It's not a disqualification when there's no real alternative. She's the most qualified candidate ever and the other alternative is a paranoid narcissist who doesn't understand why we can't use our nukes.
There was no real malfeasance here. She's been harangued by republicans and the press for thirty years. Of course she's going to want to have tighter control over unclassified email. She knows people will draw all sorts of crazy inferences and take email out of context to "prove" she's some sort of evil genius. How can anyone blame her for that?
Hell, people are so crazy with hate for her that they use her husband's sexual indiscretions against her. How fucked up is that?
I'm quite happy she's going to be president. I'm happy she has helped the millions of people she's helped over the years and I'm happy that she's still willing to do this very difficult job in the face of the insanity of the opposing party and the press.
I'm really tired of the making of mountains out of molehills.
And while I'm at it, let's talk about "lies". Making a false statement does not make you a liar. People whole live complex lives with a large amount of responsibility forget a lot of extraneous details. The human mind has a strange way of filling in gaps and reorganizing memories and sometimes creating false memories. I have experienced this false memory phenomenon personally. It is real and it happens a lot more than you might think. So when someone says, "My daughter was out jogging due X time frame" and she's wrong it's probably more because it was an otherwise irrelevant detail that got stored with the relevant details. How many times have you had to correct your parents about their recollection of some event? But when this happens to Hillary it's OMG! she's SOOO dishonest. Oh for fuck's sake. Have some perspective. The lies we need to worry about from politicians are not broken campaign promises or minutiae about some other event, but lies are things like cherry picking evidence to make a case for war, or covering up a break in, or covering up selling arms to our enemies. These are relevant and material deceptions.
Also when you know you have a prosecutor interviewing you who is trying his best to corner you into a contradiction, it is a very good idea to not allow questioning without a lawyer. If you are a lawyer and you decide to be interviewed, it is definitely in your best interest to restate questions to be more precise with your answers so your answers can't be twisted into contradictions. It's not a sign of dishonesty, it is a matter of being precise so someone doesn't try to fuck you over with your own words.
When asked if Hillary had lied to him or congress Comey said, "No" .
So when you start in with the Hillary is not trustworthy trope. Ask yourself are you repeating the media mantra from the last thirty years where the press kept saying "People don't really trust her"? Because that is exactly what they did. They pushed this idea(mainly because they were pissed at being iced out in 1993). Are you filtering every stupid little thing through a "she's untrustworthy" filter? Because the more I really look into her record and the things she's done for people quietly, without tooting her own horn, the more impressed I am with her. I really think she's deeply concerned with the country's well being and is busting her ass for us.
I'm no christian but she is and she's very serious about her faith and good works. I just wish we could have a democratic congress to go along with her as president and a democratic senate. The current republican party has lost its mind.
It's a damn shame they didn't do it with the shuttle external fuel tanks. Those things were huge. How many would we have in use now if that was part of the design?
Cool. An example of an equivocation fallacy in physics. Generally you see the fallacy of equivocation employed by religious people or people denying science.
I qualify expert with an M-16 and I have a pretty good knowledge of firearms as I have been shooting my whole life.
The idea that an AR-15 is just as dangerous as a hunting rifle is stupid. I know I can kill a lot more people in a shorter amount of time with an AR-15 than I can with any hunting rifle. The NRA(the gun manufacturers lobby) has successfully brainwashed a generation of people into thinking the 2nd amendment is sacrosanct and that it means you should be able to get any damned firearm you want.
There are many problems with this. One is that this country has changed dramatically over the last ~200 years. Technology has improved and population density has increased. Another problem is that traditionally as the west was being settled one of the ordinances a new town would enact is a no guns in town ordinance. It is a sign of lawlessness to have people running around in town with a gun. Rural settings are obviously different and should be treated differently. But in the cities and towns, guns are stupid and just asking for trouble. Another huge problem is the NRA. I used to be a member but those guys are fucking crazy. They block very sensible legislation and technology like single user gun tech. We can make guns that can only be operated by one or two designated users. This tech is sensible and would prevent many tragedies yet the NRA not only blocked legislation making the tech mandatory, they went further to prevent municipalities from requiring weapons like this for law enforcement. Think about that. The NRA didn't want cops to have guns that couldn't be fired by people who aren't police. Furthermore the NRA has blocked legislation that would make it easy to identify a shooter after the fact. We have forensic capabilities with tasers that will allow law enforcement to identify the person who purchased the taser cartridge, we could easily do the same with firearms, but the NRA won't have it. That's fucking insane.
