"Grab 'em by the p***y."

[John Galt]

[Spider]

[Philly]

So, Lyndon Johnson didn't finish his first cup of coffee without eclipsing this several times over. But in his era, Trump would have never been anywhere near a major nomination because he is a national embarrassment and a know nothing,



All respect to women, but I can't help but feel like I'd rather first disqualify the guys who...you know...aren't qualified, and then if you talk like a dick, use that to weed out the bad personalities in a contest of qualified candidates.

[ToddStarnes]

[Kane]

[Kane]

Weirdest. Election. Ever.

The more interesting aspect is how the GOP deals with all of those senators and representatives that initially backed Trump. Rescinding or continuing your support of Trump is a net negative at this point...it still brings attention to you regardless of your stance. Questions can be asked, "why did it take you up to this point to disavow Trump?"

Astonishing. Utterly astonishing.

[Winchester]

[Philly]

You guys.

"How can you possibly stand by Trump after this?!"

disavows

"Why did you choose this to cut ties?!"


In truth, this should not have been a factor in Trump's viability. He should never have been viable in the first place. And in truth, if instead of Trump, you had a guy who was decisively the best person for the job running on the best platform, and this video came out, I'm not sure it would be a dealbreaker to me. At the end of the day, we have had good presidents who were shitty people and we will again. When our two party system is churning out presidential nominees who both have more than 65% disapproval ratings and their platforms are assumed to be inconsequential because everyone expects Congress to obstruct any attempt at a legislative agenda, I would prioritize someone who can actually restore some semblance of credible governance any day regardless of creepy perviness behind closed doors. If we had two candidates with good pedigree and platforms, then I give some bonus points to the less creepy one.

And before Dylan comes in here huffing and puffing; yes, Clinton is the best viable option and is the only one with an actual substantive policy agenda. So I'll vote for her, but not with much enthusiasm or high hope, since I don't think it will be humanly possible for her to get any cooperation from Congress on re-establishing a baseline of just being a reasonably functional government. I'm not thrilled about voting for her because I think on some key items, left leaning millennials should not be encouraging the stubborn direction of the Democratic Party. That being said, for the far left who want to vote for Stein, we should also not be encouraging top-to-bottom incompetency, which is all you can call the Greens. The Green Party, lead by Jill Stein who failed to even make a blip after a very high number of left leaning Democrats walked away from this year's primary contest disgusted and angry. Best political gift ever handed to the Greens and they achieved absolutely nothing with it. There's a reason why Bernie Sanders became a household name in the Democratic party in the course of one year while Jill Stein and her predecessors have been running on the same shit for over a decade but will be on the cutting room floor of future wikipedia article source citations. It's because the Green Party isn't a real party. And I don't just mean like it isn't one of the two major parties. I mean even compared to what an active third party is supposed to look like,the Greens are a f**k joke.

And if you're voting for Gary Johnson, I told you 4 years ago and 8 years ago that libertarians are deranged, and Gary Johnson has admitted himself that he is a craven imbecile, so f**k you, go vote for Johnson. Reality will never sway your dogmatic zealotry, just like the hard core Trump lovers.

[Philly]

Also, as far as putting in work and running a respectable hustle, the Libertarian Party is a pretty damn good third American party. Now stop putting all your core values in a concoction of original intent bullshit and bad young adult literature themes, get new candidates who are both intelligent and grounded in reality, and stop being libertarians. Then we can talk.

[Edarmoc]

This has been an exhausting 24 hours to keep up with all of the news. IF the debate goes as poorly for Trump tomorrow as I'm guessing it's going to, we'll probably start seeing the effects of this looming blowout downticket.