2016 American Presidential Campaign
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treezy z
Bluelighter
Looks about right.
^ you seem almost proud of your ignorance. is that the case and, if so, why?
alasdair
that would be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't so appallingly sad. his answer to most policy questions seems to be "yeah, we're going to take a look at that" and when he does get specific, his answers are, moreso than any other candidate, likely to be riddled with lies.
alasdair
GenericMind
Bluelighter
At this point shit like this doesn't even surprise me anymore.
http://www.denverpost.com/election/...ocrats-admit-mistake-that-cost-bernie-sanders
http://www.denverpost.com/election/...ocrats-admit-mistake-that-cost-bernie-sanders
Bardeaux
Bluelight Crew
Source? Trump is immensely unpopular among the general population. Every mock poll I've seen shows both Democratic candidates handily defeating Trump by a landslide. Why do you think the RNC is pushing so hard for Cruz?
Isn't this sort of what Trump does whenever anyone at all is looking at him, though? I'm not so sure he doesn't rant about Mexicans while he's brushing his teeth.
Just A Guy
Bluelight Crew
Start a thread about it?
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I think people overestimate the amount of Trump supporters simply because they tend to be louder, ruder, more obnoxious, in your face, and hard to ignore.
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Funny - that was the point of that post, but i somehow neglected to include that sentence!
Suppose that means it's up to me.
Just A Guy
Bluelight Crew
treezy z
Bluelighter
You know why I'm proud? I lift weights, eat meat, I'm a good shot, I'm good at building shit, working with my hands, I don't drink much but I'll drink anyone under the table. If you took a hit off my bizarre cigarettes you'd end up in an institution.
I look at all these Sanders ralleys and I see the dregs with funny hair colors, weaklings, degenerates, etc.
All these credentialist control freak leftists like to hold up their gender studies/sociology/erotic gay Cuban literature studies degrees like Moses carved them out of rock and claim to be of higher intelligence because they are able to parrot their indoctrination without needing to ever think independently.
Look I'm bigger, stronger, smarter, and more cunning than y'all. European leftists on here I can't believe you'd rather let your women and children be raped daily than be called a bad name.
Call me racist, xenophobic, sexist, all those Frankfurt words. I'm all that shit, it has me laughing for hours in a shed in the woods. But no one in this thread has counter arguments for me, you just dismiss them. I don't care and I'm not convinced.
nobody on here is saying that. you're just making shit up.
yeah, you're the best. i'm not sure who you're trying harder to convince - us or yourself.
and plenty of people here have counter arguments. you're just not listening...
alasdair
Just A Guy
Bluelight Crew
Everyone should ask themselves what they think makes a good POTUS.
For me, it's a strong, virtuous leader who follows the rules, and believes that a government that governs least governs best.
But there is the element of politics: where one can choose to be pragmatic and strategically play the election game, using their judgment to interpret the information and vote accordingly, or to be theoretically pure, and vote according to principle without regard to the election game.
Being a reasonable person, with a greater understanding of the status quo, I find it difficult to vote conscientiously knowing that most people won't, and that's the crux.
Ideally, I'd vote libertarian, and would expect most self-reliant individualistic citizens to vote for a candidate who espouses a classical-liberal platform, but because most people won't, and elections are won by votes through the filter of the electoral college (which has been infected by party corruption), I'm supporting Ted Cruz, who is the best candidate who I think has a decent chance. I see it as the difference between electing the lesser evil or voting for a candidate who is more than likely to lose, and I don't want to end up with a greater evil.
It's a shitty situation.
For the record, I've voted in every presidential election I've been permitted to, and voted conscientiously, as a matter of principle, without regard to the election game, and my chosen candidate has never won.
I'd love to know how the rest of you see things, and what you think makes a good POTUS?
For me, it's a strong, virtuous leader who follows the rules, and believes that a government that governs least governs best.
But there is the element of politics: where one can choose to be pragmatic and strategically play the election game, using their judgment to interpret the information and vote accordingly, or to be theoretically pure, and vote according to principle without regard to the election game.
Being a reasonable person, with a greater understanding of the status quo, I find it difficult to vote conscientiously knowing that most people won't, and that's the crux.
Ideally, I'd vote libertarian, and would expect most self-reliant individualistic citizens to vote for a candidate who espouses a classical-liberal platform, but because most people won't, and elections are won by votes through the filter of the electoral college (which has been infected by party corruption), I'm supporting Ted Cruz, who is the best candidate who I think has a decent chance. I see it as the difference between electing the lesser evil or voting for a candidate who is more than likely to lose, and I don't want to end up with a greater evil.
It's a shitty situation.
For the record, I've voted in every presidential election I've been permitted to, and voted conscientiously, as a matter of principle, without regard to the election game, and my chosen candidate has never won.
I'd love to know how the rest of you see things, and what you think makes a good POTUS?
regardless of political affiliation, i think a president should:
be smart
be principled
be a great communicator
have integrity
be honest
be strong
be hard-working
be able to see the big picture and the little picture
be humble
know his own weaknesses and staff accordingly
be selfless
alasdair
be smart
be principled
be a great communicator
have integrity
be honest
be strong
be hard-working
be able to see the big picture and the little picture
be humble
know his own weaknesses and staff accordingly
be selfless
alasdair
Phil.McKeer
Bluelighter
So, let me get this straight. You're better and smarter than all of us (oops I forgot "bigger" and "stronger") because you exercise, eat meat, and are a blue-collar laborer?
Nice argument, dude. Noam Chomsky should be taking notes on you and your lifestyle. Maybe if he follows a couple pointers from you he can be a leading scholar and prominent political scientist one day...oh...wait a sec...what happened there?
Good luck with your jock/douchebag/know-nothing-and-proud, unwitting corporatist shill thing you have going there.
Just A Guy
Bluelight Crew
Reminds me of what I know about former President John F. Kennedy. Wish I'd been alive during his presidency.
But then...
as with all human beings... he had his faults.
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Shimmer.Fade
Bluelighter
You are just the right kind of person to decide who should run our country lol. What a brute. Treezy Z, would you even know if a trap was there waiting for you in your woods?
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Shimmer.Fade
Bluelighter
yep. Hence "know his own weaknesses and staff accordingly"
alasdair
That is a hard thing indeed. My life has gotten 10x easier ever since I admitted to what I suck at, and let other people do it.
treezy z
Bluelighter
The shed in the woods thing was me gettin hype as fuck I don't even know where that's from I live in an apartment in a city near Boston (aka the Belly of the Beast)
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