I could go on for days but think about this. If there was a non lethal and better alternative to guns, would you be OK with getting rid of guns? If you ask someone who is pro gun that question and they can't answer in the affirmative then a couple of things might be at play. They are either too stupid to deal with a hypothetical or they have a deeply rooted religious belief about guns which can't be shaken.
Neither option is good and I don't really see a third. Generally a pro gun person will find all sorts of ways to try to show that the hypothetical doesn't or can't exist in reality, which is proof of the first option as the link above demonstrates or their belief is too deeply rooted.
Oh yes, I forgot the other option. They just like to kill.
So because republicans managed to pokes holes in sensible legislation you're going to blame democrats for something the republicans did to the legislation and go further to say, therefor it's impossible to improve.
Have you ever deployed software that wasn't perfect the first few rounds? Did you just give up on the project as a result? I mean, if it's not perfect you might as well just give up, right?
This reminds me of the arguments and complaints from republicans about the flaws in the ACA, WHICH THEY DEMANDED BE PUT IN THE BILL!. It's like punching your wife in the face and then telling her that black eye makes her ugly.
OK so let me get this straight. You think a democrat will put everyone on the no fly list, killing the airline industry in order to stop the sale of guns.
They aren't doing so in legislative form at present...
So you would rather we sell guns to people on the terrorist watch list because you are afraid of what the democrats might propose in the future. And somehow those future proposals will just magically sail through congress unopposed because this legislation passed?
You fail to mention a presumption the founders had regard the 2nd amendment which changes things quite a bit. They also presumed that the US would not have a standing army, therefor we would need everyone ready in the militia during a time of war.
But we have a standing army so a militia is not really needed.
Also the founders aren't gods. We need to be civilized and stop with the dick waving, I mean gun toting.
This is more an example of the Streisand effect than secret government proceedings. The democrats decided to protest by having a sit in and the speaker of the house thought, "Fine, I'll just cut the video feed so no one can see it". It was a dick move and now the speaker of the house has made history by presiding over the first sit in in congressional history.
Apparently he also looked into cutting the power and the air conditioning.
This is all because republicans refuse to pass a bill that would stop people on the no fly list from buying guns.
Yes, they are that insane. In fact they are so insane that the NRA(the gun manufacturing lobby group) has called John Lewis(a civil rights leader since the 60's and one of the participants in the sit in) a terrorist.... for having a peaceful demonstration!
Wouldn't it be a simpler task to track sales of guns? The government knows when I buy a car, when I withdraw or deposit a large sum of money and when I vote, shouldn't they also know when I buy a gun?
I was wondering if the marijuana businesses could get around this banking issue by overpaying their taxes in cash and then getting a check for the refund. The bank isn't going to refuse to open an account for a business that is depositing government checks is it?
This has the added benefit of making the government the money launderer.
Trump stole the zombie horde. But there aren't enough zombies to win... this cycle. Americans are getting dumber and dumb people breed more than smart people. We will have our President Camacho someday.
Idiocracy is in full swing. Trump, Cruz, Palin and Dubya are solid evidence of that.
There's really only one "smart" thing I want my TV to do and that is have a buffer. If it could just buffer 30 minutes of video I'd be incredibly happy. All the streamers have shitty interfaces that lag and there's only one solution I have found that really works and that's Tivo. Even though Tivo supports Netflix, Hulu, Amazon,etc. each one of these services has their own quirks and button functions and none are close to being as good as Tivo when it comes to UI. I'd pay a lot to be able to have the Tivo responsiveness and UI for all video and that means buffering the video at the set.
