Oh, but you already have a pretty compromised system, I think.
GasBandit
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You can join my table, I get the same treatment when I stick to my guns as a libertarian, despite living in Texas where doing so definitely hurts republican candidates.
"Bernie said Hillary isn't qualified to be president. How can the secretary of state not be qualified?"
Well, she wasn't qualified to be secretary of state, either.
Latest one of these:
“Other”
Regardless of whether one might be for or against him as a candidate, this feels like blatant, easily verifiable journalistic malpractice.
—Patrick
Again, stop pretending we're talking about 2 party politics as usual.
A guy like Trump getting elected and getting away with obvious abuses of power out in the open is how a civilization starts a slow slide into dictatorship...
You can go back to quietly waste your vote instead of actually attempting to get rid of FPTP so 3rd parties have a chance at counting for something, once the actual emolument-clause-ignoring, has-totally-not-obstructed-justice-because-his instructions-to-obstruct-where-not-followed total shit show of a president is not a threat any more.
Yeah. Dubyah was a hateful, miserable excuse for a president, but he never tried to become Emperor For Life Above The Law.
There's differences in level
Honestly it's the precedent that scares me the most. At least before we had trust that the system would expel a destructive president even if they were not brazen about it. Trump has shown a lot of people how far they can take it and even be brazen about it and not be punished. Who is to say when the next wannabe dictator comes around, what will happen?
Nikita Khrushchev said they would defeat us without firing a shot. It's happening right before our eyes. At the hands of those who consider themselves the "Real" Americans.
figmentPez
Staff member
GasBandit
Staff member
Red state white. White people in DC, NY, SF, LA, Chicago etc have been tainted and might be libtards.
I feel so seen right now...
This entire quote can be completely applied to "Americans" (according to Europeans), "Europeans" (according to Americans), "Chinese" (according to most of the rest of south-east Asia), etc.
“In the face of unprecedented challenges a change to the status quo, we need a president ruler whose vision value system was shaped by the American Heartland Traditional Conservatives rather than the ineffective Washington politics we’ve come to know and expect someone who actually represents their constituency.”
There, fixed his grammar.
—Patrick
There, fixed his grammar.
—Patrick
Dave
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Same thing happens when you give to a charity. I give regularly to Save the Children and you'd think I was a multi-billionaire or something. I get so many fucking emails and actual mail from charities. Sorry, guys, but this well is tapped.
In 2016 (and again this year) I donated to Bernie. Less than $50 each time yet holy shit do they bother me. No texts, though. I put the kibosh on that from the beginning.
Probably smart. I wonder if his are as bad as the ones I'm getting from the Trump campaign.
Dave
Staff member
Oh it's not Bernie bothering me. It's the DNC, the DLCC, etc. And yes, I get asked by republicans as well, but I wouldn't donate to a republican candidate right now. The last time I voted anything republican was Bush Sr.
Having been to the local and county caucuses in Colorado before, I can assure you that they are even dumber than you think they are.
And Trump got elected with millions of votes less than Clinton. Bad voting systems are bad voting systems.
Obviously no surprise, but, you know, this really does finish off the "we're just stuck with him but there are many good republicans out there" argument.
This really is the Germans reelecting Hitler, despite seeing and knowing what he's like.
In any non-two-party system, there'd be a decent conservative/centrist opponent.
figmentPez
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