When you need to rant...

[fuzzygobo]

How do you feel about Ben Carson? At least at one point he was beating Trump. His biggest liability was his total lack of experience with foreign policy. But he didn't seem corrupted by the incumbents or special interest groups.

Hillary flip-flopping every which way, saying anything to save credibility.
Bernie promising free tuition/healthcare/phone minutes/hot chocolate at the corporations' expense, who might just move overseas, taking jobs and tax revenue with them.

Trump slagging everybody, and Obama thinking he did great these last seven years, and any lingering unemployment, terrorism, crime and racial divisiveness is still George Dubya's fault.

Paul Simon, "Mrs. Robinson", 1968:
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidate's debate.
Laugh about it, shout about it, but when you've got to choose,
Every way you look at it you lose.

 

[D'Snowth]

Boy, not only is all this political junk mail getting more aggressive, now it's getting personal too:

 

[fuzzygobo]

What happens if people don't vote for him? Does he have to go back to flipping burgers?

 

[scooterfan360]

How do you feel about Ben Carson? At least at one point he was beating Trump. His biggest liability was his total lack of experience with foreign policy. But he didn't seem corrupted by the incumbents or special interest groups.

Hillary flip-flopping every which way, saying anything to save credibility.
Bernie promising free tuition/healthcare/phone minutes/hot chocolate at the corporations' expense, who might just move overseas, taking jobs and tax revenue with them.

Trump slagging everybody, and Obama thinking he did great these last seven years, and any lingering unemployment, terrorism, crime and racial divisiveness is still George Dubya's fault.

Paul Simon, "Mrs. Robinson", 1968:
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidate's debate.
Laugh about it, shout about it, but when you've got to choose,
Every way you look at it you lose.

Carson is such a weak link, if he was president , leaders of other countries would step all over him.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Here's what interesting, all this fuss about Hillary being "the first woman President." Guess who is running for the Green Party - a woman. But no one knows because our election process is stuck in High School where only the popular kids with a lot of money get noticed.

 

[D'Snowth]

Okay, so we've all ranted about political ads before, but today was perhaps the icing on the cake: have you see in? Seemingly ordinary people talking about why they're voting for Trump? That is obviously the fakiest fake-fake fakest thing I've seen yet, y'know why? Notice who the people who are gushing about voting for Trump are: an African-American man? An Asian lady? A Latino? The same people Trump doesn't even want in this country, particularly the Latinos! Trump's campaign must have paid each of those people off if they'd agree to do the ad - there's no other explanation.

 

[Drtooth]

I'm honestly done talking about him. He's pretty much going to be president unless the angry liberals can outnumber the angry conservatives and figure it's better to be stuck with Hillary for 4 years than Emperor Trump.

Frankly, it's not the fact he's running that bothers me or the fact he's saying racist crap. It's the fact that there are people so angry at nothing (or rather the wrong people) that they'd actually support someone like that. Illegal immigration has always been an issue and will continue to be. No one wants to take a nuanced stab at the problem and realize the real problem there is the Mexican Neo-Con government and the weakness of other South American governments to stop the drug cartels that sent all those kids running for the boarder a couple years ago. Not to mention, if you love being able to buy vegetables for reasonable amounts of money, you have to thank the migrant slaves workers getting paid pennies a day for that level of work. I wish everyone who said "Dere Takin' Errr Jerbs!" "Dey dook yer jerrrb?" would have to work one hot, sweaty day picking tomatoes for a paycheck that doesn't even get you one of them to feed their family.

But more over, angry people are stupid people. Angry people make irrational decisions. You know that well worn slapstick thing where someone gets angry enough to kick something and then the hop up and down on one foot? Same principle. That's why the rhetoric is insane, that's why the right moved further right instead of carefully thinking over why they lost in 2008 (the answer being Neo-Cons aren't real conservatives, and the only thing worse for them than tax and spend is spend and nothing) and then in 2012 (the answer being we still believe this Neo-Con crap?). I cannot fault Trump for basically using the same tactics of a certain despot that his followers call our current president (Trump owns the sequel to Mein Kamp, if Cracked is to be believed), but I can fault the same people who whined harder about the last 8 years than the liberals ever did about Bush. Where are the rational Republicans? Whatever happened to those concerned about their tax money going to stupid things? Where are the moderates? If anyone should be angry at the Tea Party (the ones that gave us the obstinate jerkwads in Congress and forced the moderate ones to pander to them), it should be the rational Republicans. That's why we have Trump as a front runner and the only sane one (Kasich...I wouldn't vote for him, but I'd rather see him in the White House than Trump, Cruz, or Rubio) is barely a blip.

 

[D'Snowth]

I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm really increasingly becoming more and more put-out with Internet Explorer. It used to be the best browser there was - and in general, it still displays sites and layouts and such far better than Firefox (and I'm still not touching Chrome with a ten foot pole) - but I'm really getting fed up with how it crashes all the ding-dong time for absolutely no reason whatsoever (sometimes even just launching it will cause it to crash anymore). I knew IE11 was a step down, which is one of the reasons I was trying to hold onto IE10 for as long as I could until certain sites stopped working in it all together like YouTube and Facebook. I remember hoping finally upgrading to IE11 would curb the excessive crashing, but that hasn't changed a bit, and in fact is getting worse. In fact, as often as Microsoft tries to force you to upgrade to the newest version, I'm surprised there's no IE12 yet, though I guess it's because word on the street is Microsoft is phasing out IE altogether in favor of an entirely new browser that's supposedly only compatible with current versions of Windows (which leaves me out, as I'm still happily using 7 with no urge to upgrade to 8 or even 10 as I've heard nothing but complaints about both).

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Why does WBTV have to block Whose Line Is It Anyway videos?

Just why?

 

[D'Snowth]

Because they . . . own the show.