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I do think it sucks that certain portions of the population have to work multiple jobs like that, seems like a nightmare. But it has shit to do with workers rights and everything to do with lack of opportunity. Way easier to get a real job in a right to work state, since there isn't a union barring your path to employment.
 

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So who is responsible to see that everyone has a good job? Think about that. As an American you have the right to pursue but you don't have the right to be guaranteed.Some folks are able to become financially successful and some never attain that status but at what point do you think it's a right to redistribute the financial gains of the successful? Government isn't the answer because they already do the worst job possible with all the resources that are produced through tax revenues. It is sad indeed that there are less fortunate in our society but who is responsible for that and who should be forcred to rectify it through redistribution of wealth and resources?
 

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So who is responsible to see that everyone has a good job? Think about that. As an American you have the right to pursue but you don't have the right to be guaranteed.Some folks are able to become financially successful and some never attain that status but at what point do you think it's a right to redistribute the financial gains of the successful? Government isn't the answer because they already do the worst job possible with all the resources that are produced through tax revenues. It is sad indeed that there are less fortunate in our society but who is responsible for that and who should be forcred to rectify it through redistribution of wealth and resources?
I'd say governments role is to give opportunities for advancement to societies lower tiers. They have not done great at this, but if failure at that goal does not alleviate them of the responsibility.

In some cases the best way to achieve this goal is for government to get the hell out of the way. I'd say we'd be striking huge blows for the bottom 10% if we dismantled the prison pipeline and ended the war on drugs. We should also end segregation by location in school districts. No one is going to come out without a significant handicap from a shitty inner-city school.

Even if society was willing to submit to wealth redistribution, it would end up funneled back to the top. Billionaires don't become billionaires without knowing how to be the recipients of tax dollars.
 

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I'd say governments role is to give opportunities for advancement to societies lower tiers. They have not done great at this, but if failure at that goal does not alleviate them of the responsibility.

In some cases the best way to achieve this goal is for government to get the hell out of the way. I'd say we'd be striking huge blows for the bottom 10% if we dismantled the prison pipeline and ended the war on drugs. We should also end segregation by location in school districts. No one is going to come out without a significant handicap from a shitty inner-city school.

Even if society was willing to submit to wealth redistribution, it would end up funneled back to the top. Billionaires don't become billionaires without knowing how to be the recipients of tax dollars.
It's called capitalism.
 

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It's called capitalism.
I'd say capitalism (unlike socialism) is the least corruptible system because it distributes power more between public and private interests. That being said it's still super corrupt. All the problems I listed above (i.e. Broken criminal justice system, corporate welfare) are symptoms of that.
 

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So there is something wrong with working 4 part time jobs (What if each part time job is 10 hours a week)? She didn't die from being poor. She died because she took a nap in the wrong place. I think blaming her jobs for her death may be one of the most ridiculous stretches I have ever seen. Retarded memes like these just crack me up.
It's not the 4 jobs, it's the crap economy and the ACA that force people to work part time all over the place. I worked a job, an internship, and a full time college schedule at the same time one semester and it was hell, I never had time to sleep in between. I can totally see parking your car, closing your eyes and passing out when you're exhausted like that.
 

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We need a test at birth that determines if that person is a psychopath.

If positive then that person is killed or lobotomized.

Then we wouldn't have to deal with all these motherfuckers that don't feel empathy towards others.
 

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We need a test at birth that determines if that person is a psychopath.

If positive then that person is killed or lobotomized.

Then we wouldn't have to deal with all these motherfuckers that don't feel empathy towards others.
I feel like whether or not someone was willing to sign off on this plan would be a good indication of whether they were a psychopath.
 

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Donald Trump Is the President America Deserves

Donald Trump Is the President America Deserves

By Dan Ozzi

Donald J. Trump will be the next President of the United States. That is going to happen come November 2016. Once elected, he will install 30-foot-tall gold-plated letters spelling his name on the front of the White House. He will be asked about foreign leaders in globally broadcasted press conferences and he will look directly into the camera with those dead, sunken eyes of his and call them morons and losers. He will blow huge chunks of the country’s budget investing in ideas a 10-year-old boy would concoct, like a giant wall around Mexico to keep the “rapists” out. He will do all of these things as the leader of America and we will deserve every minute of it.

You are laughing. You think Trump is a freak show, a lunatic who stands no chance of actually being elected to a position of power. Buddy, look around you. America is a country that thrives on lunacy, a 3,000-mile bi-coastal freak factory that rewards those who can boil their horrid, myopic opinions down to a four-word slogan, and Donald Trump is their king, the future Bumper-Sticker-in-Chief.

Donald Trump is America’s id personified — a walking, talking middle finger. He is the guy from Jersey in a tank top whose favorite phrase is “Ay, jerkoff, c’mere and say it to my face, eh?” He is the retired uncle in line at Chik-Fil-A wearing a trucker hat that says “One Big Ass Mistake America.” He is the Wall Street executive who dictates his own annual multi-million bonus while opposing a $15 minimum wage. Donald Trump is America.

