A photo of the Trump White House as rumour has it?

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  1. Bowerbird

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    https://qz.com/1182382/donald-trump...rs-finally-a-photo-as-the-rumors-describe-it/

    I think the story that goes with this is also interesting

     
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    Nobody cares!

    He's probably telling Hope Hicks to pass on a message to Chucky to go F himself.
     
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    the first president in history to stage manage his very own "I'm working here" photo op as evidence he's working hard on looking like he's working. Guess he had time on his hands since his original plan was to be basking in the glow of his adulation fest at his very own ritzy resort., counting the take,
     
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    I think the primary system is the best thing about the yanks' system. We will have endless establishment scum forever, at least the US had a decent shot at Bernie Sanders. The problem was its corruption by the Democrats, not the primary system itself.

    Since in both of our systems it's effectively impossible for anyone but the leaders of the two major parties to be elected, giving the people a direct say in who those nominees are is a good idea.

    I figure the US will be facing a Sanders presidency in 2021. It's not possible for anything like that to happen here.

    I'm also not sold on the merits of a parliamentary system over a Presidential one. The Presidential system clearly has its drawbacks, as Trump demonstrates, but it's not like we've had a flawless recent past, what with 5 PMs in 5 years and all that.

    I do however think preferential voting beats the **** out of FPTP.
     
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    The Founders wanted a government that changed hands frequently which is what the presidential system is about. Its more difficult to achieve that in a parliamentary system.

    Its part of our checks and balances.

    The nation may swing politically left and right but with the change in power it passes center each time.

    Like a pendulum on a grandfather clock.

    If we could simply replace leaders it would make that system less effective though they did add in a means to do that if absolutely necessary.
     
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    We have three year terms of office and can actually.call for elections before that. But as SP stated we also have preferential voting and that means that we have lots of little parties which sometimes end up holding the balance of power. I am not too sure your system is not too adversarial as it seems to get in its own way often
     
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    I'm a liberal.

    This photo means nothing. There are countless other narratives that you can compose to fit this photo, all of then perfectly reasonable.
     
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    Woah. Color me surprised.
     
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    Least of all Trump's Cult. They crave disaster and chaos. They are agents of chaos.
     
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    I'm a liberal.
    This photo means nothing. There are countless other narratives that you can compose to fit this photo, NONE of them reasonable. Fixed it for you.
     
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    Color me suspicious :shock:
     
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    You....I was making a point that there could be any number of benign scenarios that could produce this image and you just "fixed" what i said so that the only reasonable one is the scenario suggested in the OP.
     
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    Nope. First, you misused the term liberal. You meant leftist. And most importantly, a leftist slant is usually ridiculous. Hope this helps.
     
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    You so Funny, me forget to laugh!
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    Were is the fires, destruction, anarchy and chaos they crave so much?

    You sir Fail ;)

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    Well its worked so far for us.

    Its a winner take all system designed to shift power back and forth, it was designed that way from the bottom up.

    They specifically did not want power to be divided between many factions, in fact Madison wrote extensively about that problem.
     
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    Wrongo, O-Molono! The WH is increasingly dysfunctional.
     
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    And you know exactly what that conservation was all about?

    No, I don't think so.
     
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    Tell us what the conservation was about, please.
     
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    You tell us what the conservation was about.

    The problem is you can't.

    So, this whole thread about the photo is meaningless without context of what the damn conservation was about.

    But that doesn't stop you alt-lefties from making crap up like Micheal Wolff did in his fictional book.
     
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