Thread: American Politics during the Trump Presidency
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11-25-16 17:54 #85
Posts: 2808Mr. Chairman, I should like to ask the gentleman a question.
Originally Posted by WorldTravel69 [View Original Post]
Thank you.
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11-25-16 14:58 #84
Posts: 2701Impeachment
There is an Impeachment questionnaire out for Trump.
Great reasons why he is not qualified to be President.
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11-25-16 05:54 #83
Posts: 76Really?
Originally Posted by SteveC [View Original Post]
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11-25-16 05:02 #82
Posts: 247Hypocrisy of the right
Originally Posted by SlyOne [View Original Post]
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11-24-16 13:52 #81
Posts: 2808It's a legitimate question
Originally Posted by SlyOne [View Original Post]
As far as the getting over it, that's got about as much chance of happening as when (insert whichever party) has of getting over their loss. Republicans never got over Clinton nor Obama and the Democrats never got over Bush and it's highly unlikely that they will get over Trump.
The media will insure that the nation never pulls together, divisiveness sells advertising.
These guys still think one is better or worse than the other and every cycle the "end of the world as we know it" guys shout louder. I'm really interested if the wolf crying ever stops. One would figure that after more than 20 years it would but they show no signs of slowing. Wasn't Obama supposed to lead us into a socialist government where all the rich people lost everything they owned and guns were outlawed?
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11-24-16 10:19 #80
Posts: 47Does it matter ?
Originally Posted by SteveC [View Original Post]
The quicker the American nation pulls together as a whole and not as opposing sides. The quicker you will turn your nation around.
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11-24-16 05:10 #79
Posts: 247Popular Vote lead now over 2 million for Clinton
Is there any limit to the popular vote loss of a President Elect before the supporters of the current arrangements for the electoral college would consider a change?
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11-23-16 14:49 #78
Posts: 707Originally Posted by Doppelganger [View Original Post]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...this-election/
What needs to happen is that foreign direct investment and venture capital need to spread beyond California and Texas where it is mostly concentrated.
For example, Elon Musk should have built his Tesla factories in the Midwest instead of California and Nevada.
However, I am surprised that members of this Board would think that economic nationalism is the solution given our familiarity with Peronism, Argentina's particular form of economic nationalism. Like the Kirchner's, I think Trump intends to enrich himself in office. He said that the president legally cannot have a conflict of interest. His daughter, presumptive new CEO of his business, was included in a meeting with the head of state of Japan. Also Trump's views on tariffs seem in line with Peronism. I would be interested to hear Board member's views on economic nationalism.
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11-23-16 11:39 #77
Posts: 912Balance.
The 12 Amendment was passed by Congress on December 9, 1803 and ratified on June 15, 1804, not thirty years earlier as you stated.
They sought balance in the election process just as balance was achieved by compromise in the House (apportioned on the basis of population) and the Senate (apportioned equally). The 12 Amendment was designed to balance the power of the populace states with those of less populous states.
As this is an amendment it may be repealed just as the 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment. Gentlemen I would direct your attention to the election map either by state or by county as well as the distribution of power in the House and Senate, the likelihood of such an amendment passing is unlikely in the extreme.
I am sure our liberal/progressive brothers here would love the country to be governed by the east and west coast and to hell with the rest of the country.
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11-23-16 01:56 #76
Posts: 247Federalist Papers
Originally Posted by Doppelganger [View Original Post]
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11-22-16 16:04 #75
Posts: 2701A little Old
They were written in the late 1780s.
How is that have anything to do with today's changing Politics?
There have been updates to other Constitutional amendments.
So should the 12th Amendment; the Electoral College created on February 01, 1877.
Originally Posted by Doppelganger [View Original Post]
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11-21-16 21:43 #74
Posts: 912Originally Posted by SteveC [View Original Post]
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11-21-16 20:19 #73
Posts: 247Originally Posted by Esten [View Original Post]
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11-19-16 22:28 #72
Posts: 247Originally Posted by Tres3 [View Original Post]
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11-19-16 19:07 #71
Posts: 577Duplicity
I personally think that most politicians are duplicitous because the voters and media let them get away with it. Democracy is better than other systems, but it is still imperfect. The average voter has the attention span of an ant, and votes for the politician who tells them what they want to hear, not the facts. I wish I had coined the phrase "A good lie is half way around the world before the truth gets its boots on". Trump and Clinton are both guilty of lying, but I guess that Trump's lies resonated louder with the voters in the electoral college "battle ground" states. Thanks to the Founding Fathers, the country may go downhill for a while, but it will survive.
Tres3.