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We should create a lottery system for the President

Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:18 pm
Posted by Tiger Ryno
#WoF
Member since Feb 2007
103060 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:18 pm
Every 4 years we randomly select names out of a hat from the entire citizenry to be President. I think it might work
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:19 pm to
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Every 4 years we randomly select names out of a hat from the entire citizenry to be President. I think it might work


Yeah, yoga girl would be a fantastic leader of the free world.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141905 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:22 pm to
"I'd sooner be governed by the first 500 people in the Cambridge Mass phone book than the faculty of Harvard." -- William F. Buckley
Posted by AwesomeSauce
Das Boot
Member since May 2015
7515 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:22 pm to
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Every 4 years we randomly select names out of a hat from the entire citizenry to be President. I think it might work

Revoke executive authority and cut the salary and perks to no greater than $1MM per year, and it just might work.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:26 pm to
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"I'd sooner be governed by the first 500 people in the Cambridge Mass phone book than the faculty of Harvard." -- William F. Buckley



500 people would create difference of opinion and checks and balances.

1 random dumbass from the Delta in Mississippi or some dumpster diving gutter punk from San Francisco would end the United States in less than a month.
Posted by AJN
Akers, LA
Member since Dec 2015
169 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:29 pm to
I immediately thought of the NBA draft lottery.

The state that is doing the worst gets to choose one of its citizens to become the president.
Posted by dnm3305
Member since Feb 2009
13571 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 2:55 pm to
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The state that is doing the worst gets to choose one of its citizens to become the president.


frick the NBA lottery. It is a microcosm of socialism. This country has enough of that going on.
Posted by Coon
La 56 Southbound
Member since Feb 2005
18492 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:00 pm to
Actually, the nba lottery prevents you from sucking to get the best player. So the worse you are doesn't necessarily mean the better your option. As opposed to real life where the more out of wedlock kids some
Hood rat has, the more $$$ she gets
Posted by dcrews
Houston, TX
Member since Feb 2011
30189 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:08 pm to
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The state that is doing the worst gets to choose one of its citizens to become the president.


Louisiana presidents for the rest of time
Posted by dnm3305
Member since Feb 2009
13571 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:08 pm to
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Actually, the nba lottery prevents you from sucking to get the best player. So the worse you are doesn't necessarily mean the better your option. As opposed to real life where the more out of wedlock kids some Hood rat has, the more $$$ she gets


Anything other than the better teams getting rewarded with higher picks (1st place gets first pick, 2nd place 2nd, etc) or a completely random draw where everyone has the exact same chance is the promotion of parity for the sake of financial gain.
Posted by LSU Coyote
Member since Sep 2007
53390 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:09 pm to
Trump = LeBron
Posted by Catman88
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2004
49125 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:19 pm to
Yea you don't want Bubba who loves fire crackers to have a finger on the nuclear football.
Posted by CCTider
Member since Dec 2014
24162 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:41 pm to
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The state that is doing the worst gets to choose one of its citizens to become the president.



Well, you found a scenario where the saying Thank God for Mississippi doesn't work .
Posted by FournetteForEver7
Member since Nov 2015
2295 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:47 pm to
We would still end up with Hilary. It would be rigged
Posted by Zappas Stache
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Member since Apr 2009
38686 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 3:53 pm to
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randomly select names


That would be the only way another Republican gets to be president in our lifetime.
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
35399 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 4:17 pm to
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Yea you don't want Bubba who loves fire crackers to have a finger on the nuclear football.

Can't be worse than who we have in there now.
Posted by stelly1025
Lafayette
Member since May 2012
8510 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 4:30 pm to
Posted by ForeverLSU02
Albany
Member since Jun 2007
52147 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 4:32 pm to
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Every 4 years we randomly select names out of a hat from the entire citizenry to be President.
Hasn't this been happening since Bush 1?
This post was edited on 7/19/16 at 4:39 pm
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
66982 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 4:33 pm to
I object to your...you automatically treat me like an inferior!
Arthur: Well I *am* king...
Man: Oh, king, eh, very nice. And 'ow'd you get that, eh?
(he reaches his destination and stops, dropping the cart)
By exploiting the workers! By 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma
which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.
If there's ever going to be any progress,--
Woman: Dennis! There's some lovely filth down 'ere!
(noticing Arthur) Oh! 'Ow'd'ja do?
Arthur: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, king of the Britons. Whose
castle is that?
Woman: King of the 'oo?
Arthur: King of the Britons.
Woman: 'Oo are the Britons?
Arthur: Well we all are! We are all Britons! And I am your king.
Woman: I didn't know we 'ad a king! I thought we were autonomous collective.
Man: (mad) You're fooling yourself! We're living in a dictatorship! A
self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
Woman: There you go, bringing class into it again...
Man: That's what it's all about! If only people would--
Arthur: Please, *please*, good people, I am in haste! WHO lives in that
castle?
Woman: No one lives there.
Arthur: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don't have a lord!
Arthur: (spurised) What??
Man: I *told* you! We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We're taking
turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week--
Arthur: (uninterested) Yes...
Man: But all the decisions *of* that officer 'ave to be ratified at a
special bi-weekly meeting--
Arthur: (perturbed) Yes I see!
Man: By a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs--
Arthur: (mad) Be quiet!
Man: But by a two-thirds majority, in the case of more major--
Arthur: (very angry) BE QUIET! I *order* you to be quiet!
Woman: "Order", eh, 'oo does 'e think 'e is?
Arthur: I am your king!
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you!
Arthur: You don't vote for kings!
Woman: Well 'ow'd you become king then?
(holy music up)
Arthur: The Lady of the Lake-- her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite,
held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by
divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why
I am your king!
Man: (laughingly) Listen: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some... farcical
aquatic ceremony!
Arthur: (yelling) BE QUIET!
Man: You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some
watery tart threw a sword at you!!
Arthur: (coming forward and grabbing the man) Shut *UP*!
Man: I mean, if I went 'round, saying I was an emperor, just because some
moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Arthur: (throwing the man around) Shut up, will you, SHUT UP!
Man: Aha! Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: SHUT UP!
Man: (yelling to all the other workers) Come and see the violence inherent
in the system! HELP, HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED!
Arthur: (letting go and walking away) Bloody PEASANT!
Man: Oh, what a giveaway! Did'j'hear that, did'j'hear that, eh? That's
what I'm all about! Did you see 'im repressing me? You saw it,
didn't you?!
Posted by Passing Wind
Dutchtown
Member since Apr 2015
4137 posts
Posted on 7/19/16 at 5:32 pm to
Seeing your post makes me realize...no it can't. You might end up getting a chance.
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