Right now, winning the presidency is about assembling voters in key states drawn from your party's natural base and as many swing voters as possible, using whatever means necessary.
Democrats choose to use physical attributes to assemble their coalitions.
GOP... well, fucking failed at assembling anything outside their party's natural base for years.
Seriously. They sucked at it. And when potential new voter bases sprung up like the Tea Party, the GOP pushed them away. When conservative millennials tried to approach the GOP? same
Qualifications? Celebrity?
Fucking meaningless, and if you think that way, you're in the fucking dark ages.
Obama had neither qualifications nor celebrity. He ran during an economic crisis in a GOP presidency, and as the first black president, and against McCain who was old GOP
Using that, he was able to assemble a voter coalition of people fucked by the economy, voters wanting the first black president, and voters wanting an end to the war.
He betrayed all 3, but the Dem base expanded while the GOP base continued to shrink, and Romney spiked the ball.
I did go ahead and block that dumbass btw, because fuck it.
Dumbfuck binary position. Celebrity? Qualifications? Those are just tools you can use to attract voters into your voter coalition. Even then, who's to say you can't have both? What defines celebrity or qualifications?
Does political expertise ensure further political success? Our politicians are some of the dumbest fucking people alive! The longer they've been in politics, the dumber and more clueless they are! See Feinstein, she's only ever been a politician, and she's batshit, corrupt, dumb!
Oh, but if she ran, then she has 'qualifications' as a lifetime politician?
Fuck that.
Trump used his celebrity as a tool to reach out to voters to assemble a coalition. His campaign understood the concept of assembling a coalition.
Hillary just assumed she'd inherit Obama's.
Trump's coalition were the betrayed Obama voters, the people who had never voted before out of political alienation, the industrial workers destroyed by decades of shit trade policy, and people wanting to drop a nuke on the political establishment. That was his voter coalition.
Now? He's grown it, simply by virtue of cementing the GOP base around him, and pulling in more of the people who'd never voted before, and then further by going after the Dem voters who felt held hostage by the far left.
Crossover votes are going to be the death knell of Biden.
Celebrity and qualifications... fuck that shit.
Trump not only got the voter coalition, but he targeted the blue wall to get it.
When's the last time you heard a Dem talk about the Blue Wall that'll keep the GOP from ever winning again? How demographics will end the GOP?
Now, look where he's going, what he's doing.
He's running up the scoreboard.
He doesn't want to win.
He wants to fucking FACEROLL Biden.
And the Dems will give it to him on a golden fucking platter as befitting The Donald, because all they had to do was not be crazy.
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Basically, the entire Khashoggi story was hyped up by Turkey claiming that a recording of Khashoggi's murder in the embassy was caught on his apple watch and transmitted to his iphone that his girlfriend waiting outside had. This was accentuated by the MSM hyping up his watch.
Then, of course, I and several other people pointed out that Turkey's networks weren't compatible with the model of apple watch. Literally, it couldn't connect to Turkish cell networks. Suddenly, it became, "Oh, experts are skeptical, but we still totally know the Saudis did it."
Most of what I write isn't understood by most of the people who read it.
That's fine. I don't actually like most of the people who read my stuff. They're reactionary in the most reflexive and knee jerk sense, they're stubborn in ignorance, and they're far too trusting.
This isn't for them.
I can't even say who this is for because I don't know who's going to understand what I'm writing, and if they do then it would be unlikely and unwise of them to respond saying they do. That's fine. I think I truly understand where Thomas is coming from now. I'm doing this for me.
I despise you. I cant fucking stand you. You are the reason the McRib is never a permanent part of the McDonalds menu. You are the reason Sechuan sauce has never been brought back. You are appendix cancer. You are HIV personified.
“Here’s a troubling trend about how millennials started killing themselves.”
“LEL I BET IT WAS EMO MUSIC!”
Yes, clearly, there is NO COVARIANCE BETWEEN A GENERATION PRONE TO SUICIDE AND A SUBCULTURE UNIQUE TO THAT GENERATION THAT EPITOMIZED NIHILISM. NO COVARIANCE AT ALL. MHMM.
Every grave of a kid that died from substance abuse or suicide that isnt emo is a giant middle fonger to fucktards like you.
And no. It WASNT social media either you fucking larva brained imbeciles. This trend started two years BEFORE myspace’s heyday.
All the while I have been forgetting the third of my reasons for remaining so faithful a citizen of the Federation, despite all the lascivious inducements from expatriates to follow them beyond the seas, and all the surly suggestions from patriots that I succumb.
It is the reason which grows out of my mediaeval but unashamed taste for the bizarre and indelicate, my congenital weakness for comedy of the grosser varieties. The United States, to my eye, is incomparably the greatest show on earth.
To air a grievance implies it hasn’t already been made known.
The complaints have been spoken, repeatedly. The problem isn’t that they aren’t being spoken. It’s that they aren’t being listened to.
This is not an age of heroes.
This is not an age of legends.
There does not exist a desire to engage in acts of valor and endurance. The concept of true valor and endurance does not exist, it is not conceivable anymore.
There are no secret plans. There are no last minute hopes. There is no superhuman everyman to swoop in and avert disaster.
The damage is already being done. All that can happen is stemming the bleeding.
1) There comes a time where every man has his breaking point.
That day was today for me.
After EVERYTHING, falling off a ladder, my kitty being sick and doing her best impression of a cow on my carpet, assembling a day bed, and NOT FINDING FOUR ROSES ANHWHERE, I turned to this:
2) "What was your breaking point Fudge?"
WELL APPARENTLY WE'RE ALL SO FUCKING HARD IN OUR FUCKING PANTS SIMPING FOR TRUMP THAT WE'RE ARGUING HOW MUCH OF OUR MONEY THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE SENDING BACK TO US THAT WE HAVENT SAID DONT TAKE OUR FUCKING MONEY
3) Yeah, no prisoners taken today.
Fuck stimulus payments.
SLASH THE FUCKING TAXES YOU SELF INDULGENT COCK SUCKERS @GOP@TheDemocrats THATS HOW YOU SAVE THE FUCKING ECONOMY.
OH WAIT.
YOU CANT DO THAT.
BECAUSE THEN YOU WOULDNT BE ABLE TO PASS YOUR FOREIGN AID BILL YOU FUCKOS.