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5/16/2015 8:16:53 PM

morgellons

5/16/2015 8:37:29 PM

Police brutality, aka State-sponsored and condoned terrorism of civilians.

Duh.

5/17/2015 3:38:48 AM

Fuck it, pick one...doesn't matter, this election is totally hopeless.

5/17/2015 10:48:58 AM

Income Inequality
Investment in Infrastructure
Climate Change

5/17/2015 3:59:51 PM

Gang violence: http://gawker.com/nine-dead-after-shootout-between-cops-three-rival-bike-1705107122

5/17/2015 6:28:07 PM

The economy...just make the economy good.

Also, feel free to criminalize abortion/gay marriage, as this would likely lead to a civil war which would be interesting. I've always wanted to live in historic times.

Seriously, though, I'm fucked up in the head, and my sympathies tend to fall on criminals. So just rule that solitary confinement constitutes cruel and unusual punishment when inflicted for more than a year or so (which it totally does).

Also, can we catch Oprah (on camera) doing something really unacceptable (like calling white people "crackers" or kicking a child)? I would love to see Oprah fall...I have this hatred for her that I can't entirely explain.

Kthx, political Santa. Bye.

5/17/2015 7:56:31 PM

double post suspend terminate

[Edited on May 17, 2015 at 7:56 PM. Reason : werfwe]

5/17/2015 7:56:31 PM

we need more freedom and less tyranny

5/17/2015 8:17:07 PM

Freedom from or freedom to?

5/17/2015 10:27:49 PM

my wallet

5/17/2015 10:57:45 PM

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"we need more freedom and less tyranny"

you're so damn lucky that the tyrant didn't catch you posting that. you'd really be in for it if they did.

5/17/2015 11:23:57 PM

Also Oprah could call all white people crackers and kick a kid and she would still have a billion dollars.

Bitch gives zero fucks

5/17/2015 11:51:10 PM

Neither side really cares about my important issues (automation economy) but income inequality is probably the closest to this.

Obama doesn't really have the greatest track record on this issue, despite paying lip service to it in a SOTU. It would be interesting to know what fell apart behind the scenes that he never pushed congress harder to address this.

This was the platform for the democrats before the congressional changeover too, but they've been oddly silent on it.

I would like to see actual adjustments to obamacare instead of pedantic lawsuits and republicans waiting to see what the courts would do, while actual people are waiting in limbo to get healthcare, when they could be drafting legislation to make themselves look like heroes.

5/18/2015 2:21:27 AM

What difference, at this point does it make?

We're still over a year away from the elections. The democrats already have their nominee and she's a monster. The republicans are still busy trying to find the biggest idiot they can to trot out there. No matter who we vote for we're all getting fucked.

5/18/2015 4:36:21 AM

Is anyone out there actually excited at the possibility of one of these clowns being POTUS? I have never been more disinterested and just overall depressed about any of the possible outcomes.

5/18/2015 10:42:31 AM

Probably health care, foreign policy, and climate change. I'm still not old enough to be all that worried about the economy, I'm sure there will be plenty of peaks and valleys before I retire.

5/18/2015 11:29:57 AM

^^ the idiots getting elected to congress are more of a problem than whatever idiot we put in the white house

5/18/2015 12:52:48 PM

Yeah, but they're all pretty well entrenched. Look at the incumbent re-election rate. Virtually all congressional districts are thoroughly gerrymandered. It's pretty much just the 4 districts in Iowa, a good chunk of Indiana, and a a handful of others that aren't blatantly apportioned out to one party or the other already.

I mean honestly, does anyone think Charlie Rangel or Michelle Bachman could keep getting elected without things being slanted so far in their favor that it literally makes no difference what they say or do?

5/18/2015 5:29:19 PM

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"Also Oprah could call all white people crackers and kick a kid and she would still have a billion dollars. Bitch gives zero fucks "

if she lost her tens of millions of admirers and became hated like (for example) Donald Sterling, it would really bother her, I bet. I suspect she enjoys the worship of housewives a hell of a lot.

5/18/2015 11:38:03 PM

What gay people are doing with their penises

5/18/2015 11:39:09 PM

I'm not altogether displeased with the direction of domestic politics. Nobody's fucking with my guns, marijuana and gay marriage are both moving inexorably to nationwide legalization, people are waking up to the problems with the police. The economy isn't all one could hope but the dollar is strong and the employment situation is no longer desperate.

