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A plea to our US contingent
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 13:39
by markfiend
Please don't vote for Donald Trump.
Re: A plea to our US contingent
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 14:06
by mh
Hillary Clinton wrote:I may be a monster but I'm the good kind, like Godzilla. We both don't know how to relate to people and we both have a history of terrorizing humanity, but we are exactly what you need when a giant radioactive orange ape threatens your country.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 14:08
by Silver_Owl
I'm confused.
Keep him out of the White House kids.
Re: A plea to our US contingent
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 14:45
by abridged
markfiend wrote:Please don't vote for Donald Trump.
On the upside if he wins it means a new Sisters album...I'd be almost tempted if I could vote.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 14:51
by markfiend
I am genuinely terrified of Trump.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 15:17
by 6FeetOver
A quick flashback to a fateful evening exactly 8 years ago in New Haven, CT, USA: Andrew and co. were onstage and in fine form; an elated Eldroid was passing his laptop to us folks pressed against the stage, so that we could watch the U.S. presidential election's vote tallies live. The atmosphere was electrified and full of promise...
This morning? Nothing but fear and dread. I'm truly frightened. Plus, Canada's already told us that we can't live there, so... Yeah, terrified.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 15:22
by abridged
markfiend wrote:I am genuinely terrified of Trump.
No doubt about it, Trump is vile. I'm pretty convinced he won't win. It shows the state of things that he even has a chance. Quite a few of the politicians up our way would have views not too dissimilar to him in terms of social attitudes at least. Hilary Clinton is to say the least no means perfect but the lesser of two evils and all that. Of course there is a narcissistic muscle-brain sexist racist with his finger on the trigger already in the shape of Putin so maybe Trump would balance it out in a sort of MAD way...or we may all get blown to pieces.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 15:25
by Silver_Owl
The election always puts me in mind of this;
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 15:42
by markfiend
Silver_Owl wrote:The election always puts me in mind of this;
Heh. Me too.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 18:17
by emilystrange
my cousin said that is trump wins we'll probably find that he's nuked Denmark by thursday. we're still working out where he might have been aiming for.
don't let him. just don't. i'm with mark and sinny.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 18:47
by nowayjose
Both are equally s**t. Restart the process with a new set of candidates.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 19:00
by EmmaPeelWannaBe
I promise all my fellow HLers that this american did not vote for the screaming carrot demon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItoQHCgiq8&sns=em
PS> if it goes badly, does anyone want a roommate?
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 19:01
by Being645
From where we are now, Trump is the worst thing to happen. By far not only for the US.
mh wrote:Hillary Clinton wrote:I may be a monster but I'm the good kind, like Godzilla. We both don't know how to relate to people and we both have a history of terrorizing humanity, but we are exactly what you need when a giant radioactive orange ape threatens your country.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 19:56
by EvilBastard
If Trump wins I'm well and truly buggered. Can't move back to the UK, since Brexit appears to be turning into a reality, can't stay here (I was counting on marrying
Sinnie and the pair of us taking advantage of the "if you're married you can move to Canada" rule, but since she appears to have married someone else this is a non-starter. Unless...I wonder if Canada recognises polygamous relationships...
), so it could be I'll have to bugger off to somewhere enlightened. Burma? North Korea? Bhutan?
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 20:57
by iesus
I would like to have a brand new Sisters album pleaseee
Vote whatever you like, it doesn't matter
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 21:03
by SmileySister
It's frightening
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 21:47
by eastmidswhizzkid
they are both terrible candidates agreed, but she is at least a politician. and since when did politicians not line their own pockets/outrageously lie/abuse their position?
trump is the more dangerous without any shadow of a doubt. and a bigot, and a racist, and a misogynist as well as being a 5 year-old's word for a fart.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 21:48
by Microcosmia
Let's hope it doesn't but if it does there's always Inishturk
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/07/07/mak ... eat-again/
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 22:01
by 6FeetOver
I've always wanted to visit Ireland! Hmmm...
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 22:03
by 6FeetOver
EvilBastard wrote:(I was counting on marrying
Sinnie and the pair of us taking advantage of the "if you're married you can move to Canada" rule, but since she appears to have married someone else this is a non-starter. Unless...I wonder if Canada recognises polygamous relationships...
)
Oh, my.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 22:28
by abridged
Hmmm I wonder if it would also take Syrian refugees...
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 22:50
by EvilBastard
abridged wrote:Hmmm I wonder if it would also take Syrian refugees...
I'd be tempted to move to Aleppo - yes it's a warzone and a s
hitshow, and you'll probably get a barrel bomb dropped on your head, but it's probably no worse than the US under the Trump presidency.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 23:06
by sultan2075
They are both terrible, albeit in different ways.
The benefit of a Trump win is that he is a Molotov cocktail aimed squarely at the Washington establishment, both democrats and republicans. That's why they hate him so much. He's such a divisive figure that, if he wins, our governing class might rediscover checks and balances and the separation of powers in their need to oppose him. Maybe the legislature will reassert itself as a legislature (one can dream, anyway).
Clinton, on the other hand, is a thoroughly corrupt creature with a mindlessly neoconservative foreign policy. If you liked GW Bush, you'll like HR Clinton.
Gary "Aleppo?" Johnson is an idiot. Jill Stein is a nutball.
All of our choices are awful. And the truth is, it doesn't really matter who wins. Neither one is interested in the rule of law. My hope is that we will get a profoundly divided government, and that whichever party gets the White House doesn't get the congress.
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 23:30
by Pista
Is there an election?
Posted: 08 Nov 2016, 23:37
by 6FeetOver
sultan2075 wrote:All of our choices are awful. And the truth is, it doesn't really matter who wins. Neither one is interested in the rule of law. My hope is that we will get a profoundly divided government, and that whichever party gets the White House doesn't get the congress.
Civil War II. Thoughts?