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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Mar 20, 2024 23:19:19 GMT
Well, I've already stated my preference for the presidential race. But the metaphor? I could choose neither, I'm vegetarian. And possess a brain. Shit with glass bad. Given the alternative the chicken seems alright even if it is rotisserie chicken with the bones still in it. If I vomit in the aisle that becomes someone else's problem to clean up. |
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Post by Isapop on Mar 20, 2024 23:27:14 GMT
Look up the definition of the word "option". It is like choosing the menu option of steak when the restaurant is out of steak, and isn't going to get any more delivered. If the restaurant is now and forever out of steak , then steak is not an option. (Still better check that definition.) |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Mar 20, 2024 23:34:25 GMT
There was a very funny bit John Oliver did on The Daily Show years ago. A report of "The Undecided Voter" so very funny. Yeah. Painted them as stupid, but it was so funny. Something about "some of them will wander about & actually make it into a polling booth room vote" but otherwise being barely functional. I believe a lot of these "undecided" voters.know damned well how they plan to vote. They just don't want to admit it. My kid's friend's mom told her friends she voted for Romney but voted for Obama. She didn't want the argument admitting she did not vote republican Since my vote is private, IRL I rarely state my choice unless I am with like-minded friends. But here I am openly a moderate Democrat, and literally LOATHE Donald Trump. Though my vote doesn't count in the electoral scheme of things, since I live in a blood-red state. But it counts in the popular vote. Surely this comments suggests that the US system of voting is so far from democracy that any attempt to call it that ix a gross deceit. Change the way America votes. I know, easier said than done, but having such a ludicrous election mustvring alarm bells and givd a push for eldctoral reform. |
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Post by thekindercarebear on Mar 21, 2024 0:13:28 GMT
I asked the fortune cookie about the 2024 election;
Its reply:
Perceived failure is oftentimes success trying to be born.
...
That's some really positive vibes there.
So I guess everything will be alright.
🌝
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Post by jimmywynn on Mar 21, 2024 3:20:15 GMT
38 states would need to approve it. It will never happen. It's not a constitutional amendment. it would take one to abolish the Electoral College. |
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Post by uncreative on Mar 21, 2024 3:52:54 GMT
It's not a constitutional amendment. it would take one to abolish the Electoral College. It's not really abolishing it. Just making a workaround. The conservatives love arguing that states can decide to appoint electors however they want. So if 280 electoral votes worth of states all decide that they will award theirs to the national popular vote winner then any honest conservative would have to accept it. |
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Mar 21, 2024 3:56:25 GMT
Undecided, just go with Trump, because the salmonella chicken and platter of shit with broken glass is both prepared by the Dems.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 21, 2024 7:31:42 GMT
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Post by merh on Mar 21, 2024 7:51:17 GMT
Back in 2016 I had a boss that was all in on Bernie Sanders. When Clinton got the nomination suddenly he was undecided and leaning towards Trump, even though Hillary would have been about 80% the same as Bernie. It's a total mystery to me. Sorry to toy and other Clinton supporters. In 2016, there was no way Clinton was going to give us any hope and change. That's why Sanders and Trump were what the populists wanted. Hillary would have been an excellent president. However, we had 20 yrs of the GOP painting her as the Devil incarnate-since 1992. Sanders never stood a chance because Americans don't know the difference between communism & Democratic Socialism so across the country a sizable number of voters see Bernie as a communist. Trump was a TV guy. Millions watched him come into their living rooms every day so the "knew" him like they knew Rosanne or Drew Carey. There was a hell of a lot of "couldn't be worse than" voters for Trump. |
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Post by merh on Mar 21, 2024 8:04:43 GMT
Since my vote is private, IRL I rarely state my choice unless I am with like-minded friends. But here I am openly a moderate Democrat, and literally LOATHE Donald Trump. Though my vote doesn't count in the electoral scheme of things, since I live in a blood-red state. But it counts in the popular vote. Surely this comments suggests that the US system of voting is so far from democracy that any attempt to call it that ix a gross deceit. Change the way America votes. I know, easier said than done, but having such a ludicrous election mustvring alarm bells and givd a push for eldctoral reform. How do you perceive that? It isn't the voting that is the problem. It is living with out fellow Americans. When I was a child people lived & worked around people with different opinions & understood it was their right to have those opinions. Now many seem to desire a Faculty-alien like hive mind. Any unmutual must be exiled. So it is easier to vote how one chooses to vote, but sharing one's political views is not advisable in some settings. In 1988 I had no problem letting co-workers know I was not voting for HW. Bad idea. I started coming into work to various political cartoons left on my chair. (This was the day of faxes where random crap showed up so people shared). The one I remember was the one with the crude art & the phrase "Bush vs Dukakis. Just one fucking thing after the other" No. We can't play together. |
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Post by merh on Mar 21, 2024 8:06:24 GMT
Undecided, just go with Trump, because the salmonella chicken and platter of shit with broken glass is both prepared by the Dems. Trump is a lying conman so the plate would look good, but be the salmonella chicken basted in shit on the inside. |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Mar 21, 2024 10:19:47 GMT
Surely this comments suggests that the US system of voting is so far from democracy that any attempt to call it that ix a gross deceit. Change the way America votes. I know, easier said than done, but having such a ludicrous election mustvring alarm bells and givd a push for eldctoral reform. How do you perceive that? It isn't the voting that is the problem. It is living with out fellow Americans. When I was a child people lived & worked around people with different opinions & understood it was their right to have those opinions. Now many seem to desire a Faculty-alien like hive mind. Any unmutual must be exiled. So it is easier to vote how one chooses to vote, but sharing one's political views is not advisable in some settings. In 1988 I had no problem letting co-workers know I was not voting for HW. Bad idea. I started coming into work to various political cartoons left on my chair. (This was the day of faxes where random crap showed up so people shared). The one I remember was the one with the crude art & the phrase "Bush vs Dukakis. Just one fucking thing after the other" No. We can't play together. Maybe I am from a country where cooperation rather than individualism is built into the system. Compulsory voting tells us we are all responsible for the government we get so we all better take it seriously. I dont say it stops a Trumplike politician taking over but it helps. I was mainly responding to Screams hopeless feelings that I put down to the undemocratic electoral college that takes much legitimate political discourse off the table because it forces a 2 party system and disenfranchises particularly Californians and New Yorkers. |
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Post by Olaf Plunket on Mar 21, 2024 10:41:05 GMT
I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it by my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it”? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked. ---David Sedaris  Are you aware that the country has problems no voting for either Trump or Biden is going solve? While Biden is clearly the lesser of the two evils, he does not really have the ability to solve the real problems. This might lead respondents to avoid any great praise of him. |
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Post by Winter_King on Mar 21, 2024 10:48:44 GMT
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