tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) Some decent candidates out there, but hard to find any good polling. Their convention is in May. I also wonder whether Schultz will run as an independent. Lincoln Chafee - RI Gov and Republican/Dem Senator. Always liked this guy having followed his career. Also - Max Abramson, Jacob Hornberger, John McAfee - /shrug My personal favorite: Vermin Supreme. Would likely make a better president than both Sanders and Trump. Edited January 31, 2020 by tgo Rolltide 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 Vermin Supreme's campaign slogan is: "Free Ponies for Everyone" Is that something that Bernie Sanders can really compete with? I don't think so. Rolltide 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 minute ago, Rolltide said: The problem is separating the ones who are serious candidates from those who are nothing more than joke. I would rather see Jacob Hornberger as the nominee than some has been democrat or republican looking to stroke an ego. Jacob Hornberger is the most ideologically pure candidate. FFF is the purist libertarian think tank in the country. Chafee is the most qualified but he is not a libertarian. The rest are not worth bothering with. He's ideologically pure? Ok I'll mark him off the list. Vermin Supreme it is. Seriously though, if you say Chafee isn't a libertarian, that's all the endorsement he needs in my book. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 minute ago, Rolltide said: Libertarians are not a real political party. They are more of ideology. They are also stupidly impractical. Chafee is a centrist democrat. If he was serious about running he should have run as a democrat. Sweet, I'll take it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titans279 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 I find it funny how you so badly want to do what you chastised voters for doing in 2016–vote third party instead of for the Democratic candidate you despise and wrongly think is no better than Trump. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Titans279 said: I find it funny how you so badly want to do what you chastised voters for doing in 2016–vote third party instead of for the Democratic candidate you despise and wrongly think is no better than Trump. I know, I find it funny too actually. I'm still not sure how I'll vote, maybe I'll come around to Sanders somehow if that's how it plays out. I find myself feeling sympathetic for the Sanders folks who couldn't vote for Hillary in 2016 and stayed home. It kind of seems like it's about time for 3 true political parties. The moderate Dems are more similar to the Never Trump Republicans than they are to the extreme left, and same can be said for the Never Trump Republicans vs. the Trumper populists. With how much to the extremes the political parties are moving, it's really changing the dynamics of party ideology. But Sanders directly attacking my livelihood in terms of breaking up my employer and taxing the middle class just makes it a very tough sell when I have a little one on the way. On one hand, it's corruption vs anti corruption - so in that sense I'd want to support Sanders. And he's certainly better for the little guy than Trump, so that just in and of itself is appealing in a general sense. On the other hand, it would be directly against my self interest in so many ways, and also would hurt millions of Americans who work in various industries like private healthcare, telecommunications, technology, energy (fracking / nuclear), etc. Edited January 31, 2020 by tgo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titans279 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 What makes you think Bernie will have the votes to break up telecommunications companies or pass Medicare for all? Isn’t weird to vote against someone for their agenda when one of your main criticisms of the candidate is their inability to pass their agenda? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Titans279 said: What makes you think Bernie will have the votes to break up telecommunications companies or pass Medicare for all? Isn’t weird to vote against someone for their agenda when one of your main criticisms of the candidate is their inability to pass their agenda? Well I know his agenda won't pass because suburban America will make sure of it lol. But anyway, he won't have the votes for MFA but I'm not sure how much anti trust stuff he can do administratively. I plan to heavily research that topic before making any voting decisions. If I feel like the damage a Sanders admin can do would be contained by the Courts and Congress, then I will vote for Sanders. If not or if it's in question, then I'm just not sure. Living in a red state, luckily my vote won't matter either way. If I lived in a swing state, it would be much more consequential. That's kind of how I'm thinking of it currently. Edited January 31, 2020 by tgo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titans279 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 Also I’d think that in theory breaking up companies could lead to more jobs at more companies. MadMax 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 Just now, Titans279 said: Also I’d think that in theory breaking up companies could lead to more jobs at more companies. May or may not be true depending on other economic conditions at the point of time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-RAC Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 51 minutes ago, Rolltide said: Libertarians are not a real political party. They are more of ideology. They are also stupidly impractical. It's a real political party based on a real ideology based on the fake philosophy of a fake philosopher. tgo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMax Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 16 minutes ago, Titans279 said: Also I’d think that in theory breaking up companies could lead to more jobs at more companies. Historically, breaking up of companies have helped the stock holders/employees and especially the customers, in the long run. I can't wait until the big 2 cell phone companies are busted up. Competition is good. Starkiller, OILERMAN, and ChemEngr79 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 26 minutes ago, MadMax said: Historically, breaking up of companies have helped the stock holders/employees and especially the customers, in the long run. I can't wait until the big 2 cell phone companies are busted up. Competition is good. It's funny how people talk about how critical 5G is to the future and for self driving vehicles, etc. and talk about how Huwawei in China is passing us up, but then also talk about breaking up the companies that are actually investing in 5G and have the capability to pull it off. It's all good though, let's just continue to slink to a bottom rung of economic competitiveness globally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornrow Wallace Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 libertarianism was summed up perfectly in this ten word tweet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgo Posted January 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 16 minutes ago, Cornrow Wallace said: libertarianism was summed up perfectly in this ten word tweet This isn't what my candidate Vermin Supreme believes. He believes everyone should have a free pony. I didn't realize that Bernie Bros were anti animal too. Sad! Cornrow Wallace 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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