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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 10:15 AM Jan 2017

Will President Obama be the last real US President

Will the fake President Trump, who did not really win, stay in office past his time? Will all future elections be hacked and counts flipped? Do we realize President Obama might be the last officially elected US President?

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Will President Obama be the last real US President (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2017 OP
Once Der Trumpf45* proclaims himself Feuhrer for Life, it's all over.... lastlib Jan 2017 #1
President Pence is the one I worry about. gordianot Jan 2017 #2
But will the US ever have truly free and fair elections again? UCmeNdc Jan 2017 #4
Elections will be held as to free that depends on who counts the votes. gordianot Jan 2017 #6
It is likely that by 2020 we will have had elections abolished. libtodeath Jan 2017 #3
Why abolish the process when you can control it and use it as your propaganda aid? UCmeNdc Jan 2017 #5
Yup. Why stop elections when he badly wants to meet or exceed Putin's 89% of the vote? hedda_foil Jan 2017 #18
The Republicans have been practicing voter suppression and fraud for the past Cal33 Jan 2017 #29
It would not surprise me... Snackshack Jan 2017 #13
No. We will have another real President this month. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #7
State and electoral boards were hacked this election along with DNC... NOT JUST EMAILS.... why would uponit7771 Jan 2017 #10
We are going to gain seats in '18 if we play this right. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #11
That makes no rational sense, no logical sense... If they hacked in 16 they'll hack in 18 and nothin uponit7771 Jan 2017 #12
When did I say they wouldn't hack? NCTraveler Jan 2017 #15
OK... then ... why work a strategy they can defeat sitting down? thx in advance, I'm just a.. uponit7771 Jan 2017 #16
Election interference from other governments isn't as new as some are making it out to be. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #17
Election involvement is new especially at this level, that's a fact not in dipsute uponit7771 Jan 2017 #22
It is not new in any way at all. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #23
Do you have any proof of US state and local boards being hacked and the DNC being hacked by uponit7771 Jan 2017 #24
Wow have you limited what is allowed in the discussion. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #25
Yeah, the rest of what's filtered out has been used by the RW to intimate Americans should accept uponit7771 Jan 2017 #28
But we must recognize that our election processes are flawed and must be corrected by the next UCmeNdc Jan 2017 #33
Yes. Unless the American people take back this country - making it clear they will be ungovernable ElementaryPenguin Jan 2017 #8
++++++++ YES !!!+++++++ Why would the KGOP allow another US president in office after uponit7771 Jan 2017 #9
So all the doomsday Republicans who insisted President Obama would be the last US President.... Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2017 #14
No. onenote Jan 2017 #19
Well the thread is stated in a very blunt manner to drive the point home. UCmeNdc Jan 2017 #21
Wish I would have followed your lead. nt. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #26
No. Maybe, likely nothing new. No. jmg257 Jan 2017 #20
Baba Ganga Prediction? HockeyMom Jan 2017 #27
I think you mean Baba Vanga. onenote Jan 2017 #30
Yes, Thank you HockeyMom Jan 2017 #32
No and it's just as silly as those people who said Obama would do the same mythology Jan 2017 #31

lastlib

(23,167 posts)
1. Once Der Trumpf45* proclaims himself Feuhrer for Life, it's all over....
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 10:22 AM
Jan 2017

So, yes, Obama is the last..... . . .

gordianot

(15,234 posts)
2. President Pence is the one I worry about.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 10:23 AM
Jan 2017

Donald Trump is seriously ill and will be removed in time what comes after?

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
4. But will the US ever have truly free and fair elections again?
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 10:28 AM
Jan 2017

If you use that as a standard, 2012 was the last free and fair election in the US. Going forward who ever controls the election counting computers control the results. Plus add in a propaganda disinformation operation, no more freedom!

gordianot

(15,234 posts)
6. Elections will be held as to free that depends on who counts the votes.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 10:55 AM
Jan 2017

I would not trust anyone in the United States to monitor votes

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
5. Why abolish the process when you can control it and use it as your propaganda aid?
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 10:31 AM
Jan 2017

In the future Trump and his kind will just fake the counting process. President Obama was the last real President.

hedda_foil

(16,371 posts)
18. Yup. Why stop elections when he badly wants to meet or exceed Putin's 89% of the vote?
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:47 PM
Jan 2017

His ego demands it and his handlers and flunkies will make it happen. At least in my opinion.

 

Cal33

(7,018 posts)
29. The Republicans have been practicing voter suppression and fraud for the past
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 02:14 PM
Jan 2017

4 decades, and the Democrats have been putting up, at most, a wishy-washy
protest -- if any protest at all. This present stronger protest on their part seems
to be something new. Does it have to take a Donald Trump to wake Democrats up?

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
13. It would not surprise me...
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 11:53 AM
Jan 2017

If the idea of abolishing elections was at the very least floated if not implemented.

Up until a few months ago I would have said "No, it would never happen". That even the people who voted for him would be against it given that elections are one of the fundamental freedoms that even his base hold sacred...

However after watching one of trumps rallies prior to the election where trump was spitballing at the podium saying "why are we even having an election, just make me president, why even have it" and hearing the crowd cheer the idea the possibility of the elections being abolished suddenly became very real.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
7. No. We will have another real President this month.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 11:01 AM
Jan 2017

Then another in four years. Then another four years after that.

