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« Reply #36975 on: May 26, 2020, 01:18:31 pm »

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« Reply #36976 on: May 26, 2020, 01:26:55 pm »

If you're going to vote, why not vote for someone good? Other than what Salmongod said, which is probably the actual answer.

There are other political parties who exist, and the number of votes they get does matter, because large amount of taxpayer money is given to political parties.


I'd say it's a tossup - Trump has proven you can win an election no matter how loud you say the quiet part, and Biden has proven you can win an election by doing nothing.

I don't know he's done nothing. He just keeps it hidden, to keep people from criticizing him.
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« Reply #36977 on: May 26, 2020, 06:20:49 pm »

Trump trying to postpone the election, is, again, a hilarious outcome: he gets Uncle Phil'D the fuck out when his term expires, the presidency devolves to the next available and qualified officeholder. Most likely the president pro tempore of the senate, possibly the speaker of the house.

Someone as charming and motivating as Obama, with all the evil devious bullshit knowledge of how to buttfuck democracy you could find if you for some awful reason combined McConnell and Cheney, the cooperation of a supermajority in both chambers of congress, plus something like 67% of state governors/congresses MIGHT be able to push through something as extreme as a mere extension to three terms, OR finagle a way to remain in office until a delayed election can be held assuming they started early enough and any court challenges were defeated early enough.

Trump and the party of nope? Hah! While it is causing unfuckingbelievable amounts of damage long term, the only thing someone as blatantly evil as McConnell has been able to do--despite briefly having had control of the house, senate, and presidency--is push through conservative justices by the truckload.

There are lots of laws they'd like to pass, tax changes they lust after, and much more but they managed to get in their own way the first time they tried, barely squeaked out anything the second time, and it took a global pandemic for them to manage to sneak anything else through in the rush.

There's a reason they've started pushing for this ridiculous idea that the government doesn't have the authority to delegate responsibilities for enacting legislation so the courts should strike all sorts of shit down--though the entire constitution is a document describing how the government has authority to delegate responsibilities for enacting legislation--it's because they know their hold on power is delicate to say the least, and any efforts to allow more people to actually engage in dangerous shit like voting are going to end up screwing over their ability to serve their masters.


As for other political parties, the difference in votes between Hillary and Trump in key states was in many cases smaller than the number of third party votes, so while many of those voters may have been trying to register some sort of protest or "god these are both awful but Trump is obviously going to lose" mindset, they didn't do anybody except Trump a favor. Realistically no, third party votes aren't a step towards change or a better option, at best they're wasted, at worst they're helping the bad guys win.


Now, can we knock off the fucking equivocation? Biden sucks, but unlike Hillary people will probably vote for him, and hey with the right VP pick and a sudden keeling-over-behind-the-resolute-desk we could end up with a much better president.

Is Biden going to magically make shit better? Nah, but know what else he isn't going to do? Make things catastrophically worse like Trump will, because the big fat turdbaby coasted on three years of smooth sailing before his passengers started pointing out some speedbumps that somebody tried to warn them about years ago, so he called them nasty and drove into a wall before flooring it and smoking the tires... still driving into a wall.

We didn't just get fucked over here by this pandemic, this is the sort of situation which we would normally have prepared for and even under someone like Dubya we would have taken charge helping the rest of the world weather this shit and the whole thing would have been less devastating than it has been and will continue to be. Turns out massively incompetent cunts appointing massively incompetent cunts in an incestuous cycle of moronic nepotism isn't just harmful locally, or harmful globally, it can actually be fatal for lots of people.

Hate her for being such an amazingly shitty candidate all you want, Clinton would have handled this shit like someone who spent her whole career learning how to govern, and we'd be watching hotspots around the world for flareups instead of trying to figure out which state actually has the worst situation because we're still not really sure what's going on in our own backyard despite testing 15 million+ people and finding 1.7 million cases of which 100k have died so far.

Trump's incompetence harmed everyone, not just in his party, not just in this country, but worldwide, and our weakened role in future global interactions does not bode well for anybody alarmed at the idea of Putin or Poohbear taking up our slack.
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« Reply #36978 on: May 26, 2020, 07:02:47 pm »

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« Reply #36979 on: May 26, 2020, 07:48:34 pm »

I love that there are no real arguments for voting Joe Biden other than 1) he's more racist and hates the poor more and 2) he's not literally Donald Trump.

Voting for one fascist or the other because you're afraid the slightly different fascist will win otherwise is stupid when you have other options.
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« Reply #36980 on: May 26, 2020, 09:56:27 pm »

Voting for the lesser evil is how we got to a situation where Trump could win in the first place. Well, that and getting taken in by our own demagogues.
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« Reply #36981 on: May 26, 2020, 10:04:24 pm »

No? It's not. Like, at all. The demagogue thing is more or less what's been causing the GOP to spiral even harder into crazy land, though, that much is accurate.
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« Reply #36982 on: May 26, 2020, 10:21:42 pm »

So, you all left me with this picture of Trump wining, just for him to celebrate by riding a nuclear bomb that have the exact size to erase mankind from existence.

And after all the dust settles... all that would be left of humanity is a pile of ashes under the blondiest tupee ever.
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« Reply #36983 on: May 26, 2020, 10:26:52 pm »

Andrew Yang can still win it!
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« Reply #36984 on: May 26, 2020, 10:29:40 pm »

I still like Ike.
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« Reply #36985 on: May 26, 2020, 10:44:45 pm »

Vote Wilson, he kept us out of war.
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« Reply #36986 on: May 26, 2020, 11:38:41 pm »

Speaking of the Great War, which will never be surpassed or happen again, American deaths from covid are going to surpass it soon. Then we aim for WWII, the Civil War, and that holy of hollies that is the 1918 flu.
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« Reply #36987 on: May 26, 2020, 11:40:14 pm »

Everyone I know who is voting for Biden is voting for Bernie who told them to vote for Biden.

My prediction: Second term Trump will be more active on twitter and even less active politically. Offensive and insulting to other nations, for sure, but probably no war, but leaves the US with an even worse reputation. White supremecy in the US will continue to ramp up until 2024 has a Klandidate.

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« Reply #36988 on: May 27, 2020, 12:22:32 am »

Nah, things might be better. Trump sacked everyone and replaced them with monkeys. The good news is that whoever succeeds him largely has a clean slate there: sack all the Trump appointees and bring back the people who really were competent, all other positions recruit the best you can. Anyone who was a career public servant who wasn't any good and left during the Trump administration, replace them with better and younger people. The civil service veers old, they could be quite a bit younger after all this.

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« Reply #36989 on: May 27, 2020, 08:34:30 am »

But then someone will come along and sack all the replacements and replace them with actual monkeys because we are living in the Planet of the Apes timeline
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