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EDITORIAL: Forget ‘One Person, One Vote’

November 12, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

DONALD TRUMP may have won the required electoral college votes to win the presidency, and HILLARY CLINTON may have won the popular vote, but strictly speaking, neither of them won a majority of the REGISTERED VOTERS. That’s because 46.9% of registered voters did not vote in last Tuesday’s elections.

While pundits and netizens are now arguing that it is time to ditch the electoral college vote system in favor of a popular vote, we propose a new alternative altogether.

We are often reminded that in a Democratic system, one person gets one vote. Screw the Democratic system.

Let’s establish a new rule that if a registered voter refuses or fails to cast his or her vote in an election, that vote should be transferable to another person who takes the time to vote.

Let’s call this new system, ‘One person, one vote; possibly two.’

Any takers?

Politics

DEVELOPING: Westexit Brewing Following Trump’s Election Victory

November 11, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – Forget about Brexit or even Calexit. There’s a new exit movement brewing on the West Coast of the United States following Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president.

Western states are preparing to secede from the United States to form what is likely to be called the Western American Republic (WAR).

The movement involves Western states that voted for Hillary Clinton: California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Hawaii.

Media, Politics, Social Media

Adobo Chronicles Becomes First U.S.-based News Media To Move Out

November 11, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

SAN JOSE, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – Tens of thousands of individuals have moved or are planning to move out of the U.S. after the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president.

As previously reported by The Adobo Chronicles, Americans are moving to Canada, Europe, Australia and elsewhere to escape the next four years of the Trump presidency,

Now, The Adobo Chronicles, has announced that it is moving its U.S. headquarters (in San Jose, California) to Manila in the Philippines.

The publishers said that a government under Trump is not conducive to a safe, intelligent and politically-correct news reporting, considering the president-elect’s rhetoric and pronouncements during his campaign.

“His attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, women, the disabled, the sick, immigrants, as well as his vice president’s promise to outlaw same-sex marriage and LGBT rights do not enable us to produce news content that is authentically pleasant, respectful and truthful,” they said.`

“The Adobo Chronicles’ editors, staff reporters, photographers and iReporters belong to all the marginalized communities that Trump has belittled,” they added.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been quite pleased with The Adobo Chronicles‘ fair and accurate reporting, has offered free office space in the presidential palace (Malacañang) for this Filipino-American news outlet.

The Adobo Chronicles will maintain its news bureaus in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Berlin, and Tokyo