After the national travesty that was the debate last night, can we all just take a moment to remember what could have been?

Sep 27, 2016 3:46 PM

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Look at it... just look at it. So smooth. So graceful.

It's like he knew it was coming

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WE MISS YOU BERN!!!! :'(

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"show bad replies"

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what part was the national travesty?

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I know one black dude these days. I fuck up handshake every,single, time. I go home feeling so white and ashamed :(

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Right on

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You spelled *should wrong

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If it would have come down to Trump and Bernie, I would have votrd for Bernie even though I agree with almost none of his policies.

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Boss.

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Legendary

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"Whats up my nigga" "Hello senator"

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My nigga

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In moments like that, you just black out and hope your hand syncs up with the other person's hand.

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Yeah that's who we need. A president who knows how to shake hands in the black way.

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settle down

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Don't forget he can communicate with birds.

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True that, we are too obsessed on the social issues. The propaganda on social media/sites is disgusting.

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I'm still voting for him

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If we all do it, it's not throwing away your vote!

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Even when he asked you not to?

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If Trump wins because of idealists like you refusing to face the reality of the election I'm going to shit myself.

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What? The debate was not a travesty. Hillary was competent, confident, smart, and on her game. Trump sounded like a Schnitzel from Chowder.

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Nothing but ad hominem arguments for the entire debate, mostly from Hillary too.

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Yes, THANK YOU!!! I tire of these she is doing bad or is like Trump.

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Radda radda radda radda?

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Raaaaada rada radda radda!

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is she corrupt? yes. However she was obviously prepared and answered the questions carefully and professionally. Cant say the same for trump

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I know, plus the part that was a travesty (trump) would've been there regardless

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It was a travesty that those were the best candidates America could offer.

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They weren't the best, they were simply the ones with the best marketing.

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What debate were you watching? lol, both were just...ugh

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The best part is how much the black guy appreciates it!

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[clapping intensifies]

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Love the clapping like a seal bit

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I'm failing to see anyone's outstretched arms smacking their hands wildly. I do however see several normal, excited claps.

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Dude, if your arms smack your hands when you clap, some part of your anatomy is broken.

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Alright, alright.

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Black people approved

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That's what I'm sayin. Do you see how fast he started clapping in approval?

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Or that slight nod of approval directly afterwards.

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"Monica"- the black guy after

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Erica

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'Oh, Monica'- Bill after

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the opposite

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Such a good sketch

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Is that Peele (idk his first name)

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Jordan, and yes

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Throwback to when this happened in real life

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In his defence, that's Kevin Fucking Durant

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That's his middle name huh? The more you know!

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Ha!

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Don't forget Bernie was a member of a Black Rights activist group in college and was arrested for it.

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That was during the Civil War?

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Not sure if trolling or autist

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I think he was making a joke on his age. Like how I joked with my old man how when he got his license I asked if dinosaurs needed licenses.

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*slaps knee* That be a good one right there ey.

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Hilary actually desegregated an entire school district before she was a politician.

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She also got rapists off on technicalities before she was a politician. So there's that.

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She was assigned that case (she tried to get taken off it) and she did her job. Isn't imgur normally all about due process in rape cases?

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Really? Bet you believe in the Clinton murders in the 90s too. However, back to the topic at hand. Can you elaborate, maybe proof?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCDzRtZLUkc Her saying it on tape.

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You know when she was teaching law in Arkansas University the JUDGE requested her to represent that man. She even felt uncomfortable with it

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Not always so smooth v

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HAGAHAHA

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That's because it's Ellen's fault.

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The national travesty would be ignoring Bernie's wishes & handing the country to Donald Trump, where-in we'd lose everything he fought for.

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I wish Bernie supporters would actually listen to Bernie.

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It's people's right to decide who to vote for. If Hillary loses those votes that's on her and the DNC, and no one else.

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It is their right; but how can she win people over who refuse to even consider her? She's adopted nearly all of Bernie's policies.

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It's called honesty. One of the top things the public describes her as is a liar.

