Am Mi, 7. Dez 2022, um 11:55, schrieb John Clark: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 3:53 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *> If you can nail the man for one thing, anything, go for it! I think he, >> because of the Ye-Ye scandal, and his Constitution claim, he may be truly, >> gut shot for 2024,* > > I also think Trump's presidential ambitions may be gut shot but what the hell > do I know, in early 2020 I thought Trump was just comic relief and the > American people would never be stupid enough to vote for the man. I was right > about that but unfortunately the American people don't have the right to > decide who will be their Commander In Chief, only the 528 elite members of > the electoral college have that right, and they *were* stupid enough to vote > for Trump. >
I was under the impression that electoral college members are not free to vote on whomever they like, that they must vote for the candidate that won in their state. And I do believe that it is what all of them did, otherwise I wouldn't say that the US are an actual democracy. If I am indeed correct, then you are complaining about a distortion caused by your particular flavor of representative democracy. However, I know of no representative democracy without similar distortions. Do you? Telmo >> > so be happy! On the other hand, back on Nov 9th, a democratic party >> > strategist said: *"If DeSantis can beat Trump in the primaries, there is >> > no democrat that can beat De Santis".* > > For reasons that elude me De Santis just won a very impressive reelection for > governor so now I also think no Democrat can beat him, but there is a > republican that can, Donald Trump. Regardless of who ends up winning the > Republican primaries they are going to be brutal, and Trump has no loyalty to > the Republican party or to anything else; so if Trump can't beat DeSantis in > the primaries he'll do everything in his power to beat him in the general > election and make sure he never gets to sit in the oval office, because by > that time he'll hate DeSantis much more than he hates whatever Democrat ends > up being the next president. And yes, I am very happy about that. > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > mgv > > 7vs > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3gcgzB8rKChc-MspmFEcdFGPc4A-%2BskJ%2BaWRdZo6yscQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3gcgzB8rKChc-MspmFEcdFGPc4A-%2BskJ%2BaWRdZo6yscQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/401c9175-f7a4-4eb9-b913-cd637e5cd22a%40app.fastmail.com.
