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OK, so she messed up with some emails. That's still not enough to make me want to vote for a pushy business guy whose platform consists of impossible claims an

OK, so she messed up with some emails. That's still not enough to make me want to vote for a pushy business guy whose platform consists of impossible claims and juvenile name calling. She could have accidentally forwarded a top secret email to her bowling club mailing list and I still wouldn't think she was less qualified. It's just irrelevant in the bigger picture. I think Trump is not qualified at all and I don't think he will do a better job. The president is not a dictator and they can't bs or bully their way into getting changes made. If he can manage to accomplish anything he says, which I doubt he can, it will end up making life worse for a lot of people. I get his rhetoric, the government isn't perfect and some things aren't working well, but he's not going to be able to fix any of it. He's just pointing fingers at red herrings to get people to back him.

hga 10y ago
OK, so she messed up with some emails. No, against all advice with anyone with a clue about security, and the law, she set up her own private email server and transacted all her email State Department business on it, including the transmission of HIGHLY classified information. Every bit of what I said in the above paragraph is a matter of public record. That's still not enough to make me want to vote for a pushy business guy whose platform consists of impossible claims and juvenile name calling. Not germane to my comments, unless you want to widen the scope of our discussion. Me, I'll just note that Trump doesn't palpably want to start a shooting war with Russia, and in general, Hillary's warmongering (e.g. "We can, we saw, he died"; you do know we're fighting 5 undeclared wars right now?) and her general way of "doing business" that goes all the way back to her first real job, a stint on the Watergate Investigating Committee, from which she was terminated with extreme prejudice, which along with failing the D.C. Bar exam forced her to accept Bill's outstanding offer of marriage and exile herself to 1970's Arkansas, makes her an existential risk to the United States if she becomes President. Foreign policy is, by law going back to the Constitution, largely the remit of the President, so it's an area where it doesn't matter that "The president is not a dictator and they can't bs or bully their way into getting changes made.", the Commander in Chief can most certainly get an earnest shooting war started (I've in fact gotten into arguments about whether the replacement for the SAC could legally and in practice refuse to her resorting to the nuclear football). And as the email server debacle shows, Hillary is not one to worry about long term consequences. You do own a paper copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills, I assume? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills you need a paper copy to get the dimensions of the Kearny Fallout Meter correct.)
- bobsgame 10y ago
  I'm going to vote for Trump but not for any of these reasons. I'm doing it because I think he's a nice man who got himself in a difficult position.
  - bobsgame 10y ago
    I can't do it. His rhetoric and ideas are convincing, but I'm more interested in moving into the future and having a global society, not strengthening borders. I want robots and AI, not jobs and a stronger military. I don't care if America is wealthier than other nations, I want to replace money altogether with something better. Those ideas are just obsolete and they should be deprecated.

hga 10y ago

OK, so she messed up with some emails. No, against all advice with anyone with a clue about security, and the law, she set up her own private email server and transacted all her email State Department business on it, including the transmission of HIGHLY classified information. Every bit of what I said in the above paragraph is a matter of public record. That's still not enough to make me want to vote for a pushy business guy whose platform consists of impossible claims and juvenile name calling. Not germane to my comments, unless you want to widen the scope of our discussion. Me, I'll just note that Trump doesn't palpably want to start a shooting war with Russia, and in general, Hillary's warmongering (e.g. "We can, we saw, he died"; you do know we're fighting 5 undeclared wars right now?) and her general way of "doing business" that goes all the way back to her first real job, a stint on the Watergate Investigating Committee, from which she was terminated with extreme prejudice, which along with failing the D.C. Bar exam forced her to accept Bill's outstanding offer of marriage and exile herself to 1970's Arkansas, makes her an existential risk to the United States if she becomes President. Foreign policy is, by law going back to the Constitution, largely the remit of the President, so it's an area where it doesn't matter that "The president is not a dictator and they can't bs or bully their way into getting changes made.", the Commander in Chief can most certainly get an earnest shooting war started (I've in fact gotten into arguments about whether the replacement for the SAC could legally and in practice refuse to her resorting to the nuclear football). And as the email server debacle shows, Hillary is not one to worry about long term consequences. You do own a paper copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills, I assume? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills you need a paper copy to get the dimensions of the Kearny Fallout Meter correct.)

bobsgame 10y ago
I'm going to vote for Trump but not for any of these reasons. I'm doing it because I think he's a nice man who got himself in a difficult position.
- bobsgame 10y ago
  I can't do it. His rhetoric and ideas are convincing, but I'm more interested in moving into the future and having a global society, not strengthening borders. I want robots and AI, not jobs and a stronger military. I don't care if America is wealthier than other nations, I want to replace money altogether with something better. Those ideas are just obsolete and they should be deprecated.