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Looks like I'll be writing-in whomever the Constitution Party puts up.
Again.
IT IS NOT A WASTE OF A VOTE TO VOTE FOR NEITHER OF THE TWO PARTIES.
ON THE CONTRARY, IT IS OUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO EXPRESS OUR CONSTITUTIONAL DISSENT BY VOTING AGAINST BOTH. IT IS NOT ABOUT VOTING 'FOR'; IT'S ABOUT DISSENTING.
A cartoon response....some really funny stuff, old and new school..
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/war-inc/
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Rand Paul are actually viable alternatives. They aren't owned by Wall Street. Ross Perrot was a great alternative back in 1992. What? Are you waiting for Superman?
All three are pro-Zionist, therefore traitors, and should be banned from politics altogether.
your first point is well taken and reminds me of something ralph nader or ron paul or someone else said: it's not what they differ on that's the problem, it's what they agree on.
not sure banning is the solution however. need more voter revulsion.
Please don't spam Gobbler...
http://www.zerohedge.com/search/user_comments?username=Gobbler
This ^
Agreed, everyone should abandon the "lesser of two evils" wholesale and start voting for people that aren't one of two picks by billionaires.
In other words, we are confronted once again by THE EVIL OF TWO LESSERS.
IT IS NOT A WASTE OF A VOTE TO VOTE FOR NEITHER OF THE TWO PARTIES.
The only question remaining is whether by casting any vote in the current scheme, we are legitimizing the concept of "democracy" as it is currently practiced. By voting, you are suggesting that the entire system is sound, and that it is just the people we are "voting in" who are the problem. I can no longer - sadly - say that I agree with this proposition. I think the entire apparatus surrounding the vote is now so thoroughly corrupted, that even by participating in this charade, all we accomplish is to lend it legitimacy. I'm out, though I respect what you are saying.
Seriously, this is the way to get rid of the corrupt Dem-GOP duopoly:
MAKE SURE CLINTON AND BUSH ARE THEIR 2 NOMINEES
How many voters does it take to change a light bulb?
None, voters can't change anything.
Fuckin' classic!
Message to the world:
America is not a democracy or republic or anything resembling one.
The citizens have no voice and their representatives don't care what they think.
Despite congress having a single digit approval rating through 4 administrations, there is a 96 percent incumbent re election rate.
Because...
The polls are rigged with e voting and no audit trail.
The candidates presented to us by the zio media are teleprompter reading fake PR creations who more pro israel than they are pro america, because they are all bought and paid for by ZWO money. The one thing they all have in common is they hate the US constitution and what it represents, despite their PR concocted rhetoric.
All the political class are puppets, controlled by the money class. All they do is lie, and only the most skilled liars make it to the mascotts seat.
Throw Shit on the first crew...Republic Rats....
make em blend into the Bullshit (smell) and dancing behind the whores of the Demo Crooks..
FED should be sitting in stands throwing printed $$$ and worthless crap at both sides.....
Reagan was not a "lesser of two evils." That will happen again... someday.
Give Scott Walker a look, would appear to be the best grapefruit in the dump scenario this time around. A Walker / Rubio or a Walker / Fiorino, would be a tough ticket to beat. If its Bush, well then, welll.....
IDK Scott Walker is a little too artsy for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbpBxXEPQow
rand, anyone?
oh wait, downvotes... guess the silent majority is even comprised of scum.
"rand, anyone?"
Unfortunately Rand is too "smart/educated/reasonable/electable" to be selected by the GOP. The frontrunnders for the GOP will be Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina & Ted Cruz (all crazy and completely unelectable). Currently, my guess is O'Malley (DNC) wins in 2016, although its still too early to make a decent guess.
Rand likes 'em circumcised. 'Nuff said.
Rand aint Ron.... he flip flops way too much...
For TPP then against it, etc.
For Immigration reform
Mostly votes with the Neocons / Ziocons.
Anti Abortion (this will be a tough sell)
I admire and applaud what he did on the Patriot Act, but that is the only thing recently that sticks in my mind.
I'd take Carter over Reagan any day.
I bet you prefer hairy sack to vagina too.....right?
If he hadn't gone senile while in office, I might agree with you. Reagan was a B grade actor and a unionist- but I don't hold any of that against him.
It's when he began promoting trickle down and supply side and service economy that he lost me.
He didn't talk about any of that shit when he was campaigning.
