Why It Is Mathematically Impossible for Trump to win the White House

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  1. kluke

    kluke Founding Member

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    The truly tragic thing is all Trump has to do to get elected - is shut the fuck up. She is so disliked that any one of the other 16 people on the stage could win pretty easy. And so could Trump, if he would just shut up. But he won't.
    So we've had a Republican Johnson, a Democrat Johnson, and now its time for a Libertarian Johnson.
     
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  2. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    Trump has made a huge misstep with this Khan family garbage. We could be talking about the 4 Pinocchio rating for Hillary going on Fox News Sunday by the very liberal Washington Post, which is the worst rating possible.
     
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    He would have to trash the one good mooslem there ever was.
     
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    The irony that seems to be missing.....the Khans calling Trump out and yet who was it exactly who blew their son up? Yep, that would be another muslim.
     
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    They did not call Trump out for killing their son, but for disrespecting him. At which point he disrespected them and their right to free speech. His skin is far too thin to be President. He would be criticized every single day. He is used to getting his way in his corporate world. Government does not work that way.
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Every president since Washington has been criticized every single day. So what
     
  7. Tiger in NC

    Tiger in NC There's a sucker born everyday...

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    Exactly.....and Trump's skin is far too thin.
     
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    "However, political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion"

    From George Washington's farewell address. Suits Hillary like a pair of pants.
     
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    And on a further thought to consider.....

    "...we need to think about what there is about current political practices that repeatedly bring to power such a counterproductive set of people. Those we call "public servants" have in fact become public masters. And they act like it.

    They squander ever more vast amounts of our tax money, and still leave trillions of dollars of national debt to be paid by our children and grandchildren. They intrude into our private lives with ever more restrictions, red tape and electronic surveillance. And they turn different groups of Americans against each other with class warfare rhetoric and policies....

    President Calvin Coolidge, with every prospect of being reelected in 1928, declared simply: "I do not choose to run." Later, in his memoirs, he explained how dangerous it is to have anyone remain too long in the White House, surrounded by flattery and insulated from reality. What a contrast that attitude is with the attitude of the current occupant of the White House!

    The contrast extends beyond these two presidents. What we have today that we did not have in the early history of this country is a permanent political class in Washington — a Congress and an ever growing federal bureaucracy composed of people who have become a permanent ruling class.

    The United States was not founded by career politicians but by people who took time out from their regular professions to serve during a crucial time in the creation of a new nation, and a new kind of nation in a world ruled by kings and emperors.

    In the nineteenth century, there was a high rate of turnover in members of Congress. Many people went to Washington to serve one term in Congress, then returned to their home state to resume their lives as private citizens.

    The rise of the permanent political class in Washington came with the rise of a vast government apparatus with unprecedented amounts of money and power to control and corrupt individuals, institutions and the fabric of the whole society.

    There are now people in Washington whose entire adult lives have been spent in government, in one role or another. Some begin as aides to politicians or as part of the sprawling empires of the federal bureaucracy. From this they progress to high elective or appointed offices in government.

    Turnover in Congress has been reduced almost to the vanishing point. Political alliances within government and with outside special interests, as well as the gerrymandering of Congressional districts, make most incumbents' reelection virtually a foregone conclusion.

    The ability to distribute vast amounts of largess to voters, at the taxpayers' expense — President Obama's giving away free cell phones during an election year being just the tip of the iceberg — further tilts the balance in favor of incumbents.

    This kind of government must constantly "do something" in order to keep incumbents' names in the news. In short, big government has every incentive to create bigger government."

    https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/10/13/throw-the-rascals-out
     
  10. Winston1

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    Damn well said.
     
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