Rick Perry! Tom Coburn!
Yes, by all means thrown some more shitlogs into this garbage fire.
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Cruz supporters keepin it classy.
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`Merica.
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Another poll result suggesting that both parties are leaning towards picking the least electable candidate on offer.
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How about this for an electoral college result?
@codinghorror -is there a way for Discourse to display images embedded in tweets rather than just the text?
Nope, because that makes the embed variable height which screws up scrolling. We can only do fixed height embeds.
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Franken for Veep?
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This thread closed this afternoon
But this seems relevant:
(I am pretty sure a former colleague of mine whoās a bit of an activist will have been here for this, might have to see if I can find him)
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Iāve decided. Iām not voting for HRC in the general no matter what happens. Iām just tired of voting for the lesser of two evils at this point in my life. Iāve voted in every election since I was eighteen, and Iāve never been happy with the choices until now. Either the candidate and I share some fundamental values, or I donāt vote for them. It doesnāt have to be 100% overlap, and with Bernie, it isnāt. Iām only voting local if Hillary wins the nomination.
Yeah, I could theoretically vote third party. But after the hatchet job they did with Nader (āItās your fault for not being loyal to a party you donāt belong to!ā) I see no reason to discourage Americans further from voting for third parties. Iād rather smirk and watch them stand with their hands on their hips going, āWhy do we only have two parties?ā Iām not a Democrat, and I certainly donāt want to be one if that means my vote is worthless in the face of bullshit superdelegates. I owe the party no loyalty and with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz still head of the DNC, Iād actively like to see it fall apart almost as much as Iād enjoy the Republicans falling to pieces.
Does this mean I might contribute to a Trump win? In a sense. If Trump wins, my state voted for him and wasnāt going to turn blue for Hillary in a million years. It just doesnāt go to establishment Dems. The thing about Trump to remember, however, is that heās inept and doesnāt know how the government works. I expect heāll be a disaster, but that weāll survive the disaster, and heāll be a lame duck if he doesnāt get impeached first. My one fear is a confrontation between Trump and Kim Jong-Un. That situation is explosive.
Hereās what happens if Hillary wins: Nothing. Sheās not going to inspire the kind of turnout that will necessarily have downstream momentum, sheās likely going to get stuck with another obstructionist congress, and as a confirmed corporatist weāre not going to see much change from the current status quo. Meanwhile, while Trumpās damage will likely only affect the country that voted for him and maybe Mexico, Hillary was the Secretary of State under Obama. Weāre going to see a continuation of the Obama doctrine, which means weāre going to see people in countries that didnāt vote for her die. Hillaryās record as a hawk is nigh indisputable, and I see no reason that weāre going to see any kind of improvement in the disposition of various national surveillance programs. None of this is stuff I want, so I see no reason to vote for her either.
Fundamentally, I only see one candidate with any kind of agenda Iām actively interested in pursuing. Asking me if I want to eat shit or drink piss and telling me that if I donāt choose, the choice will be made for me doesnāt incentivize me to pick one. Yes, one is probably a lot worse, but no, I donāt want the other and Iām not going to reward your efforts so that you offer me the same choice four years later. Thatās not progress, itās not even incremental. Itās stagnancy, and Iām done with it. So Bernie or bust, and if you think for one second that Iām happy that thereās one choice out there for me, youāve got another thing coming.
Hereās a pretty video to counter some of the sourness and pessimism in this post.
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That videoā¦ wow.
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Kasich doesnāt like Fargo?
I knew there was something really wrong with that guy.
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I donāt think #trumpmovement sounds like a good thing.
Has Scott Baio always been an arse?
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Well, he called the women over a jezebel ālesbian shit assesā so Iām going with yep on that count.
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Sounds like Tim Canova is doing okay in his primary challenge against Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Fundraising-wise, at least. And Obama endorsing her last week suggests some nervousness.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/debbie-wasserman-schultz-primary-challenger-raises-500000/
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Interesting historical perspective on the rise of partisanship in the U.S. House of Representatives, shown visually.
Summary:
Political Polarization in the U.S. Congress has been a topic of much discussion recently. We show the party polarization of the House of Representatives through time, with a focus on which members continue to participate across party lines (such as southern Democrats from Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana cooperating with many Republican voters in the late 1990ās and 2000ās).
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I think we all missed this guy, who is running for president:
http://andy2016.com/proposals/
I found him in this interview Gawker did with Sean Young, where she says she is supporting Trump, because heās less criminal than Hillary or the Bushes:
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His whole platform is a brilliant read.
Did you guys know John McAfee (the anti-virus/shot a guy in Belize/hookers & blow guy) was running for Pres?
http://www.bealibertarian.com
I found this out because he, my hedgehog, and another hedgehogās presidential ambitions intersected on Twitter a while ago.
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