Oh Dear Riots In Oregon......

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37946231
Can someone tell these eejits that democracy means that occasionally you don't get your own way.

[scowie]

When whole swathes of people have their votes taken away and hackable voting machines are used with no possible way of auditing the result, it's not democracy...

http://www.gregpalast.com/democracy-now-theyre-stealing-ohio-vote-machines-audit-function-disabled-worse/

[EDDIE51]

Tamborine the outgoing President never 'intervenes ' unless it is vital.
It is a long standing principle. An outgoing President is a 'lame duck' in political terms!

[-Talbot-]

How very remiss of you EDDIE ... 3 posts and no condemnation of the knuckle-dragging morons.



I can just imagine your reaction E D D I E if it had been the other way round and Trump knuckle-draggers were acting like morons!

[gulliver1]

"Can someone tell these eejits" OMG pot and kettle!.

[mibn2cweus]

Yep, Trump won . . . and how?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-e-jackson-jr/the-impact-of-the-comey-u_b_12931912.html

[Khandro]

In all the pictures I have seen of these so-called 'riots' there appears to be a paucity of 'rioters', they are far outnumbered by photographers and cops. It has been widely exaggerated by the media aided by the paparazzi.
I saw a newsflash last night which said according to WikiLeaks, it was instigated and financed by George Soros, but I have no confirmation of that.

[jim360]

Even the president-elect doesn't agree with birdie!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/266038556504494082

[Khandro]

jim; ? - I fail to see your point

[jim360]

What's not to see? I was arguing about the Electoral College being undemocratic. Birdie, as you see, disagrees. But the beneficiary of the system this time said, four years ago, that it was a "disaster for a democracy", as I've argued elsewhere.

Presumably, like everything else Trump said, he'll either deny ever having said it or just forget that he did, but the point still stands.

[Khandro]

I didn't trawl through all those tweets you put up but he would say that, wouldn't he? - spoken like a true politician.

[jim360]

It should be a link to the single tweet I was referring to, rather than the thousands of other snippets of useful information he hasn't put up.

But anyway. The reason I mention it is ... well, it seems to me that Trump was running on an anti-establishment, anti-politics, anti-business as usual ticket. So the comment "spoken like a true politician" may well be true, but seems pretty damning for someone who pointedly described himself as *not* a politician.

[Jackdaw33]

It's been a quiet few weeks in the world of physics. I hope the universe isn't slowly grinding to a halt.

[jim360]

I'm sure physics will be able to cope very well in my perceived absence :/