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I was a bernie supporter in the primaries, but some of these guys be like:

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this could be us but we playin'

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millenials couldn't be bothered to actually vote because omg you guys voting doesn't matter anyway

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*shakes walker at kids and their damn cell phones*

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Brexit.

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The DNC rigged it. We all know Bernie Sanders got more votes than Hillary. Don't be naive.

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The DNC rigged it? Really? Hillary won by more than ten times the margin that Obama did in 2008, that's quite a fucking claim!

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They also managed to keep turnout down at historic lows and had the cooperation of the state election boards in red states that hate clinton

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Then they intentionally leaked a bunch of e-mails showing a preference for Hillary and positing schemes to help her win, but nothing illegal

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This could be US*

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Heyo

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Honestly im kinda sad that he didn't go further.

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I know he isn't like this but it reminds me of http://imgur.com/kwC9Y2C.gif

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Now I'm gonna need the episode that this was in

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Scrubs - Season 5 Episode 19

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Hahaha. I love that! +1

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exactly what I was thinking of when I first saw this.

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I keep hearing "what's up dong?"

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Is that Patrick leahy?

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Well see the thing is, he didn't start it, he went for a normal handshake, and reacted to the change up. Some real O.G. shit.

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smooth like his hair.

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silky

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Maybe it's Maybelline

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I get why people would like Trump/Sanders even if I disagree with them. I do NOT get why anyone would like Hillary.

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same. I dont think either would be a good leader (prefer trump of the 2, but meteor would be better), bue she is a damn snake.

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but*

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The best i can say is that Hillary is the best of the worst.Trump would spell death to US.Im not from US, im from EU, so this is my opinion

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She has been in politics a long time, has been in the white house and knows what to expect. Plus Bill. I feel like she will get stuff done

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The policies she is running on are extremely close to my own. That is at least a reason even if I think she is a lying sack of shit

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Because she has by far the most experience and competence to run a public office and won't fuck over Obamas policies

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Simply because she isn't Trump. With Bernie gone and no viable third party choice, she's all we got. Which is fucked up.

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Because her politics align with ours, perhaps?

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Because its Trump/Hillary....

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I feel the same about Trump. As an outsider, I'm absolutely baffled by him getting this ridiculously far.

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I get why people like Trump. They are nostalgic for the 80s/90s. I will admit(I don't support him) people twist his words a lot.

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I feel like they twist his words to make him LESS awful...

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She's a famous woman, establishment, loved in the media and voters are too apathetic to see her for what she is. = recipe for easy ride.

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loved in the media? No shit lol. They pay her.

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"loved by the media". Umm approximately 40 years of media scrutiny would like a word with you...

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Because she supports most of the same policies I do. I don't get why anyone votes on any other criteria.

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Because crazy people can act with presidential authority and completely ignore their platform...

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I think voting based off of what policies you feel each politician will be able to enact is a fair criteria

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She's also been fighting for those policies for the better part of the last 40 years, minus a few unfortunate blips, here and there.

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...If by blips you mean Icebergs and the nation is the Titanic

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I too enjoy hyperbole.

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Exactly

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Because she has a lot of policies that are similar to bernies. Im not going to risk the security of our nation just because I don't like her

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Seem's everyone's downvoting anything anti-Hillary but she's real keen on starting shit with Russia, which is kinda bad for security.

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Thank you

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She is extremely hawkish, pro corporate establishment.. And is already contradicting herself self on policies from the primary like the tpp

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I mean you're still risking the security of our nation. Hillary's got a track record of being bad for security of the nation.

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Considering that Trump is in *personal/professional* debt to foreign nationals, I don't know that he has a leg to stand on there.

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Because a buffoon whose companies have had to be bailed out by banks due to bankruptcy multiple times is good for USA?

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He owns like 70-something companies, and like 4 of them went bankrupt. That's normal for an entrepeneur.

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I would like to see a list of these 70 companies plz.

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The best arguement ive seen for her is that she isnt trump

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You're certainly not wrong.