Except the Democrats aren't representing my interests either. They want to destroy personal responsibility, discourage self-reliance, make people more dependent on the state, and destroy the economy with communist nonsense. It's gotten so bad that a communist is even running in the Democratic primaries.
People who engage in hyperbole are worse than Hitler.
Seriously, I'm shocked that this is upvoted. Do you really think that's what Democrats want? Have you ever met anyone who said, "I want to discourage self-reliance"? This is stupid on it's face and it's quite clear that you've been consuming too much right wing propaganda. Someone may feel that democratic policies result in lessened self-reliance and a reduction of personal responsibility but you're a complete fool if you think that's what the democratic party is striving for.
Furthermore, "Communist"? Really? Are you time warping from the 50's? This is just so incredibly cartoonish. It would be really funny if there weren't tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans who also believed this nonsense.
I challenge anyone to come up with 3 major things the republicans have done to help the average American in the last 50 years that wasn't some sort of corporate welfare or military spending. That's not really fair, I can't even come with one and I pay close attention to these things and have been for the last 30 years.
I've lived abroad quite a bit and I can tell you that the American health care system is insane. In Canada, for example they spend half as much and have better outcomes. None of my European friends think universal healthcare is terrible. They are all very happy with it.
The underlying problem is the way our republic is structured. The first past the post system prevents a multiplicity of parties and views that must cooperate with each other to get things done. As it's set up now the two political parties have become more polarized over the decades and now the republicans are not only openly hostile and destructive but even uttering the word compromise in any way that is not derisive as a sure fired way to lose a primary. They've been locked in to their extremism.
In a modern Parliamentary system coupled with proportional representation people are forced to work together. Working together is a good thing. Finding common ground and focusing on that is better than focusing on wedge issues at the expense of everything else.
Also the republican focus on election rigging has to stop and reporters need to stop with the false equivalency. You can't sit there and pretend all the crazy shit republicans say isn't crazy and is just a matter of opinion that is as equally valid as any other opinion. The press has allowed the republicans cow them into refraining from fact checking by constantly calling them liberal. The press needs to wake the fuck up and quit being bullied by people who lie and say crazy shit like, "global warming isn't real" or "contraceptives are murder". You're not helping when you let people make false claims without pointing out the claim is false.
Politicians can have their own opinions but they can't have their own facts.
This SCOTUS nomination obstuctism? The obviously broken Legislative Branch?
Yeah, about that: Democrats, liberals, progressives, undecideds and undeclareds, EVERYBODY who stayed home and handed the House and Senate to extremist lunatics? Those people are just as much to blame for the mess we find ourselves in as the Republicans currently clogging up Congress like constipated turds in Mitch McConnell's lower instestine.
Maybe more so.
This shouldn't be a surprise. The Tea Party fanatics TOLD us what they intended. They intended to drown government in the bathtub. They intended to stymie the President, and therefore the will of the majority of Americans, at every turn. They fully intended to cut off their own noses if necessary in order to spite their own faces, they'd claw out their own eyes if that's what it takes. They SAID so.
And liberals stayed home. They stayed home because they were "dissappointed" with Obama. Boo hoo. We didn't get everything we wanted. What's the point?
And the extremists took first the House and then the Senate.
And so here we are.
And so here we are and the folks who are now throwing shit at each other are the same damned people who stayed home the last time and pretend like they aren't part of the problem. Democrats who say they won't vote if Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders isn't the nom? Those people are, right now, giving the non-functional GOP Legislature a thumbs up. Those people are giving a pass to Scalia's empty chair. And when I say this same thing in various places on social media - as I just did on Twitter - there's always at least one guy who moans, Why should I have to vote for the lesser of two evils instead of the guy I actually support and identify with? Why? It shouldn't be that way!
Yeah.
You know what? Grow up. That's life. There's an endless list of things that shouldn't be the way they are. We shouldn't have hungry people in nation that throws food away. We shouldn't have sick people in a nation that spends 20% of its budget on its military. The only superpower in the world shouldn't be arguing about whether or not it should educate its young. We shouldn't have homeless people. We should have colonies on the moon and mars and be halfway to Alpha Centari by now. We should have a legislature made up of reasoned adults who are willing to compromise for the good of not only the nation but the entire world. Should be? Don't be a fucking child.
