7th July 2016, 8:43 AM
Damn.... it...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/us/hil....html?_r=0
This has been making the rounds, a direct comparison of Hillary's statements a year ago and the FBI's new report.
And... well she was lying. There's no getting around it, she was clearly lying about a LOT of things. Yes, all politicians lie, but that's not something we should just accept.
So, we have Trump, who by all appearances seems to honestly believe every single thing he says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff, because he's a narcissistic idiot with no concept of the ability of memory to change. He's also a racist xenophobe with a lot of promises to do stuff that will actively harm lots of people.
Then we have Clinton, who now really does seem as dishonest as they say, but due to sheer political expedience will be actively doing some good things for people, though not nearly as much as I think a good politician should.
And the Libertarian party can be dismissed as "Objectivism light".
There's no possible way I'd ever vote for Trump, and I don't want to just stay home and not vote at all, but it's getting really REALLY hard to vote for the lesser of two evils over and over again... and again... and again... and again...
That green party is sure looking compelling, even if throwing my vote their way would be little more than a signal to the two big parties to pay more attention. But, then ABF would find me personally responsible for Trump winning, even tough it's only because people voted for Trump that he'd potentially win. I'm sick of that particular blame game set up entirely to disenfranchise third parties.
Who am I kidding? I'm voting for Hillary anyway because in Oklahoma, I can't vote for anyone but the two major parties. That's part of our state constitution. ABF probably thinks that's a great idea too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/us/hil....html?_r=0
This has been making the rounds, a direct comparison of Hillary's statements a year ago and the FBI's new report.
And... well she was lying. There's no getting around it, she was clearly lying about a LOT of things. Yes, all politicians lie, but that's not something we should just accept.
So, we have Trump, who by all appearances seems to honestly believe every single thing he says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff, because he's a narcissistic idiot with no concept of the ability of memory to change. He's also a racist xenophobe with a lot of promises to do stuff that will actively harm lots of people.
Then we have Clinton, who now really does seem as dishonest as they say, but due to sheer political expedience will be actively doing some good things for people, though not nearly as much as I think a good politician should.
And the Libertarian party can be dismissed as "Objectivism light".
There's no possible way I'd ever vote for Trump, and I don't want to just stay home and not vote at all, but it's getting really REALLY hard to vote for the lesser of two evils over and over again... and again... and again... and again...
That green party is sure looking compelling, even if throwing my vote their way would be little more than a signal to the two big parties to pay more attention. But, then ABF would find me personally responsible for Trump winning, even tough it's only because people voted for Trump that he'd potentially win. I'm sick of that particular blame game set up entirely to disenfranchise third parties.
Who am I kidding? I'm voting for Hillary anyway because in Oklahoma, I can't vote for anyone but the two major parties. That's part of our state constitution. ABF probably thinks that's a great idea too.
"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)