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Velr
Switzerland10950 Posts
Let alone his other issues... | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
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Dan HH
Romania9245 Posts
On July 21 2016 21:44 farvacola wrote: Lol, it's like SoSexy and Gotunk are conservative bots who troll politics threads by posting randomly generated, anti-liberal snippets without any context. Like someone in the Europe thread said, I guess it's a new kind of Tourette's. It's not even something they think up, it's regurgitated from /r/the_donald where all dissent is banned so it appears to them like somekind of infallible checkmate against 'libruls' and so they relay it further to facebook, twitter and other forums like TL where they get made fun of because of it, so they blame that on the 'cognitive dissonance' of libruls that can't reconcile this flawless new argument with their pre-conceived librul beliefs. It's a sad cycle, I see it all too many times lately. | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19384 Posts
On July 21 2016 23:00 Plansix wrote: I have the same feeling for the vast majority of the Republicans in government. I've always been a fiscal conservative. The republican party in DC has certainly forgotten what that means and now are just in pissing contest over social issues instead. Trump (who I do not support) or not, I've moved over to the libertarian party because at least I know Gary Johnson is going to be a true fiscal conservative. | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
On July 21 2016 23:05 BisuDagger wrote: I've always been a fiscal conservative. The republican party in DC has certainly forgotten what that means and now are just in pissing contest over social issues instead. Trump (who I do not support) or not, I've moved over to the libertarian party because at least I know Gary Johnson is going to be a true fiscal conservative. Johnson is surprisingly not shitty. Anyone wanna fill me in on his Stein-like fatal flaws? For example, Stein doesn't deny the benefit of holistic medicine, as well as many other silly anti-science things. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On July 21 2016 23:05 BisuDagger wrote: I've always been a fiscal conservative. The republican party in DC has certainly forgotten what that means and now are just in pissing contest over social issues instead. Trump (who I do not support) or not, I've moved over to the libertarian party because at least I know Gary Johnson is going to be a true fiscal conservative. I’m the son of an Irish democrat that spent his Sundays at church and gardening with his fiscally conservative, engineer grandfather who was a lifelong Republican. My entire youth was spent debating a guy who just knew more than me about politics and life in general. All of his grandchildren were progressive liberals, even the ones that served in the military. We just knew how to balance our check books. He never disagreed with our arguments about civil liberties, only how to enforce and protect them. I have no problem with grandfather’s vision Republican party. This is not his party. It stopped being his party a long time ago. The last two elections he didn’t vote Republican. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
On July 21 2016 23:11 Mohdoo wrote: Johnson is surprisingly not shitty. Anyone wanna fill me in on his Stein-like fatal flaws? For example, Stein doesn't deny the benefit of holistic medicine, as well as many other silly anti-science things. I'm not aware of any obvious ones; he seemed pretty reasonable to me. iirc some of his past views are a bit off, but he seems pretty reasonable now. The libertarian party is quite wacky though (watching their primary debates). | ||
KwarK
United States44286 Posts
On July 21 2016 12:15 oBlade wrote: Cruz is the candidate who represented the Huckabee/Santorum wing of the party this cycle. It's not someone you want to ever be the Presidential candidate. That direction should be a clear a dead end for the future of the party. Speaking but not endorsing the nominee was classless, but will be forgotten quickly as the campaign gets going. That's the wing of the party that's been most successful lately though. The Tea Party has been running successful primary campaigns to the right of Republican incumbents for 8 years. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On July 21 2016 23:25 KwarK wrote: That's the wing of the party that's been most successful lately though. The Tea Party has been running successful primary campaigns to the right of Republican incumbents for 8 years. this year will be an interesting test to see how many of them can survive re-election. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On July 21 2016 23:05 BisuDagger wrote: I've always been a fiscal conservative. The republican party in DC has certainly forgotten what that means and now are just in pissing contest over social issues instead. Trump (who I do not support) or not, I've moved over to the libertarian party because at least I know Gary Johnson is going to be a true fiscal conservative. You are a role model for other conservatives. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On July 21 2016 23:05 BisuDagger wrote: I've always been a fiscal conservative. The republican party in DC has certainly forgotten what that means and now are just in pissing contest over social issues instead. Trump (who I do not support) or not, I've moved over to the libertarian party because at least I know Gary Johnson is going to be a true fiscal conservative. We cool. | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On July 22 2016 00:16 TheTenthDoc wrote: I don't think the Trump campaign is very good at reading speeches if they really vetted the Cruz speech and gave it the go-ahead. As if we didn't already know that from Day 1. Official Trump campaign press release: "Clearly Lyin' Ted did not have the best words, only I have the best words". | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15743 Posts
On July 22 2016 00:16 TheTenthDoc wrote: I don't think the Trump campaign is very good at reading speeches if they really vetted the Cruz speech and gave it the go-ahead. As if we didn't already know that from Day 1. It's likely they breezed over it and then assumed he wouldn't go full on revolutionary. | ||
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Seuss
United States10536 Posts
There's a way to say what Cruz said that makes it clear he's supporting Trump, and there's a way to say it that makes it clear he isn't. He went with the latter. | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
On July 22 2016 00:16 xDaunt wrote: If nothing else, Trump has (intentionally or not) created a spectacle with the GOP convention that has dominated this week's headlines. People are going to be comparatively bored with the democrat convention. There's that lovely spin I was waiting for. I bet you also think there is no such thing as bad press. | ||
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19384 Posts
On July 22 2016 00:16 xDaunt wrote: If nothing else, Trump has (intentionally or not) created a spectacle with the GOP convention that has dominated this week's headlines. People are going to be comparatively bored with the democrat convention. Unless Dems chant "Lock her up" or Bernie streaks across the stage. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On July 22 2016 00:16 xDaunt wrote: If nothing else, Trump has (intentionally or not) created a spectacle with the GOP convention that has dominated this week's headlines. People are going to be comparatively bored with the democrat convention. sure, people also slow down to look at a trainwreck. | ||
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