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Hillary Clinton Calls On Congress, Silicon Valley To Address Fake News “Epidemic”
Topic Started: Dec 9 2016, 07:00 AM (2,244 Views)
CautionaryTales
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She got outhustled, by a professional hustler.
Hustlers gonna hustle....
You'll see soon enough


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Oh I'm not upset by it. I'm on record as supporting the Electoral College. But that doesn' t stop it from being a gimmick that our Founding Fathers put in to prevent the domination by urban centers in our politics. I do, however, oppose gerrymandering as the evil it is.

As a matter of historical record, the EC was installed not to disenfranchise urban voters but to provide the necessary extra power demanded by the slave states. It wasn't until after the Civil War that the rural population declined below 90% of the total. The distinguishing feature of the EC is that it is based on Congressional representation and so includes the Three Fifths Compromise population rigging in the House as well as the Senate representation which is not based on population. The EC is constructed on two anti-democratic features of the Congress as well as its own anti-democratic procedures. All designed to keep the slave whippers in the Union.
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Liberals are idiots. Do they really want to pass a law where the government can go after the purveyors of "Fake News" when Republicans control all three branches of the government, the entirety of our Intelligence Apparatus, the DOJ, the IRS and the majority of State Governorships and legislatures? Really...do you want to give us that authority also? If you do, the left in the US will be completely and permanently destroyed...I can guarantee that.
Dude, the jerks that will be in power soon are going to destroy the government that we have right now.
They are going to loot the country and leave it truly, really bankrupt.

It does not really matter what the Democrat want or what we do. The die is cast and is simply waiting for the metal to be poured.

All I'm doing is offering cautionary tales that I plan to regurgitate a year from now when the people that put Trump in office are sick and disgusted with the terrible mistake they made.

You're right...it does not matter what the Democrats want now...the democrat platform of hate and division has been thoroughly rebuked by the American electorate.
You mean the electorate that voted for Hillary since she did win the popular vote. The Republican party depends on majority limiting gimmicks like the Electoral College and gerrymandering to give themselves any hope.
Yes, the system works exactly as the Founding Fathers intended it to work...so sorry that upsets you. No, really, I am. :lol:
No it doesnt work "exactly as the founding fathers intended it to"

From Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist papers, federalist no68 -

Their votes, thus given, are to be transmitted to the seat of the national government, and the person who may happen to have a majority of the whole number of votes will be the President. But as a majority of the votes might not always happen to centre in one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided that, in such a contingency, the House of Representatives shall select out of the candidates who shall have the five highest number of votes, the man who in their opinion may be best qualified for the office.

The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States.
Edited by StillCrazy1, Dec 20 2016, 10:37 PM.
Ever notice the only 2 people Trump refuses to speak ill of are Stormy Daniels and Vladimir Putin?
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You're right...it does not matter what the Democrats want now...the democrat platform of hate and division has been thoroughly rebuked by the American electorate.
You mean the electorate that voted for Hillary since she did win the popular vote. The Republican party depends on majority limiting gimmicks like the Electoral College and gerrymandering to give themselves any hope.
Yes, the system works exactly as the Founding Fathers intended it to work...so sorry that upsets you. No, really, I am. :lol:
No it doesnt work "exactly as the founding fathers intended it to"

From Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist papers, federalist no68 -

Their votes, thus given, are to be transmitted to the seat of the national government, and the person who may happen to have a majority of the whole number of votes will be the President. But as a majority of the votes might not always happen to centre in one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided that, in such a contingency, the House of Representatives shall select out of the candidates who shall have the five highest number of votes, the man who in their opinion may be best qualified for the office.

The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States.
no one said they all agreed, Hamilton's views were in the minority... he lost
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You mean the electorate that voted for Hillary since she did win the popular vote. The Republican party depends on majority limiting gimmicks like the Electoral College and gerrymandering to give themselves any hope.
Yes, the system works exactly as the Founding Fathers intended it to work...so sorry that upsets you. No, really, I am. :lol:
No it doesnt work "exactly as the founding fathers intended it to"

From Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist papers, federalist no68 -

Their votes, thus given, are to be transmitted to the seat of the national government, and the person who may happen to have a majority of the whole number of votes will be the President. But as a majority of the votes might not always happen to centre in one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided that, in such a contingency, the House of Representatives shall select out of the candidates who shall have the five highest number of votes, the man who in their opinion may be best qualified for the office.

The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States.
no one said they all agreed, Hamilton's views were in the minority... he lost
Yes. Nobody said they all agreed. Why bring it up as if someone had?

Hamilton was a proponent of the EC and we have the EC. Take that how you want.
Ever notice the only 2 people Trump refuses to speak ill of are Stormy Daniels and Vladimir Putin?
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