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Thats all you need when thats all you got

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But let me counter that argument with an equally valid point: she IS Hillary

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Well yeah, but he is Trump

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v

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Yea and I got downvoted for saying that is not a reason to vote for her..

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It actually is... lesser of two evils

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Ill be voting third party

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And that's fine, but if you live in a swing state you're making a "statement vote" and essentially playing political roulette.

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At this point what else do you need? I mean we don't have a viable 3rd option now

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There's always Jill Stein.

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I've been seeing a lot of Gary Johnson posters lately.

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In your system voting 3rd party = suppoting the main candidate you hate more.

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Why am I downvoted? I literally just made an observation.

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Gary Johnson want's to reduce the military, legalize weed, is pro nuclear. Sure I don't 100% agree, but he's easily the best one out there.

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Wow, didn't realize how many pro defense spending, anti green energy, anti drug people were here.

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I'm for all those things too, what I'm not for is eliminating corporate income tax, and won't vote for anyone who supports it. And while >

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Most people asked on the street said they'd vote for Clinton because she's not Trump and/or because she's a woman. I think it's a shame /1

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that having a vagina is the best reason why people think they should vote on a candidate. /2

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Kind of like people who say I'm not voting for her because she lies so instead I'll vote for Trump. Hmmmmm...

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What's between your legs is a physical characteristic. Being a liar is a moral one. The first has nothing to do with whether you're /1

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qualified for presidency. The second has everything to do with it. /2

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Wow nice politically motivated factoid with no source

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OMG, a comment on one of the presidential candidates is politically motivated!

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That and you know, she's also a world class leader with solid independently lauded policy prescriptions and vision

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Benghazi! E-mails!

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Yes, given her track record we kind of know what kind of president Clinton would be. And that's why I won't vote for her.

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Which record are you looking at? Voting record? Children's health insurance program? Legal aid lawyer?

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Because the last Clinton we had in the Oval Office only improved our nation 10 fold....?

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The debate went better than I expected, it seems people just think it's cool to pretend to be outraged with all the options

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Yeah, it was honestly a very stressful anticipation but what a relief when it finished.

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The debate as an isolated incident is alright, but if you've been following it the whole time, the result can be frustrating.

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I don't want to vote for Umpa Loompa Hitler or Claire Underhill and I don't feel like those should be my only options.

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It's Underwood. And you should vote for her.

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You're right about the name but wrong about who I should vote for.

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Hope you don't live in a swing state.

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And before you get all Jill Stein or Gary Johnson on me, 1 Panders to anti-vaxers, 2 is only candidate that's totally ok with mass shootings

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I think the debate would've been even louder with bernie tbh, it would've just been two old geezers refusing to use their indoor voices.

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2/1 don't get me wrong, berms would've had an easier time by dividing the pro outsider vote. But the debate would be a loud af trainwreck.

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I get the feeling most of the people who are complaining about the debate didn't watch it.

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I watched the debate and I can confirm that it was ridiculous. Nothing but ad hominem arguments for the entire debate.

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I watched the debate and I can confirm that it was ridiculous. Nothing but ad hominem arguments for the entire debate.

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I also watched it and clearly saw a difference between a measured adult and a petulant child.

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Oh yeah if you love Bernie I can see how the choice is difficult. If only he had helped write a candidate's platform to be the most liberal.

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More liberal than the Green Party's?

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Right? For fuck's sake, I voted for Sanders in Illinois, but even I can see the tone around Clinton is hyperbolic and hysterical.

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Voting for Clinton: but what if she continues the benefits of the 1%? Voting for Trump: but what if he decides Hitler was right?

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Oh yeah, he did!

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while she might be saying some of the same stuff as him now, ppl don't think she believes it or will try to get it done when elected. 2/2

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Even if she doesn't do all of it, exactly how much do you think you'll get under Trump?

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It's difficult because it is hard to believe that Hillary will follow through on any of it. Ppl don't trust her word, so 1/

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He's openly asked his supporters to vote for Hillary. Trump is a dangerous candidate, this is not the time to make a "statement" vote. Had >

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honestly, this IS the time to make a statement vote. if 3rd party candidates can draw enough of the popular vote away from either major 1/?

