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Handlebars - Flobots (Trump Speculation)

I can ride my bike with no handlebars, no handlebars, no handlebars

Look at me, look at me, hands in the air like it’s good to be

Alive, and I’m a famous rapper even when the paths are all crookedy

I can show you how to do-se-do, I can show you how to scratch a record

I can take apart the remote control and I can almost put it back together

I can tie a knot in a cherry stem, I can tell you about Leif Erikson

I know all the words to De Colores, and I’m Proud To Be An American

Me and my friends saw a platypus, me and my friends made a comic book

And guess how long it took, I can do anything that I want ‘cause, look

This whole verse describes Trump’s life before becoming a businessman. Very lowkey, very peaceful, very mundane.

I can keep rhythm with no metronome, no metronome, no metronome

And I can see your face on the telephone, on the telephone, on the telephone

Look at me, look at me, just called to say that it’s good to be

Alive, in such a small world, I’m all curled up with a book to read

I can make money, open up a thrift store, I can make a living off a magazine

He can make money simply by sponsoring small businesses or having his face on the cover of a magazine.

I can design an engine 64 miles to the gallon of gasoline

I can make new antibiotics, I can make computers survive aquatic conditions

I know how to run a business, and I can make you wanna buy a product

Trump was an influential businessman throughout the 80s primarily, and so even though he wasn’t known for sales, he probably could have convinced you to buy anything. He definitely knew his way around a business.

Movers, shakers, and producers, me and my friends understand the future

I see the strings that control the system, I can do anything with no resistance, cause

Whether it’s because people are too scared to go against him or he just has that kind of respect, he finds that he’s allowed to do whatever he wants in the business world.

I can lead a nation with a microphone, with a microphone, with a microphone

Through speeches, rallies, and other forms of interacting with his community, Trump got almost half of voters to support him. Remember what I said about him being convincing?

And I can split the atom of a molecule, of a molecule, of a molecule

If gaining the presidency, Trump could have access to nuclear weapons (yes, I know that splitting an atom is atomic, not nuclear, but you get my point.)

Look at me, look at me, drivin’ and I won’t stop

And it feels so good to be alive and on top

My reach is global, my tower secure

Once having gained the presidency, Trump has global influence, but he’s safe because he has heavy security.

My cause is noble, my power is pure

Every bad guy thinks he’s the good guy. While Trump thinks he’ll make America great again, he’ll just be turning it into a fascist regime.

I can hand out a million vaccinations, or let ‘em all die in exasperation

Have ‘em all healed from their lacerations, have ‘em all killed by assassination

Trump has the power to make dynamic change to America. He can use this for good, or evil.. right now he seems to be leaning to the latter.

I can make anybody go to prison, just because I don’t like ‘em.

Must I spell it out for you? Does the name Hillary Clinton ring a bell? How about the phrase ‘Hillary for Prison 2016′?

And I can do anything with no permission, I have it all under my command ‘cause

Remember the whole thing about “grab ‘em by the pussy” and “they let you do anything”? Bam.

I can guide a missile by satellite, by satellite, by satellite

And I can hit a target through a telescope, through a telescope, through a telescope

And I can end the planet in a holocaust, in a holocaust, in a holocaust...

There’s so many ways Trump could start a holocaust, actually. Who would be the victim? Take your pick: Muslims, Mexicans, African Americans, LGBT+, name it.

#trump #flobots

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disgustingdemocrat-blog · 9 years ago

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Three Reasons To End The Outdated Electoral College

“Ah, the Electoral College: that thing that no one but Americans and Italians understand…and most of them don’t really get it either. I’m going to trust that you can do the research as to what the EC actually is on your own, and instead focus here on why it’s at best outdated and at worst tyrannical. In other words: three reasons (and I have many more) why we need to get rid of or replace the Electoral College.

1. The Electoral College increasingly does not reflect the will of the majority of American voters. Only four times in the past couple hundred years or so has the popular vote gone to the loser of the EC. Make that five. Two of which have been in the last 16 years. Before that? 1888. That’s not a good trend, especially when you consider that most recently, Clinton will have lost the EC but won the popular vote by just about a million. Let’s repeat that, it helps emphasize the absurdity. A MILLION. The plain fact of the matter is the voters have spoken…and the system has ignored them. Let’s be clear on that: the system heard them, our votes were counted–they just don’t matter. They were purposefully ignored, in favor of a system which was modeled in large part after how cardinals choose a pope. Even leaving out the inherent racism and sexism which has plagued its history, this is more than a little problematic for a democracy. And before you say it, it’s problematic for a republic or representative democracy also. Why? Because the people need to be heard in any and all of those systems. Remember what that liberal nutcase Republican Lincoln said: of the people, for the people, by the people.

2. With the Electoral College, the odds are good that your vote doesn’t really matter that much, if at all. Right now, the system is set up so that even a tiny minority wins all the EC votes. So, if there are 10 million voters in a state, and 5,000,001 vote for one candidate and 4,999,999 for the other, that tiny, tiny fraction wins all the EC votes. So if you live in a blue state and vote red, or a red state and vote blue, your vote may be counted initially, but has no value to the system. Even if you live in a swing state but end up losing the vote…all for naught. That’s fundamentally broken for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being it promotes voter apathy. Why vote if the odds are very, very, very good that the system will not value your vote? Right now there are about a dozen states that are “swing” or close enough to matter. That leaves about 38 that don’t, and that’s not a good ratio. So that means almost 80% of states have voters that have no effect on the presidential election. The argument that the EC keeps candidates from concentrating on only a few states is clearly undercut by this same notion. When was the last time a candidate spent a significant amount of time in Vermont or Oklahoma? Or Texas? California?

3. The Electoral College values land over people. Ever see those maps which show the counties won by candidates, and notice how much more land is covered in one color? That’s because people in general increasingly live in cities. The EC, however, gives people who live in big spaces a disproportionate vote. That map, in essence, is saying that how much land you own or live on is more important than the fact that you are an American and your vote should count. California gets one electoral vote per 700k people, give or take. Wyoming gets one per 200k. Texas: one per 700k. Vermont: one per 200k. This isn’t a liberal versus conservative issue. It’s an issue of whether we think people are more important than land. I don’t live in a city. I like to live out in the woods. But how could I, in good conscience, insist that because I do, my vote should mean more than someone who lives in an urban area?”

Bill Stratton [guest writer and all-around good guy]

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