President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Then why did i vote for Harry Browne?

 

To answer BTE's question, Dukakis is a Democrat that voters here may dependably call a whiff.

 

Walter Mondale/Wayland Flowers and Madame
John Kerry/ (for choosing) John Edwards
Dukakis and Bentsen (That ticket should have been reversed.)

I'll say the same thing to you I said to Nephew's friend:
Bless your heart.
Also - Sweetie, that white knighting is cute, but she's not going to fuck you for telling a group of 20-somethings to get off her yard.

Frankly, I'd rather see young people with a healthy degree of disrespect for celebrity. "Do you know who I am?" Tends to net eyerolls around here.

She already has, and good on her for doing so.

 

Mike Dukakis was an honest and honorable man who might have been the most provincial Bostonian who ever lived. I don't think he knew a goddamn thing about the world outside of Route 128. He'd have made Carter seem like FDR had he been elected, which he couldn't have been due to the 1988 economy. True story: It's October and the Dukakis campaign is considering ad buys. Senior advisor Susan Estrich rejects buying time during the World Series on the grounds of "who's watching?"

 

I agree all the way with that.
It's what I'm trying to promote on the homestead.
Star-fucking is a big part of how we got Donald Trump.

 

It depends on the celebrity and the message. Endorsing a candidate in a Tennessee senatorial election and encouraging people to register to vote ain't exactly Jerry Rubin. I was a teen in 1968 and any star with Swift's very vanilla message would've ridiculed and scorned by me and my peers.

 

Because I am not always cynical, just most of the time, I would like to praise Gov. Scott of Florida, whom I oppose, and Mayor Gillum of Tallahassee, whom I support, for being in constant and apparently useful communication during Hurricane Michael. Both are relying on that outmoded idea that doing your job to the best of your ability as an elected official is good politics. If it isn't, we're really fucked.

 

I think I voted for Daddy Bush over Dukakis, but I really don't remember.

 

This is what you look like when you’ve never had consensual sex in your life

 

Reflecting back to say the 80's and 90's, if there were disagreements along party lines, they amounted to "well is there going to be a tax cut? Or are we going to be spending a little less on say, food stamp program, or national testing standards, and maybe more on highway construction, or even building a bridge in Alaska that no one's going to use. Or maybe even, how much are we going to spend on the military? Should we invade Grenada?" Meanwhile, there was outward acceptance that we were all "equal" and entitled to be treated accordingly.

But was not unclear, was that the enemy was the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea. We needed to get along and be unified as we stared down our enemies.

Nowadays, the rifts are about the right to abortion and right to bear every kind of firearm that could be capable of being created by the NRA backers. The rifts though are much more explosive, we now have the demonization of immigrants, Muslims, the disabled, the homeless, those who would dare accuse someone of sexual assault.

Do the math, what's left? The ONLY group not subjected to demonization by Trump and his followers/enablers? White, privileged, males. Yet even they have turned the tables and say they are the victims.

Building social and cultural moats around will only accelerate the deterioration of our country.

This is unsustainable. Seriously, if our country continues down that path its surely the seeds of a revolution, there are too many that will be alienated, that will be disenfranchised. History bears this out.

Is that what we want?

 

I've voted in every election I've had the opportunity to vote in, and Obama is the only Democratic Presidential candidate I've ever voted for who won. The two GOP candidates I voted against who won have done nothing to make me think my vote was wrong.

It's a small sample size for many of us, so if you're going to so narrowly restrict the parameters of the admission, yeah, it's going to be difficult find someone whose admission gets the BTE Seal of Approval.