knapplc Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 57 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: I think this country could really benefit from having three....or four....or five viable parties so every issue isn't a binary s#!tshow. Definitely agree. Link to comment
Notre Dame Joe Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said: Boy, if there was ever a year to vote 3rd Party. So in a way, the less than 5% who voted 3rd Party in 2016 is surprisingly low -- given the huge negatives of the two major party candidates. But that's still 6.5 million voters, and there are compelling arguments that they swung the election in individual states and counties, even though the third party candidates had virtually no organization and got zero mainstream media attention. Jill Stein only accounted for 1.4 million of them. So you have a Libertarian/Republican (Johnson/Weld) and Republican (Evan McMullin) making up the remaining 5.1 million, and I gotta think they skimmed moderate Republicans away from Trump. Third parties get a bad rap for being spoilers, but I think this country could really benefit from having three....or four....or five viable parties so every issue isn't a binary s#!tshow. I'm not entirely convinced we even have a two party system. Just two wings of the Entrenched Washington party. And while I reserve the right to browbeat the occasionally feckless Democrats, that Republican wing really has become cancerous. We have 3rd parties but they get absorbed into the Big 2. Trump is basically a New York Ross Perot and he took over the Rs. I bet if you look back on Ralph Nader's Green Party you'll find the D just adopted his policies. 1 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Weigel is one of the funniest follows on Twitter for political stuff. Link to comment
teachercd Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Did you guys know that african americans are not diverse? I learned that today, from Biden. Link to comment
funhusker Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 14 minutes ago, commando said: He should probably just stick to drinking water... Link to comment
teachercd Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 31 minutes ago, commando said: Thighland? Is that near Thighgap? Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Danny Bateman said: Weigel is one of the funniest follows on Twitter for political stuff. Why is the media doing this again? Why even cover this? No one takes Kanye West seriously. And the old White dudes in the GOP who think a bunch of Black people are gonna vote for Kanye West are stupid. 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Maybe Biden should stop doing interviews too. It's great watching the tit for tat between these 2 brilliant minds. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/06/joe-biden-latino-african-american-remark-392354 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Moiraine said: Maybe Biden should stop doing interviews too. It's great watching the tit for tat between these 2 brilliant minds. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/06/joe-biden-latino-african-american-remark-392354 I was reading the comments on this and multiple people were crying about the MSM not posting the story. They included examples like Washington Post and CNN. I saw Washington Post had already mentioned it when I posted the video here. CNN has it as the 4th story in middle of the site now. People are stupid. 1 Link to comment
Notre Dame Joe Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 5 hours ago, Moiraine said: Maybe Biden should stop doing interviews too. It's great watching the tit for tat between these 2 brilliant minds. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/06/joe-biden-latino-african-american-remark-392354 Biden should clarify that those poor kids are just as diverse as white kids. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Trump told everyone he'd get jobs like this done. He literally wrote the book* on this stuff - The Art of the Deal. Where's Trump when we need a deal? * Trump did not, in fact, write that book Link to comment
Notre Dame Joe Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Congress has actually adjourned for a 3 day weekend. If the House Ds insist that stimulus is tied to bailing out the broke blue cities then there shouldn't be a deal. 1 1 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Trumps odds have gotten better the last week. Interesting. Link to comment
RedDenver Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Just now, teachercd said: Trumps odds have gotten better the last week. Interesting. Never underestimate Biden or the Dems ability to turn anything into a trainwreck. 2 1 Link to comment
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