What I'm Really Afraid Of

[Karha of Honor]

Better Presidents really aren't likely to happen.

Indeed. So long as the primary strategy everyone uses to determine who gets their vote is "lesser evil", the list of candidates is going to continue being progressively greater "lesser evils".

We could've had Bernie Sanders, for chrissake. And instead we got to choose between a woman who, while actually much less corrupt than the average American politician, is also spectacularly bad at APPEARING clean (not helped by the 25 straight years of hate propaganda directed against her)...and the walking incarnation of soulless greed.

See, this is why we need to have more of the voting-age population vote, and to get more of our people better-educated about politics. A pretty big slice of Americans would be hard-pressed to tell you who the Speaker of the House is, for chrissake.

And boy oh boy he would had been more divisive than Trump which takes talent.

If all the help from the media cannot make her look clean, maybe she is dirty.

wat?

Did Bernie Sanders call for people to beat up protesters at his rallies in real time?

Would Bernie Sanders get into twitter beefs with other nuclear powers while taking his first shit of the day?

Of course not, but alt-righters think that the policies that pretty much every blue-collar worker in the northern 2/3 of the USA wanted would somehow be divisive just because rich fucksticks would whine about them on Faux News.

People are inconsistent fucksticks who contradict themsleves.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Better Presidents really aren't likely to happen.

Indeed. So long as the primary strategy everyone uses to determine who gets their vote is "lesser evil", the list of candidates is going to continue being progressively greater "lesser evils".

We could've had Bernie Sanders, for chrissake. And instead we got to choose between a woman who, while actually much less corrupt than the average American politician, is also spectacularly bad at APPEARING clean (not helped by the 25 straight years of hate propaganda directed against her)...and the walking incarnation of soulless greed.

See, this is why we need to have more of the voting-age population vote, and to get more of our people better-educated about politics. A pretty big slice of Americans would be hard-pressed to tell you who the Speaker of the House is, for chrissake.

And boy oh boy he would had been more divisive than Trump which takes talent.

If all the help from the media cannot make her look clean, maybe she is dirty.

wat?

Did Bernie Sanders call for people to beat up protesters at his rallies in real time?

Would Bernie Sanders get into twitter beefs with other nuclear powers while taking his first shit of the day?

Those are the only ways to be divisive?

I'm saying that President Distracts-you-from-a-massive-scandal-with-another-scandal is more divisive than Bernie Sanders could hope to be even if Sanders fucked a goat live on C-Span.

[Karha of Honor]

Better Presidents really aren't likely to happen.

Indeed. So long as the primary strategy everyone uses to determine who gets their vote is "lesser evil", the list of candidates is going to continue being progressively greater "lesser evils".

We could've had Bernie Sanders, for chrissake. And instead we got to choose between a woman who, while actually much less corrupt than the average American politician, is also spectacularly bad at APPEARING clean (not helped by the 25 straight years of hate propaganda directed against her)...and the walking incarnation of soulless greed.

See, this is why we need to have more of the voting-age population vote, and to get more of our people better-educated about politics. A pretty big slice of Americans would be hard-pressed to tell you who the Speaker of the House is, for chrissake.

And boy oh boy he would had been more divisive than Trump which takes talent.

If all the help from the media cannot make her look clean, maybe she is dirty.

wat?

Did Bernie Sanders call for people to beat up protesters at his rallies in real time?

Would Bernie Sanders get into twitter beefs with other nuclear powers while taking his first shit of the day?

Those are the only ways to be divisive?

I'm saying that President Distracts-you-from-a-massive-scandal-with-another-scandal is more divisive than Bernie Sanders could hope to be even if Sanders fucked a goat live on C-Span.

Don't underestimate the Bern.

[Worffan101]

Fuzzy, that's an understatement.

The only way Trump could possibly get more divisive is by swearing allegiance to ISIS while sacrificing a baby to Satan on live TV. And even then it'd be a toss-up as to whether or not he actually lost any points of approval rating.

[Karha of Honor]

Fuzzy, that's an understatement.

The only way Trump could possibly get more divisive is by swearing allegiance to ISIS while sacrificing a baby to Satan on live TV. And even then it'd be a toss-up as to whether or not he actually lost any points of approval rating.

I don't see him as more divisive than the journalistic class dominated by the left. Something like this was inevitable.

[Nealithi]

Fuzzy, that's an understatement.

The only way Trump could possibly get more divisive is by swearing allegiance to ISIS while sacrificing a baby to Satan on live TV. And even then it'd be a toss-up as to whether or not he actually lost any points of approval rating.

I don't see him as more divisive than the journalistic class dominated by the left. Something like this was inevitable.

Now I think we have created our own 'nobles' here in the career politicians and politician families. But journalistic class? I did not think we were quite that caste oriented.
Yes I know it is a bit pedantic. But I wonder how dominated the media really is. I mean you hear or read people commenting about Faux News. Is it just because it is right wing it is Faux? There seem to dozens of 'news' outlets. Though they seem to be photocopied straight from Associated Press. If I had to make a blame to the media it is AP. When did news stop investigating and reportiing to just parroting what someone else told them to say?

[Karha of Honor]

Fuzzy, that's an understatement.

