One Year Ago Today I Ruined My Life

[martybegan]

That doesn't dispute what I said.

It does about the finality, and even then Trump can go to federal courts.

 

[pknopp]

What actually makes a good candidate? I mean, one could argue that since Trump won twice, that makes him a good candidate.

I suppose one would need to distinguish between a good candidate and a good president. Being a candidate is easy. You can make all sorts of claims and promises you know you will never fulfill.

If you lose, then you're not a good candidate. If Kamala Harris would have won, would that have made her a good candidate? Can a good candidate lose and a bad candidate win?

kinda meaningless. I could argue that Gabbard was a good candidate because she was willing to be truthful about Harris but it caused her to lose......so.......

 

[Independent thinker]

Trump is who he has always been. Calling people names like a 12 year old.

Tim Allen once said something like, "I kind of like having a president who's an asshole". Should we just judge a president by how the country is doing overall, instead of whether they were a nice gentlemen or a name calling 12 year old? I think it was Teddy Roosevelt who "spoke softly and carried a big stick". Should we judge him by how the country did under him or should we judge him for being an asshole who bullied people with a big stick?

 

[pknopp]

Tim Allen once said something like, "I kind of like having a president who's an asshole". Should we just judge a president by how the country is doing overall, instead of whether they were a nice gentlemen or a name calling 12 year old? I think it was Teddy Roosevelt who "spoke softly and carried a big stick". Should we judge him by how the country did under him or should we judge him for being an asshole who bullied people with a big stick?

One can be an asshole and still have a mental acuity above a 12 year old. The country is in a mess.

 

[Independent thinker]

One can be an asshole and still have a mental acuity above a 12 year old. The country is in a mess.

How is the country in a mess? We don't have Biden's 9% inflation, the stock market is up, the economy has actually been doing OK, the border is being cleaned up, crime is going down, and there are less wars going on around the world than there had been under Biden.

 

[pknopp]

How is the country in a mess? We don't have Biden's 9% inflation, the stock market is up, the economy has actually been doing OK, the border is being cleaned up, crime is going down, and there are less wars going on around the world than there had been under Biden.

While Trump ignores and undermines our laws and economic system.

To note, I'm not blaming the mess all on Trump.

 

[Independent thinker]

While Trump ignores and undermines our laws and economic system.

To note, I'm not blaming the mess all on Trump.

I must point out that two Supreme Court justices have come out recently to admonish lower courts who continually issue rulings against already established Supreme Court precedents. I call that undermining the justice system and laws. The economic system has been going just fine so I don't have a clue what you are talking about there. Are you looking at your crystal ball again?

 

[Robert W]

I love it when cool aid chugging partisans like you who will NEVER vote for a Democrat want to give advice to Democrats on how to be.

Do you also love it when what you read came from a former DNC party leader?

 

[Donald H]

Voting at rigged

There is room for a hostile takeover of the Democratic party OR a new party altogether....one more fiscally conservative but socially liberal.
Especially as Democrats cannot get their act together.

Fighting Trump is not a winning strategy. The Democrats spent all they had and then some and lost ground the whole time doing it.

Trump spent a fraction of the money Democrats did....has full coffers for campaigning that he and Vance doesn't need.

But they continue to raise more....easily and unrestricted....lots of hard money and truckloads of soft. Maybe even black money too.

And the best hope the Democrats have is AOC (uncoordinated on stage and incapable of debate) or Newsom....too many negatives and failing to fundraise.

The laughable part is that Trump is/was lousy at debate. Vance is very much at home on the debate stage. There is not a single Democrat capable of winning any debate with him....they cant even attack him without making complete idiots out of themselves.

If Vance grabs Tulsi as his VP.....
There is no hope for Democrats for 20 years.....that's pretty pathetic.

Voting at rigged ballot boxes can't stop a fascist regime, and debating is completely out of the question.

So many Americans don't understand that the one big party that denied the workiing class, made fascism possible. The people are not going to go back to accepting that again for 3 or 4 years at least.

It;s very similar to Hitler's easy task of convincing his people that democracy would never work for the suffering working class.

