Hillary Clinton

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Karen_J, Oct 1, 2015.

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  1. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I am not being sarcastic, I don't understand what I perceive as the negativity and hate that abounds in this thread.
    I truly don't see why many of the posters bother to even survive in the pit hole they think the U.S.A. is.

    The point is not being made that the government has some corruption...all governments have some corruption. The point is not being made that certain individuals in the government hold different opinions or support different policies then many of us like....it's not that some of us are frustrated at many things at many levels....what I see in this thread lately is a concerted effort to paint all government as evil and corrupt every time it does something someone doesn't like.

    The FBI finds no reason to suggest criminal charges be brought against someone...why is that? The FBI is corrupt and doesn't care.
    Hillary Clinton makes the same types of statements that all politicians have been making since the Roman Republic....she is not just a liar, she is evil and held to a standard that Mother Treasa would melt under.

    Trump?

    The Trump phenomenon is like the old Star Trek show called Day of the Dove where the monster feeds off of hate and negative emotions.

    You see nothing but actors on a stage of the absurd. I see different people with different goals, methods, morals and values trying their best to do what's right. I don't agree with all they do or the methods they use but I try to understand their motives. It's the same human drama that has been enacted since the beginning of man.
    I try not to trivialize what's going on with stupid memes, talking points, and the divisive garbage that masquerades as truth.

    I don't think Hillary Clinton will save us from Donald Trump. Trump is just feeding on the ignorance in our society, nothing will save us from that if it keeps spreading at the current rate. Hillary is just one agent trying to do her best while being held to a standard that has never been applied to anyone ever running for office in recent history.

    You think you see corruption in government? I hate to tell you but that's the human condition, read some history. I've lived through the Kennedy and King assassinations, been to Vietnam and nuclear protests, experienced Three Mile Island and fracking, seen friends loose their retirement savings, I've been fired and thrown of of schools for having long hair, and lived from hand to mouth as a kid in a three room concrete foundation with no insulation and only a potbelly stove for heat.

    I think there are too many people in this country who are spoiled, ignorant, and all to willing to cry about their troubles and all to quick to jump on the bandwagon and attack and demean anyone they disagree with without extending the courtesy to at least offer ration reasons for doing so.

    Trump.

    The U.S.A. will get what the people of the U.S.A. deserve.
     
  2. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    I fully understand this and I agree with it also. But:


    I don't get this. What else are they suppose to do? They simply live there. Should they stop breathing or leave because they have no trust in their government? Leaving only works for people who hate everything about their country, most 'just' have a big dislike for their government and maybe most media.
     
  3. Aerianne

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    Hillary Clinton is a self-serving monster.
     
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  5. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    ^
    What are you going to vote, Aeri?
     
  6. Aerianne

    Aerianne Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    National Polling Averages
    Updated Sep. 21, 2016, 12:00 AM



    40.9%
    Clinton



    40%
    Trump



    8.6%
    Johnson


    3%
    Stein








    http://www.usatoday....n/poll-tracker/
     
  7. Aerianne

    Aerianne Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I am not voting for Hillary Clinton.
     
  8. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    If you don't wanna tell it is ok too. So I take it you are not gonna use your vote?
     
  9. Aerianne

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    Ha ha ha...Nice try.

    I'm not going to publicly reveal anything other than to confirm that I will not be voting for Hillary Clinton.
     
  10. Asmodean

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    That's ok. I was just wondering. But I already knew you dislike Clinton a lot so I already figured it wasn't going to be her :p
     
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  11. Aerianne

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    Coincidentally, the USA and the Netherlands both instituted Secret Ballot voting in 1849.
     
  12. Meliai

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    Fair enough.

    I'm not here to attack Hillary. I don't care for her, but I don't care for the Democratic party (or the Republican party either, to clarify) as a whole. I don't place her on a higher pedestal of evil as some do.

    I think Trump is the culmination of all that is wrong with America. And yet, I'm not willing to turn a blind eye to the faults of the other candidate, the other party, just because Trump.

    Trump should not be treated as an argument for the failed policies of the Democratic party .

    I'm not ignorant to American or world history, I'm not ignorant to the history of the stupidity of the human race - I really don't know what point you're trying to make with your remark that I should read some history. Because humans have always mucked it up, we shouldn't discuss how we're mucking it up currently, or if we do we can only discuss the worst of the evil and the other team gets a pass? Or what?
     
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  13. Asmodean

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    To me Clinton and Trump together is really a more complete culmination of what is wrong with America.



