Humorless Politics Thread

[dave from knoxville]

cavorting continuing to argue that your vote only counts if you cast it the way he did. Thank God for consistency.

my job as a citizen of a democracy is ...to make my opinion heard, it's to vote for the person with the closest views as mine

That's one way to look at it, but not the only one. Some might say you have a deeper obligation to use your vote in the maximally effective way to benefit your community given the prevailing realities than to use your vote as a form of personal expression.

it's to vote for the person who I honestly think would do the best job.

I really think you may not have thought this through. President Jill Stein would have a constituency in the Congress of precisely zero. The Democrats there would probably cooperate with her where their interests overlapped, but would have no incentive whatever to put themselves out for her to succeed. If you think these are the circumstances under which a president can do an effective job, you must think she has despotic powers or is a magician. You do realize that presidents don't make laws and don't pass budgets, right?

[cavorting with nudists]

cavorting continuing to argue that your vote only counts if you cast it the way he did. Thank God for consistency.

This is just crazy talk.  There is nothing in the post you quote that could even remotely be construed as meaning that. Aren't you supposed to be some kind of math guy? Like, logic? Rigor?

[dave from knoxville]

Logic and rigor have I none, but this dude's candidate is my father's son.

[dave from knoxville]

You're right though; how could I read "If you think these are the circumstances under which a president can do an effective job, you must think she has despotic powers or is a magician." as anything but tolerant respect for someone else's opinion about how to decide which candidate to vote for?

[cavorting with nudists]

Rigor, dude. Impertinent that may have been, but it's a long way from saying "your vote only counts if you cast it the way (I) did." Also, it showed no disrespect for the idea of choosing your candidate on the basis of which one "would do the best job," just for the idea of using that criterion and ending up with Jill Stein. You're not this thin-skinned about everything--what's your problem?

[dave from knoxville]

I'm just teasing. I obviously took it too far. I apologize, sincerely, Truce?

[buffcoat]

If only Mr. Woolery would follow your shining example.

[dave from knoxville]

I consider myself to be a Jill Stein-supporting role model.

[cavorting with nudists]

Truce?

Well...if it'll get your legions of flying Twitter monkeys off my back with all this "wad" business...Yes.

[Smelodies]

This looks like an interesting doc.

Vidal V Buckley TRAILER

[cavorting with nudists]

Believe me, I'm not sorry for the restraint that has been shown on this board re: talking about the thing you can't get away from elsewhere, but this is just too rich.

Argument over Sandy Hook shooting ends in gunfire:

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/12/19/man-gets-mad-in-barber-shop-shoots-toward-patron/

[Kormodd]

Sucks that the Democrats won the popular vote in the House elections, but we still have these clowns  (meaning the clowns with the R's next to their names) running things. And now we're going off some sort of cliff or something? WTF.

Also, this deserves to be posted one last time:

[dave from knoxville]

Where is "no abortions for any reason" and "fuck them if they don't have health coverage" on that train? The other side?

[buffcoat]

Where is "no abortions for any reason" and "fuck them if they don't have health coverage" on that train? The other side?

You don't want to ask about the other side of that train, Dave.



For extra comedy, read that in HAL voice.

[fonpr]

Where is "no abortions for any reason" and "fuck them if they don't have health coverage" on that train? The other side?

You don't want to ask about the other side of that train, Dave.



For extra comedy, read that in HAL voice.

Excellent suggestion, Buff.