BBC journo to trump supporter: how could you vote trump given his awful policies?
BBC journo to Clinton supporter: tell me how you feel about this shocking news.
Bias? The BBC? Surely not.
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BBC journo to trump supporter: how could you vote trump given his awful policies?
BBC journo to Clinton supporter: tell me how you feel about this shocking news.
Bias? The BBC? Surely not.
Edited for you.
The Electorate would have to be mad to vote in a Dictator as you say....
In the short term there will be little change, as you say, but once the Supreme Court has had the new Republican Judge added the Republicans will have full control along with the Senate and Congress.
You know that without being able to actually say the reporter's name and what programme it was on that's just anecdotal, right?
symyjym
Banned
I think getting the Mexicans to pay for a wall will be changed to employing Mexicans to build it.
Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
Its a mad system, whereby the Democrats got more votes in the presidential election, more votes in the congressional elections and more votes in the senate elections over the past six years, and yet control none of the three seats of government. Democracy!!
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
Any bookies offering odds on his impeachment yet?
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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Actually, him not seeing out the full 4 years could well be a shrewd bet whether it's impeachment or him resigning for whatever reason. He's 70 years old and his new job may have lots of perks but it comes with untold stresses and long hours.
cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
- 2,511
If he uses the English builder who is building a wall in my front garden there is no danger of it ever being finished.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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And lots of enemies
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Yeah, I thought about that, I'm not a betting man so could be wrong here but I didn't think bookies took bets on murders or even deaths so left that option out.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Why do you suppose that a man pushing 70 who has been used to getting his own way his whole life will "undertake a steep learning curve"? People aged 70 - especially the likes of Trump - can't be arsed to "learn" anything. He knows it all already, he's told us that.
He is a man in a hurry - age is against him, so he will try and get as much of his agenda done and dusted in this first term. And as with anything rushed, the risk of things going wrong is that much greater.
Trump didn't win the popular vote. HRC was ahead by 0.1%
portslade seagull
Well-known member
There are a few worried leaders in the EU now. This is twice that the people have dared to speak out with their votes.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,960
As mentioned in the merged thread covering Brexit, Mrs May has become adept at not answering straight questions, a beauty I heard on the radio today.
Reporter: " Mrs May how do you feel about Donald Trump being elected the next president ? :
Mrs May " I congratulate him on being elected and look forward to working with him on maintaining and building the special relationship with the American people "
Reporter : " During the election campaign Donald Trump said some rather derogatory things about women, how do you feel about what he said ?"
Mrs. May " Er,I congratulate him on being elected and look forward to working with him on maintaining and building the special relationship with the American people "
Priceless !
Reporter: " Mrs May how do you feel about Donald Trump being elected the next president ? :
Mrs May " I congratulate him on being elected and look forward to working with him on maintaining and building the special relationship with the American people "
Reporter : " During the election campaign Donald Trump said some rather derogatory things about women, how do you feel about what he said ?"
Mrs. May " Er,I congratulate him on being elected and look forward to working with him on maintaining and building the special relationship with the American people "
Priceless !
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I think we will be OK if Newt Gingrich or Jeff Sessions becomes Secretary of State.
Need to hope Michael Flynn is out of the running for that post.
Need to hope Michael Flynn is out of the running for that post.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
The staggering statistic for me is that so many Democrat voters stayed at home. I think there was 18m less votes cast in this election than in 2012 where Mitt Romney got 60.9m votes and lost by 5m votes whereas in 2016 Trump has 58.1m and neck and neck with HRC in terms of popular vote.
It's hard to believe that there are Democrat voters out there who supported Obama but couldn't bring themselves to vote for HRC despite such a clearly divisive opponent. Either they got complacent because of the media telling them that Trump could not win or they simply don't like HRC. It goes to show that if the Democrats had picked Joe Biden or even Sanders then they would probably have won handsomely.
alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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Do you really expect her to say " I can't believe he won, the blokes a tosser" ? Of course you don't she's the prime minister and he's the president elect , Corbin was pretty non committal when he was interviewed as well, did you miss that one ?
I don't think it was the media telling them that Trump couldn't win - most of the polls in the past week had a very narrow lead for Clinton (with one indicating a Trump win) but there was almost visceral hatred of HRC, In polls around the time of the Democrat Convention, Sanders was ahead of Trump by 12 to 15% while Clinton was ahead by about 4 or 5%. Trump would not have been able to accuse Sanders of a) being untrustworthy or b) part of the Washington elite - it's interesting to speculate what tactics he'd have used