Q. What's worse than a Trump presidency? A. A Trump presidency with republican majority in both houses of congress, along with a freebee supreme court spot that the senate has so slimily reserved for him.
One of Germany's most reputable newspapers published an editor's comment today which contains many extreme insults towards Trump. I don't agree with the political course of Trump, but that is really low and bad journalism all around. It got over 900 comments from readers in less than 4 hours.
What concerns me is that he doesn't have any Democrat majority to hold him in check at all. We'll have to hope the Republican house and Senate will hold him in spite of being the same party.
I definitely think the best solution here is to change the voting process. STV (which I saw was already mentioned) is definitely something I'd like to see happen.
The way I see it, either it's a massive failure and we get a reversal in 4 years in congress and president, or they don't screw up and prove most people wrong who have doubts.
well, if yesterday proved anything, it's that even an educated guess as to the future still amounts to divination. I'll take my chances & be surprised either way.
Perhaps Politicians, the Media, and the rest of "The Elite/Establishment" could start listening to the concerns of half the country, taking their grievances seriously and actually doing something about it, rather than dismissing them as stupid, ignorant racists. That would probably help.
@Skooba heh... I spent about a week driving around Pennsylvania recently; nothing but Trump signs. The question boiled down to, "how much can the richer cities swing things?"
@Skooba Given her health, I'd be amazed. I was a long-time skeptic of the conspiracy theories around her health. Then I saw the video of her "fainting" that time at the 9/11 memorial. It wasn't so much the sudden spasms and complete collapse that convinced me ("pneumonia" my ass), but the utterly smooth, practiced routine of her entourage. She's done that before. A lot.
@Kaz I'm not so sure. I've been part of escorts before, and it's not hard to predict/react to something like that, as long as they knew she was feeling faint already. It doesn't look so much like a sudden thing, as they were already surrounding her waiting for the vehicle. So the smooth reaction doesn't surprise me much.
Even educated middle class folk don't know the full situation sometimes. No one wants to spend a month reading about all the propositions and reading all the stuff on both presidents.
And no one can be expected to keep their facts straight in this seething mess that is our media. I overheard a conversation two days ago where two educated Bernie supporters were talking about stuff on Hillary that had been proven false quite a while ago.
@KritixiLithos Sounds like something Trump would say :P
Anyways, I don't really want to think or talk about it anymore. See y'all in 2020 I guess?
@Geobits That's another thing I'm curious about. How much power will Trump actually have? A lot, clearly, but how much will the other parts of government resist him?
That's one of the conspiracy theories I've seen, also. That it was flipped by "the media" so the red (read:scary) party was the GOP, and the Dems were (soothing) blue.
@betseg the county lines don't change. That's districts.
You can't gerrymander counties.
@Downgoat Those are not the core principles of America. America was founded on freedom of religion, right to bear arms, and right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (later changed to property).
It's not surprising that he won the majority of counties. I don't think anyone ever predicted otherwise. It's clearly obvious by looking at any map that most counties are rural.
Counties don't matter a bit though, when it comes to choosing a winner.
Hillary isn't going to prison any time soon. The only reason Trump ever said otherwise is to rile up the voters. To think this will be the one politician who actually does what he promised during his campaign is laughable imo.
@mbomb007 We'll see. But it's not like Trump and Clinton weren't friends before all this. He's openly talked about it in the past, and he'll return any favors he might owe.
@betseg There's a reason why States get 2 votes regardless of their population. Because you want a president who wins half of the national vote spread across the entire country and not just in the big coastal cities. It was deliberately founded that way and it's worked pretty well for 200 years.
If the people actually wanted to break the establishment, they wouldn't have reelected almost every sitting senator. The votes in the senate and house show that #draintheswamp or whatever was a farce all along.