Welcome to reality.
If you're getting everything you want, you're not living in a democracy.
If you're getting everything your way, you're NOT living in a democracy.
Even under the best of circumstances, it's NEVER going to be everything you want it to be.
But it's the best you're going to get.
If you want a better nation, be better citizens.
Who said anything about Bernie being less trustworthy than Hillary? There are certain skills you need to have to be president. Does Bernie have them? Some, sure. But Hillary has better skills and skills that are more critical to being an effective president. What good is having Bernie as president if he can't get anything done? Also keep in mind that consistency is not necessarily a good thing. If you are unable to adjust to the wishes of the people you represent but you're still consistent, is that a good thing? I'd say no. In a representative government you need politicians who fulfill the will of the majority of voters. That's their job. You also want someone who can change their mind when presented with new facts and experiences.
I love Bernie and have since the 90's, but I don't think he would move the ball forward as much as Hillary will.
Insisting on purity is as short sighted as declaring you will never punt on 4th down. It ultimately means you lose.
You've been told not to trust her by the media since 1992. How long have you been politically aware? She's not being indicted for the same thing that Colin Powell and Condi Rice did.
Spending more money on polling is a good thing when it's your job to represent your constituents. You need to know what they think in order to do their bidding. That's what representational government is all about.
It's interesting that you bring up Citizens United. You do realize that it was the hit piece against her made by "Citizens United" during the 2008 election that brought that case to the SCOTUS, right? I'm pretty sure she would be thrilled to run that decision back, if she had the chance, which she won't because she'll be president, not the SCOTUS.
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It's not a disqualification when there's no real alternative. She's the most qualified candidate ever and the other alternative is a paranoid narcissist who doesn't understand why we can't use our nukes.
There was no real malfeasance here. She's been harangued by republicans and the press for thirty years. Of course she's going to want to have tighter control over unclassified email. She knows people will draw all sorts of crazy inferences and take email out of context to "prove" she's some sort of evil genius. How can anyone blame her for that?
Hell, people are so crazy with hate for her that they use her husband's sexual indiscretions against her. How fucked up is that?
I'm quite happy she's going to be president. I'm happy she has helped the millions of people she's helped over the years and I'm happy that she's still willing to do this very difficult job in the face of the insanity of the opposing party and the press.
I'm really tired of the making of mountains out of molehills.
And while I'm at it, let's talk about "lies". Making a false statement does not make you a liar. People whole live complex lives with a large amount of responsibility forget a lot of extraneous details. The human mind has a strange way of filling in gaps and reorganizing memories and sometimes creating false memories. I have experienced this false memory phenomenon personally. It is real and it happens a lot more than you might think. So when someone says, "My daughter was out jogging due X time frame" and she's wrong it's probably more because it was an otherwise irrelevant detail that got stored with the relevant details. How many times have you had to correct your parents about their recollection of some event? But when this happens to Hillary it's OMG! she's SOOO dishonest. Oh for fuck's sake. Have some perspective. The lies we need to worry about from politicians are not broken campaign promises or minutiae about some other event, but lies are things like cherry picking evidence to make a case for war, or covering up a break in, or covering up selling arms to our enemies. These are relevant and material deceptions.
Also when you know you have a prosecutor interviewing you who is trying his best to corner you into a contradiction, it is a very good idea to not allow questioning without a lawyer. If you are a lawyer and you decide to be interviewed, it is definitely in your best interest to restate questions to be more precise with your answers so your answers can't be twisted into contradictions. It's not a sign of dishonesty, it is a matter of being precise so someone doesn't try to fuck you over with your own words.
When asked if Hillary had lied to him or congress Comey said, "No" .
