Match Day Thread Trump v Clinton

I think Trump will lose, but will go on and start an Uber right wing tv channel to rival Fox.
I suspect that what he's wanted all along

Bloody shame that Col Sanders isn't in the mix

 

Any American who would even consider voting for Trump deserves to be ridiculed. The fact he even won the Republican nomination is a profound embarrassment to America and it shows just how dumbed down and ignorant a huge proportion of their population has become.

 

It's easy enough to ignore it.

 

If you support Trump, yer a ****. End of.

 

It's the choice between a kick in the nuts or eating a **** sandwich.

Who ever wins it will hurt and leave a nasty taste.

How the **** it came down to just these pair is baffling.

 

i disagree with that.

i agree with that.

 

Having read the intel from ellewoods, I do feel a lot better.

 

Can't they just keep Obama?

He's alright, low profile, doesn't get up to much. Perfect.

 

Im not going to participate in this thread in general but I dont mind answering a question like this.

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution set a term limit of 2. Now there could be a situation where a person won twice and served twice left office and served in another elected office and due to some terrible tragedy was able to serve as President again do to the line of succession. Its obviously almost impossible for that to occur minus an alien attack like in Battlestar Glactica. The current Succession Act in force was set in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 in US Code Title 3. The authority to change that was set in Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 as well as in the 20th Amendment Section 3.

Current Term Limits,

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxii

Amendment XXII

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

 

Nice one, ellewoods ... you always contribute something positive and coherent. With one exception, I haven't met an American that I haven't liked and respected, and I've met loads but as a near neighbour, you lot scare the **** out of me.

 

The one exception for Americans I like, was a guy who worked for the Samsonite Suitcase Corporation. Unusually for a working class Brit, I was on holiday in Las Vegas in 1974. Relaxing by the pool, this herbert decided to be my new best friend and tell me all about the Samsonite Suitcase Corporation, for whom he worked. He was surprised that not only had I never heard of, nor was I interested in the Samsonsite Suitcase Corporation but he was clearly a missionary for the Samsonite Suitcase Corporation and intent on spreading the gospel. Fortunately, a guy relaxing next to me, was a cop from Texas, and he, rather pointedly told Samsonite man where he should shove his Samsonite Suitcases. Consequently, I've always had a quiet regard for Texas police officers.

 

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power 3 weeks ago paid out over $US 1 Million to Clinton backers. Wonder if he is comfortable with that decision today?

If eligible to vote I would have gone for Jill Stein. Clinton will win it though.

 

No big deal, it seems to have been a brief case for a Texas police officer to close.

 

It's not as simple as that though. It's effectively a two horse race and the choice is between the lesser of two evils.

Ignoring the dubious practices of the Clinton Foundation, Clinton will continue, and likely escalate, the policies of Obama that are damaging the US economy but more worryingly, have brought us to the brink of global armed conflict. Opposing that isn't necessarily supporting Trump.

 

Dire choice, but you have to go with Clinton. Sanders was robbed. The fact she so nearly almost lost to a Socialist in America tells you a lot about her popularity and the unhappiness of the people there.

Trump is advised by neo-fascists and conspiracy loons, and needs to be recognised as the threat he really is. He's been able to manipulate many but hopefully enough will be able to see him for what he is and vote the danger he presents down.

It won't be the end of it though. Sadly I think American politicians have become far too self-serving across the board to change significantly, so the strong anti-establishment feeling that exists there will persist if Clinton wins. If Trump wins, then I think you have a fight against much darker forces on your hands. And he's incompetent.

Worrying times, not just in the US. Time to stop the tide of populism.

 

What? You don't want a nuclear war, which is more likely with Clinton in charge, so you think she's the lesser of two evils?

 

Read it properly. It says that the world not being in a nuclear war is more likely with Hillary in.

 

Write it properly. It should say 'nuclear war would be less likely with Clinton in charge'. This isn't me picking up on your grammar btw; the way that sentence was constructed just made little to no sense.

Either way, you're wrong. Nuclear war would MORE likely with Clinton in charge because of her hawkish reputation and rhetoric. She's already itching for war with Russia and wants to implement a no-fly zone over Syria. If she does do that once elected, all it takes is for an American anti-aircraft missile to knock a Russian jet out of sky over Syria and it's game over for all of us.