2020 US Election (Part One)

[Takhisis]

Just leaving this picture here for future use in cases requiring quick memetic response by anyone on this thread, it's on imgur so should stay up (it has since 2013 IIRC):

Spoiler :

 

[Zardnaar]

Strong disagree on that.

He was a hit on Joe Rogan's podcast which has voters from all corners of the spectrum.

Also Trump hasn't managed to come up w a good nickname for him.

He also had better numbers vs Trump than Hilary. He may have won 2016.

 

[caketastydelish]

Bernie Sanders also had better numbers against Trumps in a hypothetical matchup in 2016 than Hillary did. It’s of little surprise to me because Sanders can absolutely energize younger voters, and younger voters tend to be flaky unless they are really motivated.

Edit: I will also say that for practical purposes voter turnouts matters more than polls and someone as charismatic as Bernie is far more capable of generating voter turnout than Hillary.

Hillary was widely viewed as the lesser evil next to Trump, but nothing remarkable or revolutionary about her other than she would been the first female president. Bernie Sanders would be more comparable to Obama.

 

[Zardnaar]

There are “never Trumpers” that will either vote Libertarian or not vote at all, but any of them actually voting Democrat is highly unlikely.

Trump got a decent amount of independents who make up around 5% of the electorate.

He also got protest votes.

Never Trumpers make up maybe 10 % of the GoP, Trump's approval rating is hovering around 80%.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Just leaving this picture here for future use in cases requiring quick memetic response by anyone on this thread, it's on imgur so should stay up (it has since 2013 IIRC):

Spoiler :

The internets informs me that this is an actual product that you can buy.

 

[Takhisis]

And pie sandwiches (slated to become my avatar sometime next year™) are also an actual product.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Customizable toilet paper copyright bugfatty300 2019

 

[Takhisis]

Hey, we could make a nice business with a printer for toilet paper. Of course, it'd be terribly unecological and what-not, but there's money to be made.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Hey, we could make a nice business with a printer for toilet paper. Of course, it'd be terribly unecological and what-not, but there's money to be made.

Point of fact the printed toilet paper I came closest to actually purchasing was printed with hundred dollar bills. The ones with politician faces on them are interesting too.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Hey, we could make a nice business with a printer for toilet paper. Of course, it'd be terribly unecological and what-not, but there's money to be made.

Only prints out one sheet per toilet use for max efficiency. Charge extra for more.

 

[Estebonrober]

Bloomberg makes the case that China is responsive to its people.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/firing-line/video/michael-bloomberg-jw87c2/

He also talks about how ridiculous millennials are and how nothing can actually be done to help people because it costs too much. Remember he is running as a "democrat". I bet he runs third party is Sanders or Warren wins dem nomination.

/godmoney

 

[Arakhor]

A billionaire is complaining that helping people costs too much money??

 

[Kyriakos]

Bloomberg makes the case that China is responsive to its people.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/firing-line/video/michael-bloomberg-jw87c2/

He also talks about how ridiculous millennials are and how nothing can actually be done to help people because it costs too much. Remember he is running as a "democrat". I bet he runs third party is Sanders or Warren wins dem nomination.

/godmoney

Shouldn't the DNC at least do what the republican party did with Trump, and force Bloom to sign something stating he won't run as a third party when he gets obliterated in the primaries?
Otherwise, why give him added exposure to media? (he already can buy ads just fine).

He won't run if Warren gets the nomination, but even last time (2016) he said he would run as an independent if Bernie got the nomination, so he will do it again. Seems the DNC want him to as well, because the number one goal is not to remove Trump, but to avoid Bern.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Kamala Harris is dropping out. Never really liked her but this sure feels like an incredibly disappointing end to her run that basically never happened.

 

[Kyriakos]

She did the right thing. Her run was basically ended by Tulsi in the first (or second?) debate.

 

[mitsho]

Cut your losses, try again in eight years? Yes, she never really took off and now who's left in the moderate lane but Joe?

 

[Kyriakos]

Cut your losses, try again in eight years? Yes, she never really took off and now who's left in the moderate lane but Joe?

Buttigieg, Bloomtigieg, Warrengieg and 2-3 others.

 

[Birdjaguar]

But But, he donated his quarterly salary to fight opioide abuse. How could he be an evil man?

Opioid use has dropped off in states with legal Marijuana. I wonder if we can learn something from this?

 

[Socrates99]

A lot of people blame Tulsi for Kamala's sputtering but she also lost support right around the time she started pivoting away from M4All. Biden has the people against M4All on lock aside from the few that make Pete "a strong 4th" lol. Before she dropped Kamala had been running around talking about sponsoring Bernie's bill and being in support of it. When she started walking back on that she lost percentage points. It just happened to coincide with Tulsi's takedown.

 

[BenitoChavez]

A billionaire is complaining that helping people costs too much money??

Well you don't become a billionaire by being generous with your money.