Holy Shit.
I know thereâs bell curve and all that, but whereâs the upper half to balance out this crazy?
I feel like I can barely tell the GOP candidates apart anymore (except for Trump, who was already famous). Theyâre just this heaving mass of bizarre, non-factual statements. Maybe itâs because I absolutely refuse to believe that Trump can really get the nomination and thereâs no other clear candidate.
How hard do the Republican candidates have to be avoiding looking reasonable to not look like a reasonable alternative to Trump?
To borrow from Terry Pratchett,
Some people exist merely to prove there is such a thing as the extreme ends of the bell curve.
Oh they have gerrymandered themselves into such safe districts of frothing at the mouth base voters that barring an internal revolt of the party it is very possible he could get the nomination.
Part of me is all pass the popcorn as this train wreck will be fun to watch and another part of me is why does this train wreck have to happen in my country?
Actually, some people exist just to remind us that over 40% of people agree with them. Sorry if you thought humanity was better than this. That we havenât had a repeat of the holocaust is just an accident, it canât be attributed to our good natures or our knowledge of history.
Man. Making Jeb Bush sound like rational, decent person has got to be the worldâs worst superpower.
Right? As much as I enjoy the comedic relief of el trump, the rational side of my brain is screaming that jeb had better get the nomination. He is a major asshat, but he isnât stupid and evil.
Oh no I donât, part of me thinks we can be⌠One of my favorite podcasts is Dan Carlinâs Hardcore History and he pulls no punches on the crazy brutal stuff humans have done to each other in the past and I always come away thinking we are still not that far away from going back to that.
Trump and his ideas are clearly bad, but we shouldnât let Democrats off the hook for the policies that feed on this kind of appalling bigotry. With the millions of people who have been killed by the U.S. while Democrats and Republicans share power, Democrats are certainly more polite about it, and sometimes provide more nuanced rationale, but that doesnât make them much different when it comes to the final results. Trumpâs rhetoric is especially inflammatory and easy to identify, but the stick-and-carrot routine carried on by the Democratic Party, âgraveyard of movements,â is equally insidious.
âHe is a major asshat, but he isnât stupid and evil.â
Câmon youâve gotta give me stupid.
Well, if nothing else, itâs good to have a unadulterated look under the hood of the American Id, lest we become lulled into believing there isnât a shit-ton of work to be done.
O. K. Mr. Trump, since you askedâŚ
Yes. Yes it is.
No. I know.
I just want to believe that we can be better than this. Also: maybe (just maybe) instead of repeating the exact same mistakes weâve made before we can try making all-new and exciting mistakes. Just for a change.
That would be the Democratic Party.
Letâs meet in the middle and agree to use âfact and reality challengedâ 
Those 40% sound dangerous to me. Can you not track them in a database? There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. You should have a lot of systems.
Is this guy actually trolling the U.S. people? Maybe it is a bet?
