edwardmurphy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 5:48 pm
Blessed wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 7:20 amWE THE PEOPLE elected Trump. Understand, Edward?
No, Blessed, we didn't. The majority of us rejected him. You know that. It's why you started out by reminding me that the Electoral College exists and then trying to handwave away a major defeat in the popular election by making the groundless claim that Clinton's voters were illegitimate.
Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States of America. That's one of the stupidest sentences in the history of our nation, but there it is. He won the EC, and the rules say that's good enough. I'm not going to spend years claiming that he's not legitimately the President, even though that's precisely what you guys have been doing to Obama for 11 years and counting. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to accept your [nonsense] claims of a mandate. Trump won, but he was elected by a minority. WE THE PEOPLE picked Hillary Clinton by a significant margin. The rules say that you can get fewer votes and still win, so Trump won. But he still got fewer votes and any claim otherwise is the kind of lie that insecure people use to make themselves feel better.
Your Putin fetish confuses me. Sure, he was elected. He also controls the media and has no qualms about harassing, imprisoning, or even bumping off pesky reporters and opposition politicians. I'm not sure where you get the notion that Putin has a problem with oligarchs. Behind the facade of freeish and fairish elections Russia is a kleptocratic oligarchy. Behind the trappings of office Putin is a gangster.
The rest of your post is deluded rambling straight from the fever swamps, so I'll leave it at that.
Edward,
GO read Article 2 section 1 of the US Constitution. It established a FAIR system to elect the President and prevent elitist clouts ruling from afar. The fact Clinton won to 48% to Trump's 46% means NOTHING and is Constitutionally NULL AND VOID. What do you want to do now Edward? Change the US Constitution?
Obama WAS also legitimately elected because Obama won the Electoral College. Any future candidate who wins the Electoral college is legit. It doesn't matter what their political affilliation is. They could be a communist. Doesn't matter. It's legit. Of course at that point there will have to be civil war and Balkanization but that's besides the point. Whoever wins the EC wins the Presidency.
Putin does not control the media. He interferes to prevent foreign interests from controlling the media which is exactly what we have in the United States and that is another reason why they target Putin. Russia is NOT the USSR anymore. And MOST of the news reported in Russia is 10000x more trustworthy than what you see form US sources. I cannot tell you how many times I've watched Russian news and discovered they are reporting the fact as is while CNN ABC NBC Guardian Washington Post etc etc etc etc REFUSE TO EVEN COVER THE TRUTH OR SPEW FLAT OUT LIES. An example I mentioned was with the filming of all the polling stations in the Ukraine that almost 100% of the voters in Western Ukraine voted to succeed from Ukraine. This fact was NOT REPORTED on the news in the US. I watched in the US nor the video showing the polling stations. Instead the entire thing was how Russia invaded Ukraine and must be dealt with firmly.
Also Russian routinely reports negative FACTS about LGBT, the skyrocketing historical rise in STD rates on a chart in the United States, the effects children, family and society etc. Which are rarely reported in the US media because it's (insert shrieking gay whiny voice here) "anti-gay" and "marginalizes homosexuals". In other words what you get in the USA news is a social agenda over truth and fact.
I read the news on Yandex using a VPN and website translator and am SHOCKED by the fact they simply tell the truth. The real propaganda is in the USA. I will take Russian news over American news sources 9/10 times.
Your ending comment is a label. I will not respond to it.