    We still ask each other what we vote all the time here, though. Also in the public eye. But it is really normal to answer with 'I'm not telling'. For which there are sensible reasons. I find it a bit unfortunate in a discussion forum though, but its ok :p ;)
     
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  14. Aerianne

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    There's always third party voting.

    Voting for someone whose ideas you align with is not a wasted vote.

    It's a vote to say that you are not pleased with the status quo and that you'd prefer to see the country go in a different direction.

    You don't have to feel compelled to vote for "the lesser of two evils".

    Vote your truth.
     
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  15. MeAgain

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    My comment about history was in regards to politics. I didn't mean to imply you were ignorant of political history, I was speaking in general terms. I apologize for messing that part up but I will contend that all this has been going on for a long time...it didn't start with Hillary Clinton.

    I don't turn a blind eye to the failings of the Democratic party either, it has its faults same as any other political party to one degree or another.

    I'm not using Trump as an argument for the failed policies of the Democratic party I'm saying he is the culmination of the ignorance and hatred that is becoming ever more apparent in the U.S.as far as the general public's understanding of politics and the election system. I never mentioned the Democratic party.

    Further, I don't think much contribution is made to debates by posting sophomoric pictures of either candidate picking their noses, or the spreading of idiotic rumors...and then wondering why we have an electoral college instead of a pure Democratic vote.
     
  16. Asmodean

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    It's the only way to vote for me. If I couldn't I would say the democracy has failed.

    I don't think anyone disagrees with that.
     
  17. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    What they should do is use some rational thinking. I never said they should leave.

    In regards to Hillary????? I wouldn't be to sure of that.
     
  18. Asmodean

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    Hillary is the same old, same old. That it remains the same old is THE reason why a lot of progressive left leaning people got fed up with the democrat party. That's one big reason why people don't want her (I thought). These people I am talking about would still vote for that party if Sanders was the presidential candidate.
     
  19. 6-eyed shaman

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    We have an October surprise coming up. Hillary already knows wikileaks will release more dirt when the time is right. So I'm pretty sure a false flag terror attack is around the corner in a few short weeks. Not from wikileaks, but instead from team Clinton. Be ready for it.
     
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  20. You don't understand why people are overwhelmingly negative when our governing bodies are serving billionaires and corporations over the citizenry? All I can say is "Get used to it."

    You don't understand why people survive? Why did people bother to survive in concentration camps? Because we have hope, we look to the future, and life is precious. Corruption is just BS in the grand scheme of things. What I don't understand is why these corrupt, sold-out politicians bother to survive, because they are absolutely worthless.

    I don't see that in this thread, though I would argue that the majority of government is corrupt. Mainly this thread has been about how Hillary Clinton is corrupt, something which you wholeheartedly refuse to believe. I have argued that the FBI and the Justice Department are corrupt, and I think they are. I think they willingly choose not to uphold the laws of the United States when it comes to certain individuals.

    The things the government does that we don't like which we discuss are just examples of widespread government corruption. We have something called Citizens United which allows corporations to buy elections because the Supreme Court regards corporations as "people" and entitled to freedom of speech, which is absolutely preposterous. How can you not see the corruption in this country? How can you be so complacent?

    Read up on Mother Theresa. She wasn't as saintly as you have been led to believe.

    I'm not sure why you think the precedent of evil set throughout history makes it okay in the modern era. It's not okay, and the people are fed up. We've had enough of this idea that there are the elite and the peasant class. We were fed up with that idea two hundred years ago. Like it or not, Hillary is a figurehead of this agenda.

    Drumpf is what happens when our government is too corrupt to take seriously anymore. Drumpf is what happens when people pay no attention to government -- when they are discouraged from engaging in politics because they feel that their voice makes no difference. He is what happens when we are subjected to a corrupt system in which only two major parties have a chance in Hell at holding public office, so we continually vote for the "lesser of two evils." If we could trust our government, there would be no Drumpf.

    The reason people speak in memes is because there is no longer any point for many people in cohesively arguing their side. They believe what they see with their own eyes, and they're sick of even humoring the idea that there is another side to the story.

    That is unacceptable. And has been unacceptable throughout history, which is a big reason elitist governments fail time and time again. Corruption is not something people have to ever accept as an inevitability, and is something we won't accept as an inevitability. Someday humanity has to grow up, or we will stagnate and die.

    There are too many people in this country like that. But I don't think we're talking about the same class of people.

    The people of the USA deserve what all of the people throughout human history have deserved, which is love, compassion, and respect.
     
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