15th June 2016, 12:28 PM
Oh, I will say this. It's never over. Did... did anyone get that reference? The Phantasm movies? Silver floating ball full of weapons? Creepy "Tall Man" using silver balls to turn people into weird zombies? Anyone? Just me? Okay.
Um, what I mean is that, faced with only these two candidates, I'm going with Hillary. Yes, she'll do some good things. Yes, her track record is questionable. Yes, a recent statement after last weekend's shooting about "finding these people better online" by "working with our tech companies" smacks of a NSA power grab we all really need to keep an eye on. And yes, she'll be the first female president, and the only things I actually agree with from either of the two candidates are coming out of her mouth, not Trump's. BUT! This is important, she needs to have some checks and balances put into place. Let's make sure she can't do anything particularly harmful without a lot of pushback. So, let's make sure to pay a LOT of attention to local elections, from representatives and senators to even smaller level stuff like county comptroller or whatever. This has always been something we should have been doing, but why not really make it a focus? Sanders can even lead the charge on that. On a national stage, this is going to be very hard to drum up the support for, simply due to the local nature of these elections, but let's at least get the passion going to start with.
Um, what I mean is that, faced with only these two candidates, I'm going with Hillary. Yes, she'll do some good things. Yes, her track record is questionable. Yes, a recent statement after last weekend's shooting about "finding these people better online" by "working with our tech companies" smacks of a NSA power grab we all really need to keep an eye on. And yes, she'll be the first female president, and the only things I actually agree with from either of the two candidates are coming out of her mouth, not Trump's. BUT! This is important, she needs to have some checks and balances put into place. Let's make sure she can't do anything particularly harmful without a lot of pushback. So, let's make sure to pay a LOT of attention to local elections, from representatives and senators to even smaller level stuff like county comptroller or whatever. This has always been something we should have been doing, but why not really make it a focus? Sanders can even lead the charge on that. On a national stage, this is going to be very hard to drum up the support for, simply due to the local nature of these elections, but let's at least get the passion going to start with.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)