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[abelard]

Too #Floridaman for politics.

I love it when guys get liquored up and convince themselves nobody will take a picture that will bite them in the arse twenty years later. We call ourselves the stupid party for a reason.

DeSantis has been interesting... people who voted for him because he put so much effort into pretending to be Trump must feel disappointed

Has Beta O’Rourke thrown his hat into the ring yet?

He's the fossil fuel industry's Poochie

He clearly has nothing of substance to say about anything.

No female politician would survive more than five minutes being so vapid.

Imagine concluding from 2016 that what people are clamouring for is a return to superficiality.

If he wins the nomination, it'll be because the Dems have had their fingers stuck in their ears so long that they can no longer be retracted.

Still, no need to be snarky... I do wish him luck on his dental hygiene, and his never-ending quest for self-discovery.

 

[mezzrow]

DeSantis has been interesting... people who voted for him because he put so much effort into pretending to be Trump must feel disappointed



He's the fossil fuel industry's Poochie

He clearly has nothing of substance to say about anything.

No female politician would survive more than five minutes being so vapid.

Imagine concluding from 2016 that what people are clamouring for is a return to superficiality.

If he wins the nomination, it'll be because the Dems have had their fingers stuck in their ears so long that they can no longer be retracted.

Still, no need to be snarky... I do wish him luck on his dental hygiene, and his never-ending quest for self-discovery.

He's gotta take care of those teeth and that hank 'o hair. Irish boys with $ have a way in Democratic politics. You gotta have the teeth and the hank 'o hair, though. Gotta hit that Bobby spot *whispered* "it's a BETO spot!"



I have really enjoyed https://twitter.com/BetosFakeBlog the past couple of weeks.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

DeSantis has been interesting... people who voted for him because he put so much effort into pretending to be Trump must feel disappointed



He's the fossil fuel industry's Poochie

He clearly has nothing of substance to say about anything.

No female politician would survive more than five minutes being so vapid.

Imagine concluding from 2016 that what people are clamouring for is a return to superficiality.

If he wins the nomination, it'll be because the Dems have had their fingers stuck in their ears so long that they can no longer be retracted.

Still, no need to be snarky... I do wish him luck on his dental hygiene, and his never-ending quest for self-discovery.

He wouldn't be my choice...

Still though... quite impressive to say that he'd still be a massive improvement on the current incumbent (but then so would a boiled cabbage)

 

[Ruairi77]

He wouldn't be my choice...

Still though... quite impressive to say that he'd still be a massive improvement on the current incumbent (but then so would a boiled cabbage)

I, for one, bow down to our boiled cabbage overlords'.
hang on, Mick Mulvaney sound's like a boiled cabbage... scratch that.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I, for one, bow down to our boiled cabbage overlords'.
hang on, Mick Mulvaney sound's like a boiled cabbage... scratch that.

Think that's the next job he's lined up to take over isn't it? He seems to be doing most of the other ones

 

[riddick]

I have a co-worker who I hold in completely high regard tell me that "if California and New York were near each other they really should just go make their own country" because 'their values aren't the same as the rest of the countries'

I pointed out he lives in a city that voted MASSIVELY blue and that the vast majority of cities in the US are blue leaning. He couln't understand this point and kept mentioning that it's only "people who were polled".

I honestly don't understand the disconnect in this country.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I have a co-worker who I hold in completely high regard tell me that "if California and New York were near each other they really should just go make their own country" because 'their values aren't the same as the rest of the countries'

I pointed out he lives in a city that voted MASSIVELY blue and that the vast majority of cities in the US are blue leaning. He couln't understand this point and kept mentioning that it's only "people who were polled".

I honestly don't understand the disconnect in this country.

I have never understood this argument.

California has a population roughly the size (population) of:

Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Idaho, West Virginia, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Iowa, Utah and Connecticut COMBINED.

Roughly 1 in every 9 people in the US lives in California... so I'd say you could make a pretty good argument that it's the MOST American state there is.

