Political Discussions for "Adults"

~~jwb~~ · 10-25-2019, 10:46 PM

I think his narcissism is going to cause him to lash out irrationally, much like Tony.

OccultHawk · 10-25-2019, 10:47 PM

Hopefully

Or hopefully not

Gen X whatevs

Chula Vista · 10-26-2019, 09:05 AM

I've just realized how happy I am that Trump got elected in 2016. We'd be missing all of this fun.

If he'd lost he'd still be plastered all over the news all the time and screaming about how he was robbed. Wait, he won and he's doing that anyway.

He'd probably have had another stupid reality TV show we'd be subject to. Wait, we kind of have that now.

He'd would have let himself go kinda like Ben Stiller in Dodgeball?

~~jwb~~ · 10-26-2019, 09:44 AM

Plus let's be real if Hillary got elected nobody would be talking about single payer, free college, UBI, etc

It was her losing to trump that made the Dems second guess the idea of sticking with middle of the road centrists as a safe bet. You have to give people a candidate they can actually get somewhat excited over.

OccultHawk · 10-26-2019, 10:20 AM

Plus Hillary would have us balls deep in Middle East bull****.

**Frownland** · 10-26-2019, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

Plus let's be real if Hillary got elected nobody would be talking about single payer, free college, UBI, etc

Anteater · 10-26-2019, 10:56 AM

It's kinda funny actually: without Trump you wouldn't have any support for Sanders and Warren in 2020. If Hillary had been elected they wouldn't even be on the ballot actually. Yang probably never would have tried running either.

~~jwb~~ · 10-26-2019, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

yea he talked about it in 2016 and it was seen as a sort of joke by the press

Now, because Hillary lost, there's been a marked shift to the left in the Democratic primaries. They wouldn't seriously entertain ideas like single payer etc. They didn't really take Bernie seriously in 2016. Now they're forced to take him more serious and adapt to his vision of the Democratic party, while also trying to avoid actually nominating Sanders himself.

**Frownland** · 10-26-2019, 11:40 AM

Tfw you think a candidate is such a joke that you feel the need to rig the primaries in favour of the centrist candidate.

~~jwb~~ · 10-26-2019, 04:49 PM

Cause he was drawing attention away from the anointed one.

Make no doubt about it... He was not going to win the nomination in 2016 regardless of how the DNC treated him. They just saw him as as spoiler candidate who would damage Clinton's momentum. Same reason they hated Jill Stein so much... Not that she had any actual chance at competing.

10-25-2019, 10:47 PM	#4062 (permalink)
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10-26-2019, 09:05 AM	#4063 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	I've just realized how happy I am that Trump got elected in 2016. We'd be missing all of this fun. If he'd lost he'd still be plastered all over the news all the time and screaming about how he was robbed. Wait, he won and he's doing that anyway. He'd probably have had another stupid reality TV show we'd be subject to. Wait, we kind of have that now. He'd would have let himself go kinda like Ben Stiller in Dodgeball? __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

10-26-2019, 10:20 AM	#4065 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Plus Hillary would have us balls deep in Middle East bull****. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

10-26-2019, 11:40 AM	#4069 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Tfw you think a candidate is such a joke that you feel the need to rig the primaries in favour of the centrist candidate. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

10-25-2019, 10:46 PM	#4061 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I think his narcissism is going to cause him to lash out irrationally, much like Tony.

10-26-2019, 09:44 AM	#4064 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Plus let's be real if Hillary got elected nobody would be talking about single payer, free college, UBI, etc It was her losing to trump that made the Dems second guess the idea of sticking with middle of the road centrists as a safe bet. You have to give people a candidate they can actually get somewhat excited over.

10-26-2019, 04:49 PM	#4070 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Cause he was drawing attention away from the anointed one. Make no doubt about it... He was not going to win the nomination in 2016 regardless of how the DNC treated him. They just saw him as as spoiler candidate who would damage Clinton's momentum. Same reason they hated Jill Stein so much... Not that she had any actual chance at competing.