2016 US Presidential Election Thread 2 - Always Darkest before Don

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Other than the hardcore ones, everyone else seems to vote out of cynicism. I mean Trump would've been likable in some ways if he hadn't been so flawed as well. Looks like another hopeless presidency if Hillary gets elected.
 
Dynastia said:
He says as he votes for a bigger welfare state. :story:
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It's even funnier, because in this dystopian future there would be countless millions stuck on welfare unable to pay into the system, while the assholes in Washington cut the super rich's taxes to the point where there would be just enough for these poor motherfuckers to subsist on, but little else.

What a truly progressive and wonderful society.
 
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Lorento said:
Well, if Expats are voting for Trump, that might be an ominous sign for Clinton and the Democrats back on home soil. But as I say, I reckon its far too close to call at the moment.
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They're a tiny enough portion of the population that it really doesn't matter. And those who are consistent expats often are wealthy enough that they aren't the democrat's traditional base anyways. Well, for this cycle. I fully expect that the 1% will be the Democratic party's core base by 2020, if Clinton winds up winning.
 
Ass Manager 3000 said:
@An Ounce of Vagina seriously?
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Ruin said:
To his credit he does tend to stand by his statements regardless of how stupid they are.
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Pikimon said:
Yeah but that is a pretty exceptional stupid thought, it's like denying the existence of gravity. We have proof that Saudi Arabia isn't democratic and even describes itself as an absolute monarchy with the Quran as its Constitution.
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He claimed Putin is a dictator and that saudi arabia has more freedom than fucking russia on the previous thread.
Yeah he fully believes Saudi arabia is more democratic than russia :stress:
 
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Why not just develop the rural areas with new jobs in developing fields, provide educational and job training opportunities and also ensure that they have a safety net to fall back on, just in case things go bad for them.

I mean shit, people in rural areas still comprise 37.3% (or 19.3% depending on the measure of study) of the population and we can't just forget about them for the sake of some cold unfeeling sense of "progress".
 
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Absolutego said:
If Sanders ran 3rd party he'd have a worse reputation amongst the people he'd need to convert than Nader. He'd be such a persona-non-grata amongst Democrat partisans that he'd never get anywhere. These are people who still blame Nader for 2000 despite 200,000 Democrats voting Bush over Gore in Florida.
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308,000 in fact.

I have no illusions that the Democrats would be pleased with seeing Sanders as a third party contender--or anyone else for that matter. Sanders would be reviled if he had run as a third party candidate.

After all, the Democrats are still sore over Nader because they refuse to come to terms with the fact that it was defections within their own party that led to Gore's loss. Rather than accept that they may have had a slightly weak sales pitch with Al Bore, they've resolved to pout for the bigger part of two decades and just scream that third parties are a "wasted" vote.

This contempt for competition does cast a shadow over Democrats' talk of "inclusiveness" in voting.
 
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If you're into conspiracies or other weird things, the new Timewave graph indicates a continued drop in habit (orthodoxy and things remaining the same), which gives moderate support to a Trump victory. The continued graph shows a downward trend in habit until April 2017.
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Hey, maybe both Clintons will get their ticket to Hell sooner then they think.
 
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Kazami Yuuka said:
If you're into conspiracies or other weird things, the new Timewave graph indicates a continued drop in habit (orthodoxy and things remaining the same), which gives moderate support to a Trump victory. The continued graph shows a downward trend in habit until April 2017.
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Hey, maybe both Clintons will get their ticket to Hell sooner then they think.
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Isn't this that thing that Terence McKenna said would destroy the world in 2012?
 
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Kazami Yuuka said:
If you're into conspiracies or other weird things, the new Timewave graph indicates a continued drop in habit (orthodoxy and things remaining the same), which gives moderate support to a Trump victory. The continued graph shows a downward trend in habit until April 2017.
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Hey, maybe both Clintons will get their ticket to Hell sooner then they think.
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Nobody else can make much sense of this election, might as well consult the i ching.
 
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KatsuKitty said:
I heard about it on Art Bell 20 years ago. It's BS. Although I'd probably estimate that guess is just as good as HuffPo's.
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Even the Young Turks were laughing about the Huffpo statistical analysis.
 
Pikimon said:
Why not just develop the rural areas with new jobs in developing fields, provide educational and job training opportunities and also ensure that they have a safety net to fall back on, just in case things go bad for them.

I mean shit, people in rural areas still comprise 37.3% (or 19.3% depending on the measure of study) of the population and we can't just forget about them for the sake of some cold unfeeling sense of "progress".
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Part of the problem is that the "replacement economy" from both parties (i.e. transition the entire country to a service economy) only works in urban and sub-urban areas. No rural community can support a service economy on the 1-2 big stores they have in their zip code.

DC Beltway insiders will happily forget that fact as they court lobbyist money and positive press because, by and large, there is no big organization fighting for rural communities. Even Big Agro companies like Monsanto would staff their fields with robots over employing rural folk if they could get away with it.

Rural communities are in the same predicament as 4th amendment advocates - because there's little moneyed interest in their cause, they may as well be invisible to most politicians. At least until a brick gets thrown through their window.

EDIT: When did we start filtering M O N S A N T O?
 
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Absolutego said:
Honestly surprised expats are going for Trump in any manner, since they largely want globalist presidents who are internationally popular like Obama and Clinton, not candidates unpopular abroad like Trump. I know several former expats who are voting Clinton to stop Trump chiefly because "he's an international embarrassment".
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Well they know through having it done themselves that building a wall and not importing terrorists is a good idea so not a surprise to me
 
The Great Chandler said:
Other than the hardcore ones, everyone else seems to vote out of cynicism. I mean Trump would've been likable in some ways if he hadn't been so flawed as well. Looks like another hopeless presidency if Hillary gets elected.
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Presidencies need more than hope and happy speeches--we've seen that in the past years.

Hope is one notch above performing a rain dance.
 
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