US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3328

On March 16 2016 05:26 ErectedZenith wrote:


They can't.

Trump have leaked all of their resources without spending much himself.

Its the nature of the beast.

On March 16 2016 04:51 Mohdoo wrote:
Things I'm looking forward to today:

Bernie falling further behind

Things I'm not looking forward to today:

"Bernie Sanders manages AMAZING upset by only falling 10 points further behind! Can you say WHITE HOUSE? Say goodbye to the 1% and click here to see HOW Sanders is CHANGING modern day politics and destroying OLIGARCHY"

On March 16 2016 05:28 Doodsmack wrote:


What?

On March 16 2016 05:30 GreenHorizons wrote:
I wonder who's paying more attention to the US elections right now, American's or everyone else?

I bet we could get better voter participation rates from several European countries in OUR election than we are in many places across this country.

On March 16 2016 05:30 ZasZ. wrote:


What exactly is your personal problem with Bernie Sanders? I get that you support Hillary Clinton, but what did he do to you to make you hate him so?

On March 16 2016 05:01 Mohdoo wrote:

I think Bernie will win all the states that he is slightly to somewhat behind in. I think Clinton will handily win Florida and that she will continue to have the dominance she needs, while still not having much more.

I think this elections is just straight up different. People won't coalesce around a candidate until another drops out. I expect Clinton to get the nomination with 105% of the needed delegates.

Edit: As I have said before, this is our country's first 4 party election. However, it is being run as a 4 person tournament. Winner of the "left" election faces the winner of the "right" election, but they are actual full on elections. Not just feeling out who seems good and then calling it.

Edit #2: Not that it means much, but my mom has been a Bernie nut up until a couple days ago. She said Bernie officially went too insane and isn't actually making sense. She appreciates his message, but finally said he's just too far out there. My conversations with her went similar to my conversations with GH until now.

On March 16 2016 05:30 Plansix wrote:

Reality does not apply. He theorizes that Trump can outspend the GOP, which is only works if you believe the fantasy that Trump has spent nothing his campaign.

On March 16 2016 05:26 Doodsmack wrote:


It seems your argument has a tendency to change in response to the counter points from others. Before you said the others were decidedly sleazier than Trump. It appears to me you have such a preconceived opinion against the establishment and media that Trump is an outlet for people like you to just be defiant. In the process, as an informed political activist you make incredible sacrifices in the quality of your candidate (assuming you support Trump) in order to fight against the establishment and media.

On March 16 2016 05:29 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Testie, I've never said that Trump is stupid. I say he is a liar. You said he was telling the truth, I say he makes up stuff. He inflates every number that makes himself or his message seem positive and deflates every number that makes someone else look positive or himself or his policies look negative. And they don't all do this. Yes Ted Cruz, and okay, if your argument is that 'Trump is better than Cruz' then fuck it, I'm not gonna bother arguing.

Just look at this
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/trump-fact-check-errors-exaggerations-falsehoods-213730#_ga=1.9616181.163558985.1391020600

Guy is incapable of speaking for 5 minutes without making something up. I'm not attacking his competence, I'm not even attacking his policies (but I really disagree with him on nearly everything). I'm attacking, vehemently so, the notion that he is honest and trustworthy. It's a lie that he has said so many times that people have started believing it, and it's terrifying to me.

On March 16 2016 05:37 oBlade wrote:

The point is that, if money were the issue, Jeb Bush would already be a 3-term president.

You should be very happy that this election is showing the path to the White House can't be easily bought.

On March 16 2016 05:37 oBlade wrote:

The point is that, if money were the issue, Jeb Bush would already be a 3-term president.

You should be very happy that this election is showing the path to the White House can't be easily bought.

On March 16 2016 04:20 wei2coolman wrote:

Association = character assassination.

I mean, it should be pretty obvious by now, especially in this election cycle.

On March 16 2016 06:03 ticklishmusic wrote:
A more tongue-in-cheek example is that Bernie has outspent (by a lot) and outraised (by a decent amount) Hillary in the last few months and is 200+ delegates behind.

On March 16 2016 05:29 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Testie, I've never said that Trump is stupid. I say he is a liar. You said he was telling the truth, I say he makes up stuff. He inflates every number that makes himself or his message seem positive and deflates every number that makes someone else look positive or himself or his policies look negative. And they don't all do this. Yes Ted Cruz, and okay, if your argument is that 'Trump is better than Cruz' then fuck it, I'm not gonna bother arguing.

Just look at this
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/trump-fact-check-errors-exaggerations-falsehoods-213730#_ga=1.9616181.163558985.1391020600

Guy is incapable of speaking for 5 minutes without making something up. I'm not attacking his competence, I'm not even attacking his policies (but I really disagree with him on nearly everything). I'm attacking, vehemently so, the notion that he is honest and trustworthy. It's a lie that he has said so many times that people have started believing it, and it's terrifying to me.

On March 16 2016 05:36 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Norwegian media arguably gives the american election better coverage than the norwegian election (with the exception of tv debates). This is partially because Norwegian politicians are actually competent politicians, with the side effect that following Norwegian politics is a boring chore, and partially because people are legitimately afraid of President Trump. If this was an election between Kasich and Clinton, there would still be a fair amount of coverage, but it's largely just Trump. Sanders got a lot of coverage early on, because we were both shocked to find an actual social democrat in the running and flattered that the greatest country on earth saw that our policies were better than theirs in several ways, but he hasn't been getting much as of late. Trump still on the front page of my goto-online newspaper though.

On March 16 2016 06:03 ticklishmusic wrote:
A more tongue-in-cheek example is that Bernie has outspent (by a lot) and outraised (by a decent amount) Hillary in the last few months and is 200+ delegates behind.