Idiocracy

[Highlander]

Great video of Trump being bashed by John Oliver in this link:
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/02/29/donald-trump-is-americas-back-mole-john-oliver

 

[L K]

Without going too far into this, it is astoundingly pathetic that he has any support.  The guy lies constantly, contradicts himself within the same day and is unbelievably dismissive of everything.  He acts like a small child.  Not that the Republican party have a great field of candidates but while Trump isn't "establishment politics", he's considerably worse. 

 

[herman]

For y'all non-link clickers
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpO_RTSNmQ[/youtube]

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Without going too far into this, it is astoundingly pathetic that he has any support.  The guy lies constantly, contradicts himself within the same day and is unbelievably dismissive of everything.  He acts like a small child.  Not that the Republican party have a great field of candidates but while Trump isn't "establishment politics", he's considerably worse. 

The people voting for him are 100% more terrifying than Trump actually is. He knows exactly what he's doing and he knows exactly what he has to say to win votes, so even he knows most of what comes out of his mouth is bullcrap.

 

[Kin]

I'm sorry. I'll never not think this is straight out funny. There's a legit possibility of a President Trump and it's not even that outlandish. It's just a continuation of everything we've seen from American politics over the years.

Honestly, the funniest thing about it? I can't even sincerely say I think he's the worst Republican nominee. At the very least with Trump I think there's so much cynicism with what he's doing I don't think he's representing deeply held beliefs. I don't think that's true of his opponents. 

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Honestly, the funniest thing about it? I can't even sincerely say I think he's the worst Republican nominee. At the very least with Trump I think there's so much cynicism with what he's doing I don't think he's representing deeply held beliefs. I don't think that's true of his opponents. 

Yeah, that goes back to what I said a bit. Who knows what Trump will do as a President. He's campaigning on a platform of building walls and banning Muslims, but he's saying those things strictly to get votes. Those aren't actual things he can do if he wins.

 

[louisstamos]

You guys remember the movie Idiocracy?

 

[rdowdall]

You guys remember the movie Idiocracy?

I WAS GOING TO POST THAT THIS MORNING!!!! Then I forgot.

 

[Kin]

Yeah, that goes back to what I said a bit. Who knows what Trump will do as a President. He's campaigning on a platform of building walls and banning Muslims, but he's saying those things strictly to get votes. Those aren't actual things he can do if he wins.

Right? This discussion barely qualifies as discussing politics. The guy might as well be running on a platform of free moon lasers and sending more men to the Night's Watch.

 

[rdowdall]

Yeah, that goes back to what I said a bit. Who knows what Trump will do as a President. He's campaigning on a platform of building walls and banning Muslims, but he's saying those things strictly to get votes. Those aren't actual things he can do if he wins.

Right? This discussion barely qualifies as discussing politics. The guy might as well be running on a platform of free moon lasers and sending more men to the Night's Watch.

And stopping the zombie uprising?

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Honestly, the funniest thing about it? I can't even sincerely say I think he's the worst Republican nominee. At the very least with Trump I think there's so much cynicism with what he's doing I don't think he's representing deeply held beliefs. I don't think that's true of his opponents. 

Yeah, that goes back to what I said a bit. Who knows what Trump will do as a President. He's campaigning on a platform of building walls and banning Muslims, but he's saying those things strictly to get votes. Those aren't actual things he can do if he wins.

He's the American Silvio Berlusconi.

And he was by all accounts terrible for Italy.

 

[Rick C.]

The thing is there are other politicians and celebrities endorsing the guy.  It's really scaring me that he could be elected.

 

[Frank E]

The thing is there are other politicians and celebrities endorsing the guy.  It's really scaring me that he could be elected.

He could get the Rupublican nomination, but even that's looking like it's going to be a problem.  The party is looking like their going to submarine him.

Hillary Clinton would absolutely love to go up against Trump, and I think he'd get trounced by her.

Remember, right now the only people that are actually doing any "voting" are just the delegates of the parties.  Put it to a popular vote, and I think he gets smoked.   

