You have to remember back when it was made

Lords were the landowners

It changed sense then

When they were made yes, certainly

But it's so outdated now

So in essence that was what our senate and house were

That makes sense

Senate were the lords (state representation)

House of reps the house of commons(?)

To think, if we'd just given you guys a devolved parliament we'd have avoided the messes we're both in

Commons is a joke too

Ehhhhh

We had our independence streak right from the get go

I know - I was being facetious haha

Yea it would have happened anyways

Maximize Liberty
Minimize Authority
Decentralize Everything

Taxes were such a small part of it

Americans were more against the soldier lodging and other repressions. Tea tax was a minor part

Ironically right after the revolutioj tea was the only thing taxed

Rum taxes were a bigger issue, IIRC

But commons, commons is bollocks. The Members of Parliament are elected to represent their constituency, but instead are forced to follow party lines by the Whips or get nowhere in politics

There's no room for free thought or democracy

@Fitzydog rum wasnt as big an import

Don't forget the Whiskey Rebellion

Also, after you guys decided to make tea by putting the water in first we couldn't forgive you

There are rumours you microwave water for tea

Whiskey rebellion was 1791

I don't, that's just heretical

Yea i dont either

But I do use common teabags like a pleb

But also tea kettles arnt common here

I drink coffee like a Chad

Even the electric ones

@Agamemnon's Death Mask that's why the monarch needs to flex their authority <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

Teabags were invented accidentally

Tea bags were invented to piss off the brits

They were initially portion sized tea leaves

So like the word "Aluminum"?

Just don't

loooooool

It's worse because aluminum is technically more correct

Because that word changed 3 times

After the second americans said fuck it

Yup. You got aluminum right but colour has a u dammit

Cull-oo-er?

HOLY SHIT 33%

These variations in spelling exist because of differences between American English and British English. Color is the spelling used in the United States. Colour is used in other English-speaking countries. The word color has its roots (unsurprisingly) in the Latin word color.

Has a U, Australians also agree

Ours is closer to the root word

COH-LOO-UURR

Also @galesteppes the monarch flexing authority sounds good, but Charles is next in line...

Its not our

Its or

cull-hour?

I still don't get your spelling of "mum"

I thought it goes to his son

@Silver0Fox Mom?

Why do you put an O in it

Maahhhmmm

Mum

The dropping of the u was primarily down to the Collins dictionary wanting to differentiate the US from the UK

Still weird

Mum is a shortened of ma'am, itself a shortening of madame

tbh, most of the British accent was developed AFTER the war

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1059968930163445760

Debatable

Look it up and weep

Also define British accent

If you don't pronounce the h in hour or honor, what the fuck should you pronounce the h in herb ?

Because I don't sound like any fucker north of the Watford gap and I'll fight you over that

Northern england accent is the true accent of the british people. Change my mind.

My great aunt is called Honor, and we pronounce the H in her name

@Agamemnon's Death Mask all i heard was cockney trash accent

Devon is actually closer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_British_English

I'm a mix between rp and estuary personally

because it's HERB with an E not an O try and pronoun honour with the H and you will see what I mean

Also american english is far more influenced by german (which was actually more prodomenent in early ameriva)

And over time by other languages

British english had more from french, indian and others

Sort of explains why the Danes have an American-esque accent when speaking english maybe

But shrugged off most the influences

Yea the only reason the us doesnt have a national language is if the forfathers had put it to vote it would have most likely been german

So they avoided it

Up to 42%? Hooooooly-

Those Californians aren't going to have a blue wave to surf

watch, they'll say they were right all along

Yo wtf mitt Romney is running for us senate

It shows how wrong they were showing

This will be an interesting ride at the very least

They get closer so they can say they were acccurate

@Cosmic yea he maxed governor term limit for utah iirc

cenk uygur: "if this candidate doesn't get elected it shows just how racist the country really is"

He's also a semi popular Mormon

@Deleted User TYT also has Ana "I'm fucking better than you" Kasperian, so I'm not surprised

God I hate cities. They always fuck us over

i really think people living in cities is a bad idea, we arent built for it

uh oh

Still to early

They are counting 2 seats flipped at like 4% counting

Styx calling systemic polling bias in Florida

HERE WE ARE BOYS

@everyone get in here you cucks

@JDM_WAAAT I'M HYPE

MAGA

Relax faggot

everyone spam

u wot

A REPUBLICAN MIGHT WIN THE GOVERNORSHIP IN CONNECTICUT @JDM_WAAAT

Who's winning the elections so far?

MAGA

the fuck is this?

gay

Ima buy a maga hat if republicans hold the house

<:pepeping:466401908811235329>

Woooooooot

<:pepeping:466401908811235329>

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Alright, I'm here. Heard the GOP might retain control after all.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1059943113886593027

OH SHIT I NEED TO GO PUT MY HAT ON

WOOOOOT

GET MAGA HYPE

I'LL BE RIGHT BACK

this is gonna be a shitshow

JMD what site is that?

the fuck you want

He voted

TAKE MY POWER

Why are we here?

