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I'm probably going to be modded into oblivion for pointing this out (wouldn't be the first time either) but Republican primaries process isn't exactly free of issues by any stretch of the imagination. The same goes for the Electoral College which allows the runner up who lost the election by 2 million bloody votes to become president. People keep telling me that the Electoral College is essential to US democracy and blah, blah, blah ... I call bullshit on all of it. The president should be elected by popular vote, period! Then there is the fucked up US electoral system riddled as it is with gerrymandering. I just heard a political analyst on TV recommend that the Dems. should put some effort back into state level politics. The implication of this person's advice seemed to be that if they did that, they could gerrymander the system back in their favour .... seriously?!?! By the looks of it practically every step of the US electoral process from the primaries onwards is in serious need of reform. It's easy for the Republicans to feel smug right about now, they control both houses of congress and they may or may not control the president (the jury is still out on that question). What they should be is worried because this victory they have scored is largely a victory achieved by gaming the system while demographics are slowly working against them. The fastest growing communities in the US are non-white while the Republican voter base is shrinking. If the Democrats spend the next few years rebuilding a grass roots organisation, realise that their most important base is not the Wall Street bankers and tech billionaires they spend most of their time sucking up to but working class white and non-white citizens. If the Democrats go back to their roots and draw some of those working class voters away from the likes of Trump with a Roosevelt style 'New Deal program' the Republicans will be in real trouble because endorsements form the KKK are not going to increase their appeal to that rapidly expanding group of non-white voters. In the end even expert gerrymandering will not be able to save the Republicans from their shrinking voter base. Only a move towards the political centre and away from KKK endorsements can do that. Say what you want, even if the Reps/Trump did not accept the KKK endorsement the mere fact that they got it is a very bad sign for the Reps. As for the Democrats there is an old Norse saying, "Don't mourn, gather men, arm yourselves and avenge" and that is my advice to them. Leave the Republicans to revel in their smugness and schadenfreude. Spend the next two years ousting the old Democrat establishment, bring in some new people, reform the primaries, take your party back to its core message and values and then kick the Reps. in the balls in 2018/2020 with a steel toe boot.

Pot, meet Kette..

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I just heard that President Elect by popular vote, Donald Trump has pledged to fix this problem so you can all breathe easier now. The president is hard at work assembling a crack task force from among the ranks of Big Oil and Big Coal to bring CO2 emissions growth back on track.

He did double the national debt and start two brutal and expensive wars that lasted throughout Obama's presidency. A large portion of the stinking mess that is Syria and Iraq are due to Bush disbanding the Iraqi army and supporting that sectarian moron Nouri al Maliki into the Iraqi presidency.

By any US American standard Obama is center-left, in Europe he'd be center right to moderate conservative. Just about the only US leftie I can point out that would register with a European as a moderate Social Democrat is Bernie Sanders and he scared the whits out of the so-called leftist Democrat party with his beliefs. By European standards vast sections of the Republican party bring back unpleasant memories of fascism and witch-burning 17th century protestant fundamentalists.

Well, if we are in a simulation, can whoever is running it please debug and patch Donald Trump? He's been malfunctioning for years and it's getting worse.

Obama 'ratified' the treaty by exercising his executive agreement power. That's not technically 'ratification' but de-facto it is the same thing. This leaves Trump with three options. Firstly he can challenge whether this is a legitimate exercise of Legitimate executive agreement power. This can be a lengthy legal process and it might weaken the executive agreement power if it succeeds and that might be bad for trump if he wants to use it later so he may not want to exercise that option for the same reason that nobody has ever attempted to abolish filibustering, they might want to use it later so there is an unwritten agreement that nobody will abolish it. Secondly, Trump can simply withdraw from the UNFCCC which would leave the USA free to pig out on coal within a year. Failing that it would take four years to withdraw. One thing is for sure, he has to do something because the USA will not meet it's emissions targets by 2025 and there is no way he could meet that target with the current congress and senate even if he wanted to reduce emissions and he does not. The Coal lobby will be breathing down his neck along with every ultra right wing, borderline fascist Republican out there. which which these days seems to be about 90% of them so he has do do something quickly. I'm guessing he'll withdraw from the UNFCCC and then pig out on coal. That along with doubts about America's commitment to NATO, his obvious favouritism towards Putin, his rabid Xenophobia and the trade wars he has promised to ignite will in turn will in turn further strain his relationship with his European Allies where pollution reduction and clean energy is an important election issue, as opposed to the USA where the opposite now seems to be true. In the mean time Vladimir Putin will look upon of this series of events play out and smile as he sees Trump take another giant step towards separating itself it's oldest and most loyal allies.

Why? Is he wrong? Or are you just another one of those idiots like Trump who sit there with their hands over their eyes and their thumbs in their ears singing: LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALA I CAN'T SEE YOU.!!
Deforestation is proceeding all over the world at alarming speed and pollution isn't helping either. To take just one example you cannot get any marine seafood anymore that isn't full of microscopic plastic particles and has chemical traces that are not normally found in nature. The result has been a massive extinction wave which makes deforestation and pollution at least as big a problem as climate change.

If Trump says so much stupid shit his staff took away your twitter access then 'people' don't really have to do much to destroy him other than listen up and repeat the stupid shit the man said.

So are you going to be the one to go to Russia and get them to lock up Putin? ... I ask because it normally takes at least two to quarrel.

Sarah Palin? ... is that you?

He was elected by a minority of the popular vote, stop pretending that this is normal and acceptable in a democracy. It just makes you look stupid.

You spotted that B5 quote, well done (no sarcasm) . The answer is I loathe both left and right with equal passion, I'm very fair that way.