The American (USA) 2016 presidential elections thread?

[Katman]

......but he does at least know some stuff and can apparently form a cohesive sentence.

So too have a great many despots.

[Graystone]

And if he does it will usher in the era of Mike Pence - arguably an even more dangerous option.

I can't help but wonder whether it was the plan all along.

Give the people a buffoon for a year and they'll soon welcome any replacement - regardless of how toxic that replacement might be.

I'm thinking it's not just one plan, the GOP just wanted back in control, by whatever means necessary. Vlad just wanted to cause a ruckus. Both got their way, though I don't think the collusion goes much (if any) deeper than trump himself in terms of the GOP.

I don't have too much sympathy though, since they were fool enough to vote trump in, it really is a case of the people getting what they deserve.

[yokel]

Major Clinton campaign donor arrested.
Lord emperor Trump just keeps wining and winning.....

[Woodman]

And if he does it will usher in the era of Mike Pence - arguably an even more dangerous option.

I can't help but wonder whether it was the plan all along.

Give the people a buffoon for a year and they'll soon welcome any replacement - regardless of how toxic that replacement might be.

Fuck!! even the president is a false flag

[pritch]

though I don't think the collusion goes much (if any) deeper than trump himself in terms of the GOP.

I don't have too much sympathy though, since they were fool enough to vote trump in, it really is a case of the people getting what they deserve.

This post didn't age well? One of Trumps appointments has been having business dealings with Putin's family despite the sanctions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.eeac6591d178



Collusion is a journalists' word. The lawyers' word is conspiracy, and the interesting thing about that is that it's not necessary for a crime to have actually been committed for there to be a conspiracy

[Swoop]

I don't have too much sympathy though, since they were fool enough to vote trump in, it really is a case of the people getting what they deserve.

America elects the president it deserves.

The rest of the world laughs at them and they wonder why.

[oldrider]

This post didn't age well? One of Trumps appointments has been having business dealings with Putin's family despite the sanctions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.eeac6591d178



Collusion is a journalists' word. The lawyers' word is conspiracy, and the interesting thing about that is that it's not necessary for a crime to have actually been committed for there to be a conspiracy

Legal meaning:- https://legal-dictionary.thefreedict...com/conspiracy

[oldrider]

America elects the president it deserves.

The rest of the world laughs at them and they wonder why.

True! - unfortunately not many of those laughing actually understand the joke!

[oldrider]

Gaddafi was right about JFK - (watch Johnston in the background) Who is it that actually has NUKES (weapons of mass destruction) again? - Iran or Israel?

[husaberg]

Gaddafi was right about JFK - (watch Johnston in the background) Who is it that actually has NUKES (weapons of mass destruction) again? - Iran or Israel?
https://youtu.be/jRhQekGyiRI

The JFK speech is about communism and of how free speech of the press needs to be balanced with the need of maintaining national security due to the cold war ffs.
he was reminding the press that a lot of the information important for National security has been released by the press and this is being read by the USSR, At the time, this was potentionally harmfull to the USA's national security.
He was asking them very nicely to please be be responsable.
It was a very lighthearted speach. One of his funniest.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Vie...A-025-001.aspx

here is the first part of it, cretin.
The fact that your video attempts to manipulate this fact, speaks volumes for its integrity and your own, lack their of.

President John F. Kennedy
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
April 27, 1961
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight.
You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession.
You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.
We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating."
But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war.
If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man.

I have selected as the title of my remarks tonight "The President and the Press." Some may suggest that this would be more naturally worded "The President Versus the Press." But those are not my sentiments tonight.

It is true, however, that when a well-known diplomat from another country demanded recently that our State Department repudiate certain newspaper attacks on his colleague it was unnecessary for us to reply that this Administration was not responsible for the press, for the press had already made it clear that it was not responsible for this Administration

[oldrider]

As usual, missed the point completely - others probably will not - meanwhile, moving right along!

[pritch]

From the (very) recent Virginian State elections. The politician responsible for "the bathroom bill", banning transgender women from using female toilets, was defeated - by a transgender woman.

[oldrider]

While Everyone Was Busy Being Distracted by Texas...( and maybe North Korea etc?):- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=AWGof4StIQo

[pritch]

In New Jersey a politician who joked of the "Women's March" protest, "But will they be home in time to cook dinner?" has been defeated by one of the women who marched.

There have been a number of firsts, including the first ever black mayor in Montana. Elected in the state capital no less, he arrived in the US as a refugee from Liberia, Africa.

The election results should be a slap in the face for Trump but while he is probably too dim to realise exactly what happened and will be busy blaming everybody else, nobody is as interested in politics as politicians. Republican Senators and Congressmen will be acutely aware of the swing against them.



In this country people, Mike Hosking for one, waffle on about us needing electronic voting. Because of hacking fears in the US, all votes in Virginia were cast on paper. It might be a bit premature to introduce computers to the process? At least until security can be guaranteed.

[yokel]

So it's been one year already, let's have an election recap.


Major things coming down the pipeline.
Anyone remember that phrase 'lock her up'?