PoliGAF 2016 |OT6| Delete your accounts

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plagiarize said:
After engaging with some Bernie Sander's supporters on facebook, I was pretty steamed. Then I played DOOM for an hour. Now I feel extremely relaxed.

Ah DOOM. Letting me harmlessly get my aggression out since 1993.
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Oh its so good, definitely a good frustration vent of late.
 
That NYT article was a great reminder of why he could be so successful with so little

“The reason they did an autopsy of the party,” Hicks said, referring to the Republican National Committee’s internal analysis following the defeat of 2012, “was because the party was dead!
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WASHINGTON – The first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president doesn’t envision one of Trump’s main campaign promises – a wall at the Mexican border – ever becoming a reality that stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.

“I have called it a virtual wall,” Rep. Chris Collins said in an interview with The Buffalo News.
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Even Trump's allies can't bring themselves to say "Yes, I think we should build a wall along the Mexican border and extort Mexico into paying for this and I support the man who argues for this" lol.

http://politicsnow.buffalonews.com/...re-rhetorical-collins-says-in-news-interview/
 
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
I can't believe that this election is going to boil down, in large part, to "should Muslims be banned from entering the United States?"

This is a question that Nazi Germany would have asked and somehow America is at that point right now.

edit: Vox's "we should make it easier to pass laws in America!" shit they've published recently is irritating when you consider that Trump could probably get Islam banned from America and all undocumented immigrants deported under their system.
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This is why I have absolutely no respect for anyone who supports evil, deranged men like Trump. At this point, they know who they are voting for and don't give a damn about anybody but themselves.
 
What will Republicans do next time around in 2020 after Trump (hopefully) loses? Pretend this never happened and try to go back to business as usual? I wonder if they'll make any changes to their primary process to prevent another Trump.
 
AntraxSuicide said:
Take a 5 member rock band that no one ever cared about. Then fast forward 40 years, 3 of them are dead, and the two geezers left are still trying to book gigs in dive bars.

That's slightly less sad and more interesting than Gary Johnson and his VP pick.
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Ouch, but hilarious.

To get the voter data for my county, I have to submit a form with my email address on paper... gotta love outdated Republican counties.
 
Kristoffer said:
I can't remember his name or the name of his organization but there's a guy who's trying to organize what's essentially a presidential election... during the midterms. He's going to run 400 similar candidates at the same time all across the country on the same progressive platform Sanders is running on. And he wants to give it the same attention that a presidential campaign would have, with the same kind of donations and the same kind of energy.

In my opinion, that's very smart! There's all this underutilized energy right now in the Democratic party which needs to be realized during the midterms. My only issue: if he's running 400 candidates, then that means he either needs to run against Democrats during the general or he needs to run them during the primary. If he runs against Democrats, that's doomed to fail. If he runs during the primary, then they become Democrats... and are more or less trapped into the cycle of Democratic politics.
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It's an interesting idea but the moment there are differences among the candidates, you might as well just call it a party.

You could probably put together a boilerplate platform with familiar rallying calls (against Citizens United, new Glass-Stegall act, VRA reauthorization/amendment, $15 min wage etc.) but that's not really much different from what we have now. You could either have them get super specific on each and every issue at the expense of shutting certain potential supporters out, or the issues you do address are so broad that it's practically meaningless. Maybe something like a second Bill of Rights including healthcare, housing, college etc. that liberals love talking about so much?

But if Bernie decided to use his fundraising apparatus to prop up candidates across the country in state legislative races, city councils, even Congress, hell yeah I could support that as long as his voters are willing to stay engaged. I'm a bit more cynical than that though.
 
AntraxSuicide said:
Take a 5 member rock band that no one ever cared about. Then fast forward 40 years, 3 of them are dead, and the two geezers left are still trying to book gigs in dive bars.

That's slightly less sad and more interesting than Gary Johnson and his VP pick.
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Damn you are cold blooded
 
Frozenprince said:
I swear, if I hear "But Bernie could win in a General it's not over yet!" one more time, I'll fucking scream.

He really has brought out the worst of the left, he's Bizarro Trump.
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Not all of us are as insane as the Sanders supporters who only are paying attention to be part of a Twitter movement.
 
Beer Monkey said:
Downloaded all 500,000 voter registrations for my county in a spreadsheet. Among other things, it tracks every registered voter's participation in all elections and primaries back to May 2010.

Started looking up all the Bernie Or Bust people I know on Facebook.

Virtually none of them voted in the 2010 and 2014 midterms. Some haven't voted at all until this year's Dem primary, and they are all at least 28 years old. About half voted in the 2014 general and nothing else.

Check out the data for your county. It will probably confirm what you think.
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i hate you for posting this because now i have two access databases of my two home counties with queries set to look up the voting history of people in my age cohort

so far it's confirmed exactly what i think it has: the biggest berners in that cohort don't vote and didn't even vote in this year's primary
 
Oblivion said:
Seriously? I was denied a title yet again? Even the "...but for me, it's Super Tuesday" one?

I demand that we have a brokered thread!
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I like this a lot better than the current title.

...Also apologies to everyone and the mods. Someone just explained to me why the last title, which I selected based off of popular opinion in the thread, was a reference to gamergate.

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Beer Monkey said:
Downloaded all 500,000 voter registrations for my county in a spreadsheet. Among other things, it tracks every registered voter's participation in all elections and primaries back to May 2010.

Started looking up all the Bernie Or Bust people I know on Facebook.

Virtually none of them voted in the 2010 and 2014 midterms. Some haven't voted at all until this year's Dem primary, and they are all at least 28 years old. About half voted in the 2014 general and nothing else.

Check out the data for your county. It will probably confirm what you think.
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Not shocked at all.

I've been saying this for a while now, based on what I've seen from the people I know and the basic attitude of BoB/S4P people who are the ones making this noise, a good portion if not the majority of them aren't politically active, won't be politically active after this and were never actually going to be a major voting block for the general election.

noise is noise and it will go away after Sanders is out of the race and the media ignores it when Clinton and Trump are the only two standing.
 
Dear America,

You have an incompetent buffoon who is a threat to global stability as the nominee from one party, and the only party that can stop him is completely embroiled in conspiracies and in fighting.

Don't fuck this up for the rest of us.

Kind regards,
The Rest of the World
 
Zornack said:
I wonder if Obama will step in after California and if Sanders' campaign will take the fight to him.
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Bernie or one of his surrogates will probably say something astronomically stupid and insult Obama directly at this rate. When his base is composed of so many people who dislike Bams (i.e. he didn't go far enough, he's an incrementalist, wall street crony, drones!!) it's not out of the realm of possibility.
 
So what are the odds the Bern pulls a Cruz and nominates a VP

Dr. Jill Stein ✔‎@DrJillStein
The #BernieLostMe hashtag is another attempt to marginalize the majority of Americans who don't support the politics of oligarchy.
9:04 PM - 18 May 2016
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jack_package_200 said:
This. Hell the one senator who did endorse Bernie has been pretty silent lately.

No self respecting dem would align with Bernie at this point.
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He's been all over the talk shows and the papers saying let the process play out.

To his credit he said this should not go to the convention. Maybe he should let Bernie know.
 
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