Other countries will continue to attempt to "hack" our elections moving forward. They have in the past and will continue to do so moving forward. Why wouldn't they? It's not like we are or should be above the same tactics.

Even with all of the messed up stuff we were extremely close to winning. We must win two years years. Fair elections must be our priority. I'm not done fighting. Not even close. Next set of elections are right around the corner. Many of us are already working on them. Literally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2018

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
10. State and electoral boards were hacked this election along with DNC... NOT JUST EMAILS.... why would
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 11:24 AM
Jan 2017

... any despot want free and fair elections going foward?!!?

I'm no undersrtanding what dems think we're going to gain in 18!?!

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
11. We are going to gain seats in '18 if we play this right.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 11:37 AM
Jan 2017

I'm not sure why you think Trump is going to carry the day. Even with the help of his buddies. One of my biggest concerns is that he isn't tied as tightly to the Republican Party as I want. We have no despot. Not even close. That is hyperbole that takes your whole thought into fantasy land. I don't get why you are even concerned if you truly believe what you are writing. What's the point if it's over? Some of us aren't done fighting. When did I say those entities weren't hacked?

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
12. That makes no rational sense, no logical sense... If they hacked in 16 they'll hack in 18 and nothin
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 11:46 AM
Jan 2017

... nothing in your response outlined how to keep them from doing such !!

I'm thinking most don't see the extent of the treason here by Benedict Donald

If a person can take money from your locked house once that person is going to keep taking money from your locked house if all the consequence they get is mean names and police reports.

What about that is ambiguous?!!?

Time now to do some strange shit... not "work" a strategy that makes no sense to work when they have hacked elections up and down the output line !!!

Help me out here

thx in advance

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
16. OK... then ... why work a strategy they can defeat sitting down? thx in advance, I'm just a..
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:34 PM
Jan 2017

... lil frustrated these days after the report.

I held out that it wasn't that bad.. I was seriously disappointed when I read they hacked state and local level electoral boards in some states ... that means they got access to data... the level of effect from that access is irrelevant ...

It means they can get into state level data... most likely red state level data but that's just my opinon.

just really disappointed at the relative non response of MoC.... they should be doin some strange shit right now... not just trying to fight battles that are lost before any actions are taken.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
17. Election interference from other governments isn't as new as some are making it out to be.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:37 PM
Jan 2017

It should be expected. We should also expect them to pay a price. That's the missing element. Dirty little secret. We do it as well.

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
24. Do you have any proof of US state and local boards being hacked and the DNC being hacked by
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:43 PM
Jan 2017

... foreign actors and foreign actors openly advocating for a candidate with hacked data?

Of course I'm not talking about any of these things happening other countries cause the premise of that intimation is irrelevant to the point of whether or not we should tolerate it in the US.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
25. Wow have you limited what is allowed in the discussion.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:52 PM
Jan 2017

It's not possible to discuss openly under such constraints. It makes no sense discussing under such constraints. I'm amazed at how little is known when it comes to other governments interfering in our elections and us in theirs.

Have at it playing the constraint game. Just not worth it. We have literally ended democracies and installed monarchs thinking they would be more favorable to us. That takes a hack any day of the week. But noooo.......

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
28. Yeah, the rest of what's filtered out has been used by the RW to intimate Americans should accept
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 02:10 PM
Jan 2017

... high level involvement by foreign actors in US elections proffered by another country.

I do think we have a duty to say fuck that; we shouldn't have to accept involvement by foreign actors in anyway including moving the conversation on to shotgun tactics aren't going to work when the other team has a tank.

Right?!

tia

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
33. But we must recognize that our election processes are flawed and must be corrected by the next
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 04:39 PM
Jan 2017

election.

ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
8. Yes. Unless the American people take back this country - making it clear they will be ungovernable
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 11:10 AM
Jan 2017

In a non-democratic form of government!! If our generation just packs it in a plays peasant - you can kiss American democracy goodbye - it will go the way of the dinosaur - just as Russia's brief democracy got disappeared by Trump's partner Pootie.

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
9. ++++++++ YES !!!+++++++ Why would the KGOP allow another US president in office after
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 11:22 AM
Jan 2017

... Russia hacked this election?!!?

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,155 posts)
14. So all the doomsday Republicans who insisted President Obama would be the last US President....
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:11 PM
Jan 2017

....will in a Twilight Zone twist of irony, be correct.

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
21. Well the thread is stated in a very blunt manner to drive the point home.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:17 PM
Jan 2017

The elections are not free and fair if the votes cannot be accurately recounted in a transparent manner. Trump can or cannot be the actual president since the vote cannot be accurately recounted. The Russians did do something with the US election computers but the US will not pursue the matter.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
27. Baba Ganga Prediction?
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 02:00 PM
Jan 2017

She was a blind Balkan Psychic who died in 1996 and predicted that the 44th US President would be an African American and that he would be the last US President.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
31. No and it's just as silly as those people who said Obama would do the same
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 03:09 PM
Jan 2017

Hopefully the people who are agreeing with this will have the intellectual honesty to own up to this foolishness in the future.

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