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Objectively speaking, I don't think a cost-benefit analysis would bear that out.

You are far more likely to die in a car accident on your way to and from your polling place than you are to have your vote make a difference, and given that the difference in outcome offers so little benefit for one candidate versus another, sitting at home is probably the better option.

The choice is between a candidate whose base is mostly friendly to a lot of libertarian ideas or a candidate whose base wants you dead. It's hard not to see the difference.
 
The choice is between a candidate whose base is mostly friendly to a lot of libertarian ideas or a candidate whose base wants you dead. It's hard not to see the difference.

There isn't any, because those two particular candidates have both already proven they want to devalue the currency until we're all in the poorhouse and fill our veins with poison.

I suppose being amongst the suckers I like the best would be some consolation for the fix we're all in, but I'd rather go lone wolf now and more lone wolf later. No offense.
 
The choice is between a candidate whose base is mostly friendly to a lot of libertarian ideas or a candidate whose base wants you dead. It's hard not to see the difference.

I disagree with republicans as much as I do democrats, so for me it's quite difficult impossible to see the difference.

To vote for a person who ran up $8+ Trillion in debt, started a brand new federal agency OWS, called Massie a third-rate grandstander because he wanted congress to vote on the record, makes absolutely no sense at all. All that would do is show the brainwashed tv watchers and tptb my consent, which I absolutely will not do.

But hey, I won't stop anybody from sleeping at night, if they feel that they must play the game.
 
The choice is between a candidate whose base is mostly friendly to a lot of libertarian ideas or a candidate whose base wants you dead. It's hard not to see the difference.

I don't see that friendliness to libertarian ideas among either major candidate's base that you see. And voters aren't voting for the candidates' bases anyway. They vote for the candidates themselves.
 
“To vote for a person who ran up $8+ Trillion in debt, started a brand new federal agency OWS, called Massie a third-rate grandstander because he wanted congress to vote on the record, makes absolutely no sense at all.”

It’s much worse. He tweeted Massie should be kicked out of Republican Party, because he just wanted standard Congressional accountability
 
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“To vote for a person who ran up $8+ Trillion in debt, started a brand new federal agency OWS, called Massie a third-rate grandstander because he wanted congress to vote on the record, makes absolutely no sense at all.”

It’s much worse. He tweeted Massie should be kicked out of Republican Party, because he just wanted standard Congressional accountability

It's even that much worse than that:

Had a democrat president made that threat, every republican would have objected. But because Trump made that threat, and if Trump had the means [he actually tried] to replace Massie with a neocon, republicans outside of Massie's district would not have given it a second thought.
 
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The choice is between a candidate whose base is mostly friendly to a lot of libertarian ideas or a candidate whose base wants you dead. It's hard not to see the difference.

the choice between an autocratic party whose primaries are crooked and a party where a guy like Trump can get nominated.

enough said. At least Rand has a chance in the GOP.. But he would need fair general elections which we do not have. The people that count the vote decide the outcome today.
 
I think Trump was better on foreign policy, And that's no small thing. On the other hand, he gave us the COVID lockdowns and associated spending, and that's no small thing either.

Maybe after Trump we can get a president who is better on both.

Right now, we have a president who is bad on both.

It's like algebraic equations. You just take out the common variables on both sides and what you're left with is the difference.

2a + y + 3 = 6x + y + 8

"y" is the garbage COVID policies. Both Biden and Trump suck. So, just remove "y" from both sides in this equation and weigh the difference.

(That was my first attempt to explain how to measure candidates using mathematics. I apologize, and it won't happen again. Also please don't try to solve that equation because I'm not sure it's solvable, and I'm very rusty on high-school algebra)
 
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2a + y + 3 = 6x + y + 8

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(That was my first attempt to explain how to measure candidates using mathematics. I apologize, and it won't happen again. Also please don't try to solve that equation because I'm not sure it's solvable, and I'm very rusty on high-school algebra)

Challenge accepted. (It's not really that much of a challenge, though.)

The equation can be reduced to:

a = 3x + 5/2

It is only "unsolvable" in the sense that there are infinite solutions, rather than one just one. For example:

...

x = -1 ⇒ a = -1/2

x = -1/2 ⇒ a = 1

x = 0 ⇒ a = 5/2

x = 1/2 ⇒ a = 4

x = 1 ⇒ a = 11/2

...
 
It's like algebraic equations. You just take out the common variables on both sides and what you're left with is the difference.

"Both." Not "all", just "both".

In 1860 the nation was staring civil war in the face, and told the Whig Party to go to hell. Guess the population had more on the ball back then. The people weren't all, like, oh, we don't have permission to vote for that third Republican Party.

We are fucked. Bend down and kiss what little is left of this nation goodbye.
 
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"Both." Not "all", just "both".

In 1860 the nation was staring civil war in the face, and told the Whig Party to go to hell. Guess the population had more on the ball back then. The people weren't all, like, oh, we don't have permission to vote for that third Republican Party.

We are $#@!ed. Bend down and kiss what little is left of this nation goodbye.

I mean, once the Republican party supplanted the Whig party as one of the two major parties (and the Whig party just, imploded), it was still 'both' and has remained so until this day. Apparently, the American people will never allow themselves to have a densely populated field of parties to choose from. If one arises, another one goes extinct, and you're back where you started.

It would be nice if we could choose between the lesser of 3 evils, or 4 evils, or maybe even 5 evils. That would be exciting. I'm using Occam to solve the equations in that scenario.
 
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I mean, once the Republican party supplanted the Whig party as one of the two major parties (and the Whig party just, imploded), it was still 'both' and has remained so until this day. Apparently, the American people will never allow themselves to have a densely populated field of parties to choose from.

Okay.

So why were they allowed to replace one if it got too crappy, and why aren't we?

They voted for Someone Else. And they got him. Nobody asked permission to do it.
 
Okay.

So why were they allowed to replace one if it got too crappy, and why aren't we?

Do you think it's easier to reach that point with or without Trump?

(If he's as bad as you say he is, then it should be just a matter of time before we get that 3rd party (to replace the 2nd party and therefore become the new 2nd party, but I digress). If he's not as bad as you say he is, well, now we've got to admit that, yes, indeed he was actually better than Biden, and that our claims that there was 'no difference between the two' were hyperbolic)
 
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Do you think it's easier to reach that point with or without Trump?

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

He is the GOP at this point. He's the elephant incarnate. Are you asking me if anyone can wreck the party faster? Are you asking me if there's a better vehicle Billy Kristol can pretend to hate while he rides his wave all the way to a position in The New Red Flavored National Socialism?
 
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