I guess from a president my biggest desires would be

1) Someone who can actually cultivate some civil discourse between the parties (or, failing that, who can crush the radical Tea Party types who prevent civil discourse)

2) A firm, well-reasoned foreign policy that addresses Russian belligerence, Chinese expansionism, and the new semistate face of terrorism (IS and Boko Haram). I haven't seen one of these from anybody, but since foreign policy is one area where Presidents hold real sway, I will probably vote for whoever has the most foreign policy experience.

Professionally, a Republican is best for me. I work in the aid industry now and, for whatever reason, the aid money flows a lot more freely from Republican administrations.

5/19/2015 4:20:49 AM

1) Marijuana Reform - seems like low hanging fruit (its somewhat bipartisan, high approval rates), if a politician can't half-heartedly support some type of reform here, then they can't get my vote
2)Campaign Finance Reform - A politician has to admit this is a problem to get my vote, I'm open to new proposals
3)Follow through on Obama's Climate Rules
4)Maintain or improve banking regulations
5)Reign in NSA bulk collections - even if its just a baby step

[Edited on May 19, 2015 at 9:06 AM. Reason : oh yea, someone that is open to avoiding war with Iran]

5/19/2015 8:56:01 AM

1. Climate change
2. Income inequality (top 1% vs bottom 99%)
3. Smart growth/funding for public transit (no more exurban sprawl)
4. Domestic spying
5. Police militarization
6. Letting the Redskins keep their name

In that order

[Edited on May 19, 2015 at 9:45 AM. Reason : .]

5/19/2015 9:43:25 AM

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"6. Letting the Redskins keep their name"

HEAR HEAR

5/19/2015 3:10:38 PM

I'm just curious how you all would like to see "income inequality" addressed and also whether what you actually mean is wealth inequality.

5/19/2015 4:58:30 PM

I mean wealth inequality

5/19/2015 6:25:54 PM

shortener campaign periods. campaign finance reform.

5/19/2015 8:00:43 PM

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"6. Letting the Redskins keep their name"

I'm kinda hoping that's boiled over.

5/19/2015 8:41:43 PM

i hope that we can agree that it's not a problem of the top 1%, or probably even the top 0.5%.

Hell, I don't even give a shit how many billions the billionaires have...good for them. All I really am bothered by is how, at the stratospheric levels like that, the income tax curve turns sharply regressive due to loopholes and income derived from stock payments, dividends, and capital gains.

5/19/2015 9:30:13 PM

MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE, JOB CREATORS, LEADERS OF INDUSTRY, EXAMPLES TO THE REST OF US, ETC., ETC., ETC.

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"2) A firm, well-reasoned foreign policy that addresses Russian belligerence, Chinese expansionism, and the new semistate face of terrorism (IS and Boko Haram). I haven't seen one of these from anybody"

And you won't anytime soon. There won't be a hopeful with a decent solid foreign policy platform to come close to even getting a nomination for a long time.

[Edited on May 19, 2015 at 9:47 PM. Reason : ]

5/19/2015 9:43:36 PM

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"2) A firm, well-reasoned foreign policy that addresses Russian belligerence, Chinese expansionism, and the new semistate face of terrorism (IS and Boko Haram). I haven't seen one of these from anybody, but since foreign policy is one area where Presidents hold real sway, I will probably vote for whoever has the most foreign policy experience."

This just comes down to having someone who is smart, open minded, and truly well intentioned. No one should enter that room thinking they already have all the answers to all the world's problems, like the neocon's did.

[Edited on May 20, 2015 at 12:36 PM. Reason : :]

5/20/2015 12:35:08 PM

What do we have to do to get a viable third party candidate on the ballot?

5/21/2015 2:24:12 PM

Benghazi.

And preventing King Hussein from taking over Texas.

5/21/2015 9:11:04 PM

1. Funding and support of academic research. I am surprised that this hasn't popped up yet, but the US graduate and academic research programs have come to be on an elite level all to their own, but severe cuts in federal funding are starting to take their tolls on even the most elite research labs. This is a topic that hits close to home for me, but the fact is that a lot of even the top programs don't have funding anymore to pay for grad students, post-docs and necessary lab technicians. Thus, a lot of the personnel that you see in labs these days (in the natural and physical sciences at least) come from foreign students (mostly European, Chinese and Japanese) that bring their own funds over to the US.

