Who should be the next president?

[Skull]

A new candidate has emerged

http://wjla.com/news/political/deez-nuts-for-president-independent-candidate-has-strong-showing-in-polls

Deez Nuts is a stupid joke and an insult to the American Election. Really, if the person don't fit the criteria to be president then they shouldn't run for president.


PS... I'm still trying to find out where in the construction does it say that anchor babies are legal. The 14th amendment was created because several states (after the civil war) didn't want the slaves to be citizens.

The 14th Amendment says:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

***Please note it says: and subject to the jurisdiction thereof that doesn't mean anybody can sneak into the border and drop a baby and it becomes a citizen of the USA.***


What does this have to do with Deez Nuts... simple, where does it say that a 15 year old can run for president?

I swear the BIG PROBLEM with our constitution is that too many people are making s**t up and not too many people know the whole story. WE ARE SO SCREWED BECAUSE 9% OF THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR JOKE!

[indianasmith]

I think it was an 1898 Supreme Court case that provided the official interpretation of the 14th Amendment which created "birthright citizenship" for all children born in the USA.

As for Deez Nuts, that IS a joke.  He would not be permitted to serve if somehow elected because the Constitution does have rather specific rules about certain qualifications for office, and one of those is a minimum age of 35 years.

[lester1/2jr]

Deez Nuts is the only candidate that speaks for me 

[Alex]

In a seperate discussion the wife mentioned to me that North Korea has semi declared was on South Korea today. I told her that as the last really colourful dictator left on now the other ones like Sadam, the Marcos's, Ghadaffi and so on were gone from the world stage he had to stay in the headlines somehow to make up for them. Her reply mentioned that if Trump wins he'll have to share the headlines and it'd be hard to tell which one was the crazier.

From my own more outsider point of view, he is looking like one of the politicians in the UK, Nigel Farrage who is mostly there for comedic relief.

[Skull]

I think it was an 1898 Supreme Court case that provided the official interpretation of the 14th Amendment which created "birthright citizenship" for all children born in the USA.

As for Deez Nuts, that IS a joke.  He would not be permitted to serve if somehow elected because the Constitution does have rather specific rules about certain qualifications for office, and one of those is a minimum age of 35 years.

Please note that the 1898 Supreme Court ruling was based on Legal Aliens... So far we DONT have a Supreme Court ruling based on ILLEGAL aliens. (There is a BIG difference between Legal and Illegal - I'm so sick how people keep lumping the Illegal aliens with the Legal aliens.)


The person needs to be "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" for it to work.


I do think its sad and scary that people are going to vote for Deez Nuts.

[lester1/2jr]

I think it's healthy. this election is total bs and people see it. it's all spectacle no substance. It's like American Idol while out country is 18T in debt

[Skull]

I think it's healthy. this election is total bs and people see it. it's all spectacle no substance. It's like American Idol while out country is 18T in debt

I'm not sure about the American Idol argument.

I wasn't planning on voting for Trump (Trump was nowhere in my mind) but the guy took a stand (he said Illegal Aliens need to go) and 90% of the American people seemed to call him racist. Trump kept his stand for weeks and then numbers of people calling him racist seemed to drop. Then one day -  Kathryn Steinle was murdered by an Illegal Alien. The worst part of Kathryn's story is - if the government did their job she would still be alive.

It's sad that somebody was murdered to prove how dangerous this Illegal Alien problem is... but nobody is calling Trump a racist.

My vote is leaning towards Trump right now. I might go back to Scott Walker (but he needs to start calling out Obama).

I guess I don't see this all spectacle no substance part and I think this election is too important for wasted votes like Deez Nuts.

[bob]

So Deez Nuts is a 15 year old kid.

[lester1/2jr]

I will not be voting this time around. that's my vote: I hate the whole tone and focus of the election

[Skull]

I will not be voting this time around. that's my vote: I hate the whole tone and focus of the election

Sorry to hear that... The election is still months away...

So Deez Nuts is a 15 year old kid.

Yes he is... If we didn't have the age requirement... I might vote for him. :)

[Rev. Powell]

Linderbutt McCubbins is my nephew's friend's cat: http://www.limberbutt2016.com/

[lester1/2jr]

Skull- well, I also live in Massachusetts which will not under any circumstances ever go red so it doesn't matter if I vote. We haven't had a candidate campaign here in about a thousand years due to electoral college system.

[ER]

If I could ask the candidates one question, my question would be, "If you are elected, may I please have a million dollars?"

But my second question would be, "What will you do to stop voter fraud?"

That's an under-reported issue that's more widespread and damaging than is realized. At least it is where I live in the state that supposedly swings all national elections.

I have yet to hear an argument against everyone voting the same day, and after you vote your finger would be marked with ink. (Except perhaps in extreme circumstances that would apply to much than 1% of the people, military on special missions, whatever.)

It's harder to get a library card in Ohio than it is to vote. In 2008, as I said in here at the time, a Cincinnati Enquirer investigation made front page news when it showed there were more registered voters in Hamilton County, Ohio than there were people living there under the census data. (And remember, most people don't even bother to vote to begin with to give you an idea of how much fraud that represented.)

A random sampling of registration info was finding addresses given that if real would have been in the middle of the Ohio River.

One inner city church was found to have baskets of pre-marked ballots stacked in its sanctuary, ready to deliver on election day.

A Cincinnati-area poll worker admitted right to news reporters (and thankfully was later convicted and jailed) that she cast votes all day she sat there, and stubbornly said she'd done it for years, so what?

And on top of all that, now we have at least 41,000,000 foreign citizens trespassing in this country, many of whom are participating in the democratic process right now, and could easily swing the next election.

So my point is, what Americans want may not be reflected in the results of the next election, and that to me one of the most important and yet least often addressed issues we face. In other words, rarely has the electoral process in modern America been less fair, more threatened, or really had less meaning.

So who should be the next President? Is it actually entirely up to us?

[HappyGilmore]

Bad Lip Reading, Republican Debate Edition:
http://youtu.be/ufGlBv8Z3NU

[lester1/2jr]