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Trump v. Bernie Debate

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Again, false. None of Trump's conspiracies are new scandals. They're all old 90's conspiracies and witch hunts that were dismissed then and are still garbage now. And Hillary's chance of beating Trump is as high as Bernie's, if not higher. (This is the part where you quote those GE polls full of confounding variables)
I don't know about Trump's conspiracies but the issue of Bill Clinton travelling with the pedophile which I mentioned is very true (helping is argument that she has not been good to women), and even if they are not all true Trump can easily paint a picture of Hillary that makes voters even more distrustful of her. And yes, Bernie's chances are way higher than Hillary's per the polls, but you already seem to know about the polls. Hillary's disapproval rating is much higher than his.
 
America, how did you get to the point where these two clowns have a voice in national politics? I don't know about you, but I really don't want the most powerful country on earth run by an idiot again

Curious, what country are you from and what impact did the people's voice have on your current leader?
 
Yes. Anyone telling you Hillary or Bernie are a shoe-in is lying to you.
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I love how the logic is "Well, Hillary should be able to win no matter how badly Bernie tries to sabotage her!"

Real good look, guys.

He's making it really easy.
The points I keep hearing are about how the math says Hillary is unbeatable, and that Sanders has been dead since that fateful Tuesday. So why are people so up in arms about what they consider to be a dead man gasping his last breaths? They're either reveling in the idea of mobbing up on an opponent who has already lost, or they're not as confident in their chosen champion as they claim to be, otherwise they'd just laugh at the absurdity.
 
Again, false. None of Trump's conspiracies are new scandals. They're all old 90's conspiracies and witch hunts that were dismissed then and are still garbage now. And Hillary's chance of beating Trump is as high as Bernie's, if not higher. (This is the part where you quote those GE polls full of confounding variables)

Her chances are greater than zero do it's a significantly higher chance than Sanders.

Sanders would the least vetted, least tested candidate ever...
 
America, how did you get to the point where these two clowns have a voice in national politics? I don't know about you, but I really don't want the most powerful country on earth run by an idiot again

The thing is, outside of a few politicians (none of whom are gonna be on a major political party ticket come the GE), but we're most likely getting some form of idiocy back in the White House come early next year. At this point, i've just resolved myself to accept the L i've gotten.
 
Are you saying the coverage has been fair and not skewed toward Hillary at all? Fantasy Land must be nice.

The story that every single journalist would love to write is about how Hillary failed again in an even greater fashion to a 70+ year old socialist from Vermont. So yeah, the #DemsInDisarray narrative is pretty potent, despite maybe not covering every single Bernie Sanders rally with the same stump speech.
 
except one is important and the other isn't

bashing people for being passionate about politics is hilarious. one of the more important facets of modern day humanity and the world

It's the South Park mentality, where caring about something even if it's important is stupid and both sides are the same anyway bullshit
 
Some us don't want just any Democrat though, some of us want Bernie.

Bernie. Has. Lost.

He has fucking lost. He has an insurmountable deficit in pledged delegates, and his only hope is doing just well enough to prevent Clinton from mathematically clinching before the convention, then convincing nearly every superdelegate at the convention to vote for him after he's been insulting them openly for months.

Bernie. Has. Lost.

It's great to want things, but when getting those things is no longer possible, and continuing to pursue them harms other people, you need to give up the dream.
 
Shit like this is why I've stopped giving Bernie supporters the time of day. "Hur hur, go Bernie! Show those Democrats for rejecting you!"

Apparently, President Trump is what you people want.

Why should it be that foreign of a notion to say that if preferred candidate X is out of the running, then I'd prefer Z over Y?
 
you're right. i guess the millions of votes he has isn't indicative that he got his message out to a large audience. clearly there are just millions of other voters out there who are just chomping at the bit for him to sweep them off their feet with his responses during this debate.

Honestly it's not even about this election, it's about the future of our country and how we can shape and change that future.

I hope Bernie gets a talk radio show some day because I would love to hear him speak daily.
 
Shit like this is why I've stopped giving Bernie supporters the time of day. "Hur hur, go Bernie! Show those Democrats for rejecting you!"

Apparently, President Trump is what you people want.

Uh huh, cause I refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton? Sorry can't do it. But it don't matter - she has more votes regardless. She'll be fine in the GE. I don't understand why people get so mad that some life long democrats & liberals (who I am among) refuse to vote for her. She's the most popular candidate. Have some confidence in your pick.
 
