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Author Topic: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée  (Read 1582475 times)

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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17265 on: May 04, 2016, 06:16:38 am »

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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17266 on: May 04, 2016, 06:38:35 am »

Sanders has been polling well against Trump since pretty much forever. I'm fairly certain he has more actual vote than Trump too, although granted the Dem field wasn't as fractured.
 
So now, Trump's tweets aren't against Lyin' Ted, they're directed at Crooked Hillary. Seems like his new strategy is to convince as many Sanders supporters as possible that the system is rigged and to give up on Clinton.
He's got a point.
And on the off-chance that the strategy does work, I can't see the American public choosing Bernie "Not-actually-socialist-but-still-derided-as-socialist" Sanders over Trump.

Not really. Sure, some factors (superdelegates being the most prominent one) favour Hillary over Bernie, but that's not the reason Hillary is winning. She is winning because more people have been voting for her than for Bernie.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17267 on: May 04, 2016, 06:44:03 am »

Not really. Sure, some factors (superdelegates being the most prominent one) favour Hillary over Bernie, but that's not the reason Hillary is winning. She is winning because more people have been voting for her than for Bernie.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17268 on: May 04, 2016, 06:54:09 am »

Not really. Sure, some factors (superdelegates being the most prominent one) favour Hillary over Bernie, but that's not the reason Hillary is winning. She is winning because more people have been voting for her than for Bernie.

Democracy that doesn't give one the result one wants is no democracy a sensible and civic-minded citizen should want to be part of. Someone needs to perform a revolution and then make sure that in the new system the government counts only all the correct votes.

The government could even institute contact courses at our new political education initiatives for making sure you always vote correctly (providing verbal and physical incentive) so as to further true democracy. And then incentivize correct voting with such things as reprieves from citizen relocation programs (to Alabama or Texas, for instance, where there ought to be much room for extra population after the new government addresses their political education with the firmness we would expect from a true democratic system).
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17269 on: May 04, 2016, 07:15:11 am »

I still have no idea how Shillary McCoinsGoClinkton has support.

You are the sort of person who says things like "Shillary McCoinsGoClinkton".  It's very easy to understand why a person like you might be grossly ignorant as to the opinions of people who dont share your narrow world view.
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« Reply #17270 on: May 04, 2016, 07:26:49 am »

Wow, republican establishment jerks got rolled over by Trump. So your election system actually works?
What are the odds of Sanders getting ahead of Clinton?
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« Reply #17271 on: May 04, 2016, 07:28:29 am »

Near-zero at this point. He's down to trying to convince the superdelegates to switch allegiance, which seems... unlikely.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17272 on: May 04, 2016, 07:29:55 am »

Whatever the odds of are of a tape showing Hillary laughing about how she got away with Bengazi getting leaked are.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17273 on: May 04, 2016, 07:30:54 am »

Trump film studios are already hard at work on that tape.  And it's going to be a fabulous tape.  The woman they have to play Clinton is so much better then Clinton.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17274 on: May 04, 2016, 07:34:40 am »

I still have no idea how Shillary McCoinsGoClinkton has support.
You are the sort of person who says things like "Shillary McCoinsGoClinkton".  It's very easy to understand why a person like you might be grossly ignorant as to the opinions of people who dont share your narrow world view.
People with senses of humour?

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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17275 on: May 04, 2016, 07:43:09 am »

If by "sense of humor" you mean "making the same stupid comment for the millionth time and thinking it's clever" yeah.  People who would rather do that then take in new information aren't going to learn a real fucking lot about those with a different point of view.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17276 on: May 04, 2016, 07:45:33 am »

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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17277 on: May 04, 2016, 07:59:15 am »

I still have no idea how Shillary McCoinsGoClinkton has support.
You are the sort of person who says things like "Shillary McCoinsGoClinkton".  It's very easy to understand why a person like you might be grossly ignorant as to the opinions of people who dont share your narrow world view.
People with senses of humour?
No, satire is dead and everyone is secretly coming up with silly nicknames to reinforce the mystique of their real choices as much as possible. Hilly Flinton, Bummy Sandy Bumsters, Dolan Tramples, Tom Cruise, Sir Kellogs. The more esoteric and confusing the slurs against them become, the more politically 'nuanced' their platform becomes, and that's the person that wins. Cruz was hanging by a thread with the Zodiac Killer thing, but that got ruined by his wife. Kasich's name is confusing enough on its own to carry his vote so far, but Drumpf is the clear establishment winner. Meanwhile Shillary has been made a peacock in comparison to Bernthestablishment Sandhillcranes. Just solved politics, everyone can go home.
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Re: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée
« Reply #17278 on: May 04, 2016, 08:01:30 am »

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