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American Election

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Frank Castle, Nov 4, 2020.

  1. Frank Castle

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    Looks like there's going to be massive civil unrest in the coming days/weeks. Trump doing his best to stoke the fire.
     
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    It’s certainly looking grim.
     
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  3. Idlebantam

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    Despite the fact it looks like Sleepy Joe will be triumphant, its not been the comfortable victory he must have hoped for.

    Trump has amassed 80 million votes so far, not exactly a wholesale rejection of Trumpism
     
  4. Storck

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    Has there been any rioting or anything that was predicted?

    I’ve only caught bits of the news but not seen anything
     
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    A few skirmishes, not excactly rioting
     
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    At least Trump is conducing himself in a manner that you’d expect a president of a country in the developed world to....
     
  7. YungNath

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    Some protesting going on, a group of trumpets has been trying to get a count stopped in pennsylvania i think it is.
     
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    Twitter don’t do elections - but if they did this would be their greatest win.
    Jack Dorsey is a bad man.
    #ripdemocracy
     
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  9. Frank Castle

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    It won't happen while the result is still in the balance.

    With the Democrats winning, I dont think the unrest will be as bad as if Trump would have regained the Presidency.
     
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    Hopefully we can now see Covid death and infection rates start to drop.
    :rolleyes:
     
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    Really? I think the Trump supporters are much more likely to protest and riot if Trump tells them that the Democrats have 'stolen' the election, than would be the case if Trump is re-elected. And the the Trump supporters are the ones with most of the guns.
     
  12. How

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    Seems a lot of the work to get rid of trump has paid off.
    The phony BLM movement and riots. The fall out from CoVID. Etc.
     
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    TBH I'm surprised people don't riot every time as their system is awful when it comes to representation. Look at Michigan for example. It carries 16 votes and there are 83 counties. Of those 83 Biden has won 11 yet he will get all 16 EC votes largely because Wayne County and Oakland county have large population centres. If you are in the rest of the state you have to feel a bit pissed off that your voice is basically being snuffed out by Detroit that might not represent the rest of the county seeing as their states are often large and diverse

    I would have thought adjusting it so there are more EC votes so that every county gets a say but they are weighted would make more sense. So a large population centre still gets more of a say but it's not allowing 1 candidate to take all the votes in a state just because the large population centres voted for them

    It's also like how in California, the big cities along the coast and down south where TV/film production and IT have a major impact on the economy vote democrat but the north where you have a lot of the farms vote Republican but just because these rural farm areas are in cali their say largely gets ignored as all 55 votes go to the Democrats

    And the reverse in somewhere like Texas. Most of Texas will always vote Republican but further south and in the more hip cities like Austin they vote Democrat but their vote means nothing as all 38 votes go to the Reps
     
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    I'm not sure if Biden is a better option than Trump. Trump may be an awful president but at least he knows his Granddaughter isn't his actually his Son. I'm not sure someone who

    1. Can't remember his son is dead
    2. Thinks his son was a senator when he wasn't and
    3. Cant tell the difference between male and female
    is someone we want in charge of the world biggest nuclear arsenal
     
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    I agree. Does democracy even exist? Feels like a faux democracy
     
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    I agree.

    The vote for the return of the emojis clearly won and those that run the site have also clearly ignored the wishes of the majority that voted.

    #democracydied
     
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    Sleepy Joe appears to be a terrible option for presidency. Not Trumps biggest fan, but I would still be a Republican if I lived over there.

    I bet China and Russia are rubbing their hands at the prospect of dealing with Sleepy Joe
     
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    Controlling or manipulating would be a better term than ‘dealing’
     
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    America is a shit show. My own beliefs are more aligned to the Republican Party than the Democrats, but the idea that these 2 blokes are the best that the ‘greatest nation on Earth’ can muster for a presidential race is laughable.

    The division in the US is as toxic and violent as its been since their civil war. What was really needed was a landslide victory either way. A narrow margin and a lengthy court battle is the last thing that the US needed. You can very much see widespread violence coming to the fore.
     
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    As with any postal voting system it is open to abuse, for me postal votes should only be for people who can not physically get to a polling station for a legitimate reason.
     
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