I don't know about Trump's conspiracies but the issue of Bill Clinton travelling with the pedophile which I mentioned is very true (helping is argument that she has not been good to women), and even if they are not all true Trump can easily paint a picture of Hillary that makes voters even more distrustful of her. And yes, Bernie's chances are way higher than Hillary's per the polls, but you already seem to know about the polls. Hillary's disapproval rating is much higher than his.
If you believe those polls are accurate for a candidate that the GOP has largely ignored from attack this entire cycle and focused their entire firepower on Clinton instead, then i can't help you.
 
The points I keep hearing are about how the math says Hillary is unbeatable, and that Sanders has been dead since that fateful Tuesday. So why are people so up in arms about what they consider to be a dead man gasping his last breaths? They're either reveling in the idea of mobbing up on an opponent who has already lost, or they're not as confident in their chosen champion as they claim to be, otherwise they'd just laugh at the absurdity.
Because down ticket races still matter, and the bigger the victory, the better the chance the House and Senate can swing Democratic. Or did you not think about that since Bernie doesn't ever bother helping out with down ticket races?
 
It is baffling to me, as an outsider looking in, that people are willing to choose hate and fear over free healthcare and college.

I truly hope you don't genuinely believe that "free" actually means free. It gets paid for, and in the worst possible way since the government is the singlest least efficient entity in the entire country at spending money.
 
Honestly it's not even about this election, it's about the future of our country and how we can shape and change that future.

I hope Bernie gets a talk radio show some day because I would love to hear him speak daily.

what do you think this election is about, if not the future of our country and how we can shape and change that future

In the sense that I have a narrow, mathematically actual path of both being struck by lightning and winning the lottery tomorrow

It could happen

But it won't

can you please report back tomorrow confirming that you haven't been struck by lightning and did not win the lottery? that way i can stop worrying about sanders winning and go back to worrying about the xbox scorpio being more powerful than the ps4 neo
 
The points I keep hearing are about how the math says Hillary is unbeatable, and that Sanders has been dead since that fateful Tuesday. So why are people so up in arms about what they consider to be a dead man gasping his last breaths? They're either reveling in the idea of mobbing up on an opponent who has already lost, or they're not as confident in their chosen champion as they claim to be, otherwise they'd just laugh at the absurdity.

You can still be confident in Hillary's chances at victory against Trump AND be angry at Sanders for actively attempting to aid Trump's campaign if this dumpster fire of an idea actually gets lit.

The two are not mutually exclusive, you can see that, right?
 
If you believe those polls are accurate for a candidate that the GOP has largely ignored from attack this entire cycle and focused their entire firepower on Clinton instead, then i can't help you.
So many people are dead set against Hillary while the more people here about Sanders, the more they like him.
 
Without getting into the nastiness of what happens in threads like this, I'm just going to say I'm not amused.

Has anything like this ever happened?
 
I really don't get why Democrats are supporting Hillary because assuming she's the nominee there is way too high of a chance of Trump winning. She has way too many flaws and there's continually new scandals coming up about the Clintons (Bill Clinton with the pedophile).
Unless Trump fixes his demographic hole he won't get anywhere near the white house.Bringing up stuff from the 90's or later and won't help him win.It will just turn more women and other groups away from him
 
what do you think this election is about, if not the future of our country and how we can shape and change that future

I mean, i've been under the assumption that this election was a reality TV show the moment that host from The Apprentice got involved.

To be honest, at times like these I remember that scene from last year's South Park where they spoofed on Trump being a candidate, and I still can't believe we've gotten this far.
 
I don't know about Trump's conspiracies but the issue of Bill Clinton travelling with the pedophile which I mentioned is very true (helping is argument that she has not been good to women), and even if they are not all true Trump can easily paint a picture of Hillary that makes voters even more distrustful of her. And yes, Bernie's chances are way higher than Hillary's per the polls, but you already seem to know about the polls. Hillary's disapproval rating is much higher than his.

And Bernie had his chance to beat her! And he failed. By a lot. If he was this amazingly awesome candidate, and the only person he had in his way was this terrible shrew devil woman...he should have beaten her no problem. But he didn't. Because voters, fairly overwhelmingly, rejected what he was offering.

Bernie hasn't been touched yet. Give me $1 million and two weeks, and I could tank his favorables without breaking a sweat. I could go on about him going to the USSR for his honeymoon. How he praised Castro. How he said bread lines were a good thing. How he wanted to take over the televisions stations. How he visited the Sandinsta. And this is just the stuff we know about!
 
what do you think this election is about, if not the future of our country and how we can shape and change that future

I'm talking way past Hillary or Trump, I think Bernie's ideas can shape the future 50-100 years from now.