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party's trash candidates, maybe they could realize that we really, really don't want divisive, lying, conniving leaders. [1/2]

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Didn't he recently aquire a 3rd house ?

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He's got a home in DC and Vermont, this is common for people in Congress. They've always had 3 homes, they sold the existing vacation >

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home (which his wife inherited) and bought a new one. So he has bought a new house, but hasn't added an additional home.

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Cruz or Jeb! been the nominee, I might be voting for Stein (or hopefully Bernie would have run 3rd party), but with Trump, I'll play it >

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Registering green, have no hope to ever vote green.

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Cruz would have been worse than Trump. Jeb, I'll give you.

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safe and continue to follow Bernie's lead, which in this case is to JUST FUCKING VOTE FOR HILLARY AND STOP POUTING!

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See, I'm voting Accelerationist.

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Thank you. It only logical choice. Now here's your reward.

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Candidates have to earn a vote.

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No. Voting can be strategic. Some elections you can vote a great candidate into office. Others, you vote to protect you country from tragedy

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To be fair, you dodged a bullet on Stein. She is like 75% Trump crazy. (Wifi is giving us cancer says she)

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I've heard crazier shit man.

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I love how people criticise Bernie for wanting free education and healthcare saying "where does he think the money will come from?" 1/?

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Not like California use to have free college or something...

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Spending tax dollars on megadeaths = 'Merica!!! Spending tax dollars on health & education is COMMUNISM! Please learn the difference.

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Probly coulda had nice infrastructure and a health system for the same cost, but it wouldn't have made for exciting TV.

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I'm sorry, but after three college degrees, there are too many IDIOTS going to college instead of going to a trade school...

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That's cultural. We've been made to believe that the way to success is a college degree. For me, you should go to college only if->

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your aim is to get more knowledge. If your aim is to get a nice salary, other options should be more desirable. But people, even potential->

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employers, sometimes see college-less people as undesirable.

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Do you really think Americans want warfare and killing?

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They seem okay with funding terrorism, so that's a definitive "Yes."

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Which Americans do you know seem "okay with funding terrorism"?

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No, they said Bernie is "free everything" - but then again, they're lying sacks of shit

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Bernie: The manifestation of the country's last fuck. It went flying out the window.

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There's a broken window Econ joke somewhere in here...

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Trump is the broken window. Now someone's going to break all the others too.

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One might say there were no fucks then

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Unfortunately, there were two fucks left. They had a "debate" the other night.

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Where will Bernie get the money from? Easy, by taxing the 1% who've been DODGING THEIR FUCKING TAXES!

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Love it. If you can use the deduction, it's tax law, if you can't use it. ..it's a loophole. Stupid cunts.

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You need to make paying taxes the patriotic thing to do. Helping fund the country. Make tax dodging anti-American + problem solved.

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I love Bernie (and voted for him), but for what he wanted to achieve, it would likely have required a tax hike for the top 10%. Which I >

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still think is fine, speaking as someone who would be impacted by it. But just financially speaking, the top 1% alone wouldn't have cut it.

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45% of Americans will pay no income tax this year. Just throwing that out there

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45% of corporations won't either.

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How do I jump onto this train, because where I work, I really shouldn't be paying ~25% to the government with every paycheck.

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Or because they don't make enough to qualify to pay income taxes. But there are other types of taxes... Property, state, local and sales

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Yeah we just a multi billion dollar weapon deal with israel

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I can't believe we just a.

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I accidentally a whole coke bottle

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IKR? And with Israel, who are one of the nastiest little bunches of assholes since those German ones, & remember what we had to do to *them*

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So we made an investment in the our strongest ally in the middle-east. So terrible

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The fact that we call Israel an ally is telling, if they weren't Jewish they'd straight up be enemies of the US because of their government.

