Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503298)

A bunch of dumb money would do dumb things after a Trump win, but the market would adjust. ...

And if she wins? Great. The market will fly. Either way, the world does not end.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503299)

It's tedious. All this bullshit about why "empathy" would dictate I vote for a candidate. How insanely naive. Like a choice of politician can be empathetic.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503303)

Electoral math = He's dead. He needs to flip MI, CO, PA, or WI. Good luck there.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 503310)

Have you seen the results of recent Wisconsin statewide elections? Large swathes of that state are very much his demographic.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 503309)

Dude. You think one candidate will cause a recession and the other won't. All else constant (which you're also arguing is the case), a normal human being would pick the non-recession.

You're not, because you think you'll be fine in the recession and don't give a flying fuck about those who it will hurt. That's fucked up.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503311)

6 points down. He is not getting there from here.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 503307)

Can you imagine a Republican Congress doing anything constructive about any of these issues in the next decade?

If the presidential campaign seems pointless, it's because there seems to be little hope that the current GOP will do anything other than try to obstruct what Democrats are trying to do. That won't last forever, because the GOP represents a demographically shrinking electorate. They are more frantic and desperate because they know they are losing.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 503313)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...tein-5974.html

Current Colorado polls, this flips, all else holds, he is the President. (by the way, didn't Colorado somehow split its vote previously?)

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 503305)

How could anyone possibly be this full of shit?

You mentioned there are checks on Trump taking us to war. There are not. There are checks on him declaring war. He already promised to blow people up who were giving the finger to our ships in the Middle East. He's already mentioned killing the families of those he deems terrorists. If you think this man-baby wouldn't deploy troops over the stupidest, petty shit, I imagine you haven't been paying attention to anything other than your pretend cocktail parties where some dumbass says some stupid shit that you repeat here as if that's the current sentiment among people in a position to attend cocktail parties. If you don't have empathy for those put in harm's way for the dumbest of reasons, I can't help you.

You talk about Trump like he's the same as Hillary on any social issue. He's not. And if we wins, that would mean the Republicans held the House and the Senate. He would appoint the next Supreme Court Justice and maybe even three. You clearly don't give a fuck about the progress gay people and minorities have made in this country because that shit doesn't affect you personally. And if you don't think Trump would sit back and rubber stamp the most vicious religious "freedom" type laws, I can't help you. If you think the fact that the teeth of the VRA being removed hasn't affected the ability to vote for the people for whom you clearly have no empathy, I can't help you.

The fact that you think voting is solely a selfish act and project that bullshit on me means that I can't help you. Voting for the most powerful person in the world who has the ability to send people to give their lives and who can affect the rights of millions of people in a very real way is not some topic I can step back from and laugh about how none of this shit will affect me because I make money. That is a stupid, selfish, ridiculous, childish, evil approach to any fucking election.

And the fact that you spend as much time talking about how silly the whole thing is from your forced "outsider" position from which you have some special perspective on the pointlessness of all these silly political games and smugly condescend to those of us who actually care about issues that may or may not directly affect us shows to everyone on this board how full of shit you are. And that is an amazing feat because we already knew that you are mostly fucking full of shit.

So, participate in voting or don't. Keep posting about how nothing will happen of note no matter who wins. No one cares. We all know it's pure bullshit.

TM

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 503306)

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 503318)

Here is what naive, simple-minded empaths like you fail to understand. Yes, it is technically true that he said that nobody is "addressing" certain specific issues. And yes, you and GGG both pointed out that she is, in fact, addressing those exact issues, at least in as much of a way as a candidate can "address" an issue, which is to discuss what her policies would be with respect to those issues if elected. But the nuance that you have missed, most likely because it is being drowned out by the bleating of your horribly dull moralizing, is that when Sebastian said that nobody is addressing these issues, he only actually meant that to the extent that nobody was, in fact, addressing them. If it turns out that, as you pointed out, somebody was and is addressing them, then what Sebastian truly meant is something different. He actually meant that nobody is sincerely addressing these issues. I agree that this is not what his words technically said if you just read them there on the computer screen without any hint of imagination or whimsy, shackled to the literal meaning of his words like some tedious preacher. But everything is just words. Empty promises by hollow buffoons controlled by the cynical elite puppet-master class or propped up by the ignorant fervor of the uneducated swarming masses. If you cannot grasp this basic mostly-truth, that is on you, not him. So get off your high horse, and hide your soap box, because you are going to need it for fuel to cook your rabbit meat when the recession starts. JK!!!! We're recession-proof! Which makes your prattling on and on about empathy all the more inexplicable. I hope we're done here.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503317)

No one except, apparently, you. That's a lot of ink spilled to rebut obvious "bullshit."

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503316)

Same criticism I hear from Trump voters. Hillary's a globalist. Jobs will disappear!

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 503314)

Even all three branches being GOP won't cause a huge problem. Procedurally, the Democrats have enough votes and devices to keep him in check.