The more TV time he gets the better we all are for it. That's all I'm saying.
 
I used to love the hell out of Bernie but he's being foolish.

Criticism of Bernie is warranted and very well deserved. The will of the people has spoken too, with Hillary having over three million more votes than him. If he can't beat her, then he likely wouldn't fare well against Trump considering he's the least vetted of the three.
 
The hostility and division on show here is highly evocative of the same type of hostility in Australian politics between the Labor Party and the Greens.

The sense of entitlement that Hillary supporters (and by extension, the Australian Labor party) have had from Day 1 has been really off-putting. They just sort of expect progressives to vote for them and are outraged at the temerity from a more left candidate running.

I think Hillary should of course be supported and it's obviously prudent that Sanders withdraw, but don't pretend that this forum in particular ever gave him a fair shake, the disdain has been clear for a very long time.
 
Uh huh, cause I refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton? Sorry can't do it. But it don't matter - she has more votes regardless. She'll be fine in the GE. I don't understand why people get so mad that some life long democrats & liberals (who I am among) refuse to vote for her. She's the most popular candidate. Have some confidence in your pick.

Um, Bernie supporter here.

But this "she'll have the votes anyway so I won't vote" bullshit is bullshit.
 
Without getting into the nastiness of what happens in threads like this, I'm just going to say I'm not amused.

Has anything like this ever happened?

No, things used to be either nastier and to the point, or fresh and fun.

I miss the days when Clinton (the one who actually became president) played the Sax on that show.
 
Shit like this is why I've stopped giving Bernie supporters the time of day. "Hur hur, go Bernie! Show those Democrats for rejecting you!"

Apparently, President Trump is what you people want.

Yeah, this wasn't the best time to cause discord within the party, but I feel like its something that was just waiting to happen. I mean Obama had the same rhetoric as Bernie really (Obama was just better at campaigning and articulating) with the "hope" and "change" stuff. Instead we got drone strikes and TPP, and its stuff like this that causes people to loose faith in the establishment, so they turn to someone outside the system.

Point is, this schism has been years in the making. Its regrettable that it has to happen on the eve of a potential President Trump, but I think someone like Bernie was bound to happen.
 
Why should it be that foreign of a notion to say that if preferred candidate X is out of the running, then I'd prefer Z over Y?
Because how the fuck do you consider yourself a liberal, hell a human being and want to vote for a such a piece of human shit as Trump cause your Bernie lost?
 
Without getting into the nastiness of what happens in threads like this, I'm just going to say I'm not amused.

Has anything like this ever happened?
No, because candidates aren't usually this vindictive, stubborn, or stupid.

I'd say what I think about his supporters too, but it'd probably get me banned. Of course, their posts in these threads speak for themselves.
 
Are they even allowed to debate? Because Bernie hasn't won the nomination yet and probably won't so I dunno what's going on here.

I'm surprised Trump accepted this. It probably won't end well for him.
 
Yes the cause called public debate on social and economic issues.

I didn't vote for Bernie Sanders because of debate quality/frequency and neither did you. Don't be a liar. I'm trying to engage with you honestly.

If you REALLY want to pretend that Bernie stands for "public debate on social and economic issues." (which paints him as literally a person with no conviction) I still honestly don't see how having Donald Trump call people names furthers that issue. How could it?
 
Because how the fuck do you consider yourself a liberal, hell a human being and want to vote for a such a piece of human shit as Trump cause your Bernie lost?

Who says I'd want to? Besides, I am no liberal, I am completely independent/NPA, and when I took that political compass, I was dead center.
 
Because how the fuck do you consider yourself a liberal, hell a human being and want to vote for a such a piece of human shit as Donald "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me" Drumpf cause your Bernie lost?

Something something anti-establishment. Never mind that the two men take drastically different approaches to that.

Some men just wanna see the world burn.
 
And Bernie had his chance to beat her! And he failed. By a lot. If he was this amazingly awesome candidate, and the only person he had in his way was this terrible shrew devil woman...he should have beaten her no problem. But he didn't. Because voters, fairly overwhelmingly, rejected what he was offering.
Hillary Clinton has pretty much been the presumptive 2016 nominee since 2008. She should have run away with this nomination no problem, but she hasn't at all and her opponent started from the bottom. Yes, many votes ahead still, but Sanders has been her much more competition than ever expected. If she loses California, maybe she's still the nominee if she's not indicted, but that's bad for her.
 
Who says I'd want to? Besides, I am no liberal, I am completely independent/NPA, and when I took that political compass, I was dead center.

At this point, I'd believe your beliefs look something like this.

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