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johnoddy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:02 pm The Trump Protest included the likes of Lily Allen and Gary Lineker....I mean how serious is that?

bromerzz wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:46 pm Surely Trump is just doing what the electorate that voted him into office want him to do? After all he made no bones about his plans in his election manifesto or whatever the spams call it. Well done Trump.

keving wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:55 pm He's doing what 48% of the electorate want him to do

keving wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:55 pm He's doing what 48% of the electorate want him to do

Jimgym wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:19 pm

keving wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:55 pm He's doing what 48% of the electorate want him to do

And with 304 electoral college votes to Clinton's 227.

Okay—we’ve all heard Democrats saying how Hillary Clinton got almost 3 million more popular votes than President-elect Donald J. Trump—and how that shows how he doesn’t have a mandate or something, despite clinching 306 Electoral College votes by winning the majority of the states, which is how we decide who will become our next president. I know most of you know that; it’s our progressive brethren who need a civics lesson. And you also know that if it weren’t for California, Clinton wouldn’t have won the plurality of the popular vote. Hence, this is why we don’t elect our next leader based on the popular vote since the liberal Northeast and California don’t represent the country. Liberals may convince of themselves that it is, but it’s not true. Never has been. John Merline wrote in Investors Business Daily that if you remove deep blue California, Trump would have won 1.4 million more popular votes that Clinton:

keving wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:35 pm Electoral colleges are not people, they don't have feelings.

People have feelings and emotions. 52% of the voters in the US have negative feelings towards Trump, and for good reason.

I suppose the 48% who voted for Trump should tell the 52% to shut up and move on? But that would be a bit strange wouldn't it? The minority telling the majority what to do.

OhSusana wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:44 pm Hopefully Admin will forgive me for going slightly off - topic. (Trump's supposed mental illness)
26 Percent of Eligible Voters Voted for Trump
https://mises.org/blog/26-percent-eligi ... oted-trump

19% of the US population.
Those who didn't vote - too late now!!

Looks like they've elected a real fruitcake as President, if all the medical reports are correct.

Conoflex wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:39 pm Oh dear- the petition to allow Trump a state visit has exceed the 100,000 required to initiate a debate in Parliament who will also have to debate the petition to not allow him a state visit.

Don't any of you half wits who click on to any and all of this nonsense realise all you are doing is wasting everyone's time and making yourselves look petty and stupid ?

I'm signing out - this forum has become a joke already

keving wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:55 pm He's doing what 48% of the electorate want him to do

keving wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:47 pm No. You can't pretend that California is not part of the USA just to make a spurious point.

Talk to me about the total number of people in the entire USA - not states, not electoral colleges, etc - who voted against Trump. 52%. Fact.

There were two Democrats — and zero Republicans — running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California's congressional districts.
At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.
Plus, since Republicans knew Clinton was going to win the state — and its entire 55 electoral votes — casting a ballot for Trump was virtually meaningless, since no matter what her margin of victory, Clinton was getting all 55 votes.
[…]
If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes. And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)