24-02-2016, 18:54
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Re: US Election 2016
Trump's benefitting from an electorate who're fed up with the status quo I reckon. Times have been tough for the US internally and externally and I think here's a growing frustration about a number of key issues much like migration is driving anti-EU sentiment in the UK. When people have got to the point that they'll vote in huge numbers for a nutcase like Trump you have to look to the alternatives and wonder just how out of touch they've been to let things get this bad.
Of course anyone with a conspiracy hat on might think that if he gets power Trump is going to be the one who ultimately delivers the final attack on freedoms etc. which they're convinced is on its way...
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24-02-2016, 20:15
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Re: US Election 2016
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Trump's benefitting from an electorate who're fed up with the status quo I reckon. Times have been tough for the US internally and externally and I think here's a growing frustration about a number of key issues much like migration is driving anti-EU sentiment in the UK. When people have got to the point that they'll vote in huge numbers for a nutcase like Trump you have to look to the alternatives and wonder just how out of touch they've been to let things get this bad.
Of course anyone with a conspiracy hat on might think that if he gets power Trump is going to be the one who ultimately delivers the final attack on freedoms etc. which they're convinced is on its way...
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Or they could adopt our system where people vote in huge numbers , in their several millions perhaps and get their voice heard by having 1 mp, how out of touch does anyone have to be to realise that isn't democracy
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24-02-2016, 22:59
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Re: US Election 2016
I'm getting a bit worried, I'm agreeing more and more with Daddy's posts. 
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26-02-2016, 16:31
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Re: US Election 2016
Trump will win.For too long it's been bush or clinton,clinton or bush with a token obama thrown in.Boris will be prime minister here.So it may be that a couple of buffoons will be running the usa/uk but it will surely be anything but dull politics with those two in charge.Bring them on.
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26-02-2016, 18:02
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Re: US Election 2016
I would prefer 'dull' to an irresponsible buffoon, with the intelligence and temper of a baboon, like Trump.
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26-02-2016, 18:25
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Re: US Election 2016
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I would prefer 'dull' to an irresponsible buffoon, with the intelligence and temper of a baboon, like Trump or bozo.
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26-02-2016, 18:40
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: US Election 2016
Boris is a buffoon, but he is not unintelligent...
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26-02-2016, 19:02
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Re: US Election 2016
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I would prefer 'dull' to an irresponsible buffoon, with the intelligence and temper of a baboon, like Trump.
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l could have not said it better myself.
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26-02-2016, 19:16
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Re: US Election 2016
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Boris is a buffoon, but he is not unintelligent...
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You don't fall for his act either
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26-02-2016, 19:31
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Re: US Election 2016
Trump is not unintelligent.
It's very easy to dismiss someone like that, problem is that's what everyone has done from the outset and look where he is now.
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26-02-2016, 20:21
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: US Election 2016
'Cunning' is not the same as 'intelligent', imho....
He is a multiple bankrupt, multiple marriage flip-flopping bloviating blowhard who has convinced a section of the US populace he is a successful straight-talking businessman...
He is appealing to the lowest-common denominator, and then going even lower, and getting away with it - one can only assume the Dems are keeping their powder dry until he actually gets the nomination...
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26-02-2016, 20:37
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Re: US Election 2016
Trump has just announced that if he is President he is going to introduce tougher liberal laws so 'the press can't lie'. Puts him in conflict with the first amendment (but he probably can't do it).
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26-02-2016, 20:38
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Re: US Election 2016
You do worry about Americans though; they might just elect him. They elected Ronald Reagan on the basis he was in a film they half liked a bit.
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26-02-2016, 21:14
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Re: US Election 2016
I think the fact he had been Governor of California for 8 years may have helped...
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27-02-2016, 19:23
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Re: US Election 2016
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You do worry about Americans though; they might just elect him. They elected Ronald Reagan on the basis he was in a film they half liked a bit.
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Well he turned out to be a very good president, so maybe there's method for n the madness.
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'Cunning' is not the same as 'intelligent', imho....
He is a multiple bankrupt, multiple marriage flip-flopping bloviating blowhard who has convinced a section of the US populace he is a successful straight-talking businessman...
He is appealing to the lowest-common denominator, and then going even lower, and getting away with it - one can only assume the Dems are keeping their powder dry until he actually gets the nomination...
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Funny thing is though I reckon he has higher moral standards than Clinton!
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