Also, FWIW, Democrats won 2 senate votes for winning California.

The same number of people live in those other states listed. Those states account for FIFTY TWO seats in the Senate - and they account for a margin of +10 R.

Californians' voters votes are also worth the least in the country per electoral college vote... And yet you still hear the Right complaining about them and New York. If I were them I'd stop complaining - if Californians tactically moved house to other parts of the country, Republicans would never win another election ever. lol

 

[ilikecheese]

I have never understood this argument.

California has a population roughly the size (population) of:

Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Idaho, West Virginia, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Iowa, Utah and Connecticut COMBINED.

Roughly 1 in every 9 people in the US lives in California... so I'd say you could make a pretty good argument that it's the MOST American state there is.

Also, FWIW, Democrats won 2 senate votes for winning California.

The same number of people live in those other states listed. Those states account for FIFTY TWO seats in the Senate - and they account for a margin of +10 R.

Californians' voters votes are also worth the least in the country per electoral college vote... And yet you still hear the Right complaining about them and New York. If I were them I'd stop complaining - if Californians tactically moved house to other parts of the country, Republicans would never win another election ever. lol

Frankly the Senate is antiquated...even more so in the House.

In the Senate because the minority has too much power. In the House even worse because of gerrymandering.

The right wing have spent decades convincing Joe the rural farmer and Jane the Evangelical that making the wealthy even more wealthier is good for them.

Why? Because liberal elitists are the spawn of Satan himself, and they are communists...and not the friendly ones who will feed us intel on Hillary Clinton (barf at that name).

 

[Bluetooth]

I have never understood this argument.

California has a population roughly the size (population) of:

Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Idaho, West Virginia, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Iowa, Utah and Connecticut COMBINED.

Roughly 1 in every 9 people in the US lives in California... so I'd say you could make a pretty good argument that it's the MOST American state there is.

Also, FWIW, Democrats won 2 senate votes for winning California.

The same number of people live in those other states listed. Those states account for FIFTY TWO seats in the Senate - and they account for a margin of +10 R.

Californians' voters votes are also worth the least in the country per electoral college vote... And yet you still hear the Right complaining about them and New York. If I were them I'd stop complaining - if Californians tactically moved house to other parts of the country, Republicans would never win another election ever. lol

By all accounts California appears to have a significant number of people who have left over the last 10 years or so.

What's suprising though from what I read is that many end up in Texas.

The thought of Texas leaving the hands of the GOP should be scary enough for the GOP to sort themselves out over the next year or so.

 

[LinekersLegs]

What an arrogant and entitled attitude.If he was interviewing a candidate for a managerial job he wouldn’t accept a “well I don’t want to talk about what I would hypothetically do if you employed me”, why the hell should voters.

 

[abelard]

What an arrogant and entitled attitude.If he was interviewing a candidate for a managerial job he wouldn’t accept a “well I don’t want to talk about what I would hypothetically do if you employed me”, why the hell should voters.

But he will still sweep the coveted "The Middle-Point Between Two Opinions is Always Correct" primary, which - fun fact - consists of only two voters: David Brooks, and @dholliday

 

[ilikecheese]

What an arrogant and entitled attitude.If he was interviewing a candidate for a managerial job he wouldn’t accept a “well I don’t want to talk about what I would hypothetically do if you employed me”, why the hell should voters.

What did it say? Looks like it was deleted.

 

[LinekersLegs]

What did it say? Looks like it was deleted.

 

[ilikecheese]

Ah so guessing the second part about it being from June wasn't in the original?

 

[LinekersLegs]

Ah so guessing the second part about it being from June wasn't in the original?

Yep, although you’d have thought a businessman whose key issue seems to be the national debt would have been positively eager to discuss his ideas on corporate taxes at any opportunity, be that June or January, rather than dismiss the subject as a weird hypothetical - he wasn’t asked what he’d do if Canada invaded Alaska...