<:covfefe:440543908846632980>

To suffer?

Who the hell knows?

This election is not something I need during NNN.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Oh god

BOYS

Any sites doing live cverage graphs at the moment? I need to see the salt.

Fuck it, Boris Johnson is a US citizen - UK PM and US president at the same time when?

I'VE DONNED THE MAGA HAT

you will involuntarily nut @meratrix

I have no dog in these election things, so I'll just look at what the results are later XP

@Constellation 538

RED TSUNAMI

@Agamemnon's Death Mask He renounced Citizenship

https://www.foxnews.com/midterms-2018

Of the UK? Or is that just wishful thinking?

@Werlf take pic of hat

muh balls

@Agamemnon's Death Mask U.S

take pic of balls

I heard it's quite hard to renounce US citizenship

Nice

Guys

I'm a Boris fan and I accept he'd be an awful PM

yeee i cn see muh balls in the pic

I'm keeping it on tonight

It’s 2016 all over again

Boris cant ix his hair? How can he fix the country?

THESE NUMBERS
7777

chuckle

The night is still young we don't wanna celebrate too early

@Trebjonn Hasn't stopped Trump

Then again, he runs on
`` M E M E M A G I C``

@Trebjonn Teresa May can't lead a waltz let alone a country

@Legiondude I bet trump can purchuse something better than hair

i personally want the red wave, though right now i live in SF so if they loose i may start to fear for my safety soon, they already had essentially a city wide riot when patriot prayer planned to come to SF. they are extremely sore losers with politics

@KounterStrike you too huh?

so are we actually seeing a red wave or is this all hype?

I used to live in sj

no

And let me tell you, there were some sweet sweet tears after 2016

I don't even know what to say about UK politics, it's such a mess I don't know where to begin. Can't even get the swines in parliament to back up something as basic and common sense as free speech.

@JDM_WAAAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-e5MrVbVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbnLuv5H41Y

@A Psyker Knight Pilot I'd keep my toes above the hype, but realistically the Republicans stand to gain some in the Senate and contest the House as much as possible. With some of these litmus test races like in Florida and Indiana, it leans towards the Blue Wave being defused. Now whether a resurgent Red Wave picks up the slack, or if it just nullifies out the Blue Wave remains to be seen

ah thanks mate

some seem like 50/50 tho

We need to decide the best theme song for this election!

I humbly propose "BAIT" - Jonathan Young

@Silver0Fox NO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzExFrZ9vX4

What sorta sucks is I identify as libertarian, but ended up voting mostly republican.

Surfing USA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WShCN-AYHqA And photoshop some heads

Libertarian candidates just suck.

@Trebjonn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgDibw7vB4

/r/politics on suicide watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFjE5A4UAJI

@Werlf Dont you see them getting crushed by the blue wae?

@umatbru Alot of immigrants on the east side of the state

<:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

In the Senate Rick Scott is winning by 0.5

https://www.foxnews.com/midterms-2018 Why is New Mexico blue despite Rcih having 51% of the vote compared to heinirch's 33%?

lol Axios Dropped one of the 3 'flipped seats'

YESSSS GO FLORIDA

@umatbru votes are only 4% in

Everyone called it to soon

Shadilay!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWWgNmbVjIc&list=PLVV4_eRUyhKYGKpPrGxB5jwjiMkdGki9S

He's kept a 1% lead since 50% of votes in

Yeah, most elections have too few votes in.

Florida needs 0.5% or less to recount, if that 1% margin remains, it's officially red this election cycle

XD

Styx says less than 50%, I state 80% or less don't matter

RCP claiming 90% of florida votes in

does anyone have a link to a map which is updating in real time?

It's gonna be 55R-45D and 219R-216D

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-midterm-election-results

MAGA

@Silver0Fox https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/live_results/2018/house/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/live_results/2018/senate/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/live_results/2018/governor/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4xAB_-J74

Give them your energy boys

wuh oh

People in Hartford and Bridgeport do not deserve a vote because they leech off the rest of us. Change my mind

Holy crap

Is the trump election happening all over again?

don't hold your breath

In the house at least

lets not blow our load

Good point

I am already

@Cosmic I don't need to change it

Change what

most pollsters were predicting over an 80% chance of democrat house win

Ned leads by 0.4

Now it's about 56%

Who else in the /pol/ sticky

ALSO

WHO THE FUCK DECLARED NJ WON BY MENENDEZ

I thought 8 years of Malloy would have taught these city dwellers something

HE'S TWO POINTS AHEAD WITH 35% OF THE VOTE

counted

lmao

@JDM_WAAAT IF CT REPUBLICAN WINS GOVERNOR

I WILL WEAR MY MAGA HAT TO CIVICS TOMORROW AND GET FLAMED BY MY COMMIE TEACH

Tbh a divided congress might be best.