I have real doubts about Vance taking over from Trump. A fascist dictator can't be replaced, and the experiment with fascism doesn't usually last long, for some obvious reasons.

Fortunately the world can look to the Brics as the prime economic force that can stop fascism this time.

 

[pknopp]

I must point out that two Supreme Court justices have come out recently to admonish lower courts who continually issue rulings against already established Supreme Court precedents. I call that undermining the justice system and laws. The economic system has been going just fine so I don't have a clue what you are talking about there. Are you looking at your crystal ball again?

I said I didn't blame it all on Trump.

 

[Donald H]

The GOP picked the absolutely worse person they could find as their candidate and the Democrats still lost to him twice.

So far I've seen no one step up that can beat whatever awful candidate the GOP presents next time either.

It's not really that the fascist dictator can't be beaten, it's that there will be no legitimate voting permitted. But first, a challenger to the regime would have to survive long enough to force a faux rigged election.

Trump is your king for some years to come, or until he drops dead.

It's looking like Newsome will be the challenger and so it's nearly certain that he won't outlive Trump.

Underground forces for both sides are at work making preparations for the next election.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

I've seen zero indications the DNC has learned a thing.

Only their voters can teach them. Sadly, they’re too brainwashed.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Let's see your exception free definition of a woman if that's such a basic thing. Exception free, remember.

It’s the original definition until you leftatrds made exceptions.

 

[Luckyone]

In case you didn't know, over two million people left the dems for the red team between 2020 and 2024 and it is continuing. If you don't get your head out of your ass and listen to this lady explain why, that will continue.

There has been a growing discontent with the Democratic party that is understandable, especially since they have been shifting to the extreme left and people by nature do not like extremes. This was certainly seen in the period between 2016 and 2020 where many Republicans (especially high-profile and intelligent people that were in cabinet positions with Trump) left the Republican party.

In addition, and even more importantly, most switches were not to the opposite party but to becoming independent voters (like I am).

At this moment, I have no interest in either party. My vote is based on what the issues are and who is the person running the country (specifically). I am middle of the road (centrist) and competence is #1 and ability to compromise is #2.

Given that at this moment there is no one in the Democratic party that is either running it or the choice to become president, I am ignoring the party all together. On the opposite side, I am 100% against the Republicans due to the fact that Trump (an incompetent conman) is running it, and the Republican party is to the extreme Right.

As such, I would pick voting on the Democratic side, not because I am in favor of them but simply because they, at this time, are not worse than the Republicans.

Last but not least, I do not care one iota about the fact that "millions" of people have left the Democrats in the past 3 years. I make my own choices based on my own analysis, and I do not vote with the majority, simply because the majority usually do not use their brains to vote.

They are like you, mindless puppets that vote on emotions and nothing else

 

[Robert W]

There has been a growing discontent with the Democratic party that is understandable, especially since they have been shifting to the extreme left and people by nature do not like extremes. This was certainly seen in the period between 2016 and 2020 where many Republicans (especially high-profile and intelligent people that were in cabinet positions with Trump) left the Republican party.

In addition, and even more importantly, most switches were not to the opposite party but to becoming independent voters (like I am).

At this moment, I have no interest in either party. My vote is based on what the issues are and who is the person running the country (specifically). I am middle of the road (centrist) and competence is #1 and ability to compromise is #2.

Given that at this moment there is no one in the Democratic party that is either running it or the choice to become president, I am ignoring the party all together. On the opposite side, I am 100% against the Republicans due to the fact that Trump (an incompetent conman) is running it, and the Republican party is to the extreme Right.

As such, I would pick voting on the Democratic side, not because I am in favor of them but simply because they, at this time, are not worse than the Republicans.

Last but not least, I do not care one iota about the fact that "millions" of people have left the Democrats in the past 3 years. I make my own choices based on my own analysis, and I do not vote with the majority, simply because the majority usually do not use their brains to vote.

They are like you, mindless puppets that vote on emotions and nothing else

Yet you vote just for Democrats. Ever after the public rejected them.

