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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #135 on: December 03, 2016, 03:40:47 am »
Considering his previous comments about China it should not have been a surprise that he continued making them angry. New cold war to justify more military spending?
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #136 on: December 03, 2016, 05:32:55 am »
Eurasia is our ally. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Edit: while the abrupt change in foreign policy towards appeasement with Russia and saber-rattling against China matches surprisingly well with Oceania's, the American society still has a long way to go to become outright Orwellian. It's just a funny coincidence, really. I'm aware I'm ruining the joke by explaining it, but since several of my comments have already been interpreted in a more extreme/literal way than I intended them to be, better safe than sorry.
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #137 on: December 03, 2016, 08:09:04 am »
Considering his previous comments about China it should not have been a surprise that he continued making them angry. New cold war to justify more military spending?
That resembles something done with forethought. Trump may have rat bastard cunning but this looks more like a screw up borne of the man's spectacular ignorance. First of many I'll wager.

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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #138 on: December 03, 2016, 06:54:12 pm »
At least China is not angry enough to say it out loud. They are saying that Trump was just tricked by Taiwan. ...Which is another way to say that they don't think he means anything bad, he's just an idiot is the way they took it.
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #139 on: December 03, 2016, 08:19:08 pm »
That's even worse for him.  He's basically being told to shut up, sit down, and play with his coloring books while the grown ups deal with making dinner.

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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #140 on: December 04, 2016, 12:07:12 am »
So basically Jill Stein dropped the recount in PA due to costs.
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #141 on: December 04, 2016, 02:48:04 am »
Doesn't she have more of Putin's cash to spend?

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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #142 on: December 04, 2016, 02:55:24 am »
Honestly, I'd make it a federal law that if the difference between the top 2 for any federal office (including electors for President) is less than 1% of the total votes cast, there's an automatic recount, overseen by judges, costs paid by the federal government, which cannot be interrupted, challenged, or stopped for any reason barring natural disasters, and mandate paper trails for all voting machines (or, better, that voting machines used for federal elections read voter-marked paper ballots, not just print off a paper receipt). (Up here the federal threshold is 0.1%, and, yes, I'd make that 1%, too.)
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #143 on: December 04, 2016, 03:12:53 am »
Doesn't she have more of Putin's cash to spend?

Come on lady, go for Medvedev's money if you're that cash strapped!

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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #144 on: December 04, 2016, 03:54:30 am »
* Jill Stein went on TYT for an online forum. She proceeded to praise Assange and Vladimir Putin, and said if she became President she would pardon Assange or something.
* Stein has also gone on record saying she considers Trump's foreign policy less scary...because he wants to work with Russia.
* has also said that Hillary is less dangerous than Donald Trump extrapolating from the above.
* Assange for his part saw a fellow in her and said attacks on her would go "through the roof".
* She showed up on Russia's propaganda outlet RT - also seen in the same clip is Michael Flynn, who really needs no new intro - and what's more sat at the head table with Putin himself.
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #145 on: December 05, 2016, 12:56:26 pm »
Honestly, I'd make it a federal law that if the difference between the top 2 for any federal office (including electors for President) is less than 1% of the total votes cast, there's an automatic recount, overseen by judges, costs paid by the federal government, which cannot be interrupted, challenged, or stopped for any reason barring natural disasters, and mandate paper trails for all voting machines (or, better, that voting machines used for federal elections read voter-marked paper ballots, not just print off a paper receipt). (Up here the federal threshold is 0.1%, and, yes, I'd make that 1%, too.)

Your proposed law violates basic precepts of federalism, and is unconstitutional.
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #146 on: December 05, 2016, 01:10:54 pm »
Honestly, I'd make it a federal law that if the difference between the top 2 for any federal office (including electors for President) is less than 1% of the total votes cast, there's an automatic recount, overseen by judges, costs paid by the federal government, which cannot be interrupted, challenged, or stopped for any reason barring natural disasters, and mandate paper trails for all voting machines (or, better, that voting machines used for federal elections read voter-marked paper ballots, not just print off a paper receipt). (Up here the federal threshold is 0.1%, and, yes, I'd make that 1%, too.)

Your proposed law violates basic precepts of federalism, and is unconstitutional.

That's fair. I think it would make elections fairer, but I can see how it is ultra vires the federal government. Still, there could be the "bribe them to do it" approach (or the "withhold highway funding" approach--as I recall that's how the federal government got the drinking age raised to 21 in every state).

However, I would note that it doesn't necessarily violate basic precepts of federalism, only US-style federalism (up here the federal governments regulates its own elections, for instance, and Canada is most definitely federal*), and constitutions can be amended.

*If you want to object that Canada leaves residual powers to the federal government, not the provinces, then I would note, for one, that provinces also regulate their own elections, and for another, that in Australia, which is also federal, residual powers are left to the states, not the federal government**, and the federal government, rather than the states, regulates federal elections.

**This is why the gun ban in Australia is achieved through coordinating state and territorial legislation, rather than federal legislation. The Australian government has no authority to regulate firearms.

My proposal may well violate the precepts of the federal system to which you're accustomed, but it most definitely does not violate the "basic precepts of federalism," because the particulars of an implementation of the concept of federalism that are not shared across all systems implementing it (as this one is not) cannot, by definition, be "basic precepts."
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #147 on: December 07, 2016, 06:18:34 am »
Took a gander at Wikipedia's page on Trump's 2000 presidential bid. Makes for interesting reading.

For instance, Trump campaigned for universal health care, named Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate and called Pat Buchanan a "Hitler Lover".

I wonder if he really believes in anything, aside from making a quick exit with pockets full of suckers money that is.

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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #148 on: December 07, 2016, 08:02:18 am »
He's basically a con man.
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Re: Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
« Reply #149 on: December 07, 2016, 09:29:06 am »
Said it before, sayin it again: the only thing in which Donald Trump believes is Donald Trump.
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