Long time ago, me and my ol' man were watching Reagan's state of the union, when I looked over and saw him scowling at the TV. (I do that now, myself).
I said, "What's the matter Pops?"
He said, "I'm just wonderin' how long we can survive sellin' hamburgers back-and-forth to each other."
Prescient, he was.
First letter on Bill's jar should be an "N".
It's only a bribe if the Jew York media says it is.
Hitlery
Careful, that might be considered rayciss in the new and improved Fight Club.
I like the centuries old political cartoons
Cowboy: God Almighty! You guys smell like you fell into a dung heap.
Crap Game: It kind of makes you homesick, don't it?
Cowboy: It does kind of, doesn't it, old buddy?
Yeah.
[/Kelly's Heroes]
I am pretty sure no one is actually leasing the two evils, selling the evils and then leasing them back or something. Probably you meant the LessER of two evils.
On an unrelated note I will say again that Pippa Malmgren is the sexiest woman alive.
An Albino Wookie, huddathunk.
I'm rooting for Bernie even if I think a lot of his policies are misguided. Bring the hate, friends.
Bernie is the only honest one in the whole bunch. I gave him a $10.
At the very least, he seems honest and like he genuinely cares about being a good politician, serving and bettering the lives of human beings. I intend to write up a criticism of his aggressive affordable/free education aspect of his platform but more or less I can tell with Bernie around how much damage he could do... and maybe if he could focus on undoing corruption more than developing entitlement programs he could do a lot of good. Maybe if he makes a lot of progress on undoing corruption, we'd find that entitlement programs don't have to be as much of a financial burden as they are now. If we're truly such a rich/wonderful country we SHOULD be able to figure out how to make sure every citizen can afford a basic level of home/health/happiness. I'd prefer that be done through job creation and fixing income inequality. I don't know how those problems are tackled exactly, but that's what I'd like to see. In the long term, I don't believe human albor will be much of a factor in economics - so I'd like to see us transition to a new economic model in 20ish years versus attempt to put bandaids on a failing model in the face of unstoppable technological progress eliminating the need for humans. That will only result in actual socialsim.
The man spent his honeymoon in the USSR for gods sake. He is an extremist marxist fool at best...He claims he is a true socialist.
The goal of socialism is communism.
-- Vladimir Lenin
To be fair, he claimes to be a democratic socialist. There is a distinction, for what it's worth.
sociopath nazi capitalists don't care about distiinctions. they only care about cash.
Everyone right of center seems overeager to cry "socialism" at every possible opportunity, and make comparisons between current happenings and the events leading up to Nazi Germany. There's a disturbing trend in America to wear pants, and Nazi's wore pants. Coincidence? It's all in (insert president)'s plan! It only makes sense that our elected officials are more bent on intentional destruction than regular old corrupt.
I've never viewed Bernie Sanders in a political way, rather I view him as somebody that is ready to kick asses and take names... I guess you could say I would liken him to "The punisher".
Indeed, he's not just the only honest one-- but the only one whose policies an overwhelming majority of the American people (including a majority of repugs) agree with!
The .01% msmedia/press thugs act as if Sanders didn't exist because they and the banksters who own them know Sanders could have a huge following if only the American people WERE allowed to become AWARE of what he stands for.
Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence The press, covering their imagined version of the San . . .
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2015/05/sinking-sanders . . .
My wife seem confused why Repubs and the media only attack Hillary and don't mention Bernie - and the reason is that as soon as they do he becomes a credible threat. If they don't even bother to assault him, he's never on the radar because the people don't even acknowledge him as being in the running. Get him in some debates, though, and he might become hard to ignore. I see a lot of support online where I would expect to see mindless Hillary support. I think we'll see the Ron Paul-esque grass roots/internet popularity with Bernie... but possibly to a larger extent due to him being a lefty (which makes more sense for the online success demographic)
dup
I heard that Hillary will not debate other Dems during the Primaries.
Because her campaign slogan is not "Ready for Hillary" it is "What difference does it make?"
Debates can only hurt her not help her.
http://firedoglake.com/2015/05/28/team-clinton-worried-sanders-will-make...
YMMV but I am NOT casting any votes for Zionists for any reason.
More progessive policies is the last thing the country needs. You misuse the term misguided, moron.
And look who up voted you. I rest my case.
It's hard to take people in these comments very seriously when they can't have a discussion without insulting people, using racial/homophobic slurs, calling people "fucktard", and other forms of angry outbursts that in no way contribute to an actual conversation. I come here stating an opinion that I'm willing to be wrong about, not evangelizing an ideology.
