This seems to make a lot of good points: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
I'd never explored the Cracked website. I always sort of assumed it was the same thing as the magazine of my misspent youth. It may be worth looking into.
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Some of it is interesting, but Hillary does not have a lock on all urban areas as the article makes it sound like Arizona and Texas, just as examples, have large urban areas that have reliably voted for Republicans. Could change this time around though, have to see. It would be nice if they wrote an article about how the other half of the country lost its fucking mind and voted for a criminal oligarchic.
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I think the guy is spot on with why most people picked Trump. I am pretty sure that everyone here ain't exactly "normal".
Both sides are pretty much made up of people cheering for their team. It's doesn't matter what it is actually going on, team first. So you basically have the normal people picking someone for their team. The collectivist/city folk/lefties anointed the wicked witch of the west, with a large screaming minority wanting even harder, seemingly nicer, Comrade Bernie. The other side is just so sick of the crap they went for the guy that just pisses people off. Like the article author said, brick through the window.
My wife is all pro-Trump. Yet, she agrees with everything I point out wrong about him. She just doesn't give a shit anymore. She doesn't trust the R's and hates the D's. To paraphrase, if we can't fix it, let them suffer too.
Both sides are pretty much made up of people cheering for their team. It's doesn't matter what it is actually going on, team first. So you basically have the normal people picking someone for their team. The collectivist/city folk/lefties anointed the wicked witch of the west, with a large screaming minority wanting even harder, seemingly nicer, Comrade Bernie. The other side is just so sick of the crap they went for the guy that just pisses people off. Like the article author said, brick through the window.
My wife is all pro-Trump. Yet, she agrees with everything I point out wrong about him. She just doesn't give a shit anymore. She doesn't trust the R's and hates the D's. To paraphrase, if we can't fix it, let them suffer too.
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Its really simple about all that stuff. I. Dont. Care.Cobar wrote:I think the guy is spot on with why most people picked Trump. I am pretty sure that everyone here ain't exactly "normal".
Both sides are pretty much made up of people cheering for their team. It's doesn't matter what it is actually going on, team first. So you basically have the normal people picking someone for their team. The collectivist/city folk/lefties anointed the wicked witch of the west, with a large screaming minority wanting even harder, seemingly nicer, Comrade Bernie. The other side is just so sick of the crap they went for the guy that just pisses people off. Like the article author said, brick through the window.
My wife is all pro-Trump. Yet, she agrees with everything I point out wrong about him. She just doesn't give a shit anymore. She doesn't trust the R's and hates the D's. To paraphrase, if we can't fix it, let them suffer too.
Anything that pokes a stick in the eye of the left. My philsophy is Churchill 1941 when it comes to the culture war at this point.
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Re: Trump explained?
Trump is the result of people not thinking the politicians are listening any more (and they are right), and the GOP stonewalling against Cruz. People are so fed up with the system, they are willing to vote for Trump just to shake up the status quo, no matter what Trump does or says.
The guy at Cracked clearly gets that.
The guy at Cracked clearly gets that.
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Lots of folks are thinking like that. We elected a Republican majority in both the House and the Senate, and told them to fix things. As far as I know, we still don't have a budget, which is decidedly the House's domain. Both parties have forgotten the sensible job of governing, being too angry at the other side.My wife is all pro-Trump. Yet, she agrees with everything I point out wrong about him. She just doesn't give a shit anymore. She doesn't trust the R's and hates the D's. To paraphrase, if we can't fix it, let them suffer too.
I'm tired of politicians acting like we're beholden to them. Republicans have forgotten their core principles: small government, balanced budgets, entitlement reform, immigration. AFAIK, they haven't done a damn thing on any of them.
The Dems, or course, have stood by and let the president weaponize the IRS and FBI against his enemies. Don't get me started on Koskinen or Comey. Both of those assholes deserve to be in jail. Comey has raped the idea of the rule of law, and Koskinen is openly in contempt of anyone who wants him to treat people fairly.
The urban/rural political divide is growing deeper, and we need adults in Congress and the alphabet bureaucracies to bring sobriety back to government. Neither political party is providing adult leadership. The Republicans have nominated a martinet, and the Democrats have nominated a known felon.
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Paw paw to be fair to congress it's tough to get much of anything through the threat of a presidential veto when you don't have a super majority.
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Re: Trump explained?
I've posted that in this election both sides have basically told the undecided voters to go to hell and just instead pandered 100% to their bases.
I'm in the camp that won't vote for Hillary and can't vote for Trump.... But I'm getting mad enough to wish to inflict trump on the rest of the country.
I'm in the camp that won't vote for Hillary and can't vote for Trump.... But I'm getting mad enough to wish to inflict trump on the rest of the country.
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Re: Trump explained?
Pass good legislation and let him veto it. Harry Reid didn't have any trouble going nuclear when he had a small margin and MItch (hack, spit) McConnell suddenly wants to play by the rules? He's worthless as tits on a boar-hog.Kommander wrote:Paw paw to be fair to congress it's tough to get much of anything through the threat of a presidential veto when you don't have a super majority.
At least then, Congress could say, rightly, that they're passing good legislation and the obstructionist Democrat president is vetoing it. I'd send him a bill a week and let him veto every one of them. I'm not even sure at this point, are we operating on a budget or a continuing resolution? Google doesn't help me after three whiskys.
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That's either not enough whiskey, or too much Google.
And, yeah, it's yet ANOTHER continuing resolution. We haven't had a budget in several years.
And, yeah, it's yet ANOTHER continuing resolution. We haven't had a budget in several years.
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