Originally posted by dadudemon
Super glad you were inspired by my post to type up all of this about Trump. We agree with a minimum of 90% of every point you brought up. I think the only area was disagree on is the trade-deal stuff. I was wanting a president to finally stand up to China with severe actions and we got that. I wasn't too pleased with his approach but it was close enough. I think Trump hasn't gone far enough. The fact that I want this with China should mean something since India is becoming an economic powerhouse, as well - why don't we have this same problems with India (or at the scale as with China)?Other than that, we are on the same page. Perhaps I'm too obstinate to give up voting for 3rd parties like you have. Unfortunately, since I'm a dirty filthy leftist, that does mean my vote is being taken away from Biden. But I could not see myself voting for Biden even if the GOP was running a different candidate.
I've never voted for a Democrat or a Republican at the national level. For any position. I don't view Trump as so much of a threat to my political beliefs that I need to vote for someone I despise. I'm not at the point of fury against Trump like many leftists are.
HOWEVER...
My results show I side with Trump the least of any of the major candidates:
I'll agree that he has made some progress in terms of weaning America off of China's exports, but imo, that just is not enough to make up for his petulance and unprofessionalism when it comes to the most important job on the planet during the planet's worst crisis. Like I said, I think that America will definitely be ready for a third party soon, but right now, Trump's continuous recklessness may lead America down a path it can't survive, and thus it seems smarter in imo to prioritize the pragmatic choice at the moment rather than strive for the more idealistic, yet at the same time more unattainable, goal.
I do like how The Rock is your ideal political candidate. I mean, he is supposed to be Arnold's spiritual successor 😎 ...
Originally posted by Lestov16
Thanks for enjoying my posts. Just trying to keep the spirit of inimalist alive 🙂I'll agree that he has made some progress in terms of weaning America off of China's exports, but imo, that just is not enough to make up for his petulance and unprofessionalism when it comes to the most important job on the planet during the planet's worst crisis. Like I said, I think that America will definitely be ready for a third party soon, but right now, Trump's continuous recklessness may lead America down a path it can't survive, and thus it seems smarter in imo to prioritize the pragmatic choice at the moment rather than strive for the more idealistic, yet at the same time more unattainable, goal.
I do like how The Rock is your ideal political candidate. I mean, he is supposed to be Arnold's spiritual successor 😎 ...
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Also, just noticed that my "similiarities" with Dwayne Johnson improved by 1%. Meaning, as the site "ISideWidth" adjusts his political positions as they collect more information, it will cause my similarities with him to go up or down. But it looks like it's just improving.
For me to match with a candidate over 75% is pretty astounding.
Edit - Nope, I'm wrong. Dwayne Johnson actually answered the questions on the quiz and even answered more which is why we match more, today.
It shows your results next to his if you click on his name after taking the quiz:
Originally posted by Lestov16
I wish you the best of luck. Like I said, I took that gamble in 2016, and I'm dissatisfied with the results, so this time I'll try a safer bet. Maybe one or two election cycles down the line the country will be ready for a third party, but right now it is a literal do-or-die situation on a global scale and the current administration are a bunch of incompetent buffoons lead by a petulant manchild more concerned with the baseballs he can't throw and "Muh Trade Deals" than the fact that the world is essentially in the midst of a potentially-infrastructure-shattering natural disaster/socio-political revolt. Trump had 4 years to prove himself (and one can't say "the Dems obstructed him" because
A) he had no problem supporting the GOP obstructing Obama
B) his ENTIRE platform for getting elected was that he was an outsider who could bypass the bureaucracy by "draining the swamp" and geopolitics by "getting deals done"😉
as more than Hillary's Pied Piper Candidate Pawn (which is all his dumbass ever was), and not only did he fail, not only did America not become great, it fell into the phucking sewer grate.America is definitely one of the countries most devastated by COVID, mainly because his petulant dumbass sabotaged Obamacare instead of evolving it or Medicaid/Medicare with his so-called business acumen, which would have given all citizens the ability to get tested, but nope, he had to take a play out of the Mitch McConnell playbook of destroying everything Obama did, hilariously, tragically, and poetically setting up his own demise and possibly that of the US as well.
He is clearly too incompetent to lead during this time and he has no one but himself to blame. He could have had a different, respectable public image that the world could be looking up to right now, but instead he wanted to spend the 4 years of his presidency golfing and Tweeting instead of devoting himself entirely to the presidency like he promised in his campaign. For Trump, the presidency is clearly not the ultimate position of responsibility but rather the ultimate trophy of prestige, and the longer his reckless irresponsibility rules over the country, the more people will suffer.
Also, it's hilarious that after all those years of conspiracy theories about Obama's evil Jade Helm takeover, it is now Trump making himself dictator by suspending the election due to COVID that has everyone on their heels.
See, I told ya you'd come back. <3
Originally posted by Blakemore
nah, im on the biden side this time