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[NEWS] Sheriff Joe Arpaio gets pardoned
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: Biostorm on August 26, 2017, 12:41:23 AM ---Her ties to Hindu nationalists make me uncomfortable.
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sauce?
McZealot:
--- Quote from: Biostorm on August 26, 2017, 12:48:36 AM ---By contest you mean that Annoying Orange will have a serious challenger in 2020 and possibly lost the primary? Then yeah, I think so, but if he does go up against Tulsi in 2020 I would vote for her since she's the lesser of two evils
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I don't think you can deem a candidate 'evil' because they have a few flaws you disagree with. You'll never find a candidate who hasn't done something you consider immoral or wrong or stupid. The whole problem with your concept of 'picking a candidate you like' is that you're voting based on personality, not policy. If you genuinely support Tulsi's policies (and I do) then her personal flaws should take a backseat to what she will actually do once in office. I don't care if our Democrat is a Annoying Orange-like bumbling handicap who's tribal against every political group if he actually got uni healthcare or gov-paid tuition passed. I personally think Ron Paul seems like a pretty good guy--same with John McCain. I still wouldn't vote for them because I don't agree with them even marginally when it comes to political ideals. Elections should be votes of policy, not popularity contests.
Biostorm:
--- Quote from: Nonnel on August 26, 2017, 11:38:49 AM ---sauce?
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/tulsi-gabbard-president-sanders-democratic-party
--- Quote from: McZealot on August 26, 2017, 12:03:41 PM ---I don't think you can deem a candidate 'evil' because they have a few flaws you disagree with. You'll never find a candidate who hasn't done something you consider immoral or wrong or stupid. The whole problem with your concept of 'picking a candidate you like' is that you're voting based on personality, not policy. If you genuinely support Tulsi's policies (and I do) then her personal flaws should take a backseat to what she will actually do once in office. I don't care if our Democrat is a Annoying Orange-like bumbling handicap who's tribal against every political group if he actually got uni healthcare or gov-paid tuition passed. I personally think Ron Paul seems like a pretty good guy--same with John McCain. I still wouldn't vote for them because I don't agree with them even marginally when it comes to political ideals. Elections should be votes of policy, not popularity contests.
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Tulsi's a non-interventionist socialist. I identify with neoliberalism. On economics and foreign policy, my ideals would align more with someone like Kasich or Jeb Bush than someone like Bernie or Tulsi. I wouldn't vote for Ron Paul at all, he's an idiot, he thinks gold is money. Hillary was ideal imo, liberal enough on social policies, and hawkish enough to satisfy my eternal thirst for the blood of the enemies of America intervene in conflicts when necessary.
The problem with Annoying Orange is that he's flip flopped so many times on issues that I don't know where he stands on a lot of things like his foreign policy, one minute he supported Assad the next he launched a bunch of missiles at an airbase. He ran as an anti-establishment candidate, then filled his cabinet with a bunch of neocons and billionaires. If it comes down to him and Tulsi I'd vote for Tulsi, because she's way less impulsive, she's less likely to start a war using Twitter.
Deus Ex:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on August 25, 2017, 11:12:59 PM ---Let him make it all the more easy for Democrats to run some youthful maverick like Tulsi Gabbard in 2020 to kick his ass out.
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PFFFFAHAHAHAHAHA
SWAT One:
--- Quote from: Deus Ex on August 26, 2017, 12:47:04 PM ---PFFFFAHAHAHAHAHA
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Tbh it's probably too early to laugh about that, especially in our current unstable and uncertain political climate.