When Bloomberg Politics recently stuffed Trump supporters into a room and asked them what they like about The Donald, the jowly masses responded:

“He doesn’t care what people think, he tells the truth.”

“He’s in touch with what everybody’s thinking, what everybody wants.”

And the special sauce on the Big Mac…

“He’s one of us. He may be a millionaire, but besides the money issue, he’s still in tune with what everybody wants.”

While the rest of the world views Trump as comic relief in our already laughable political system, the sunburned, overweight mouthbreathers of ‘Murica (whose votes all count equally) have spoken: They like Trump. They think he’s a good guy, a straight-shooter. A regular Joe Dickhead, but you know… also a billionaire. He’s convinced them of the greatest character swindle in American politics: He’s just like you.

It’s the same rhetoric that got George W. Bush elected twice. After all, Bush was just like you, especially if you went to the best schools in Connecticut but for some reason spoke with a Texas accent, and if you owned a baseball team, and if your father was head of the CIA, ambassador to China, Vice President of the United States for eight years, and President for four years. Just like you!

You’re still unconvinced. You grasp firmly to the warm, soothing belief that the political left will prevent the national tragedy of a Trump presidency. But you are wrong. The left will be too busy bickering among themselves, arguing over which social justice issue deserves the most prominence, and as a result, will produce the safest, least offensive, most substance-free candidate. Or worse, Hillary Clinton.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the intelligentsia interstate, the one with two different Cheesecake Factories bookending a Costco, Trump not only routinely trashes Latinos and/or China every time there’s a microphone pointed at the puckered rectum on his face, but it’s not even treated as a gaffe. In fact, the more hatred and bigotry that spews out of his mouth hole, the more his numbers seem to go up.

Of course the numbers rise. This is a country that leads the world in obesity rates and gun-related murders, but falls way behind in adult literacy. We are a nation of fat illiterates, shooting each other to death with unprecedented proliferance, which might not be an actual word, but hey, say it to my gun, pal.

America is a nation that considers its greatest literary achievement to be a book of cell phone photos that Kim Kardashian took of herself in the bathroom. It’s a country whose surefire cinematic moneymaker is letting Michael Bay smash toy helicopters into toy oil tankers and make ‘em ‘splode real good. It’s a country whose take on foreign cuisine is Olive Garden.

But surely, America wouldn’t be so gullible as to elect a man most notable for wrapping his wrinkly Earth vessel up in a suit, cinching it together with his own (Chinese-manufactured, shhh) neckties, and sitting in front of a TV camera once a week to grunt out his two-word catchphrase which proudly sends someone down the unemployment chute, right? We are above entrusting our highest security details with a pop culture footnote who, on a scale of cultural dichotomy, is slightly above Honey Boo Boo’s mom, but several notches below a Kevin James movie about a talking gorilla with a wish-granting asshole, yeah? But we are not.

Remember Arnold. Remember Jesse Ventura. Remember Ronald Reagan, a man whose greatest career accomplishment was starring opposite a chimpanzee in a movie. Not only did we elect Reagan (twice) but he is so revered as the patron saint of his party that there are millions of Reaganites who, 30 years later, still delude themselves into believing that he was a selfless patriot who didn’t triple the federal budget deficit, expand the government, or repeatedly raise taxes. He did all of those things, by the way.

So when it comes time to cast your vote, do the truly American thing and vote for President Donald Trump. Hail to the Chief, and God bless America.
 

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We need a test at birth that determines if that person is a psychopath.

If positive then that person is killed or lobotomized.

Then we wouldn't have to deal with all these motherfuckers that don't feel empathy towards others.
No more Democrats...yay!
 

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We need a test at birth that determines if that person is a psychopath.

If positive then that person is killed or lobotomized.

Then we wouldn't have to deal with all these motherfuckers that don't feel empathy towards others.
I hear we also need a test to see where the birth of some Presidents were.
 
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We need a test at birth that determines if that person is a psychopath.

If positive then that person is killed or lobotomized.

Then we wouldn't have to deal with all these motherfuckers that don't feel empathy towards others.
So, feeling irrational over the top empathy is psychopathic?

Okay then.
 

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"Do we really want someone with that kind of character?" said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. "There's a sophomoric quality that is entertaining about Mr. Trump," Paul added, scolding Trump for going after people's appearance.

Trump responded by doing what he does best: attack.

"I never attacked him on his looks and believe me there's plenty of subject matter right there," Trump said to Paul.

:lol
 

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So Jeb Bush's pick for a woman on the $10 bill would be Margaret Thatcher? :lol

This guy is about as clueless as his fucking brother.

Hey Jeb, why not the Queen, asshole.
 
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So Jeb Bush's pick for a woman on the $10 bill would be Margaret Thatcher? :lol

This guy is about as clueless as his fucking brother.

Hey Jeb, why not the Queen, asshole.
He was joking, which is it why he said "nothing like this would happen anyhow".
 

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Nice safe pick by Rand with Susan B Anthony. Cruz had the best answer, Parks on the 20, which is ironic because he'd be leading rallies against her if he had been born 40 years earlier.
 
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