So when you start in with the Hillary is not trustworthy trope. Ask yourself are you repeating the media mantra from the last thirty years where the press kept saying "People don't really trust her"? Because that is exactly what they did. They pushed this idea(mainly because they were pissed at being iced out in 1993). Are you filtering every stupid little thing through a "she's untrustworthy" filter? Because the more I really look into her record and the things she's done for people quietly, without tooting her own horn, the more impressed I am with her. I really think she's deeply concerned with the country's well being and is busting her ass for us.
I'm no christian but she is and she's very serious about her faith and good works. I just wish we could have a democratic congress to go along with her as president and a democratic senate. The current republican party has lost its mind.
At some point we're going to have to master welding in space. We might as well start learning that skill now.
It's a damn shame they didn't do it with the shuttle external fuel tanks. Those things were huge. How many would we have in use now if that was part of the design?
Cool. An example of an equivocation fallacy in physics. Generally you see the fallacy of equivocation employed by religious people or people denying science.
I qualify expert with an M-16 and I have a pretty good knowledge of firearms as I have been shooting my whole life.
The idea that an AR-15 is just as dangerous as a hunting rifle is stupid. I know I can kill a lot more people in a shorter amount of time with an AR-15 than I can with any hunting rifle. The NRA(the gun manufacturers lobby) has successfully brainwashed a generation of people into thinking the 2nd amendment is sacrosanct and that it means you should be able to get any damned firearm you want.
There are many problems with this. One is that this country has changed dramatically over the last ~200 years. Technology has improved and population density has increased. Another problem is that traditionally as the west was being settled one of the ordinances a new town would enact is a no guns in town ordinance. It is a sign of lawlessness to have people running around in town with a gun. Rural settings are obviously different and should be treated differently. But in the cities and towns, guns are stupid and just asking for trouble. Another huge problem is the NRA. I used to be a member but those guys are fucking crazy. They block very sensible legislation and technology like single user gun tech. We can make guns that can only be operated by one or two designated users. This tech is sensible and would prevent many tragedies yet the NRA not only blocked legislation making the tech mandatory, they went further to prevent municipalities from requiring weapons like this for law enforcement. Think about that. The NRA didn't want cops to have guns that couldn't be fired by people who aren't police. Furthermore the NRA has blocked legislation that would make it easy to identify a shooter after the fact. We have forensic capabilities with tasers that will allow law enforcement to identify the person who purchased the taser cartridge, we could easily do the same with firearms, but the NRA won't have it. That's fucking insane.
I could go on for days but think about this. If there was a non lethal and better alternative to guns, would you be OK with getting rid of guns? If you ask someone who is pro gun that question and they can't answer in the affirmative then a couple of things might be at play. They are either too stupid to deal with a hypothetical or they have a deeply rooted religious belief about guns which can't be shaken.
Neither option is good and I don't really see a third. Generally a pro gun person will find all sorts of ways to try to show that the hypothetical doesn't or can't exist in reality, which is proof of the first option as the link above demonstrates or their belief is too deeply rooted.
Oh yes, I forgot the other option. They just like to kill.
So because republicans managed to pokes holes in sensible legislation you're going to blame democrats for something the republicans did to the legislation and go further to say, therefor it's impossible to improve.
Have you ever deployed software that wasn't perfect the first few rounds? Did you just give up on the project as a result? I mean, if it's not perfect you might as well just give up, right?
This reminds me of the arguments and complaints from republicans about the flaws in the ACA, WHICH THEY DEMANDED BE PUT IN THE BILL!. It's like punching your wife in the face and then telling her that black eye makes her ugly.
OK so let me get this straight. You think a democrat will put everyone on the no fly list, killing the airline industry in order to stop the sale of guns.
That's perfectly rational.
Wow.
So you would rather we sell guns to people on the terrorist watch list because you are afraid of what the democrats might propose in the future. And somehow those future proposals will just magically sail through congress unopposed because this legislation passed?
Interesting.
Do you think paranoid people should own guns?
Because they didn't plan on having a standing army. A very important detail.
You fail to mention a presumption the founders had regard the 2nd amendment which changes things quite a bit. They also presumed that the US would not have a standing army, therefor we would need everyone ready in the militia during a time of war.
