“nobody knew that taxation policy was this complicated”

Imagine attacking school children in any way and thinking you’re correct on any issue.

Should’ve bought livejournal instead of Twitter.

Proven by the fact that we ever allowed this piece of trash to become president.

It’s by design. But in a serious country, serious world, or amongst serious people, we would’ve been laughing at the “Laffer curve” the moment Laffer ejaculated it into the napkin he first wet dreamed it upon.

But instead because we’re both as laughable as the curve itself and because the rich, industrial asshats in this country were foaming at the mouth for a thin, arguably objective, seemingly mathematical piece of horseshit to cover their “steal from the poor and give to the rich” policy preferences, reproductions of Arthur’s ejaculate was disseminated like it was the fucking Mona Lisa.

It should never be said that conservatives are conservative in the normal, adjective sense of the word. For the last fifty years, they’ve been tearing at the fraying seams of society and have been using “trickle down economics” as their seam ripper, while simultaneously blaming anything and everything other than their objectively horrific policies for the havoc wreaked.

It’s kinda like how prevent defense in football sometimes (or perhaps even often) prevents teams from winning.

Nazis in my area

It’s the collective fault of the American electorate.

We’ve seen him handle an actual emergency and it was strikingly similar. It’s good to know he handles even small problems in the same dumbfounded way.

We’re all completely screwed if this crisis generator gets back into office.

I should probably never underestimate their willingness to destroy the whole country in order to hurt what passes for the Left here.

I think we should take them at their word. They are insane enough to do a wide variety of terrible things and ruin the country. As far as their rich backers go, everyone thinks they can control the monster they’ve unleashed until it’s too late.

In a US presidential election, your vote supports Israel no matter what party it is for.

If people are actually interested in choice on this and many other issues, they’ll have to organize to change the electoral process. But this is America so instead we will sit around in threads like these all day pretending that pissing away your vote with Stein will somehow change that when it obviously will not.

I still don’t get why you think occupy died, but regardless it wasn’t because of online shit or coopted lingo.

I’ve bumped into a bunch of you online socialists before and every one of you thinks your efforts made some profound difference when in reality socialism is still a nothing nowhere movement in the US and we get more fascist every election cycle.

Occupy died because of “terminally online bullshit”? I guess that terminally online bullshit is either more effective than what you’re suggesting or your analysis sucks.

Yet as someone who lives in a more diverse democracy (although it has been getting dangerously more polarized in the recent decades), I’m always baffled by this presumption that a candidate deserves someone’s vote by default.

If you live in a democracy where the spoiler effect isn’t an issue, then just be happy, whistle, and move on.

If you live in a democracy with first past the poll elections with an electoral college, then you should understand how the system works and vote accordingly.

The spoiler effect is where you vote for someone (Jill Stein in this case) who you think better aligns with your particular set of policy goals, but since they have no chance of actually winning you help the candidate most opposed to your policy goals (Trump in this case) by subtracting votes from the less aligned candidate (Harris in this case) that actually does stand a chance of winning.

It’s an ironic outcome of voting in our system. By voting for the person most aligned with your preferences you actually help the person least aligned with your preferences.

Trump is worse on genocide and climate and will be assisted greatly by idiots voting for Jill Stein in swing states.

They’ve done research and provided these assholes aren’t on the ballot, people usually choose a ballot-present major party option instead.

Can it already, garbanzo bean.

He also had a goon squad execute a guy in the pcnw because the dude had shot a proud boy and then Trump later bragged about it.

Republicans are all anti college until you’re talking the electoral one.

And his evidence that Obama was born in Kenya.

We’re America, god damnit. American Exceptionalism demands we pave a different path. A rugged path.

A path directly toward the cliff edge and then straight off of it into the ravine below!

Like Trump gives a shit about the will of the people.