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Originally Posted by dobbles
OK, we'll keep going with this I guess!
The original post was that Trump spoke about giving the people the country back. Turd pointed out that he had lost the popular vote. Then he got jumped on.
To me, the initial observation by Turd was spot on. Saying a phrase like 'giving the people the country back' implies that he got elected to make changes that the majority want. However in this case, he was elected by the minority. So it was funny.
Regardless of my qualms with Trump and his awfulness as a human being, in this case, the beef is actually with the electoral college. It is antiquated and should be abolished immediately.
I guess the shortest way to say it is that I think Trump lacks the mandate to make statements like the original one quoted. He lacks that mandate because he won only because the electoral college is stupid. That doesn't imply that he shouldn't be president, just that the rules to become president are broken.
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That was my thinking. I wasn't commenting about the election process, just that it made me laugh a bit when I heard him talking about giving the power back to the people, the majority of which didn't vote to have him make that decision anyway.