,525 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    _Brian wrote: »
    So that’s it.
    The only way you measure a person as good or bad is if they have started a war ??
    Jez you’re setting the bar fairly low there.

    If you have a hour to pass google Bohemian grove and then maybe look into Bill Clinton's very close relationship with Jeffery Epstein, Donald Trump is just the tip of the iceberg American politics is a sh**show with like Ireland where the public sector run the country, out their it's the CIA and military interests that are in control


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    #24
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    If you have a hour to pass google Bohemian grove and then maybe look into Bill Clinton's very close relationship with Jeffery Epstein, Donald Trump is just the tip of the iceberg American politics is a sh**show with like Ireland where the public sector run the country, out their it's the CIA and military interests that are in control

    The first thing they need to do is change how campaigns are funded. It's so easy to buy politicians lots of ppl give to both sides


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    #25
    Suckler
    Registered Users Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭Suckler


    It would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324108200141082624


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    #26
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Haha love how twitter have to warnings on his tweets


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    #27
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,716 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Has Biden it won? Neveda & Arizona would get him over the line, no?

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/us-election/results

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #28
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,924 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Biden, as the best of a bad lot. If only the Dems had a better, perhaps younger candidate to work with.

    Trump is good at fooling your average US blue collar worker, who isn't terribly intelligent to begin with.


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    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Biden, as the best of a bad lot. If only the Dems had a better, perhaps younger candidate to work with.

    Trump is good at fooling your average US blue collar worker, who isn't terribly intelligent to begin with.

    Before Covid you’re average blue collar worker who isn’t very intelligent to begin with has seen the lowest unemployment rates in decades, the highest take home pay on his salary in a long time and a stock market that was booming.

    They mustn’t be very intelligent alright


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    #30
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    Sadly the once mighty USA is so divided a nation that it doesn't really matter who wins, they are on a downward spiral.
    The Biden victory will at least serve to remove the tangerine man child from power and not before time.
    I don't think history will be kind to trump, his administrations bungling of the pandemic has needlessly caused the deaths of many thousands of people.
    On the economic front his numbers were realistically no better than Obamas, regardless of the propaganda, and had more to do with the situation he inherited than anything he actually did.
    Im just glad I live in Ireland, even if today has been the first dry day here in a week.


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    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,520 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I see trump has started the legal process over mail in voting.

    He’s been setting the seeds for this for a long time. Chipping away at the public perception with essentially zero evidence. Historically there has been something like 0.001% fraud in mail in votes.
    This is why he has been busy rigging the Supreme Court in his favour and now holds something like 6-3 Judges On his side.

    Biden would have his hands full quelling the red necks with trucks and automatic weapons if/when trump looses. It could get very ugly very quickly. The proud boys the that Trump told to stand by won’t let this go easily, having a Racist biggot as president has been a boon for these extremists.


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