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http://fmovies.to/film/comedy-central-roast-of-donald-trump.m2j4z/z1j7wp
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days
@Germanlady, many of those who don't live in the U.S. (and likely most who do) don't fully get the effed up system of government we have here. It needs to be torn up and rebuilt, but it won't happen any time soon.
To your point: @Jobo is correct. For six years, we had a congress at odds with the President. How can this happen? Simple.
We have two chambers of Congress and they are supposed write the laws. Obamacare was written (after lengthy debate) when the Democrats (miraculously) had control of both chambers. It lasted all of two years. Here's the problem: while most of the U.S. leans left (hence why the popular vote in six of the past seven elections have gone Democrat), the Congress leans right--because of its make-up. Each state gets two votes in the senate, no matter the population. This gives ultra-conservative states like Wyoming and Kansas as many votes as huge urban(and liberal) centers like New York. In fact, California alone has a population of 40 million--it gets two votes. The will of 40 million people is easily overcome by the 12 votes given to six plains states (Wyoming, nebraska, Kansas, N Dakota, S Dakota, and OKlahoma) with only 10 million people. If that sounds stupid: it is.
The Senate will almost always be Republican due to this ridiculous, outdated system put in place by a bunch of men who died two centuries ago.
Meanwhile, the House is the one with members elected based on population. But even this is rigged Republican. The congressional district maps have been gerrymandered like crazy by Republican state legislatures to maximize their representation.
Voila!
You usually end up with a Democrat in the White House and Republicans in Congress that the majority of Americans despise.
One thing that Trump might have facilitated on a larger scale is further normalization of right-wing populism. I wouldn't be surprised if Marine le Pen becomes the next French president.
Now, at least 36 hours later, I actually feel more sick in my stomach. I think it'll go away eventually. But at the moment I can only see a rise of angry working-class people who start realizing in 4 years from now that their factory jobs won't come back.....
@Gustav_Graves, I did all my crying yesterday. Now we've got to wipe our tears and deal with this in as bipartisan a fashion we can, to honor President Obama's wishes and legacy. We can only hope the Dems can block any attempts to reverse the progressive social reforms we have seen take place in the last 8 years this administration has threatened to reverse, and that both sides can compromise on all other issues beyond that.
Excellent.
Trump has already made a very good impression since the minute he got elected.
I said this numerous times before, the man of the nasty election battle is not the man in the White House. You will see.
If he kills TTIP and stops neoliberalism then it's already the biggest achievement possible for just now.
Obamacare probably came too fast for the Americans to swallow and digest. Another bad call from the Democrats.
Of course one can only hope Obamacare will survive in some form, but if it dies, then be it.
You can not have it all.
After this election I can see clearer now. It's not the bad bad conservatives that are dangerous to our society. It's the blind and deaf political middle and middle left establishment that is dangerous. As long as they don't learn to take "us" seriously and for a change do something for the middle classes. They will cause the political landscape to go further right-wing. The populists only take the opportunity. If they were not given endless opportunities we wouldn't have to cope with them at all.
But as it already shows, they don't learn. It's not enough obviously.
After Brexit and Trump, obviously it needs more to make them learn.
I predict Le Pen to be the next French President.
I predict Angela Merkel being forced out of her chancellorship next year when a far-left/left/green coalition will make the current leader of the left party the new chancellor.
I predict the EU will do NOTHING to stop Erdogan from turning Turkey into a dictatorship, which it already is actually.
I predict more countries will have right-wing populists as leader in 5 years.
Dark times are ahead of us, unless the EU and middle/middle-left parties of this world are learning their lessons and stop being such ignorant, arrogant pricks.
It's not easy being slightly left of the center politically. I am pretty mad right now at how those parties present(ed) themselves. I still will vote for them, I still have hope they learn. Luckily in my country we don't have a two party system but a multi-party system.
that bloated Chris Christie and dementia Rudy Guiliani are already jockeying for a cabinet spot. I bet Guiliani is holding out for Attorney General and Christie...you tell me.
this is the first sign of rot when the leader surrounds himself "yes men" instead of the "best man" for the job.
