PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Jim Logajan on December 21, 2016, 01:18:53 AM
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(https://i.sli.mg/4tG354.png)
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The map originates from this site, which also has one called "Trumpland":
http://www.vividmaps.com/2016/12/trumpland-and-clinton-archipelago.html (http://www.vividmaps.com/2016/12/trumpland-and-clinton-archipelago.html)
P.S. Help - we are stranded on Lane Island. Send help soon. If you can't send help, at least send a case of Scotch.
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Why are there two St. Louis Islands? It is an interesting map.
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Those maps are a hoot, Jim!
Laphroaig or Famous Grouse?
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Given the layout of those islands, you'd think the liberals would want global warming to flood the rest of the US.
(yes, even this dumb engineer knows the elevation of the clinton islands and the non-islands)
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Those maps are a hoot, Jim!
Laphroaig or Famous Grouse?
Famous Grouse will do. My wife gets to drink more of it than I do because my alcohol nazi rheumatologist has said "no alcohol for you!" Something about a medication I take stressing my liver and alcohol simply adds to the stress.
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Pretty clever! Was fun to browse!
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Posted the link to the two maps to my FB wall today, a shit storm soon erupted. That back and forth was actually civilized until one guy had to start throwing four letter words at someone.
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Whining Hilary Supporters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVlHZh5dvbA
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Posted the link to the two maps to my FB wall today, a shit storm soon erupted. That back and forth was actually civilized until one guy had to start throwing four letter words at someone.
I don't post any political on FB. Nothing at all, don't reply to anything, don't LIKE anything. No matter WHAT I posted I would piss off half my friends and nobody would change their mind.
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I don't post any political on FB. Nothing at all, don't reply to anything, don't LIKE anything. No matter WHAT I posted I would piss off half my friends and nobody would change their mind.
I'm pretending facebook doesn't exist. Feels pretty good, really.
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I don't post any political on FB. Nothing at all, don't reply to anything, don't LIKE anything. No matter WHAT I posted I would piss off half my friends and nobody would change their mind.
I got into some political discussions on FB this election because I have a couple of young nieces who were voting for the first time and were being brainwashed by the zomghegrabbedpussy hysteria and needed some facts and history filled in before they lost all grasp on reality and threw their vote to the "deserving vagina". They were undecided and I had influence and that was the platform. But it was under protest - I have grown to HATE Facebook. The only reason I haven't deactivated my account is because some people I care about use Facebook to post updates about themselves (like their progress fighting cancer).
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Something I've been thinking about. People vote. Land area doesn't vote.
I don't mean to suggest that land area holds no importance. On the contrary; the US is a country, not just a people. A country, in fact, of several states, which hold significant power -- by design -- just by virtue of being a state, which by definition is not just a people but an area. But huge metro areas, for example, hold a lot of people, power, money, influence. And those people, as not-insignificant parts of the incredible whole that we call our nation, deserve due consideration.
Before ya'll go and get your panties in a wad, I'm not in favor of abolishing the EC. I just want to make the point that there is more to consider than land area.
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Of course there is. And a smart politician must analyze why those places vote the way they do and understand them. They want, mostly, the same things everyone else wants, but they have been sold a bill of goods on how to obtain it. It looks like a long, arduous process of education, deprogramming, and opportunity but it is imperative to begin. THESE LADIES (http://www.diamondandsilkinc.com/) have the right idea and need support, and we need a lot more of them. And we need to deliver more than the empty promises they have gotten for 50 years.
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Something I've been thinking about. People vote. Land area doesn't vote.
I don't mean to suggest that land area holds no importance. On the contrary; the US is a country, not just a people. A country, in fact, of several states, which hold significant power -- by design -- just by virtue of being a state, which by definition is not just a people but an area. But huge metro areas, for example, hold a lot of people, power, money, influence. And those people, as not-insignificant parts of the incredible whole that we call our nation, deserve due consideration.
Before ya'll go and get your panties in a wad, I'm not in favor of abolishing the EC. I just want to make the point that there is more to consider than land area.
Don't worry, you are getting your way. Metro areas control entire states now. The Trump victory was a miracle, and maybe the last time we see a Republican Presidency. For whatever reason, when people are congregated in, and around big cities they become brain dead politically. The Electoral College can not combat the voting blocks in NYC, L.A., Chicago, Philly, Boston, San Fran, Denver.........etc. These cities (and many more), and their surrounding suburbs vote SOLID DEMOCRAT.
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Don't worry, you are getting your way. Metro areas control entire states now. The Trump victory was a miracle, and maybe the last time we see a Republican Presidency. For whatever reason, when people are congregated in, and around big cities they become brain dead politically. The Electoral College can not combat the voting blocks in NYC, L.A., Chicago, Philly, Boston, San Fran, Denver.........etc. These cities (and many more), and their surrounding suburbs vote SOLID DEMOCRAT.
Hence why the progressive liberals want to abolish the EC. This would guarantee them presidential elections.
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Hence why the progressive liberals want to abolish the EC. This would guarantee them presidential elections.
Yes, they want to abolish the EC, but they don't have to. We are becoming a progressive/communist country. Maybe Trump will change that, but I doubt it. When NY, CA, WA, IL, NJ, and the coasts rule me, bad things will happen.
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popular vote, electoral college, doesn't really matter.
What we need is leadership from someone is honest and can inspire the population (two characteristics completely lacking from the democrats this past election).
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Something I've been thinking about. People vote. Land area doesn't vote.
I don't mean to suggest that land area holds no importance. On the contrary; the US is a country, not just a people. A country, in fact, of several states, which hold significant power -- by design -- just by virtue of being a state, which by definition is not just a people but an area. But huge metro areas, for example, hold a lot of people, power, money, influence. And those people, as not-insignificant parts of the incredible whole that we call our nation, deserve due consideration.
Before ya'll go and get your panties in a wad, I'm not in favor of abolishing the EC. I just want to make the point that there is more to consider than land area.
While I agree that the EC is a good way of ensuring that a few large cities don't dictate our politics to the whole rest of the country, I would not mind opening up a discussion on the subject. If sufficient people decided to change the process, well, that is how we do things.
What pisses me off is when the pantywaist liberals cry and moan about how unfair it is and want to contest the election based on the fact that lost, after the fact when the EC has been in effect for our whole history. They act like it is something new.
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Saw a picture of two Slate headlines. One was 2012 and Was about how important the EC was. The other was from 2016 And lamented how the popular vote is important. I'll look for it later.
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Saw a picture of two Slate headlines. One was 2012 and Was about how important the EC was. The other was from 2016 And lamented how the popular vote is important. I'll look for it later.
Slate=Alt Left Radical. No surprise there.