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It's insurance, do you live a life without insurance? Which would bother you more, meeting a man who lived entirely without insurance or one who bought insuranc

It's insurance, do you live a life without insurance? Which would bother you more, meeting a man who lived entirely without insurance or one who bought insurance for what he could afford? Does it bother you that the government has bomb shelters (escape pods for nuclear holocaust) while the citizenry don't? I'd prefer someone with a modicum of common sense over an optimistic fool.

ssalazar 10y ago
I'll stick with the captain who sinks with his ship over the one with a private life raft.
batmanthehorse 10y ago
You need to be an optimistic fool to support Trump in the first place.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
  We keep reading comments like this about Trump. But consider the alternatives. You have to admit to having the wool pulled over your eyes to vote for Hillary. And there's nothing good to be said about any politicians. They're all self-serving lying scum. Some of them are only slightly less ugly.
  - anigbrowl 10y ago
    I had a much clearer idea of what Hillary's agenda was than I do of Trump's, notwithstanding her secretive nature and career as an insider. People conflate Trump's frank talk with transparency for some reason, whereas I find it extremely obfuscatory.
  - msie 10y ago
    Have you heard the news about the private email servers used by the Republicans?
  - krapp 10y ago
    >And there's nothing good to be said about any politicians. They're all self-serving lying scum. Some of them are only slightly less ugly. It's that attitude that led to Trump, a man elected to the most powerful political office in the world not because he was qualified for the job, but because he was entertaining and willing to pander to the cynicism your comment displays. After all, if all politicians are self-serving lying scum, then who cares if one is overtly more so than the others? That probably makes him more honest than the others, right?
    - TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
      That doesn't follow. I would have voted for Hillary because she is slightly less ugly. What was that thing P.J. O'rourke said? Something about how he was going to vote for Hillary because he preferring the incompetent over the truly awful. I can't vote in the US anyway because I was fortunate enough to not have been born there. Edit: I can't remember now if it was O'rourke or Zizek who said that.
      - tzs 10y ago
        It was O'Rourke, on "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" on 2016-05-07: I am endorsing Hillary. And all her lies and all her empty promises. I am endorsing Hillary. The second worst thing that could happen to this country. But she’s way behind in second place, you know? She’s wrong about absolutely everything – but she’s wrong within normal parameters. Transcript: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/07/477085149/whos-bill-this-time http://www.npr.org/2016/05/07/477085149/whos-bill-this-time
  - TenOhms 10y ago
    Quite an interesting time to be alive in this country. Ideology is split about 50/50 (if voting patterns are a clue) and both sides believe the exact same thing about each other.
    - trav4225 10y ago
      Interesting, and extremely sad... :-/
  - jmcmichael 10y ago
    Yes, but some are self-serving lying fascists.
    - gozur88 10y ago
      Both sides think the others' are self-serving lying fascists.
      - pasquinelli 10y ago
        Of course, but one is right. I'm sick of this "How would you feel if you were a nazi" attitude.
        gozur88 10y ago
        Yes, one is right. But which one depends on who you are.
anigbrowl 10y ago
On ships, it's a crime for members of the crew to abandon their posts in an emergency if there are passengers at risk. Similarly, when you are working for the government in some capacity I think you ought to be fully committed to it. If you prefer to put your own interests first, then stay in the private sector. And yeah, I do think it's a bit of a problem that the United States doesn't have any real civil defense infrastructure in place although realistically geography largely insulates the United States from conventional military attack and so there's much less practical need for such options compared to countries in other regions.
- remarkEon 10y ago
  >I do think it's a bit of a problem that the United States doesn't have any real civil defense infrastructure in place I might be misunderstanding you, but The National Guard doesn't count?

ssalazar 10y ago

I'll stick with the captain who sinks with his ship over the one with a private life raft.

batmanthehorse 10y ago

You need to be an optimistic fool to support Trump in the first place.

TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
We keep reading comments like this about Trump. But consider the alternatives. You have to admit to having the wool pulled over your eyes to vote for Hillary. And there's nothing good to be said about any politicians. They're all self-serving lying scum. Some of them are only slightly less ugly.
- anigbrowl 10y ago
  I had a much clearer idea of what Hillary's agenda was than I do of Trump's, notwithstanding her secretive nature and career as an insider. People conflate Trump's frank talk with transparency for some reason, whereas I find it extremely obfuscatory.
- msie 10y ago
  Have you heard the news about the private email servers used by the Republicans?
- krapp 10y ago
  >And there's nothing good to be said about any politicians. They're all self-serving lying scum. Some of them are only slightly less ugly. It's that attitude that led to Trump, a man elected to the most powerful political office in the world not because he was qualified for the job, but because he was entertaining and willing to pander to the cynicism your comment displays. After all, if all politicians are self-serving lying scum, then who cares if one is overtly more so than the others? That probably makes him more honest than the others, right?
  - TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
    That doesn't follow. I would have voted for Hillary because she is slightly less ugly. What was that thing P.J. O'rourke said? Something about how he was going to vote for Hillary because he preferring the incompetent over the truly awful. I can't vote in the US anyway because I was fortunate enough to not have been born there. Edit: I can't remember now if it was O'rourke or Zizek who said that.
    - tzs 10y ago
      It was O'Rourke, on "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" on 2016-05-07: I am endorsing Hillary. And all her lies and all her empty promises. I am endorsing Hillary. The second worst thing that could happen to this country. But she’s way behind in second place, you know? She’s wrong about absolutely everything – but she’s wrong within normal parameters. Transcript: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/07/477085149/whos-bill-this-time http://www.npr.org/2016/05/07/477085149/whos-bill-this-time
- TenOhms 10y ago
  Quite an interesting time to be alive in this country. Ideology is split about 50/50 (if voting patterns are a clue) and both sides believe the exact same thing about each other.
  - trav4225 10y ago
    Interesting, and extremely sad... :-/
- jmcmichael 10y ago
  Yes, but some are self-serving lying fascists.
  - gozur88 10y ago
    Both sides think the others' are self-serving lying fascists.
    - pasquinelli 10y ago
      Of course, but one is right. I'm sick of this "How would you feel if you were a nazi" attitude.
      - gozur88 10y ago
        Yes, one is right. But which one depends on who you are.

anigbrowl 10y ago

On ships, it's a crime for members of the crew to abandon their posts in an emergency if there are passengers at risk. Similarly, when you are working for the government in some capacity I think you ought to be fully committed to it. If you prefer to put your own interests first, then stay in the private sector. And yeah, I do think it's a bit of a problem that the United States doesn't have any real civil defense infrastructure in place although realistically geography largely insulates the United States from conventional military attack and so there's much less practical need for such options compared to countries in other regions.

remarkEon 10y ago
>I do think it's a bit of a problem that the United States doesn't have any real civil defense infrastructure in place I might be misunderstanding you, but The National Guard doesn't count?