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Fuck you we call Saudi Arabia an ally

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Honestly curious can you list some of the things the Israeli government has done

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Israel keeps and treats the Palestinian/non-Jewish population in a way that meets the dictionary definition of apartheid, for one.

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So many Americans have no issue with spending trillions of tax dollars on warfare and killing people but when it comes to helping 2/?

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As the top country who spends the most money in the world on military expeditures, the U.S. can afford to divert some of that towards 1/

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Finally, this guy you made for the purpose of argument gets what's coming to him. I was so sick of that guy who suits your purpose so well.

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education, healthcare, and other important issues. America spends more money on the military than the next seven countries combined. 2/2

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Americans and the betterment of their own country no one supports it. So sad. As if free healthcare & education never has worked before 3/3

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I am impressed by your guys' ability to not down vote the shit out of a double comment

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Check again..

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Americans and the betterment of their own country no one supports it. So sad. As if free healthcare & education never has worked before 3/3

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Even though I completely agree with this, the username checks out

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Wish we would switch to nuclear power so we can get the hell out of the middle east.

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Honestly it's just people being uniformed about how our government works now, and how his plan would change that. It's sad really.

10 years ago | Likes 135 Dislikes 10

Lack of education, vast misinformation... Its a deadly cycle isnt it? I hope we'll get out of it soon

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I for one, despise having the biggest military in the world. There's so much good that could be done instead of maintaining killing machines

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

You are correct. We like just looking like we're helping.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You... you know much more is spent on medicare-aid and social security that our defense and safety right? Or "killing people" as you say

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

National sense of twisted Machismo. "better to throw labor and resources down the drain of war, then to spend it aiding the WEAK"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's what they call patriotism.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But you see, healthcare and education are stupid causes, killing people is a way better way to spend our money

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Yes. I am completely okay with money spent on warfare because a big customer of my company has only military contracts. Gives us work.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

maintaining trade routes open, policing, and protecting foreign interests has no reflection on our GDP. Meanwhile the us spends the 2nd most

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Of any country on social welfare and how is that helping our poverty rate exactly? You are misrepresenting the argument that most have with

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Social spending in that it isn't benefiting people long term like work and creating wealth will. Only holding them back.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nobody said anything about welfare.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wouldn't be surprised if all the money put into free education would also pay back. An educated populace is a productive populace.

10 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 7

We already have more bachelors degrees than Germany.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, unless that's relative to the population, that's no big surprise, since you have almost four times as many people.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

An educated populace doesn't vote these jackholes into office term after term.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

It's funny you say that when half the fucking memes on imgur are graduates complaining about not being able to find a job in their field...

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

A countrys ability to produce a horrible labor market isnt the same as educated people not finding a job. Educated people do tend to work

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Look to Finland. They say their most valuable export is their educated populace.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Holland checking in. We've a mostly knowledge-based economy.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Denmark. Free education, hell, you even get paid to take an education. And free healthcare.

10 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 2

Your country is also tiny and contributes nothing to international conflict resolution.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 30

With some of the best trained special forces in the world, we certainly do not contribute #sarcasm

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Right..

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Resolution!?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Comes from the country that is pretty much the cause for most major international conflicts for past decades...

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

international conflict creation*

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I'll agree that the Military budget is a substantial amount of money, but in it was only 16% of budget.

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 12

Take out a loan with 16% interest

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Why the down votes? This is a great fucking point.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

16% is a lot

10 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 8

Is it really though?

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 19

You guys spend 16% of your budget on defence?!

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Sounds like a lot, yeah. Keep in mind, though, that a good portion (idk exact figures) is spent on our allies as well.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 7

Uhh. The US spent $600 billion on defense in 2015. The next country to even come close to that number was China, and they spent $215 billion

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

How many other countries does China pay military expenses for?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

That's not an "only" sort of figure there. Imagine would $400 billion could do for education or just general infrastructure.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How to save on Military budget - Go back to the olden days where contracts were done by forcing companies to build the prototypes 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

With an outline given to them. Best prototype wins the contract award. Shit like the F-35 wouldn't happen if this were the case.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0