American Politics

[Franckie]

It is somewhat of a sorry state of affairs when a candidate no longer needs to earn your vote - but rather will receive it purely due to fear of the alternative...

US politics have been like this since the 1700s. (Check out what happened between the Federalists vs. the Antifederalists.) Nothing new here.

 

[SharkBait]

Seems Mr. Sanders had yet another run in with protesters who dont like his message. How odd that for a candidate who is for the people, he has so many times interruptions by rights groups.

 

[Nomi]

Trump is a little piece of shit. Look at what he's tryna do.

 

[kkck]

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/01/politics/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-nicolas-maduro-venezuela/

This is a new twist (although perhaps not unexpected). Gotta say though, if sanders does not categorically reject maduro and his allies I'm jumping of the sanders boat and my opinion of him will be along the same lines of what I think of maduro (which is not PG enough for this forum)......

 

[Philia]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mp-and-urges-us-voters-to-reject-dull-hillary

Donald Trump made a friend. Kim Jong Un endorsed Trump

 

[Dragoon]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mp-and-urges-us-voters-to-reject-dull-hillary

Donald Trump made a friend. Kim Jong Un endorsed Trump

Oh fuck... haha, they look creepily adorable side by side. They're like long lost brothers and both great at being dramatic and such

 

[M3J]

I find it hard to be sympathetic towards Trump supporters when they started the violence, and Trump endorsed it.

 

[xi0]

Who is asking you to be sympathetic towards them? Has something happened to them? (aside from them being dropped on their heads by their mothers, ofc )

 

[M3J]

Just not a fan of the violence

 

[SharkBait]

Another loss for Mr. Sanders.

 

[M3J]

I'd love to know what people are thinking when they say they'll vote for Trump after seeing what the protesters did, but they never brought up the fact that Trump supporters attacked minorities and Trump approved of it. These people suck.

So does NJ for choosing Hillary over Bernie. But then we did choose Christie, and now he's making the state look bad.

 

[SharkBait]

Well were on our way to our first female president.

 

[shionoro]

I'd love to know what people are thinking when they say they'll vote for Trump after seeing what the protesters did, but they never brought up the fact that Trump supporters attacked minorities and Trump approved of it. These people suck.

So does NJ for choosing Hillary over Bernie. But then we did choose Christie, and now he's making the state look bad.

Honestly, after him not endorsing clinton lately, i am glad he didnt win.
By now he is hindering the democrat's success without a shot at winning.

 

[SharkBait]

~20 delegates is not really meaningful this late in the game.

 

[M3J]

Honestly, after him not endorsing clinton lately, i am glad he didnt win.
By now he is hindering the democrat's success without a shot at winning.

I thought he said he'd vote for Clinton if he didn't win.

But I don't get why you're glad a bad choice is winning over a better choice.

 

[Dragoon]

I'm looking forward to the changes either of them would bring to the states xD if hillary wins I'm sure the crazy feminists will come out in bigger droves (note: I don't believe all feminists are bad. Not even the majority) or if trump wins, how much more empowered will racist fucks feel? Lol bring on the chaos, I say.

 

[shionoro]

I thought he said he'd vote for Clinton if he didn't win.

But I don't get why you're glad a bad choice is winning over a better choice.

Because i stoppen thinking sanders would have been a better choice

 

[M3J]

But he is, at least socially. I'm not sure how the other two are better choices, economically anyway. Trump seems to have that air of "pro-wealthy" about him, as well as few bankruptcies.

 

[kkck]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bernie-sanders-campaign-last-days-224041

I found this bit... Quite brutal, though a bit long.

 

[shionoro]

But he is, at least socially. I'm not sure how the other two are better choices, economically anyway. Trump seems to have that air of "pro-wealthy" about him, as well as few bankruptcies.

Why do you think he is the better candidate socially?
He has some ideas, some better, some worse. The way he behaves now indiciates that he does not understand the political game very much. So it is questionable whether he would ever be able to to even properly execute his ideas.
It is rather probable that he is unable to find compromises, while clinton is good at that.
Clinton understood that at some point you have to back down, you could see that in the primary against obama.
She was then a pretty loyal supporter of him. She put the parties behalfs before her own.
Sanders is no real democrat, he just ran in that party because he has no chance as independend (which is sad, but that is how it is).

Looking at the fact how little he seems to care about that party now indicates he would not even have been able to get his whole party on board with his ideas, which would be even more problemativ.

So you'd have a president with no knowledge (and no ambition) in foreign politics and who would probably not get anything done in inner politics.

Clinton however might not be as progressive as he is, but she is still one of the more left leaning types in the party.

It is more probable leftist reforms are made under clinton than under sanders, and this is why she ultimately is the better candidate.