2016 elections - because it's never too early

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mongers

#3825
January 22, 2016, 07:05:29 PM
Thread is beginning to read like the start of the Book of Revelations.  :ph34r:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Razgovory

#3826
January 22, 2016, 08:33:07 PM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#3827
January 22, 2016, 09:13:48 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Eddie Teach

#3829
January 22, 2016, 09:32:15 PM
Bristol Palin 2036!
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Grinning_Colossus

#3830
January 22, 2016, 11:20:58 PM
Quote from: Barrister on January 22, 2016, 11:38:29 AM
I have mixed feelings about NR itself.  I remember discovering the magazine in my high school library, and would often read it in the very early 90s.  It helped form my own political beliefs.  But it lost a lot of its coherence once Buckley passed on, and reading it now online there's a wide variety in tone, depth and values between articles.

They all use the same font, though.  :bleeding:
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Syt

#3831
January 23, 2016, 04:56:36 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Eddie Teach

#3833
January 23, 2016, 10:33:30 AM
That's just what we need, a race between three New Yorkers.  :lol:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#3834
January 23, 2016, 11:44:28 AM
Bloomberg is amazing.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Legbiter

#3835
January 23, 2016, 12:50:42 PM
Bloomberg running would be good for Trump. He'd make Bloomberg the face of gun control, Wall Street and open borders.  :hmm:
Posted using 100% recycled electrons.

DGuller

#3836
January 23, 2016, 01:59:42 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 23, 2016, 04:56:36 AM
He seems to have trouble distinguishing U.S. from foreign soldiers.
:hmm: Maybe it's a good thing he dodged the draft then.

jimmy olsen

#3837
January 23, 2016, 02:16:36 PM
 Trumps the kind of guy who'd literally strip his shirt off on stage and point out his scars, like a Roman politician, so yeah, it's a good thing he didn't serve.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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DGuller

#3838
January 23, 2016, 02:35:52 PM
Quote from: Phillip V on January 23, 2016, 10:30:38 AM
Bloomberg Willing To Spend $1 Billion On Independent Bid For White House

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/nyregion/bloomberg-sensing-an-opening-revisits-a-potential-white-house-run.html
Not sure how to feel about this.  On the one hand, he would be the most competent of the three candidates, and by a big margin.  On the other hand, our political system being what it is, increasing the winning chances of the candidate that is just totally utterly unacceptable is a very bad thing, and surely Bloomberg candidacy will hurt the Democratic candidate far more than it will hurt the Republican candidate.

dps

#3839
January 23, 2016, 03:20:17 PM
Quote from: DGuller on January 23, 2016, 02:35:52 PM
Quote from: Phillip V on January 23, 2016, 10:30:38 AM
Bloomberg Willing To Spend $1 Billion On Independent Bid For White House

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/nyregion/bloomberg-sensing-an-opening-revisits-a-potential-white-house-run.html
Not sure how to feel about this.  On the one hand, he would be the most competent of the three candidates, and by a big margin.  On the other hand, our political system being what it is, increasing the winning chances of the candidate that is just totally utterly unacceptable is a very bad thing, and surely Bloomberg candidacy will hurt the Democratic candidate far more than it will hurt the Republican candidate.

I'm not sure that's true.  It probably almost certainly is if the nominees are Trump and Clinton (and I still think that Trump will fade once people actually start having to vote for him) but not necessarily in other scenarios.

In a Trump/Clinton/Bloomberg race, I'd probably vote for Bloomberg, but OTOH, if Trump and Clinton are the nominees, I'm voting for some 3rd party candidate anyway.
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