The only way Trump could possibly get more divisive is by swearing allegiance to ISIS while sacrificing a baby to Satan on live TV. And even then it'd be a toss-up as to whether or not he actually lost any points of approval rating.

I don't see him as more divisive than the journalistic class dominated by the left. Something like this was inevitable.

Now I think we have created our own 'nobles' here in the career politicians and politician families. But journalistic class? I did not think we were quite that caste oriented.
Yes I know it is a bit pedantic. But I wonder how dominated the media really is. I mean you hear or read people commenting about Faux News. Is it just because it is right wing it is Faux? There seem to dozens of 'news' outlets. Though they seem to be photocopied straight from Associated Press. If I had to make a blame to the media it is AP. When did news stop investigating and reportiing to just parroting what someone else told them to say?

There is straight news and commentary that comes along with it and the cherry picking.

[Worffan101]

Fuzzy, that's an understatement.

The only way Trump could possibly get more divisive is by swearing allegiance to ISIS while sacrificing a baby to Satan on live TV. And even then it'd be a toss-up as to whether or not he actually lost any points of approval rating.

I don't see him as more divisive than the journalistic class dominated by the left. Something like this was inevitable.

Now I think we have created our own 'nobles' here in the career politicians and politician families. But journalistic class? I did not think we were quite that caste oriented.
Yes I know it is a bit pedantic. But I wonder how dominated the media really is. I mean you hear or read people commenting about Faux News. Is it just because it is right wing it is Faux? There seem to dozens of 'news' outlets. Though they seem to be photocopied straight from Associated Press. If I had to make a blame to the media it is AP. When did news stop investigating and reportiing to just parroting what someone else told them to say?

A lot of news outlets are experiencing budget cutbacks; exceptions include Faux News, which publishes right-wing propaganda, HuffPo, which publishes celebrity gossip and left-wing propaganda, and Daily Kos, which publishes sleazy requests for donations and left-wing propaganda.

AP is basically an aggregator that collects news from various outlets and puts it out through its other contributing outlets; kind of like how a corporate 'news' outlet like Fox will take significant stuff from local news and spread it to other local outlets and its national service. AP is generally the best American news outlet you can get except maybe NPR because it's nonprofit (so not beholden to a corporate master) and doesn't run editorials, so you can trust what they put out.

Essentially, AP affiliates haven't stopped investigating, they've just stopped investigating stuff outside their wheelhouse and started partitioning the workload more. The AP label is basically a statement of "this is reliable".

[Yukaphile]

At Bernie Sanders rallies they were ripping banners out of screaming children's hands, throwing money at limos (dear God what a waste of money), and calling women "corporate whores." Sanders is the one who made her look dirty while having skeletons in his own closet. His sexual writings, for example. A woman does not fantasize about getting gang raped by three men. Any kind of rape fantasy is in a controlled situation with her loving partner she trusts. And then he goes on about how naked children could run around and might even touch their genitals. He struck me as a sick pervert and a greedy old misogynistic bastard. He was also the last convincing public speaker I've ever seen. I'm not convinced he's loyal to the US so much as what makes him rich, and gets him the spotlight he's always craved. Hell, he voted against the Russian sanctions bill! We all know he loves and worships Mother Russia. Dude was caught in Nicaragua protesting "Death to the Yankees!" And he defends breadlines. Dude shoved his own wife out of the way. And he has no policies except those he stole from other people and the same tired slogans he's been saying for the last forty years. Hillary was a team player. She worked with other people. Sanders got nothing done. He alienates his allies. Those in the Senate consider him the most partisan Senator, which is really saying something. He could never have gotten anything he claimed to do done. He would have lost the election worse than Hillary. You had no idea the kind of attack the GOP was planning on him... turned away anti-war protesters in the late nineties when he voted in favor of NATO intervention in Yugoslavia. In the 1970s he wanted to abolish public education. He also wanted to disband the military and let the Coast Guard protect us. He breaks his promises regularly. Says he'll run a clean campaign, then goes nuclear because he's losing. Promises to support down-ballot Democrats, then pockets all the money for himself. He fakes an endorsement from the Pope that pisses him off, which shows you how well he'd get along with other world leaders - as well as Trump does, as well as he does with his colleagues in the Senate. He kills our chance for healthcare in the 1990s because it's not good enough. He then does the same for Obamacare because compromise is an ugly word to Saint Sanders. I could go on on and on. And then you say he somehow would be good to women, lol. He'd only be good to the cis-het white men that made up his base. He only appealed to dudebros. Women, minorities, they put Clinton over the edge because Sanders doesn't care about that. Only the anxiety of the white working class male. And before you ask, yes, here's sources. With links of their own, too.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016 ... to-release

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... _myth.html

Can't wait till Satan dies. He's worse than Trump. Say what you want about Trump, he never fathered a child with the sole purpose to avoid the draft. That's a complete betrayal of the sacred bond men and women share as the creators of life, at least as I see it. He gave us Trump. And he's comparable to Trump. A greedy, misogynistic con man who doesn't care about anyone but himself.

[Worffan101]

I gotta ask, dude, what alternate universe are you coming from? Because that sure as heck ain't the Bernie Sanders from this dimension.