following the result, the other guy is decomposingQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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following the result, the other guy is decomposingQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I mentioned this story to my sister. She was wondering what the press corpse had to say about it?
That candidate was coffin so much that I'm surprised anybody could understand him.
As a guy who doesn't vote D or R, I couldn't ask for better results of this election cycle. It looks like numbers wise, everything is going to basically be the same as it has been the last 2 years.
Over the past couple of months we went through a mini, cold, civil war. Now that it is over we're basically right back where we started and we are just as divided.
Now we can go back to the WWE theater where R's and D's fight each other on TV, but then behind close doors they agree to spend an obnoxious amount of money as well as support the military industrial complex.
USA! USA! USA!
We're going to see an undercard for the next year or two: Trump vs Desantis.
I was sucking down some sushi, where Fox News was playing without sound. They were doing some story on whether or not Desantis is the Trump replacement. Everybody knows who watches Fox News and has no tolerance for being second banana.
The program put up at least one attack from Trump, but without the sound, I couldn't tell whether it was some old story or a new salvo. Either way, Trump will counterpunch, because he has never done otherwise.
I also forgot to mention that I was told by a political candidate that I was wasting my vote.
She was running for a judicial court position along side another woman who was running. Neither was Libertarian so I called and asked about three things:
- What is your stance on drug laws? (she was strongly in favor)
- What is your stance on jury nullification? (she was strongly opposed)
- What is your stance on the death penalty? (she was in favor but could see differences in opinion)
Towards the end of our call I explained that I'm probably just going to skip her election down ballot because she basically gave me the same answers as the other candidate and I didn't agree with her position. She started going off on how it's such a waste that I'd skip voting, that it's my civic and morale duty, and what not. I told her that if she held positions that I agreed with that I'd vote for her, but that I could not support her based on her answers. She then started ranting that I was wasting my vote on the Senate race (completely unrelated) because I told her up front that I intended on supporting the Libertarian candidate. She was trying to say that our country is at risk and our Republican candidate is the best hope. I don't know, I wound up hanging up because I knew that my senate candidate would lose and it wasn't of her business anyways.
She did win her election pretty handedly. I just hope I never have to be in her court :eek:
I guess I was confused because I thought that the last election cycle was the "most important of our lifetimes". And the one before that. And the one before that one. And so on...
Technically, each one of those statements COULD be true at the time they were made. All it would require would be an ever-rising level of importance, at which point, each new election would be more important than all previous ones, and therefore the most important one of your lifetime...so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Of course, to be perfectly correct, that would mean that you would have to die before the next one, and I don't think you should adhere to that policy.
That reminds me of a local election in our city. It was one of those off-off-year elections (like next year will be) that has such dismal turnout they might as well not even be held. I felt that I would do my civic duty, get informed about the candidates, and go vote.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
After reading up on the candidates, I came to the conclusion that if you removed the names and faces, and put the statements and information before the candidates, they wouldn't be able to tell which one was them. It wasn't due to a lack of information, either. Each one had been presented with a series of questions, and had earnestly, and fairly extensively, answered each one...and yet they were so boringly similar as to be indistinguishable.
I think I did vote in the election, but I neither knew nor cared who won.
They campaign out of a stock playbook, almost as if it contains stickers they peel out and apply onto a card to make campaign literature.
Then when it comes down to doing the job once in office they just do whatever the team they are beholden to dictates down to them. They are just tentacle cups of a 2-headed octopus.
I really like that description. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
It's seem to come down to buzz words. Crime, Immigrants, Woke..... Just mix and match depending on the crowd. I rarely listen to politicians for more than a few seconds, it just feels like such a waste of time. Not that I have other more important things to do but I don't feel their words really mean much. The last politician that I enjoyed listening to was Obama. Maybe it was because he was saying things I liked hearing. lol
One headed octopus, in this case.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
None of that applied for this election. It was for a small city in one of the reddest counties of one of the reddest states. They weren't using those buzzwords. They had only local civic responsibilities to occupy their time. It was all about whether you could re-vitalize the downtown (which is seriously small, like one or two blocks, so it's mostly about landscaping), convincing companies to move there...when you have nothing in particular to offer. They had no local taxing authority, so tax breaks, educated work forces, and other attractions for companies weren't really on the table.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
They still used buzzwords, but local politics buzzwords.
Is there a difference??Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Local or national they use buzzwords. Or are you trying to say something different?
I don't believe for a second you were born on VBForums and demand to see your birth certificate.Quote:
The last politician that I enjoyed listening to was Obama. Maybe it was because he was saying things I liked hearing.
A certificate isn't enough. You should be born in a livestream on the site.
No....that probably wouldn't be good...
I pretty sure this is a joke but I don't get it. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
I'm struggling a little bit this week.
We are finally getting the rest of the work done from Hurricane Ida and it seems like Murphy's law is at play.
I'm stressed, my wife is stressed, we aren't living in our house right now. It's just a mess.
Sorry to hear that. It sucks when you get hit with bad news after bad news. One thing I know for sure, it will pass. If you don't pass first. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9