But we have a standing army so a militia is not really needed.
Also the founders aren't gods. We need to be civilized and stop with the dick waving, I mean gun toting.
This is more an example of the Streisand effect than secret government proceedings. The democrats decided to protest by having a sit in and the speaker of the house thought, "Fine, I'll just cut the video feed so no one can see it". It was a dick move and now the speaker of the house has made history by presiding over the first sit in in congressional history.
Apparently he also looked into cutting the power and the air conditioning.
This is all because republicans refuse to pass a bill that would stop people on the no fly list from buying guns.
Yes, they are that insane. In fact they are so insane that the NRA(the gun manufacturing lobby group) has called John Lewis(a civil rights leader since the 60's and one of the participants in the sit in) a terrorist.... for having a peaceful demonstration!
Wouldn't it be a simpler task to track sales of guns? The government knows when I buy a car, when I withdraw or deposit a large sum of money and when I vote, shouldn't they also know when I buy a gun?
At some point the cameras will be pixel sized and be part of the screen.
I was wondering if the marijuana businesses could get around this banking issue by overpaying their taxes in cash and then getting a check for the refund. The bank isn't going to refuse to open an account for a business that is depositing government checks is it?
This has the added benefit of making the government the money launderer.
Trump stole the zombie horde. But there aren't enough zombies to win ... this cycle. Americans are getting dumber and dumb people breed more than smart people. We will have our President Camacho someday.
Idiocracy is in full swing. Trump, Cruz, Palin and Dubya are solid evidence of that.
There's really only one "smart" thing I want my TV to do and that is have a buffer. If it could just buffer 30 minutes of video I'd be incredibly happy. All the streamers have shitty interfaces that lag and there's only one solution I have found that really works and that's Tivo. Even though Tivo supports Netflix, Hulu, Amazon ,etc. each one of these services has their own quirks and button functions and none are close to being as good as Tivo when it comes to UI. I'd pay a lot to be able to have the Tivo responsiveness and UI for all video and that means buffering the video at the set.
Why this hasn't been done yet baffles me.
Except the Democrats aren't representing my interests either. They want to destroy personal responsibility, discourage self-reliance, make people more dependent on the state, and destroy the economy with communist nonsense. It's gotten so bad that a communist is even running in the Democratic primaries.
People who engage in hyperbole are worse than Hitler.
Seriously, I'm shocked that this is upvoted. Do you really think that's what Democrats want? Have you ever met anyone who said, "I want to discourage self-reliance"? This is stupid on it's face and it's quite clear that you've been consuming too much right wing propaganda. Someone may feel that democratic policies result in lessened self-reliance and a reduction of personal responsibility but you're a complete fool if you think that's what the democratic party is striving for.
Furthermore, "Communist"? Really? Are you time warping from the 50's? This is just so incredibly cartoonish. It would be really funny if there weren't tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans who also believed this nonsense.
I challenge anyone to come up with 3 major things the republicans have done to help the average American in the last 50 years that wasn't some sort of corporate welfare or military spending. That's not really fair, I can't even come with one and I pay close attention to these things and have been for the last 30 years.
I've lived abroad quite a bit and I can tell you that the American health care system is insane. In Canada, for example they spend half as much and have better outcomes. None of my European friends think universal healthcare is terrible. They are all very happy with it.
The underlying problem is the way our republic is structured. The first past the post system prevents a multiplicity of parties and views that must cooperate with each other to get things done. As it's set up now the two political parties have become more polarized over the decades and now the republicans are not only openly hostile and destructive but even uttering the word compromise in any way that is not derisive as a sure fired way to lose a primary. They've been locked in to their extremism.
In a modern Parliamentary system coupled with proportional representation people are forced to work together. Working together is a good thing. Finding common ground and focusing on that is better than focusing on wedge issues at the expense of everything else.
Also the republican focus on election rigging has to stop and reporters need to stop with the false equivalency. You can't sit there and pretend all the crazy shit republicans say isn't crazy and is just a matter of opinion that is as equally valid as any other opinion. The press has allowed the republicans cow them into refraining from fact checking by constantly calling them liberal. The press needs to wake the fuck up and quit being bullied by people who lie and say crazy shit like, "global warming isn't real" or "contraceptives are murder". You're not helping when you let people make false claims without pointing out the claim is false.
