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Philippe Negrin Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 8:13am | IP Logged | 1
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A wierd question occurred to me. Lots of American voters not wanting a second Trump term said they were prepared to move to another country if he won. I can easily imagine these would be Canada, Australia, countries in Europe, etc. But what of Trump supporters ? What country would they move to if they wanted to escape Dem-run USA ?
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John Byrne
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 8:19am | IP Logged | 2
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A wierd question occurred to me. Lots of American voters not wanting a second Trump term said they were prepared to move to another country if he won. I can easily imagine these would be Canada, Australia, countries in Europe, etc. But what of Trump supporters ? What country would they move to if they wanted to escape Dem-run USA ?•• There's something of an embargo on Americans in most countries, at the moment. I was asked if I would go "back" to Canada if Trump won a second term, and I said it wasn't really an option. (Or something I would want to do!)
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John Byrne
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 8:58am | IP Logged | 3
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And now, my mean joke:Joe Biden... our time, waiting for Kamala.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 9:43am | IP Logged | 4
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It occurs to me that our national diversity is at least partially represented in the names of our former president and soon-to-be veep. Barak? Kamala? What would the Founding Fathers have said? Best perhaps that we can never know!(I'm reminded of when Lola Falana had a summer show on one of the networks. She introduced herself, saying her name meant "Debbie".)
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 9:52am | IP Logged | 5
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You're not the first one to say that "joke", JB. And it may well be right.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 9:54am | IP Logged | 6
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You're not the first one to say that "joke", JB.•• You don't know when I first said it! :)
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 10:18am | IP Logged | 7
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Heh. True
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Eric Ladd Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 August 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 4506
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 10:19am | IP Logged | 8
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Speaking of the line of succession, is there anything preventing Joe from resigning the Presidency to Kamala a week after being sworn in? I don't think so, but it got me thinking about winning the election with one person and handing the Presidency to another. I don't think America could have elected Kamala Harris as President over Trump and it isn't a stretch to think Joe Biden was the best choice because he could actually win over Trump. But there is a "to do" list a mile long for America to put things right nationally and internationally as well as plugging all the holes to prevent the abuse of US political tradition that isn't explicitly written down as law. I could be wrong, but the four years of damage done to US politics might take more than four years to set right so a younger President might need to be in office.
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Paul Gibney Byrne Robotics Member.
Joined: 17 April 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1070
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 10:28am | IP Logged | 9
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You seem to think a President has to actually do all the work. He will have a team to make these changes and Kamala is a big part of that team. All he really needs to do is sign off on that. Kamala can follow up with two terms of her own.
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James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 10:30am | IP Logged | 10
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The U.K. regularly changes leader between elections - Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron & Teresa May all lost their positions between elections.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 10:35am | IP Logged | 11
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What seems like only a few years ago, Morgan Freeman played the President in a disaster movie called DEEP IMPACT (1998). This was before Barak Obama, and my joke at the time was that the true science fiction of the piece was imagining a Black president any time soon. Who knew?Now, we see the prospect of a Black WOMAN president. C'mon, America! Make it happen!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 10:38am | IP Logged | 12
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The U.K. regularly changes leader between elections - Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron & Teresa May all lost their positions between elections.•• The advantage of a parliamentary system, where the PM is the head of the party in power, not a separate entity unto him/herself. I have often said the US would benefit from such a system.
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