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Donovan Mitchell - We are lucky to have him

I saw on Reddit Donovan met some guy and his kids and not only took a picture with them, but also let both his kids pick out 5 pairs of Stance Socks each and bought them for them. Donovan is the type of person that gives a bit of hope in this world. Moments like these where he treats people, and kids so good, are the moments you know how legitimately good of a man Donovan is. Something like that he probably would never assume would get on Reddit, Twitter, and here, but he’s just a good dude. I’m sure he’s done many other things we have no clue about. Way to be a great man Don, anyone who could dislike you for politics or something else, is a garbage person.
 
Archie Moses said:
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News flash - *here's another way of saying why not voting made sense for me.*

I didn't vote for lots of reasons and I'm completely fine with it. I didn't vote because I was ill informed or apathetic or unpatriotic. I had my reasons and would still do the same thing over.

At the end of the day, especially after living in a third world country, I've always told myself regardless of party or person, I would do my best to support the U.S. and our president. Trump has definitely made this complicated, but I'm damn grateful to live in the US. I would feel the same if Hillary was voted in too.
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Oh sorry, I didn't catch that you didn't vote at all .I thought you were saying that you had picked one of the two because you didn't want to "throw your vote away" by voting for a third party candidate. Sorry for misunderstanding and giving you my knee jerk reaction to that other situation
 
I didnt vote because I didn't like my options. Trump is a disgrace at times, but he is trying to do things differently than the same ole same ole politics before him. Climate was an issue before Trump. Race issues (Trayvon, Fergusen, etc.) were there before Trump. I think painting his admin so far as all bad is just CNN level biased. We still haven't seen the tax return implications from the economic changes made, ISIS does seem to be impacted, went to NK, etc.

I still wish we had a better option, but we didn't. Clinton would have been worse.

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LoPo said:
I didnt vote because I didn't like my options. Trump is a disgrace at times, but he is trying to do things differently than the same ole same ole politics before him. Climate was an issue before Trump. Race issues (Trayvon, Fergusen, etc.) were there before Trump. I think painting his admin so far as all bad is just CNN level biased. We still haven't seen the tax return implications from the economic changes made, ISIS does seem to be impacted, went to NK, etc.

I still wish we had a better option, but we didn't. Clinton would have been worse.

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Please don't vote anymore.
 
I cringe at the way presidential primaries are managed. IIR--Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and it is basically done. Those early results create the narrative then all the other states more or less fall in line.

I would like to see the order of primary elections vary each cycle, and concentrate more primaries in groups, say 5 primary voting days of 10-states each time. Now it doesn't matter for the democrats because they use super delegates to pick the candidate they want, but it could make a huge impact on the republicans. Trump may not have finished in the top 5 in an early Utah primary. True, Utah's delegate count is small, but had it happened early perhaps it would have changed the narrative surrounding the candidates and impacted subsequent primaries.
 
mellow said:
I cringe at the way presidential primaries are managed. IIR--Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and it is basically done. Those early results create the narrative then all the other states more or less fall in line.

I would like to see the order of primary elections vary each cycle, and concentrate more primaries in groups, say 5 primary voting days of 10-states each time. Now it doesn't matter for the democrats because they use super delegates to pick the candidate they want, but it could make a huge impact on the republicans. Trump may not have finished in the top 5 in an early Utah primary. True, Utah's delegate count is small, but had it happened early perhaps it would have changed the narrative surrounding the candidates and impacted subsequent primaries.
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I'm with you there. I also hate the caucus system that Utah uses.
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
Trump is an idiot. Certainly the most inept president in recent times.
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I try to maintain an optimistic outlook on life, or find the silver lining of every cloud. I knew Trump was not what I would choose for a president, but I hoped his willingness to break political protocol and traditions would breath life into politics, open up discussion and debate about some of the protocols, and more or less force Americans to choose what we want to be. Perhaps, I was wrong to think he was challenging protocols for sound reasons. Sadly, I was also wrong to presume Americans would somehow find a common good and unite on some of the issues Trump tinkers with. I think the fear camps on both sides are firmly entrenched, with seemingly no way for a moderate from either party to make it to the final election.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I agree.

That is one of the reasons that I think there is a silver lining to Trump winning. Between Trump and Bernie it made young people care about our government and voting, more than they have. It made so many people look into laws and policies that they dont like and want to change them. It rallied a lot of people to get involved. Maybe it wont make a difference but I think it might.
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I didn’t care for Bernie’s socialist ideals but would like him much more than Clinton or Trump... he really got screwed.
 
mellow said:
I try to maintain an optimistic outlook on life, or find the silver lining of every cloud. I knew Trump was not what I would choose for a president, but I hoped his willingness to break political protocol and traditions would breath life into politics, open up discussion and debate about some of the protocols, and more or less force Americans to choose what we want to be. Perhaps, I was wrong to think he was challenging protocols for sound reasons. Sadly, I was also wrong to presume Americans would somehow find a common good and unite on some of the issues Trump tinkers with. I think the fear camps on both sides are firmly entrenched, with seemingly no way for a moderate from either party to make it to the final election.
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You mistook “breaking protocol” for being a childish name caller. Incivility does not equal getting people to work with you. You can’t call people names for a year and then think they’re going to work with you. As much as I disagreed with Bernie on some things, he also challenged the protocol in a lot of ways and he ended up the one who got screwed out of the nomination, which tells you they were a touch scared of him, and wanted the career politician in Clinton that would just go along. Had Bernie won the nomination, he would have blown Trump out. His supporters hated Clinton enough not to vote, thought she would win, and didn’t bother showing up for many of them. Bernie challenged the career politicians and standard protocol as well, his party just screwed him out of the nomination for their career politician who’s turn it was.
 
Bernie, Hillary and Trump all sucked as options. Bernie seemed fresh, but his logic was flawed. You dont take from the many to improve the life of a few. Didn't anybody learn from the Affordable Healthcare Act (aka Obamacare)? Just make it a land of fair opportunity and either people make it or they struggle. You can't make somebody be successful if they don't want it.

Trump, socially, is just awful. However, our society and especially politics and media are absolutely horrendous. We are simply tearing this country apart with negativity and scare tactics.

Its not going to get better unfortunately. Politics and media are a poop show.

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