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Farmboy

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I'm guessing it's Romney as well. He's pretty much the only prominent NeverTrumper left. Ben Sasse doesn't have the name recognition, all the others have to some degree kissed the ring at this point. Plus, there have been reports of Kristol meeting with Romney several times.
 

Holmes

Member
This avatar switching nonsense is insane. Choose one and stick with it, or be like Hue and keep a theme.
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Teggy

Member
All the stuff on Queens website is 20% today if you use the code twenty at checkout. She personally texted me to let me know. She's so thoughtful.

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"Adam, I know you've bought all my junk already, but maybe you could buy a tshirt for your friends. Use coupon YASKWEEN20 🍕"
 

benjipwns

Banned
The United States of Argentina?
JUN 06, 2016 | By WILLIAM KRISTOL

People keep saying how unusual this year’s presidential race is. They're wrong. It's an absolutely normal Third World election.

We have three candidates still standing: a self-righteous socialist who's learned nothing in 50 years except how to rally the economically illiterate and uninformed; an heir to wealth who's done nothing impressive in 50 years except to hone his skills as a self-promoter and demagogue; and an insider who's climbed the greasy pole alongside her husband, enriching herself and her family through 50 years of "public service." Welcome to the United States of Argentina.

What is to be done?

Resist. Resist the decline of America. Resist an Argentinian future. Resistance can mean lots of things over the next few years. But in the here and now, resistance means finding a serious and credible independent candidate.

Thus David French of National Review wrote eloquently this week urging Mitt Romney to take up the gauntlet. French points out that "at this moment, American voters face a choice between two historically corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent politicians. .  .  . Given the stakes of the election, to simply leave the race to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is to guarantee a terrible presidency marked by incompetence and cronyism." And so, "There is just hope—however slim—of avoiding this national disaster: America needs a third option."

It would be great if Romney chose to run to provide that third option. It would be great if former vice-presidential candidates Joe Lieberman or Paul Ryan, or former cabinet officials like Mitch Daniels or Condoleezza Rice, or former presidential hopefuls like Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush, or current governors like Nikki Haley or Susana Martinez chose to run. They would all start from positions of relative strength.

But even as polls show an amazing level of public receptivity to such an independent effort, even as Donald Trump makes his unfitness for office more manifest every time he speaks, even as Hillary Clinton's unfitness for office is made more obvious by a report from the Obama administration's State Department inspector general, even as all this happens .  .  . major public figures may choose not to run.

Yet the fact of Trump's and Clinton's unfitness for the Oval Office has become so self-evident that it's no longer clear one needs a famous figure to provide an alternative.

So the alternative to Trump and Clinton could be a not-terribly-well-known but capable congressman like Mike Pompeo or Adam Kinzinger. It could be a respected former senator like Judd Gregg or Mel Martinez. Or the leader of the resistance could turn out to be someone who hasn't yet held elective office.
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Joementium!
 
Considering what Trump said he was going to do to treasury bonds if he were elected, I'd imagine you could convince the entire financial sector to pitch in money for a third-party candidate just to keep him from getting elected.
 
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"Adam, I know you've bought all my junk already, but maybe you could buy a tshirt for your friends. Use coupon YASKWEEN20 🍕"
Not from Queen. She refers to you all as my "lovely little gay friends." Except for keV, since he's rich she refers to him as her corporate master.
 

Suikoguy

I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Was that Kristol's super pac that made that tweet? Cause this is actually more embarrassing than some unknown running 3rd party.
 

benjipwns

Banned
Stop Trump PAC ‏@StopTrumpPAC 13m13 minutes ago
Do you remember when @RealBenCarson threatened a third party run?

#FakePhonyFraud
Stop Trump PAC Retweeted
Bill Kristol ‏@BillKristol 2h2 hours ago
I hope my mention of an independent candidate didn't distract him while paying respects during whichever Memorial Day ceremony he attended.

Stop Trump PAC's first tweets were on May 16th:
Stop Trump PAC ‏@StopTrumpPAC May 16
#IStandWithSasse

Stop Trump PAC Retweeted
Bill Kristol ‏@BillKristol May 16
I'd assumed the new party should be called the New Federalist Party or The New Whig Party. But now I'm thinking, The Renegade Party...

Stop Trump PAC Retweeted
Bill Kristol ‏@BillKristol May 16
The Renegades have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
 

ampere

Member
What does Romney get out of running other than to spite Trump?

An actual campaign is a pretty heavy cost just for spite.

You think Rmoney is worried about cost?

This avatar switching nonsense is insane. Choose one and stick with it, or be like Hue and keep a theme. I've used two avatars since I sucked and fucked my way onto this site three and a half years ago. I changed to my second after I hit member status at three months, if I'm correctly recalling.

I had an idea to change mine recently, but with the username change I wanna stay recognizable lol

All the stuff on Queens website is 20% today if you use the code twenty at checkout. She personally texted me to let me know. She's so thoughtful.

Girl how much are they paying you to advertise

OK fine I'll buy that shirt I've been wanting
 
FUCK :'(.