Umm, this is fight club. Get your big boy/girl shorts/panties on.
"That's what a recent Mic survey of 666 people..."
Nice try, peddle your satanist propaganda elsewhere!
I'm a University Administrator. I work with a lot of millennials in my Dept. They see voting as participating in a corrupt system. Obama's false promises are going to fall onto Hillary's ledger if these students' input is any universal indicator.
These under 30's don't appear to do Lesser of Two Evils. Supreeme Court Justice boogeyman is "meh" to them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They are opting out. Hillary's genitalia is not a motivating factor in galvanizing their willingness to shill for Hill (D-Walmart)
Clinton knows this. That's why she is playing rope a dope and avoiding pubic events. She isn't worreid about heckling. She's more worried about half filled halls with only Dem Party sycophants showing up.
I chalk this lack of enthusiasm for voting as the end result of 40 years of diminishing Civics classes in K-12 ed.
Plus most of these young' uns get their news from Facebook. They aren't under the thrall of the Pressitute media: NYT, network news, WSJ and the sources their parents and grandparents have been indoctrinated with. Iraq war was a big turning point for how the corporate media propogandizes war for the gov't. The see the corporate media as part of the electoral corruption.
Most of use grew up being told the system is rigged and our vote is meaningless. That may have something to do with it.
That's why with the lack of palatable choices in 2016. Lesser of Two Evils vs. Evil of Two Lessers, 2016 election will have the lowest percentage turnout since WW II
The system is rigged.
Your vote is meaningless.
Go ahead and believe otherwise.
The truth will still prevail.
Just gotts say that your comment is about the best I've seen regarding the abandonment of the political whores who are at stage just now.
The most important thing for young people of voting age is to get involved in any action that will disrupt the political process here in Cesspool Amerika.
I think Cillary Hinton will see the writing on the wall and will withdraw when she realizes tha the world KNOWS she is a prostitute of the highest order and in fact a worthless cun.......er...traitor to Americans both poor and poor.
Thank your for your wonderful comment. I agree whole heartedly and still continue to wonder how thinking people can endorse the likes of ANY of those STUPID, STUPID people who rabble for ....how many kooks in the repubthugan clown car now???????????
GOD SAVE US FROM THEM!
Go Bernie....America really needs you now....no the WORLD!
HilLIARy in a pant-suit ... that is funny.
Hitlary Clinton - What difference does it make? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8INIH0JfNA8
Rand Paul Destroys Hillary Clinton Over Benghazi-Gate During Capitol Hill Press Conference
In the red corner, weighing more than Chris Christie and never been caught with his hands in the till, 23 wins with 15 K.O's, bought and paid for by Goldman Sachs . . . . . .and in the blue corner Hildebeast Clinton, weighing off the scale, 37 corpses with only one TKO when throwing herself down a flight of stairs hours before a congressional hearing . . . . . . . Let's get ready to Brrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiibe
Cankles election strategy
1. NO press conferences
2. NO debates
3. NO townhalls
4. No dice...
Thought U said Cankles erection strategy which made sense to me at the time. I get it now.
Oxymorons:
jumbo shrimp
military intelligence
Hope and Change
Cankles and erection
So... you don't think she has hardware down there. lol
Hillary's dainty bit have the look and smell of a CSI episode. No matter how much cleanup Huma is obligated to do
All this talk about Bernie Sanders.
Don't you realize the role that has been chosen for him? The Dems need to "appear" that the Primary is competitive. That it isn't the Cankles Leviathan. That will make the campaign flat: fund raising, door to door volunteering, enthusiasm for the process. The internal polling already shows how flat support is for her.
If she couldn't take out Peace Prize at her height in 2008, 8 years on all that baggage at State is a millstone not a bonafide.
So the Dem Elites need to choose someone who is unectable, is on record for talking about how much "he supports Obama" while pretending to be a populist. No threat to the outcome while getting off a few mild jabs that hillary will parry away by espousing populism for the sake of the cameras.
Bernie's role is to stay in through the Winter and Spring of 2016 losing primary after primary and then we he bows out: Bernie will exhort his followers to support Hillary.
He's a fake. He'll do it because no one likes to bloviate on camera like Bernie Sanders.
thug troll
sorry. dupe
Is that good or bad?
