[Merged]US election stuff

[DimPrawn]

24 bull$hit reasons. The great unwashed have had enough of being shat on, end of.

You had a bath recently?

[vetran]

Because the average IQ of the population is 100, and that's pretty thick.

well it gives you something to strive for!

[DimPrawn]

He really is an an out and out ******:

No one with a brain would argue that Trump isn't a lying, manipulative, nasty gobtulipe.

He is a symptom of a growing feeling that the establishment do not represent the ordinary person, that the quality and standard of life is falling for the majority. People who don't tow the liberal line are ridiculed, labelled and ignored.

Will Trump help these people? I don't think so. He's busy on a money making power trip.

[vetran]

Nigel in a gold plated lift with Donald Trump, desperately trying to get his snout in the trough.

When Brexit Britain goes down the plug hole Nige will be shouting support from his luxury appartment in Manhatten.

Its great the way he has adjusted his lifestyle so it is so close to OUR bremainers.

[greenlake]

Because the average IQ of the population is 100, and that's pretty thick.

98, apparently....

Countries Ranked by Average IQ

[GB9]

98, apparently....

Countries Ranked by Average IQ

Germany would have been higher but they took in a load of Scottish immigrants to average down.

[xoggoth]

Strange form of democracy when you get more than half a million more votes than your opponent but still lose the race - not sour grapes just an observation.

Still better than ours, at the last election UKIP got 1 seat for 3.8 million votes, SNP got a seat for every 25,970 votes.

It would be great if we had a truly proportional system. Never be exact with 650 seats for 64 million people but perhaps we could have a separate vote for the most hated MP in each party, cut them up and then sow the bits together in correct proportion.

[pjclarke]

Still better than ours,

Yes, except that a representative system here would have changed things down the batting order but not handed victory to a completely different party, far as I know.

Apparently the wall is now going to be partly fence. Mexican Borderline Personality Disorder?

[DodgyAgent]

Firstly, 0.6 million more of them voted for Hillary, as of now the totals are Clinton:60,981,118. Trump:60,350,241, with many votes still to count, including millions in the blue state of California. Strange form of democracy when you get more than half a million more votes than your opponent but still lose the race - not sour grapes just an observation. One can understand the anger now gripping some cities. Turnout was also low, around 52% I believe, so it's hard to conclude that Trump has any great popular mandate for his program.

As to why millions did vote for him, can I phone a friend? CNN lists 24 different theories so its above my pay grade.

It can't have been his policy details or his grasp of facts. However he is a consummate persuader and seems to have persuaded a large enough constituency that this billionaire inhabitant of a gold tower is the answer to the sense of disillusionment and disengagement with 'the establishment' apparently affecting large sections of the population, as illustrated by PG's numbers. Scott Adams wrote :-



Seems Adams was right, facts no longer matter. Or maybe this is a sign of H L Mencken's 1920 prediction coming to pass.

People who voted for Trump and who voted for Brexit were those reacting to the tyranny of left wing liberalism

With their "totems of virtue" these people have presented themselves as the sole purveyors of truth and all things righteous in the world. These Totems include;

1. Climate change. This abstract entity that can be neither proven nor disproven to be the fault of humans has been exploited as a means to control people's behaviour and extort money. people who dare question the validity of the climate change lobby's claims (now matter how ridiculous) are smeared as "deniers"
2. Racism. A charge that is frequently levelled at anyone who dares to challenge the orthodoxy of liberal attitudes to crime, religion or migration.
3. We can throw in diversity, sustainability and homophobia into the same mix - once again the totems that give moral credence to so called liberal "truths"
4. Health and safety - another ambigous and abused "totem" of sensibility used to so called protect us from ourselves but abused to enable others to extort and control the masses.

Donald Trump may be an arse but people see in him as the antithesis of liberal orthodoxy.

What I hope will happen is that society will begin to purge itself of having to support the economists, lecturers, EU commissions, government bodies, Quangos, and other parasites leeching off the hard work of everyone less.

There is only room for one set of parasites in this world and it is not liberals

[BlasterBates]

People who voted for Trump and who voted for Brexit...

...know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken - BrainyQuote