US Election & Presidency

(09-11-2016 19:32 )snookered147 Wrote:  I do ridiculous coming from a man who has shown every sign of being as sexist, racist, repugnant, offensive and bigoted as it seems humanly possible to be.

May be thats the problem, people are fed up to the back teeth with being emotionally black mailed by minority pcism.

There's yet another program on the BBC again soon, ;Will there ever be a black Priminister or something like that. Question is, why SHOULD there be? Merely becasue they are black? The best person (hopefully) for the job should be PM who has been elected, what colour he is is not relavant, but in a country that is 90% visually white a black PM is not likely even though possible.

It's like Lenny Henry trying to force through a policey whereby a certain amount of black people should be empolyed by the BBC (pretty sure it was something like 30%), for no other reason that they are black; this I find staggeringly racsit, but it's allowed becasue Lenny Henery is black.

So I'm looking at BBC news and this fat American as just stated Clinton had more votes then Trump, it's just Trumps was in important areas.

How the fuck does that work?

They have this thing called the electoral college.

Quote:The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.

So although she may have more people voting for her, he had more electors.

Well what a bizarre carry on.

There Will be a black Prime minister and it will prob be a tory

Democrats fucked up big style. they have become like New Labour was in its final days basically cosyed up to big business and forgot the democratic base esp in the manufacturing in the rust belt. who turned around said we got nothing to lose so Fuck You !! same thing happened in Brexit

^^^^ Minority pcism? So as an example is it ok to be sexist when 50.8% of the US population in 2015 were women?

I won't even start on your ethnicity point as we clearly fundamentally disagree on our basic values.

(09-11-2016 19:59 )skully Wrote:  They have this thing called the electoral college.

Quote:The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.

So although she may have more people voting for her, he had more electors.

its actually a good system its supposed to stop just people getting in on public vote worked for over 200 years

(09-11-2016 19:59 )skully Wrote:  They have this thing called the electoral college.

Quote:The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.

So although she may have more people voting for her, he had more electors.

It's also entirely possible for the governing party in the UK to get less votes than the leading opposition party.

(09-11-2016 19:45 )wackawoo Wrote:  

(09-11-2016 19:32 )snookered147 Wrote:  I do ridiculous coming from a man who has shown every sign of being as sexist, racist, repugnant, offensive and bigoted as it seems humanly possible to be.

May be thats the problem, people are fed up to the back teeth with being emotionally black mailed by minority pcism.

There's yet another program on the BBC again soon, ;Will there ever be a black Priminister or something like that. Question is, why SHOULD there be? Merely becasue they are black? The best person (hopefully) for the job should be PM who has been elected, what colour he is is not relavant, but in a country that is 90% visually white a black PM is not likely even though possible.

It's like Lenny Henry trying to force through a policey whereby a certain amount of black people should be empolyed by the BBC (pretty sure it was something like 30%), for no other reason that they are black; this I find staggeringly racsit, but it's allowed becasue Lenny Henery is black.

Actually such policies are designed to neuter implicit bias / unconscious racism.

(09-11-2016 20:04 )HannahsPet Wrote:  There Will be a black Prime minister and it will prob be a tory

Democrats fucked up big style. they have become like New Labour was in its final days basically cosyed up to big business and forgot the democratic base esp in the manufacturing in the rust belt. who turned around said we got nothing to lose so Fuck You !! same thing happened in Brexit

Absolutely, it's insecurity of the white working class and the erosion of their status in society.