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KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#246926: Jun 24th 2018 at 5:07:06 PM

I find the Brazilian system reasonable: if no candidate reaches 51% in the election, they have a second round only with the two candidates with the highest amount of votes (all others being eliminated) and whoever gets the most votes wins. No electoral college, only votes.

Yeah, when Australia was writing their constitution they explicity borrowed parts from the US system, but I imagine when they came to the part about the Electoral College they basically gave what in the modern vernacular would be "All the Nopes!".

It helps that in American terms, Australia has an almost vestigial Executive Branch.

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#246927: Jun 24th 2018 at 5:19:30 PM

Trump's still tweeting. Among all the immigration and Democrats and tariff rants, he had time to post this. I have no idea what it's referring to. Perhaps someone could enlighten me?

.@jimmyfallon is now whimpering to all that he did the famous “hair show” with me (where he seriously messed up my hair), & that he would have now done it differently because it is said to have “humanized” me-he is taking heat. He called & said “monster ratings.” Be a man Jimmy!

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#246928: Jun 24th 2018 at 5:28:52 PM

Accusing the Head of State of an ally of criminal activity is not something to be done lightly.

See, you're still treating us like we're an ally while Trump is in charge.

Until we get a new President, we are nacho friend.

fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#246929: Jun 24th 2018 at 5:40:41 PM

so I found the UN report on extreme poverty in the US, and damn is it a slam dunk. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#246930: Jun 24th 2018 at 5:41:12 PM

[up][up][up]He's referring to an interview on The Tonight Show where Jimmy tugged on Trump's hair to prove it was real. It was criticized as essentially a softball interview as I recall.

edited 24th Jun '18 5:41:51 PM by TheRoguePenguin

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#246931: Jun 24th 2018 at 6:02:47 PM

[up]Yeah, but Late Night is, in general, a softball show.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#246932: Jun 24th 2018 at 7:26:29 PM

I'm not entirely sure what they expect from late night shows in general. They're advertised as entertainment, not serious political interviewers, even if a couple of them have been making their opinions rather obvious as of late. Like, there is a very different end goal a late night show host has from a journalist.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#246933: Jun 24th 2018 at 7:37:50 PM

You have to judge the shows individually, some of them get a solid balance of comedy and commentary. Others....not so much.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Bur from Flyover Country (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#246934: Jun 24th 2018 at 7:54:52 PM

@246847 Well, I didn't need to sleep tonight anyways.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246935: Jun 24th 2018 at 8:13:00 PM

The report BTW is from December 2017. And this administration is no closer to addressing or even really acknowledging any of the issues. Shit, this administration is actively making some of them worse.

These problems aren't things that started with Trump. But he's definitely not helping.

edited 24th Jun '18 8:13:40 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#246936: Jun 24th 2018 at 8:13:28 PM

So it seems the Trump administration failed to secure the domain name: http://www.trumphotels.org/

Guess what happened.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246937: Jun 24th 2018 at 8:14:53 PM

[up] ...Part of me thinks it's wrong to laugh given the subject matter. On the other hand, you can't say Trump doesn't deserve it.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Imca (Veteran)
#246938: Jun 24th 2018 at 8:22:50 PM

Just when you think it peaked, it gets better.

"Handicap Accessible"

"Se Habla Espanol"

....

....

"Child Accommodations"

edited 24th Jun '18 8:23:17 PM by Imca

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246939: Jun 24th 2018 at 8:28:51 PM

Then there's the "Categories" at the bottom of the page:

  • The Blacks
  • The Hispanics
  • The Muslims
  • Very Fine People

Disgusted, but not surprised
Bur from Flyover Country (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#246940: Jun 24th 2018 at 8:34:14 PM

The "Very Fine People" category is the little touch that finally made me start laughing.

TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#246941: Jun 24th 2018 at 9:00:20 PM

Black Comedy is best comedy.

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246942: Jun 24th 2018 at 9:03:12 PM

Hopefully it avoids being literal Dead Baby Comedy.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Grafite Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: Less than three
#246943: Jun 25th 2018 at 5:02:33 AM

Nikki Haley has called it ridiculous for the UN to be analysing the poverty situation in the United States. What, it hurts the administration's feelings to hear how bad it is compared to all other developed nations?

From the report, the country has the highest youth poverty and infant mortality rates among the OECD, the world's highest incarceration rate and the tax cut passed last year does nothing but increase the divide between rich and poor. This needs to be heard.

Life is unfair...
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#246944: Jun 25th 2018 at 5:18:07 AM

Oh hey, what do you know. Turns out all the memes made by young people in America about being broke, depressed, suicidal, in debt, and starving were actually a thinly-veiled cry for help. Who could have possibly seen this coming?

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#246946: Jun 25th 2018 at 5:48:57 AM

Secretary of Defense in the (Mad) Doghouse

Trump no longer listens to or includes Defense Secretary James Mattis when it comes to several major foreign policy issues. Trump is now more likely to rely on his own instincts or those of John Bolton or Mike Pompeo over Mattis' advice. "They don't really see eye to eye," said a former senior White House official. (from WTFJHT)

"You can reply to this Message!"
KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#246947: Jun 25th 2018 at 6:03:50 AM

[up][up] Most of the Dems are older than I. Stop Age-discrimination

I can hate my own generation and still be Leftist?

[down] Nah. Effing Adults. Agecide when? Every person over 30 would be executed

edited 25th Jun '18 6:13:45 AM by KazuyaProta

Watch me destroying my country
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#246948: Jun 25th 2018 at 6:09:29 AM

Painting an entire generation of people with one brush, ignoring all individual merit and other factors, is stupid.

And in other news, Harley-Davidson is moving some production to Europe, due to retaliatory tariffs.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/25/news/companies/harley-davidson-motorcycles-tariffs-trump/index.html

edited 25th Jun '18 6:29:13 AM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#246949: Jun 25th 2018 at 7:01:50 AM

[up] and [up][up] Who said I hated that generation specifically, rather than all generations?

But seriously, it's really frigging hard to remember not to paint everyone with the same brush when it seems like the older generation is doing everything humanly possible, and even a few things that are humanly impossible, to make as big of a mess as possible for the next generation to clean up (particularly the parts of the next generation who resisted having their toxic ideology beaten into them, both literally and metaphorically) after they shuffle off the mortal coil.

[up]x3 That's... really not a good thing. As... questionable as Mattis was, he's still more qualified than Trumps "instincts"

edited 25th Jun '18 7:09:24 AM by Reflextion

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#246950: Jun 25th 2018 at 7:08:45 AM

[up][up] Those manufacturing jobs are gonna come back to America just like Trump promised! Any day now!

The fools who actually thought Trump would actually save their livelihoods are going to lose their shirts thanks to his total lack of economic know-how, impulsive trade wars, and rampant corruption. If only so many other people who didn't enable Trump's rise to power weren't also in the blast radius of his economy-bomb...

[up] Perhaps the "revolving-door" nature of the Trump admin. might mean it'll become significantly harder for him to enact policy decisions? You know, on the (admittedly slim) chance that the Congressional Republicans see that he's not listening to anyone now, realize that he's a rabid dog that's breaking free from his chains, and grow a big enough pair to actually, you know, do anything to stop him?

edited 25th Jun '18 7:11:45 AM by TrashJack

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary

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