2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[Melena]

She was also supposedly great for HP increasing revenue (even though profits tanked) and that cutting 30000 jobs saved a company that didn't need saving till she rammed through the compaq merger against the rest of the boards wishes.

[Zetanio]

She was a terrible CEO. Really terrible.

People in finance (I work in finance) think she's a joke.

[dasva]

I really need to stop doing political discussions on facebook. I'm now a sexist person cause I said Fiorina is batshit insane based on her comments about planned parenthood and her horrible state senate run several years ago.

Well it's quite obvious that if you don't think everyone in every minority and/or "oppressed" group is the best at everything then you must be some kind of bigot. The fact you didn't already know this just shows how privileged you are!

[Melena]

This may actually be the most facepalming quote from the discussion.

The most important issues of our time, IMHO, are poverty and ignorance.

Human rights do not exsist in societies of poverty. Science and philosophy do not exist in societies of poverty.

Poverty has only one solution.

And it's gone full retard. The vast majority of the wealthiest people are far liberal, along with wall street now.

[dasva]

Ok I'll bite what is this final er one solution they speak of?

[Zetanio]

final ...solution

Calm down there, Hitler.

[archibaldcrane]

This may actually be the most facepalming quote from the discussion.



And it's gone full retard. The vast majority of the wealthiest people are far liberal, along with wall street now.

If Wall Street is liberal, then why

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[Melena]

Yup he believes democrats want to keep the poor poor so that they keep their votes

[archibaldcrane]

Oh, your attempt at quoting someone else was confusing.

[Cantih]

It's not a debate. Legally and technically it is not a debate.
But Maddow will be hosting a thing tonight on MSNBC in about an hour, and O'Malley, Sanders, and Clinton will all be on it.

[Waraji]

Christie, Huckabee relegated to undercard at next GOP debate

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have been bumped from the main stage at next week's GOP presidential debate, while George Pataki and Lindsey Graham have been cut from the lineup altogether.

I'm some type of way right now.

[Tyrath]

So we're gonna have 4 at kiddie table and 8 at big boys? I assume Pataki and Graham will be giving up soon.

[Sho]

I live in Kentucky, where we just voted in our second republican governor in 40 years, a batshit insane tea partier who previously lost to Mitch McConnell for the senate seat because he argued McConnell was too liberal. I've been lively on the book of faces.

Feel so bad for you dudes. Ya'll gonna get fucked.

[Sho]

So we're gonna have 4 at kiddie table and 8 at big boys? I assume Pataki and Graham will be giving up soon.

Funny thing is, those guys, Christie, Santorum, and Jindal are all banking on a 2012 Santorum come up in the polls that will never come because there are way too many fucking people in the running in the first place. Jindal and Pataki should be hemorrhaging money at this point, even with their 1-4 person staff. Graham started on a shoestring budget, so don't expect him to leave anytime soon.

People want to believe that it's the liberal media, Trump/Carson/Rubio and any number of other ides why they aren't going up in the polls, but the simple reason is because there are just too many people running for GOP nomination. I've been saying this since mid summer, but as soon as the race is cut from 15 down to about 7 or 8, you'll start to see people hit double digits, with some cracking 30~35% in the polls.

Bush prolly spending that crazy money just to stay above 5% at this point, lol.

[Tyrath]

But whats the point in staying if you're not even included in the kiddie debate?

[notorious bum]

Bush is a loser even in FL, which is hilarious considering I had him as my first pick for next president. The GOP shit show never disappoints, but it's not like the DNC does much better, especially if you look how much effort they put at challenging the Southern states at the local level. Dis 2-party system is so gud.

[notorious bum]

Hilldog campaign is so comfortable, has time to engage in internet lulz and make her appear human.

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[Marootsoobutsu]

It's... it's powered by Pizza Anal? What are Bill, Hill, and Monica doing?

[Sho]

But whats the point in staying if you're not even included in the kiddie debate?

Just for that chance occurrence that you'll spike once someone, anyone, drops out of the race. I like to call it "The Santorum Effect" -- run the race until you run out of money, then continue running on fumes, even as your rivals (in this case Romney in 2012) has the longer money and influence to outlast all other comers. Pray that your numbers inflate as others drop out (which in Santorum's case, happened well enough for him to win Iowa caucuses). If not for his daughter being put in the hospital, he would have been a gigantic challenger for Romney for a month or so more.

Each candidate (including Bush) is currently hoping for this, while not specifically being overt about it. As the field winnows, visibility is increased across the board. The story was originally supposed to be everyone trailing Bush, but we now know the power of Trump.

[Not Kuno]

So how many of you work for this company?

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