Politicians can have their own opinions but they can't have their own facts.
Yet.
At some point we will be able to not only predict what genes will do, we will be able to optimize our genetic code and harden it.
This SCOTUS nomination obstuctism? The obviously broken Legislative Branch?
Yeah, about that: Democrats, liberals, progressives, undecideds and undeclareds, EVERYBODY who stayed home and handed the House and Senate to extremist lunatics? Those people are just as much to blame for the mess we find ourselves in as the Republicans currently clogging up Congress like constipated turds in Mitch McConnell's lower instestine.
Maybe more so.
This shouldn't be a surprise. The Tea Party fanatics TOLD us what they intended. They intended to drown government in the bathtub. They intended to stymie the President, and therefore the will of the majority of Americans, at every turn. They fully intended to cut off their own noses if necessary in order to spite their own faces, they'd claw out their own eyes if that's what it takes. They SAID so.
And liberals stayed home. They stayed home because they were "dissappointed" with Obama. Boo hoo. We didn't get everything we wanted. What's the point? And the extremists took first the House and then the Senate.
And so here we are.
And so here we are and the folks who are now throwing shit at each other are the same damned people who stayed home the last time and pretend like they aren't part of the problem. Democrats who say they won't vote if Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders isn't the nom? Those people are, right now, giving the non-functional GOP Legislature a thumbs up. Those people are giving a pass to Scalia's empty chair. And when I say this same thing in various places on social media - as I just did on Twitter - there's always at least one guy who moans, Why should I have to vote for the lesser of two evils instead of the guy I actually support and identify with? Why? It shouldn't be that way!
Yeah.
You know what? Grow up. That's life. There's an endless list of things that shouldn't be the way they are. We shouldn't have hungry people in nation that throws food away. We shouldn't have sick people in a nation that spends 20% of its budget on its military. The only superpower in the world shouldn't be arguing about whether or not it should educate its young. We shouldn't have homeless people. We should have colonies on the moon and mars and be halfway to Alpha Centari by now. We should have a legislature made up of reasoned adults who are willing to compromise for the good of not only the nation but the entire world.
Should be? Don't be a fucking child.
Welcome to reality.
If you're getting everything you want, you're not living in a democracy.
If you're getting everything your way, you're NOT living in a democracy.
Even under the best of circumstances, it's NEVER going to be everything you want it to be.
But it's the best you're going to get.
If you want a better nation, be better citizens.
Who said anything about Bernie being less trustworthy than Hillary? There are certain skills you need to have to be president. Does Bernie have them? Some, sure. But Hillary has better skills and skills that are more critical to being an effective president. What good is having Bernie as president if he can't get anything done? Also keep in mind that consistency is not necessarily a good thing. If you are unable to adjust to the wishes of the people you represent but you're still consistent, is that a good thing? I'd say no. In a representative government you need politicians who fulfill the will of the majority of voters. That's their job. You also want someone who can change their mind when presented with new facts and experiences.
I love Bernie and have since the 90's, but I don't think he would move the ball forward as much as Hillary will.
Insisting on purity is as short sighted as declaring you will never punt on 4th down. It ultimately means you lose.
If you choose not to vote, you are making a choice to let the zombie horde make decisions for you.
You've been told not to trust her by the media since 1992. How long have you been politically aware? She's not being indicted for the same thing that Colin Powell and Condi Rice did.
Spending more money on polling is a good thing when it's your job to represent your constituents. You need to know what they think in order to do their bidding. That's what representational government is all about.
It's interesting that you bring up Citizens United. You do realize that it was the hit piece against her made by "Citizens United" during the 2008 election that brought that case to the SCOTUS, right? I'm pretty sure she would be thrilled to run that decision back, if she had the chance, which she won't because she'll be president, not the SCOTUS.
The Koch candidate was Scott Walker.