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Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:13 am
by psychic vampire.
Mudfuzz wrote:
I am not going to be happy if I have to vote for that Hillary dude… might be a good time to actually support something different… maybe...
Non-heirarchical communal living.
Hunter-Gatherer tribes.
Move to Norway.
Spontaneous evolution into sentient gas.
Walk into the ocean and hope for the best.
Pray that Monsanto doesn't drive edible plant life extinct and artificial intelligence is benevolent and well-programmed.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:19 am
by decomposing
psychic vampire. wrote:Mudfuzz wrote:
I am not going to be happy if I have to vote for that Hillary dude… might be a good time to actually support something different… maybe...
Non-heirarchical communal living.
Hunter-Gatherer tribes.
Move to Norway.
Spontaneous evolution into sentient gas.
Walk into the ocean and hope for the best.
Pray that Monsanto doesn't drive edible plant life extinct and artificial intelligence is benevolent and well-programmed.
yes pretty much this
I'm hoping for the best while spontaneous.ly trying to combust
while dogs roam the street...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOvk-dNLRY[/youtube]
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:21 am
by Iommic Pope
Chankgeez wrote:
I think the extent of my "enthusiasm" is starting a thread about US politics on an internet forum dedicated mostly to guitar effects.
I really need to remember when I post that what I think is dripping sarcasm and razor wit is actually lost in the medium of text and comes off as douchery and/or stupidity.
Sorry, man.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:22 am
by Iommic Pope
Shrinebuilder for Architects Chieftain of the Planet Terria.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:29 am
by Mudfuzz
psychic vampire. wrote:Mudfuzz wrote:
I am not going to be happy if I have to vote for that Hillary dude… might be a good time to actually support something different… maybe...
Non-heirarchical communal living.
Hunter-Gatherer tribes.
Move to Norway.
Spontaneous evolution into sentient gas.
Walk into the ocean and hope for the best.
Pray that Monsanto doesn't drive edible plant life extinct and artificial intelligence is benevolent and well-programmed.
really, stop tempting me!!!!
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:31 am
by decomposing
Iommic Pope wrote:Shrinebuilder for Architects Chieftain of the Planet Terria.
we can only hope
breathing deep breaths
and trying to survive in this wasteland
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvm1AE1b2n8[/youtube]
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:37 am
by snipelfritz
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/tr ... itarianism
Interesting research based article about political science and Trump's appeal.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 6:03 am
by backwardsvoyager
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:29 am
by untilshewokeme
Well its looking like its that time again for some good ol' fashion party realignment. The GOP couldn't control or stop Trump and now, while its not a total runaway, after yesterday he is more than likely going to be the nominee. Everyone in the Republican committee doesn't want this so now they are going to have to strategize where the party is going to go now.
Its sad that the egos of the GOP couldn't just come together and instead of having 4 people against Trump, have 1 or 2 much earlier on to fight him. Katich and Carson should have dropped out of the race after South Carolina but they are both such complete idiots they decided to stay in. I hope at least today they announce they are going to suspend their campaigns or they are even bigger idiots than I originally stated.
At this point in time I would rather have Cruz as president if it means Trump isn't president, and that is saying A LOT. I don't think Hilary is perfect but I like her over Trump and Cruz. Lesser of the evils sort of thing.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:45 am
by Iommic Pope
And so the tapestry of modern politics unwinds itself again; who sucks less?
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:49 am
by snipelfritz
Kasich has already said he's holding out until Ohio (but dropping out if he loses there).
Who the hell knows what Carson is doing? I don't even think he does.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:54 am
by SecretMachine
what i really don't understand is how the other republican nominee's have let Trump get so far.
SERIOUSLY, there's SO much ammunition to use against him, even without taking into account all the dumb stuff he's said so far.
they need to beat him at his own game, but sadly it seems too little too late.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:27 am
by oscillateur
Isn't Cruz almost worse than Drumpf ? I mean, Drumpf's a terrible, volatile opportunist and is full of shit and hideous opinions but he seems to be mostly winging it and is more stream of consciousness than "true believer". He's very much like Berlusconi. Super bad but more because he has no morals or proper values rather than because he's pure evil. Cruz, on the other hand, seems to be a proper right wing extremist. Anyway, both are horrible.
I hoped you guys (speaking of all the Americans here) would get your shit together and nominate Sanders but you might have fucked that one chance of having a decent president that would have made the rest of the world look at you with a new form of respect...
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:46 am
by D.o.S.
oscillateur wrote:I hoped you guys (speaking of all the Americans here) would get your shit together and nominate Sanders but you might have fucked that one chance of having a decent president that would have made the rest of the world look at you with a new form of respect...
That doesn't sound like making America great to me. Does it sound like that to you, Cleetus?
I thought Matt Taiibi did a tremendous job of summing up the Trump/GOP phenomenon a week or so ago:
What these tweedy Buckleyites at places like the Review don't get is that most people don't give a damn about "conservative principles." Yes, millions of people responded to that rhetoric for years. But that wasn't because of the principle itself, but because it was always coupled with the more effective politics of resentment: Big-government liberals are to blame for your problems.
Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame. For a generation, conservative intellectuals have successfully pointed the finger at big-government-loving, whale-hugging liberals as the culprits behind American decline.
But the fact that lots of voters hated the Clintons, Sean Penn, the Dixie Chicks and whomever else, did not, ever, mean that they believed in the principle of Detroit carmakers being able to costlessly move American jobs overseas by the thousands.
"We've got to do something to bring jobs back," says one Trump supporter in Plymouth, when asked why tariffs are suddenly a good idea.
Cheryl Donlon says she heard the tariff message loud and clear and she's fine with it, despite the fact that it clashes with traditional conservatism.
"We need someone who is just going to look at what's best for us," she says.
I mention that Trump's plan is virtually identical to Dick Gephardt's idea from way back in the 1988 Democratic presidential race, to fight the Korean Hyundai import wave with retaliatory tariffs.
Donlon says she didn't like that idea then.
Why not?
"I didn't like him," she says.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... e-20160224
QED. This is where the Tea Party, the Paul family bro-libertarian bullshit, and all the other obstructionist nonsense gets us. It doesn't encourage people to think, it encourages the dipshits that the government is bad and Donald Trump is good because he is not part of the government.
Re: Does it even really make a difference who the next POTUS
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:14 am
by Chankgeez
Iommic Pope wrote:Chankgeez wrote: I think the extent of my "enthusiasm" is starting a thread about US politics on an internet forum dedicated mostly to guitar effects.
I really need to remember when I post that what I think is dripping sarcasm and razor wit is actually lost in the medium of text and comes off as douchery and/or stupidity.
Sorry, man.
Nah, I understood you wer joking, but it was more like that post was "attempting to leak sarcasm".
Yeah, you need to up your internet comedy game.
