Min/Max Boards

Hmmm....who's just cartoonish enough, someone who's been in the spotlight, on the villain side of things.  Someone who a bad drama writer would write in as Trump's VP.  Christie?  No, and I can't believe I'm saying this, he's too smart.  He can't be in it with Drumpf, he's too smart to do it, and not zealotous enough to ignore it.  Gingrich?  No way, he hates Trump, and he's TOO set zealotous to fall for it.  It needs...it needs to be someone in the middle.  Not smart enough to see through things, or too zealotous to not be blinded by it, but not too dumb or too zealotous.  They need to be known, across the nation, as a villain, someone who caters to Trump's demographics, and someone diametrically opposed to the (D) nominee.  Someone who represents a contest between good and evil, change/progress with backpedaling on social issues and not capable of running an economy......











Wait, Trump met with Mike Pence?  Pence?

PENCE?????

He's perfect!  It's exactly what they would write for him to do! He's just enough of a fake martyr, he fits right in with Trump's rhetoric!  He's been a patsy, a second fiddle his entire tenure as governor!  He's been all about what Trump's been peddling the entire time, and anyone not an (R) hates him!  He's nationally known as the guy who hates fun, and puts his religion and friends above anyone else, including and especially his constituents!  He's the other heel in the tag team deathmatch championship bout!"

I was thinking Sarah Palin at first, but then I got to really thinking.  I'm looking for people in the Roger Goodell sort of variety.  Again though, they  have to be actual people, someone who's almost cartoonish, like Trump is.  Goodell is not a politician, but he's politics adjacent.

So an example of not cartoonish would be Cheney, villain, yes.  But not cartoonish.

Rove works for the description, I think, but he wouldn't work for what I'm thinking is going to happen.  Although maybe?  I don't think he'd work, but it's a possibility.

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So.....brexit huh?  Pound's already at historic lows, this was the largest drop in the economy in Britain since 1921, and things look bad.  Great job Britain!  The weirdest thing though is that it can get a lot worse if they vote to actually leave.  Because this wasn't a vote to leave, it was a poll.  For those who know nothing about this, it wasn't a vote, it was a referendum, so the parliament will take this vote into account.  Economically it's been this immediately bad and the UK is still in the EU.

And on another note about it, the leader of the movement, NIgel Douchebagface or whatever, went on GMB this morning and essentially said "Yeah, all those things we promised to do with this?  They won't happen, suckers!"

Mr. Hockey  Three major sports people, and two icons who defined their sport, in six days.

There are libertarians, and then there are "libertarians".  Johnson is a libertarian.  Rand Paul is a "libertarian".  But yeah,please don't start disparaging parties, keep things civil.

Biden doesn't want it.  He left it open, kind of, but he really doesn't want it.  I think he's retiring from politics after he leaves the VP.  He'll be in advisory role mostly, but I don't think he's running another campaign ever.

Sanders didn't even really want it.  He doesn't care about becoming president, he wants his platform pushed forward because he thinks the DNC has lost its way, he's trying to bring real progressive policies back into the national discussion, a la FDR.  He's also trying to bring a diplomatic foreign policy back into things and trying to get us to shy away from war.

I'd like to see a bigger national discussion of the other parties, so I'd like to see both Johnson and Stein get an appreciable share of the vote, which I think can happen this election.  Johnson definitely, and Stein if Clinton's the nominee

Personally, I heartily disagree with Johnson (and most all Libertarian candidates) on a lot of issues, but of course, I'm a progressive so I like their social policies typically.  Incidentally, this is why Rand is a 'libertarian' and not a libertarian.  He's socially (moderate) conservative and hardcore economically conservative.

I meant to imply that they have Ryan running to allow this to happen, apologies if it didn't come across like that.

I'm curious as to what the fallout of this will be, but Clinton...absolutely broke the rules, and the FOIA.  She and her supporters maintain that she did nothing wrong, going as far as to say "this confirms what she's said about the issue" even though the new report directly contradicts things she's said about the subject.  Here's a look a number of issues that the report raised, of particular note are the fact that it was not authorized, despite her claims, and it was unique, despite her claims.

I thought the monarch still had a lot of control then?  Like until...some point after the American revolution and before WWI. My England history between those points is....hazy....

In terms of this type of politics yes, and you aren't even in the same type of elections system as us, your prime minister isn't elected.  And, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you primarily two parties as well?  Like, India.  India's been on its own for what, 50 years?  They have a lot of parties.  And it's getting smaller.  Some places have seemingly stabilized at 3, but without changing things really, I think it'll be reduced to 2 eventually.