If the Democratic establishment is ultimately successful in their efforts to extinguish the American people's heartfelt desire for a true, and eminently worthy "People's President", I feel they may have, for the forseable future, condemned American democracy to wander aimlessly in a bleak wilderness, for what will feel like an eternity...

Bernie at the Revolt TV meeting (I skipped ahead to quoted section):



Chris Prudhome: In Washington Post op-ed Charles Kock wrote "Today if you're poor and get caught possessing and selling pot, you can end up in jail; your conviction will hold you back from many opportunities in life, however, if you're well connected and have ample financial resources, the rules change dramatically. How can we address the inequities and access to criminal defense?".

Bernie: Well, does everyone know who Charles Kock is? ["Boos"] In a life, sometimes, anybody can be right occasionally [Laughter]. So I think what Kock writes here is right, but, by the way, this is the second wealthiest family in America, so they know about who has money and who doesn't ... But his point, nonetheless, is well taken, and what he is saying is that we have a criminal defense system, which is in some states literally on the verge of collapse.

The theory is, and the supreme court ruled, as you may remember, many years ago, in Miranda, that every citizen, you're arrested, you have the right to a legal defense. But what states all over this country are doing, is cutting back, on public defenders. So technically, you may have that right, but if you have to wait many, many, many months to meet with your lawyer, or if your lawyer is over burdened with dozens and dozens of cases, and can't devote the time he or she needs to your case, are you getting fair legal representation? ["No!"] You're not, of course you're not.

So what we need to do, is to make sure that if Miranda means anything, and that means that every American, regardless of his or her income, is entitled to a strong defense. Too many people go to jail, you know why they go to jail? They don't have a good lawyer to adequately defend them, they cop some plea; o,k, I did this and only go for two years rather than ten years. Too many people end up in jail that way. So we need to reinvigorate, big time, public defenders in this country, so that people charged with a crime can get the defense they're entitled to ["Yeah!", applause].

Chris: It's amazing what you just said ... So is it possible that, you and Charles Kock can actually agree on something so important, and if so, what can we do to reform this crazy system?

Bernie: O.k., and the answer's yes, and I'll tell you why [more in the video - my stomach's rumbling ;) ]
 

ampere

Member
Went ahead and bought the Distressed T, about $31 shipped with the discount which is alright. No free shipping, halp me Amazon

Personally, I don't think Mitt Romney is stupid.

He's never paid any taxes in his life* for a reason.

*Source: Reid, Harry.

No I don't think he's dumb either, just wanted to use the old Rmoney line
 

benjipwns

Banned
I mainly wanted to state for the record that Mitt Romney has never paid any taxes in his entire life. According to my sources.
 

Tarydax

Banned
Daniel B·;205112812 said:
FUCK :'(.

If the Democratic establishment is ultimately successful in their efforts to extinguish the American people's heartfelt desire for a true, and eminently worthy "People's President", I feel they may have, for the forseable future, condemned American democracy to wander aimlessly in a bleak wilderness, for what will feel like an eternity...

You do know that Hillary is beating Bernie by at least 2 million votes, right?
 

Paskil

Member
He wrote this on a PS3. So it might have been written in March. It just took it a while to upload.

I own all of those shirts. Get on my level n00bs.

A true Pokemon master would own all the state and territory t-shirts, as well. Gary Motherfucking Oak is kicking your teeth in
with his wiener
.
 

Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
I don't think that the Republicans are going to be so affected downticket anyway. The party is a bunch of racists. Where's the shame that Trump is the nominee? He coalesced support faster than you can freaking imagine. I think they'll be fine.

So I'd take the assurance of having Hillary as the president. Or Biden once Hillary goes to prison.
 

Tarkus

Member
I don't think that the Republicans are going to be so affected downticket anyway. The party is a bunch of racists. Where's the shame that Trump is the nominee? He coalesced support faster than you can freaking imagine. I think they'll be fine.

So I'd take the assurance of having Hillary as the president. Or Biden once Hillary goes to prison.
We're not all racists
 

benjipwns

Banned
We're not all racists
The first Republican President was a big government racist warmonger who violated civil liberties.

The second was an incompetent drunk dominated by bosses.

The third got into office via stealing an election. And made a deal to unprotect blacks in the South in order to hold his stolen office.

No further questions your honor.
 
Daniel B·;205112812 said:
FUCK :'(.

If the Democratic establishment is ultimately successful in their efforts to extinguish the American people's heartfelt desire for a true, and eminently worthy "People's President", I feel they may have, for the forseable future, condemned American democracy to wander aimlessly in a bleak wilderness, for what will feel like an eternity...

Bernie at the Revolt TV meeting (I skipped ahead to quoted section):


In that pic it looks like somebody told Sanders that his fly was down. How can a true leader fall for such simple pranks?
 

Tarkus

Member
I find anyone who votes for Trump to either be a racist or ok with a racist. So I guess in that sense Bill Kristol is close to giving the non-racists a place to vote safely!
What if you dislike the candidate in so many ways, but you must fall on your sword and stand behind the choice of the party?
 

Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
I think Daniel B really does deserve an oscar. And most people that respond to him deserve a Razzie.

What if you dislike the candidate in so many ways, but you must fall on your sword and stand behind the choice of the party?

Why must you fall on your sword? I get people who choose not to vote.
 
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