2020 Presidential election

[sirkickyass]

Much like building a rival to the NFL, really hard to get a foothold. Too much money, corporate interests, lobbying, etc. that goes on unchecked. When the NRA, oil and gas companies, telecom and tech companies, etc. chucking money at everyone, no wonder this country is bought and sold.

Has anyone ever heard of a poor politician?

Biden was actually the poorest man in Congress for decades. He had a net worth under $100k into his 60s.

He really only made any money at all from book royalties and paid speaking engagements in the last 6-7 years or so.

AOC might be negative net worth when you include student loans.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Are we sure it’s the two party system that’s failing or one shrinking political party that has lost faith in democracy and is now functioning as an extremist illiberal party? Example 1,348,847:

 

[sirkickyass]

The two-party system problem isn't really about the number of parties. It's that we don't have a mechanism for a major political party (in this case the GOP) to naturally die.

In a parliamentary model with lots of parties there's no obvious reason for the white supremacists, the single issue abortion voters and the low tax enthusiasts to be lock step aligned into a single slot of candidates. As demographics and times change narrow issue groups could wax and wane over time naturally. The first past the post system means there's no natural way for the GOP to fade and have something replace it. So the desperate push to prop the infrastructure up become increasingly desperate and weird. Next thing you know, the only person that can unite the base is the most racist and vile one of them all.

 

[Avery]

I'm still a bit shocked that the nation found two individuals who couldn't talk themselves into an extra BBQ for their McNuggets at the drive-thru window to lead our country, but here we are.

Difference is one seems to actually have videotaped compassion and basic human etiquette while the other does not.

 

[candrew]

The Trump Administration with yet another big **** you to first responders.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/national-guard-coronavirus-267514

The first wave of the National Guard who were activated due to COVID-19 will be recalled on June 24. One day before they'll be eligible for GI Benefits.

thousands of members who first deployed in late March will find themselves with only 89 days of duty credit, one short of the 90-day threshold for qualifying for early retirement and education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI bill.

 

[Deleted member 365]

The Trump Administration with yet another big **** you to first responders.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/national-guard-coronavirus-267514

The first wave of the National Guard who were activated due to COVID-19 will be recalled on June 24. One day before they'll be eligible for GI Benefits.

Any member of the guard who votes for Donald is dumb as hell. Pretty obvious he only cares about law enforcement/military when he can use them as props.

 

[Scat]

He is a brain dead and brainwashed idiot.
Lol at the part where he said that Biden raped the woman working for him. iirc the woman working for him didn't even accuse him of raping him but pjf is going to go ahead and make that accusation.
What a **** head

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She did accuse Biden of sexual assault.
https://time.com/5831100/joe-biden-tara-reade-allegation/

“He just had me up against the wall, and the wall was cold. And I remember, he— it happened all at once. The gym bag, I don’t know where it went, I handed it to him, it was gone, and then his hands were on me, and underneath my clothes,” Reade said. “He went down my skirt, but then up inside it, and he penetrated me with his fingers.”

 

[sirkickyass]

I got a lot more interested in the Tara Reade story when I found out she was fluent enough in Russian to translate Rumi's poems into the language.

 

[Miggs]

I got a lot more interested in the Tara Reade story when I found out she was fluent enough in Russian to translate Rumi's poems into the language.

 

[Scat]

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I thought I had a better pic than this. It's Kicky in his Fesenko jersey cheering at a Jazz game.

 

[infection]

I got a lot more interested in the Tara Reade story when I found out she was fluent enough in Russian to translate Rumi's poems into the language.

Of course, because her story is so improbable that it's laughable. But her duplicitousness as a Russian asset sent to make claims to take down Trump's opponent is so ******* obvious to common sense, and so vindicatingly intoxicating, that it's obviously got legs.

 

[sirkickyass]

Of course, because her story is so improbable that it's laughable. But her duplicitousness as a Russian asset sent to make claims to take down Trump's opponent is so ******* obvious to common sense, and so vindicatingly intoxicating, that it's obviously got legs.

Honestly, I came away from reading all her blog posts about how hot Putin is with his shirt off on the side of "this lady is just a ****ing weirdo."