I'm angry, I feel dizzy, I am disappointed. But not because of the voters but because of the idiotically blind and deaf Democratic elite. They had the chance of their lifetime to renew themselves with Bernie Or Warren.
In four years, Trump will have had a lot of success. The man knows his business and he will first do the things he knows he actually can realise. He will be re-elected unless the Democrats change, but they won't.
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seems like we have these times in history where the country starts to make strives forward then ka-boom some event and they take five steps backwards.
Post Cival War many blacks elected to Congress and state houses. Then after reconstruction and around the late 1880's there was this white backlash and here comes Jim Crow, more lynchings, and the "separate but equal' ruling by the High Courts in 1890's.
During WW1 the world was rapidly changing and many black veterans who had answered the call to"make the world safe for democracy" saw how they were treated in Europe and said, "WTF?" they came home to bloody race riots, lynchings where white society set about to keep the blacks "in their place" after seeing Paris.
The 1960's and 1970's saw much progress and opportunities for education, colleges were actively recruiting minority students and we force a crooked President out of office and ended the wasteful and illegal war in SE Asia. then along came Ronald Reagan...he all but put an end to affirmative action, slashed student loan programs and mental counseling and built up the military and began looking for places to "throw our weight around the world".
And in 2008 we elected our first man of color as POTUS and after all the race baiting and hate mongering against him (a decent man) the country turns to the likes of Donald Trump in the next election.
So we've been there, done that. I will work to insure that this country does not go too far into the abyss and urge my fellow citizens to do the same. We cannot turn the clock back, we cannot become what Germany was in the 1930's.
Honestly, there are too many people have their insurance in some portion covered by their place of work. They arn't the ones being pushed and suffering. The entrepreneurs are.
Engaged persons tend to vote.
I read in the National Post today that Trump got 53% of the white female vote which is interesting, considering he was running against a white woman. Actually it's not that interesting. It just means those women preferred him to Hillary.
There were surely numerous and varied reasons why they voted for him
ie I don't vote along gender, racial or ethnic lines.
Since I crossed over from camp lib, roughly 2005, I vote for the most small-c conservative candidate.
@peter I am ok with Tory. I voted for Doug, but the beauty of having both Ford and Tory in the race is that it marginalized the Miller-Chow type vote. ie those that couldn't abide another Ford parked their vote with Tory, just to keep Ford out.
Tory is competent. He respects the tax dollars.
Media have degenerated into packs of activist shills.
I think in J school now, they much teach the art of how to deftly distort, misrepresent or exaggerate what someone actually said, yet posture appearance of objective reportage.
Or maybe such advanced skill sets are drilled down in the newsrooms where jobs are on the line
He insults Texas too naturally.
Maybe if you ask nicely he might visit and do a public speaking tour - school the entire state, especially the young people who of course can't possibly know anything about anything.
Party with the most total votes gets the electoral college votes, but when all is done, the candidate with the most votes spread across all states gets the White House.
As a conservative voter I would then have choice of maybe Trump, Paul Ryan or say Romney.
In this case I would vote Ryan, which would count as GOP vote in the electoral college.
If GOP won the EC and thus the White House, my vote would also count as one for Ryan to be the guy that gets to play Kevin Spacey (my favourite TV Prez) and sit behind that awesome desk, and look out the window into the Rose Garden, ahead of either Romney or Trump
Parties could still have their big conventions except this time three nominees would be selected.
Thanks ;)
Funny, all of my classes in high school and college we started from the very beginning of history up to now.
In college I took Texas government, USA government and American History. I guess that's not enough history? Sure it is hard to believe that a man who I grew up watching on NBC's Apprentice is the president but when you read his 100 day plan and actually do your research he knows what he is doing..
I saw this one post about how you could say "We need to deport illegal Mexicans who have a strong criminal history and are cartel members" and the takeaway was "I hate blacks and Mexicans!!" Typical!
It's his latest video below that seems to sum it up and he's on the nose for me.
https://www.facebook.com/JonathanPieReporter/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf
He just reinforces the global stereotype that Americans are classless, stupid, insular, brash, loud, vain, arrogant arseholes.