2020 Presidential Race

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Rifleman said:
We're not enemies. He had a DVT a few years ago and passed in his sleep. Clumsy phasing on my part.

But that's your take away from that post? Sigh.
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I was married twice. The ex's always seemed to have friends that they liked and then hated, i.e. ex friends. I never understood it, but yeah a better explanation from your end would have made me not look as mean.
 
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VolStrom said:
I was married twice. The ex's always seemed to have friends that they liked and then hated, i.e. ex friends. I never understood it, but yeah a better explanation from your end would have made me not look as mean.
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Nah, you're fine. I am very bad at typing what I am thinking without my brain inserting some randomness.
 
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Rifleman said:
These tests are literally Puritan. It is so ingrained in the American fabric that I am not sure either side sees how it short-circuits thought and the careful consideration of issues necessary to make sane decisions.

For example, I told a former friend that Mark Warner of Virginia or Phil Bredesen would have gotten a nomination at some point if the left really wanted to win big. Seemed a pretty innocuous a comment to me since both guys won red counties by huge margins in state wide elections. Within 5 minutes he was telling me that I was like the Germans who stood by as Hitler took power for supporting GOP-lite candidates.

After that, I thought my conservative uncle would get a chuckle out of this story, so I relayed it to him over some whisky. Instead of seeing the absurdity in it, he agreed with my liberal friend about the severity of my mistake. His reason, though, was because far-left liberals like Bredesen and Warner would allow so many babies to be murdered. Then he re-thought, and said that it would actually be worse than the Holocaust to elect people like that to national office.

Welcome to America, I guess. Lesson one, avoid politics at work, church, and family or public gatherings.
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Wish I could like this more than once.

Most of my friends are liberal, and most have always been to the left of me on economics. But this is the first time I've noticed some anger on their part toward me because I dare to like Pete, Klobuchar, and Tulsi. I have literally had two different friends call me a Republican in the last week because of my support for Pete. I also had another friend that told me months ago that she would not vote for anyone but Bernie, because he was the only "true" liberal running. She wouldn't even consider the rest of the candidates. The rest of us are corporatist centrist frauds, apparently.

Then I come on here, or talk to my conservative friends/family, and as you said, I get the same crap for completely different reasons. Mostly because they have Democrat behind their name, so that makes me a bloodthirsty Communist ready to seize the means of production and burn some flags for good measure while I'm at it.

It is a no win situation I guess.
 
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hog88 said:
Cat fight!
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It is one thing to disagree with another liberal, but it is entirely something different to call it "tragic" if they were elected.

She can piss off. Why didn't she go after Warren, Klobuchar, Beto, Tulsi, Yang, or the rest of the field? She went after Biden because he is still a front-runner. I have a suspicion she went after Pete for a different reason.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
It is one thing to disagree with another liberal, but it is entirely something different to call it "tragic" if they were elected.

She can piss off. Why didn't she go after Warren, Klobuchar, Beto, Tulsi, Yang, or the rest of the field? She went after Biden because he is still a front-runner. I have a suspicion she went after Pete for a different reason.
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The longer the campaign goes on the worse it will get. And not just the Rs.
 
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LouderVol said:
The longer the campaign goes on the worse it will get. And not just the Rs.
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That's fine. It means he is a threat to the "top-tier". Poll released today puts him firmly in second in Iowa. RCP average for Iowa after today has him passing Bernie. He's hit double digits in the latest Quinnipiac national poll, first time since June. And he's polling ahead of Kamala in California, her home turf. All of this today.

Everybody keep doubting him. Including that idiot Ilhan.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
It is one thing to disagree with another liberal, but it is entirely something different to call it "tragic" if they were elected.

She can piss off. Why didn't she go after Warren, Klobuchar, Beto, Tulsi, Yang, or the rest of the field? She went after Biden because he is still a front-runner. I have a suspicion she went after Pete for a different reason.
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It’s easy to figure the reason she went after him
she went after Biden because he isn’t far enough left I would assume
 
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volfanjustin said:
It’s easy to figure the reason she went after him
she went after Biden because he isn’t far enough left I would assume
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Biden is the front runner and isn't Bernie left. That is why she went after Biden. I try to assume the best of people. I hope Ilhan didn't go after Pete for the reason I suspect she went after him for.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
It is one thing to disagree with another liberal, but it is entirely something different to call it "tragic" if they were elected.

She can piss off. Why didn't she go after Warren, Klobuchar, Beto, Tulsi, Yang, or the rest of the field? She went after Biden because he is still a front-runner. I have a suspicion she went after Pete for a different reason.
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I told you Pete isn't going to do well with black folk. Being from Somalia, Omar looks the part.
 
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