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Re: Election 2016

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Bernie: 16
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Trump: 4
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Green Habit wrote:Big, if true.

Is it?
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Simple Torture wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
Biff Pocoroba wrote:Trump closed his speech with "God bless you and good night."
It was his only reference to God.
One positive thing I have noticed about Trump is that he wasn't making routine God-pandering comments like most politicians do. So suffice to say that disappointed me a tad.
It's obvious that he's not very religious, but the few moments where he's tried to develop Christian-cred have been hilarious. Remember when he said the Bible was his favorite book, but then couldn't name his favorite verse. "I don't want to get into specifics" is actually something he said.

I try as hard as I can to really avoid listening to the nonsense of this election cycle and just listen to economic news/world news etc.... but the fact that he can pretty much say anything and people will rationalize it away is kind of new and weird to my political landscape. It's fairly amazing. He's pretty much reading from Ron Burgandy's teleprompter and selling used cars.

On the Hillary side... I mean, I can't think of a less trustworthy less likeable person in politics. It's kind of interesting that really either one can seemingly go around, do anything, say virtually anything and there is no recourse. No matter what these two people are going to have big fans.

Pandering I guess is pretty easy. If you don't actually have any real convictions it's easy to manufacture them when you need to in politics I guess
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If the republicans have any sense, they'll throw this election.
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BurtReynolds wrote:If the republicans have any sense, they'll throw this election.
I gotta believe this is what they actually are attempting?
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Strat wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:If the republicans have any sense, they'll throw this election.
I gotta believe this is what they actually are attempting?
Yep. I'm like 80% sure. Throw this election and try to secure congress again in a couple of year. Maintain gridlock until the next round.
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Electromatic wrote:On the Hillary side... I mean, I can't think of a less trustworthy less likeable person in politics. It's kind of interesting that really either one can seemingly go around, do anything, say virtually anything and there is no recourse. No matter what these two people are going to have big fans.
Stuff like this blows my mind. The fact that people can still try to imply that there's some sort of moral or political equivalence between Clinton and Trump really is amazing.
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bart wrote:
Electromatic wrote:On the Hillary side... I mean, I can't think of a less trustworthy less likeable person in politics. It's kind of interesting that really either one can seemingly go around, do anything, say virtually anything and there is no recourse. No matter what these two people are going to have big fans.
Stuff like this blows my mind. The fact that people can still try to imply that there's some sort of moral or political equivalence between Clinton and Trump really is amazing.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
bart wrote:
Electromatic wrote:On the Hillary side... I mean, I can't think of a less trustworthy less likeable person in politics. It's kind of interesting that really either one can seemingly go around, do anything, say virtually anything and there is no recourse. No matter what these two people are going to have big fans.
Stuff like this blows my mind. The fact that people can still try to imply that there's some sort of moral or political equivalence between Clinton and Trump really is amazing.
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Bernie 17
Hillary 5
Trump 3
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Can someone explain the significance of endorsements to me? Does it actually make any tangible difference? I can't imagine the public gives a shit, or even notices.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Can someone explain the significance of endorsements to me? Does it actually make any tangible difference? I can't imagine the public gives a shit, or even notices.
You didn't buy that curved TV after Michael Bay endorsed it?
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Simple Torture wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Can someone explain the significance of endorsements to me? Does it actually make any tangible difference? I can't imagine the public gives a shit, or even notices.
You didn't buy that curved TV after Michael Bay endorsed it?
I already wanted one of those, but now I REALLY want one.
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If Pearl Jam message boards existed in 2000 I'd love to have found out how many users supported Nader because Ed did.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Can someone explain the significance of endorsements to me? Does it actually make any tangible difference? I can't imagine the public gives a shit, or even notices.
You didn't buy that curved TV after Michael Bay endorsed it?
I already wanted one of those, but now I REALLY want one.
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Green Habit wrote:If Pearl Jam message boards existed in 2000 I'd love to have found out how many users supported Nader because Ed did.
Pearl Jam message boards absolutely existed in 2000.
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Yeah, I've seen that. It's weird; I can't tell what happened. I feel bad for him.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Green Habit wrote:If Pearl Jam message boards existed in 2000 I'd love to have found out how many users supported Nader because Ed did.
Pearl Jam message boards absolutely existed in 2000.
Then let me amend that to "boards that still exist today" to do research. That shit cached somewhere online?
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Can someone explain the significance of endorsements to me? Does it actually make any tangible difference? I can't imagine the public gives a shit, or even notices.
You didn't buy that curved TV after Michael Bay endorsed it?
I already wanted one of those, but now I REALLY want one.
I thought you thought those TVs were stupid and pointless. :?
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Re: Election 2016

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Hillary: 3
Trump: 2
Bernie: 8
Gary Johnson: 2
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