(I didn't downvote you, for the record)
Perhaps that's his role, I can't say, but his political career shows someone genuine. Someone who isn't afraid to be the enemy of literally every politician that's his peer. I'd rather throw my vote away writing him in than sacrifice my morals to vote for the people the system wants to believe are my only options. That's how the system perpetuates.
Eventually there will be more people like me, who are more willing to take a losing position than sacrifice their values. People who won't work for defense contractors, wall street crooks, oil execs, prison industrial complex vampires and will simply accept working for less. Eventually there will be more of me than there are of the others - because the internet is making us a more connected an empathetic people. That's manifested in some bad ways, with the recreationally offended social justice warriors and other forms of facists in hippie garb with misguided ideologies and all too aggressive shaming. Ultimately, though, their ideologies are rooted in caring about people more than simply themselves... and I think we'll iron out our idiocy as long as that core ethos remains.
Heard it all before from Bernie. He wasn't going to vote for Obamacare. Demanded Medicare for All. Time came: he and the other Dems voted for Obamacare
I've been snooping around old Christopher Hitchens/Sidney Blumenthal articles. Christopher Hitchens summed up Bill Clinton thusly:
I’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town AgainI had become utterly convinced, as early as the 1992 campaign, that there was something in the Clinton makeup that was quite seriously nasty. The automatic lying, the glacial ruthlessness, the self-pity, the indifference to repeated exposure, the absence of any tincture of conscience or remorse, the awful piety—these were symptoms of a psychopath. And it kept on getting worse and worse—but not for Clinton himself, who could usually find a way of sacrificing a subordinate and then biting his lip in the only gesture of contrition he had learned to master.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1999/05/christopher-hitchens-testifies-mo...
Well done Miss E.
There have always been corrupt pols, but for sheer brass balled megalomania, I hope to dog we never see anything else quite like the Clintons.
The next dictator of these dis-United States.... Gov. Martin O'Malley....
Doing for 'murrika what he did to Baltimore....
Let me guess the Campaign this year.
"Households", "jobs", "opportunity", "Reasonable Costs of Living"
Campaign in public appeals to households.
Business pages separate the messages on Foreign Policy, US Business Direction, Free Trade, Tax Breaks for Corporations & Capital Gains, Pipeline from Canada, Liberal Business Policy, support for Israel, Strong American Response to Terror.
** I guess it is another Reboot of old campaigns **
Household saving
2013: 682.8 Billions of Dollars (+ see more)
Annual, Not Seasonally Adjusted, W398RC1A027NBEA,
Households and Nonprofit Organizations; Credit Market Instruments; Liability, Level
2014:Q4: 13,496.88 Billions of Dollars ($14 Trillion)
Quarterly, End of Period, Seasonally Adjusted, CMDEBT,
Student Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding
2015:Q1: 1,355.0134 Billions of Dollars (another jump)
Quarterly, End of Period, Not Seasonally Adjusted, SLOAS,
Motor Vehicle Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding
2015:Q1: 972.4011 Billions of Dollars (Big surge)
Quarterly, End of Period, Not Seasonally Adjusted, MVLOAS,
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MVLOAS
Consumer Loans: Credit Cards and Other Revolving Plans, All Commercial Banks
2015-04: 616.6209 Billions of U.S. Dollars (+ see more)
Monthly, Not Seasonally Adjusted, CCLACBM027NBOG
Federal government current expenditures: Current transfer payments: Government social benefits
2013:Q4: 434.9 Billions of Dollars (+ see more)
Quarterly, Not Seasonally Adjusted, W015RU1Q027NBEA,
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Series Id: LES1252881600,
Seasonally Adjusted, Constant (1982-84) dollar adjusted to CPI-U- Median usual weekly earnings, Employed full time, Wage and salary workers, All Industries, All Occupations, Both Sexes, All Races, 16 years and over,All educational levels, Wage and salary workers, Employed full time
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I'd vote for any elephant that runs or walks, lays down or stands.
The evil of two lessers....
LMFAO but come on....it's not as if scandals and corruption don't go hand and hand with the GOP too.
WWE 2016.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
They don't call him slick Willie for nought!
Class A twisted psychopath. He'd fuck you to death then top you if you refused to abort. Hildebeast is 3rd division but luckily she's running in a 3rd rate country where the TBTF's draft policy.
your country is rocketing into oblivion and you are all doomed
better maximize the enjoyment of your life, hope the crash comes after you die
Rimarez is the stupidest political cartoonist ever next to McCoy therfore Rimarez is perfect for IBD