 

[Independent thinker]

There has been a growing discontent with the Democratic party that is understandable, especially since they have been shifting to the extreme left and people by nature do not like extremes. This was certainly seen in the period between 2016 and 2020 where many Republicans (especially high-profile and intelligent people that were in cabinet positions with Trump) left the Republican party.

In addition, and even more importantly, most switches were not to the opposite party but to becoming independent voters (like I am).

At this moment, I have no interest in either party. My vote is based on what the issues are and who is the person running the country (specifically). I am middle of the road (centrist) and competence is #1 and ability to compromise is #2.

Given that at this moment there is no one in the Democratic party that is either running it or the choice to become president, I am ignoring the party all together. On the opposite side, I am 100% against the Republicans due to the fact that Trump (an incompetent conman) is running it, and the Republican party is to the extreme Right.

As such, I would pick voting on the Democratic side, not because I am in favor of them but simply because they, at this time, are not worse than the Republicans.

Last but not least, I do not care one iota about the fact that "millions" of people have left the Democrats in the past 3 years. I make my own choices based on my own analysis, and I do not vote with the majority, simply because the majority usually do not use their brains to vote.

They are like you, mindless puppets that vote on emotions and nothing else

You are wrong. 2 million registered democrats did leave the party between 2020 and 2024 while at the very same time, Republicans gained 2 million registrations. That exodus continues to this day. While it can't be proven that those exact two million left democrats and became republicans, that is the most reasonable explanation. In any event, if would behoove democrats to listen to what this lady has to say and maybe they can learn from it to stop more from leaving the party. Many others have also said the very same thing as this lady has said.

 

[Luckyone]

Yet you vote just for Democrats. Ever after the public rejected them.

My vote is NOT for Democrats, it is 100% against Trump. I do not vote for narcissists and anarchists that want to destroy what this nation has been for 249 years. A republic based on Democratic principles of one for all and all for one, and of the people, for the people and by the people.

I was a Republican for 35% and never was a Democrat before.

2008 changed it for me. I strongly am against extremes and against racism and the Republican party became both that year. Trump sealed it for me as he does not care one iota for this country or for the people, as long as it does not benefit himself.

He has never been willing to sacrifice himself for the benefit of others. Hell, he won't even admit to his mistakes (always blames someone else for anything that goes wrong). We are humans and we are all fallible and every one of us makes a mistake at some point and living up to that is what makes us better people and able to do better things for the nation.

 

[Luckyone]

You are wrong. 2 million registered democrats did leave the party between 2020 and 2024 while at the very same time, Republicans gained 2 million registrations. That exodus continues to this day. While it can't be proven that those exact two million left democrats and became republicans, that is the most reasonable explanation. In any event, if would behoove democrats to listen to what this lady has to say and maybe they can learn from it to stop more from leaving the party. Many others have also said the very same thing as this lady has said.

so what, that does not change my mind about stupidity and emotions being what drives 95% of all people.

I have always believed that brains (intelligence) is the key to doing the right thing and that without it, we are just puppets. Just look at yourself in the mirror.

I have been telling you to do that for a year now and have you even done it ONCE? No, you haven't

 

[leftwinger]

Except every post you do blame Trump. But for when you blame both sides generic occasionally you anti-american trolling parasite.

While Trump ignores and undermines our laws and economic system.

To note, I'm not blaming the mess all on Trump.

 

[leftwinger]

Voting at rigged

Voting at rigged ballot boxes can't stop a fascist regime, and debating is completely out of the question.

So many Americans don't understand that the one big party that denied the workiing class, made fascism possible. The people are not going to go back to accepting that again for 3 or 4 years at least.

It;s very similar to Hitler's easy task of convincing his people that democracy would never work for the suffering working class.

I have real doubts about Vance taking over from Trump. A fascist dictator can't be replaced, and the experiment with fascism doesn't usually last long, for some obvious reasons.

Fortunately the world can look to the Brics as the prime economic force that can stop fascism this time.

I feel for you mr. Canuck. I also thought I was going crazy 09'-13' BT (before Trump). Now things are going good again and I realize it's all of DEM and not me.