So…who have you got that has a chance in hell of winning?
::crashing in the through the drywall on an old Harley:: Yeeeaahh Gary Aleppo Johnson!!! Get outa my way!!! Woooooot!!!
(chopper idling) Er…wait…is this not the, er, uh…forget it…I’m off.
(peels away)
Nobody. We’re fucked, and it’s our own fault.
Oh Biden has to go, eh? Who’s going to take his place - Justin Amash? Jill Stein? Vladimir Putin?
Well…thanks for that. I guess.
If you had to choose between “bad” and “worse” which would you pick?
The GOP has killed 66,000 Americans in two months. They know EXACTLY what they’re doing. The only exception is where they didn’t think it through, like ranting against masks and encouraging their evolutionally-challenged loyalists to “liberate” states.
Reade is now claiming she might not have filed a complaint at all. Or, if she did, what she said.
I wouldn’t. That’s a false dilemma. It’s a lazy way to look at the world, and it’s a loser’s way to look at the world, and the minute you forget that, in walks President Trump or President G. W. Bush, and they’re there to stay, baby! If you keep offering the people “bad,” sooner or later “worse” is going to win, because people are going to get fed up with voting for bad.
And before you ask, yes, OF COURSE, there’s something we can do. I seem to remember another mediocre, grabby out-of-touch boomer having his ass handed to him by Obama, who, the last time I checked, was not that much older than I was and was smart, likeable, canny, and telegenic. In fact, now that I think about it, he beat two obnoxious, out-of-touch older guys, but check my math, I might be misremembering.
Obama, yeah . . . You know, the guy Hillary savaged, insulted, tried to tear down, and ultimately failed, because, as it turned out, people liked Obama quite a bit more than they liked her. Shit, man, people seemed to like herpes more than they liked her.
Find another Obama, and you’ll get the US back. Run a crusty, old, out-of-touch sexual-harasser, and you’re going to get exactly what you deserve, because when your party knowingly runs bad against worse, it pretty much starts the race without the moral high ground.
Oh yeah it’s the Orange Man Bad about the pandemic.Jeez!
And what is your choice if you cannot find your “Obama”? To sit on your ass felling morally superior to everyone else?
No, but I’m not going to spend all my free time bitching on a message board about the electoral college and why can’t everyone else in the country elect my candidate just because he or she is slightly less of a fuckhead than the other guy’s fuckhead. That’s another thing losers do.
“She’s lying, but he did it.”
What kind of mental gymnastics does that kind of cognitive dissonance require?
Less bad is better than more bad, period. You just keep on looking for your Perfect Candidate, while the rest of us do our best to turn this country around.
Do try to remember that somebody is going to become President-They don’t just do another election if you don’t like either candidate.
Not perfect is one thing. Total loser is quite another. Not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one thing. Chucking “perfect” and “good” for total stupidity is quite another.
Obama: Not perfect.
Hillary Clinton: Total fucking loser, who lost to Trump and pretty much cemented herself in the Politically Fucked Hall of Fame. I understand Walter Mondale is nervous about how close she is to knocking him off his pedestal, but hey, she has to win something sometime. Oh, and she’s about as likable as COVID-19.
Obama: Not perfect.
Al Gore: Ummmm . . . well, then, glad I’m not his massage therapist.
Obama: Not perfect.
Joe Biden: Yeah . . . when your concept of white knight on a horse leading us to the promised land is Uncle Touchy–who’s also a bit of a crotchety old potty-mouth–maybe you deserve to lose to Orange Clulius.
It’s a bit late now, but try to keep this in mind while looking for your candidate to beat Pence after Trump wins reelection. And just remember: We had four years to pick a decent candidate to represent us, and it turned out to be this guy? What exactly are you doing to turn this country around? 'Cause it ain’t working.
there is something you said that I might challenge.
OK, you got me. For $5.00 and a wink, I’ll give him the damn back rub.
What kind of response even *is *that?
More like: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris if she weren’t defending her Senate seat, Julián Castro, Andrew Yang, Jay Inslee, even Kirsten Gillibrand. What is hard about this?
Fuck it, at this point, let’s just run Al Franken. Why the hell not?
(text — T.S. Eliot; “Mr. Apollinax”)
Even if she’s telling the truth, there’s a big difference between her and Christine Ford Blasey. Blasey spoke out when she did because she wanted to prevent a sexual predator from becoming one of the most powerful people in the country. But if she’s telling the truth, then Reade waited until it was guaranteed that a a sexual predator would become (or remain) the most powerful person in the country. If she had spoken out even a few months earlier, we could have gotten someone else.
I honestly wonder if any of the Biden voters have a theory of mind.
People are going to believe he did it. People already thought he was a creep if not a pedophile.
Biden was a weak candidate before these allegations. He was a known sex pest with no sense of other people’s boundaries before these allegations—
Oh! That’s the connection. Biden is a gropey pest because he lacks a good sense of what other people want. Biden’s voters aren’t bothered by this because they (you) are the same way. And that’s why you can’t understand that this is a losing ticket. You don’t see other people as having opinions, except as they are irritating to you.
Biden voters are mentally deficient, psychopaths without a theory of mind, without the imagination to understand why anyone could ever disagree with you. People who disagree are assumed to just be “evil.”
Wow, I’m so sorry you’re dumb.