 

[CarltonTheBear]

He could get the Rupublican nomination, but even that's looking like it's going to be a problem.  The party is looking like their going to submarine him.

Hillary Clinton would absolutely love to go up against Trump, and I think he'd get trounced by her.

Remember, right now the only people that are actually doing any "voting" are just the delegates of the parties.  Put it to a popular vote, and I think he gets smoked.   

Yeah I feel like there's going to be a decent amount of current Cruz/Rubio supporters who would be ok with voting for Clinton/against Trump in the general election. Whereas if Trump didn't get the Republican nomination their votes would 100% stay on the Republican side, because heaven forbid they have a female president.

On a side-note: how much longer until they've confirmed who gets the nomination on each side? I know Super Tuesday has more or less made it Trump and Clinton, but when does that become official?

 

[herman]

He could get the Rupublican nomination, but even that's looking like it's going to be a problem.  The party is looking like their going to submarine him.

Hillary Clinton would absolutely love to go up against Trump, and I think he'd get trounced by her.

Remember, right now the only people that are actually doing any "voting" are just the delegates of the parties.  Put it to a popular vote, and I think he gets smoked.   

Yeah I feel like there's going to be a decent amount of current Cruz/Rubio supporters who would be ok with voting for Clinton/against Trump in the general election. Whereas if Trump didn't get the Republican nomination their votes would 100% stay on the Republican side, because heaven forbid they have a female president.

On a side-note: how much longer until they've confirmed who gets the nomination on each side? I know Super Tuesday has more or less made it Trump and Clinton, but when does that become official?

The Republicans will be nominating their candidate July 18 in Cleveland. http://www.270towin.com/2016-republican-nomination/

The Democrats will be nominating their candidate July 25 in Philadelphia. http://www.270towin.com/2016-democratic-nomination/

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

The thing is there are other politicians and celebrities endorsing the guy.  It's really scaring me that he could be elected.

He could get the Rupublican nomination, but even that's looking like it's going to be a problem.  The party is looking like their going to submarine him.

Hillary Clinton would absolutely love to go up against Trump, and I think he'd get trounced by her.

Remember, right now the only people that are actually doing any "voting" are just the delegates of the parties.  Put it to a popular vote, and I think he gets smoked.   

Up until 24 hours ago polls had Hillary losing to Trump in the General.

Sanders has had a close to double-digit lead over him.

 

[Peter D.]

I have no clue how U.S. elections work with primaries and whatever else.

But when I see on the news any of these candidates speak, I can't help but wonder how one of those flakes will be leading the most powerful country in the world. 

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

It's interesting watching this election cycle, it just speaks to how completely broken the political system is. Corporations that own the media dictate the media narrative. These same corporations decide which candidate is in their best interest.

There is one candidate talking about the only meaningful issue there is, campaign finance reform and he has been written off from day one as a socialist/communist nut.

In the words of George Carlin, it's all bullshit folks and it's bad for you.

 

[herman]

I have no clue how U.S. elections work with primaries and whatever else.

But when I see on the news any of these candidates speak, I can't help but wonder how one of those flakes will be leading the most powerful country in the world. 

Each party has its members vote for which candidate they want to nominate to run for the Presidential election during the run-up year.

So right now, each state's party delegates are voting on which candidate to back. Super Tuesday is the first major chunk of delegate voting; historically, the candidates who claim the most wins on Super Tuesday go on to represent their parties at the Presidential election.

 

[L K]

The thing is there are other politicians and celebrities endorsing the guy.  It's really scaring me that he could be elected.

Christie backed him entirely for selfish reasons.  He's unpopular in New Jersey now and he's angling for the Attorney General position with a Republican President.  There really isn't an awesome candidate among the Democrats/Republicans this year.  But the bottom line is their broken political system is going to make whoever is in charge largely irrelevant if they dont' have a majority in the house and senate.  Disastrous from an international relations standpoint but domestic policy will be stagnant.  Unfortunately we are going to suffer for those poor decisions too.