2. I really wish that the fight for more women and racial minorities in the workplace did not also directly give rise to full-on discrimination against the white-male demographics. Not that I am saying that people should feel sorry for the privileged white man, but I think that it would be better to focus these efforts more on eliminating discrimination where it exists as opposed to basically just giving quotas that universities and companies have to fill, as this policy has pretty much led to further discrimination of the opposite sort. Can't tell you how many times that I have seen desirable spots open up for everybody, that in reality had to be filled by a female or a racial minority, and then you'd have to interview promising candidates knowing that the white dudes had zero chances at the position and in reality were wasting their time by showing up to the interview.

5/25/2015 7:07:33 PM

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"What do we have to do to get a viable third party candidate on the ballot?"

I think drastically increasing the size of the House is the best chance we have at shaking up parties

5/26/2015 12:11:30 PM

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"Income Inequality Investment in Infrastructure Climate Change"

and:

Reining in big banks and/or Wall St (some actual jail time for banksters)
Ending endless war

5/27/2015 6:49:55 AM

you know those guitars that are, like, double guitars

5/27/2015 10:34:11 AM

leglize p0t

jk

6/4/2015 11:06:42 AM

Why kid touching is becoming mainstream in GOP circles

6/5/2015 10:55:49 AM

I'm not sure. Why don't you ask Jeffrey Epstein? He probably has some inside information.

6/5/2015 10:59:32 AM

not confusing the Bible with the Constitution

6/5/2015 9:07:46 PM

I get a quick laugh at the guy running on the metric platform... but I would like to move to metric. I would also like 10 million dollars. I think the 10 million dollars has a better chance of happening than moving to metric.

6/6/2015 8:53:18 AM

politician pay and benefits

LOL....like that's ever going to get fixed.

[Edited on June 8, 2015 at 10:21 AM. Reason : ^would that be 10 million metric dollars?]

6/8/2015 10:20:28 AM

OBVIOUSLY the big issues for a candidate i'm looking for are:

- Gay Marriage and those corrupting the sanctity of marriage.
- Pro-Life we need to stop these baby killers from allowing their embryos from turning into unwanted children.
- Blowing Shit Up nothing proves to the worst that we are USA #1 like dropping a couple bombs against some towel heads.
- Guns I don't need my other freedoms from Bill of Rights 1 + 3-10. If you aren't a evil bad guy than you have nothing to worry about..... I just need my 2nd amendment to keep my guns protected.
- Repeal Healthcare Act All the republican talk show hosts say this is bad so i'm just going to have faith in their intelligence on the issue. Sounds socialist to me anyway
- Drill Baby Drill Only way to get the economy going is to relentlessly tap into our natural reserves. Nature and the environment are for hippy liberal douches anyway.

Luckily all -R candidates so far seem to follow my platform. Except for Rand Paul who filibustered the Patriot Act renewal. I was so afraid about the terrorists attacking if it expired. Rand must not care about my safety or my family.

6/10/2015 4:07:02 PM

^^Units of currency are not physical units of measurement, so they aren't affected by a switch to metric.

Anyway, my main problem is that if we switched to metric, then Royce da 5'9" would have to change his name to Royce da 175 or something.

6/11/2015 12:43:21 PM

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"^^Units of currency are not physical units of measurement, so they aren't affected by a switch to metric."

6/14/2015 10:24:35 AM

I want the top .1% to actually pay taxes.

I want legalized drugs and a prison population small enough that we don't need private prisons.

It might be time to fix up some of our infrastructure.

And I reckon we could do something for the environment.


I suspect the only way to make moves on this stuff is campaign finance reform.

And we need some smart people to handle international stuff cause I'm a child, and on that front, I just wanna take all those new billionaire tax dollars and blow stuff up. If the developing world is in rubble, manufacturers would have to move back to the states!

6/14/2015 11:38:55 AM

In no particular order

End war on drugs and move towards legalization
Infrastructure
End domestic warrant-less spying on US citizens
End security theatre antics at airports
Police accountability
Criminal justice reform
Less Pell Grants and allow student loan to be discharged in bankruptcy
End of foreign interventionism
Believe it or not, I'd like to see sensible immigration reform, but no amnesty of any sort
UNC gets the death penalty in basketball

6/14/2015 6:22:31 PM

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"And I reckon we could do something for the environment."

As opposed to all that we already do for the environment? I'd be in favor of increasing aid to countries if they stopped destroying their rain forests.

6/16/2015 12:43:46 PM