Kasich 2016

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Lojik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Watching the debates, it reminded me why I dislike almost every politician again. They're either uninformed, just plain stupid, or preoccupied with their competition. On the surface I'd agree that Kasich seemed the most reasonable, but I also agree with Lune that he is probably just full of shit.

One of my main issues with mainstream politics is that (at least from the numbers I saw) most americans want the us to become less involved in the affairs of other countries. However, in the US there exists a very vocal minority to this idea, that will label you almost traitorous if you take this position. I find this especially true with older Americans regardless of political affiliation, and they'll simply refuse to acknowledge any position you might take as long as it "betrays all we worked for on liberating the world in WW2." Even though the largest percentage of our discretionary spending goes to defense, there won't be an elected president of either party willing to actually limit defense spending. There's too many powerful factions still feeding off the victory propaganda of ww2, and too vocal a group of people unable to see past it.

Not only is it politically illegal to limit it, Republicans are hell bent on increasing it. (And Democrats are complicit, especially ones from military states.) Made me cringe during the debates listening to all the candidates calling for shit the Pentagon doesn't even need or want, like strategic bombers, which are almost completely irrelevant to the US military's situation, and talking about "rebuilding" our "broken" military as if we don't currently have the most powerful military machine in human history.

We need to scale it back to how it was before WW2, when we had only a token standing army and a very large navy. We have the luxury of being situated in our own hemisphere with large oceans full of American ships protecting us from everyone else's bullshit. And with all the money we'd save on defense spending we could invest in enough energy infrastructure to achieve energy independence so we don't even have to bend over for OPEC. Then we can just do our own thing while the Middle East destroys itself.

[Pokesan]

We're just going to assume a peaceful transition in the congressional scenario?

[maskedmelon]

Twitter will be on fire for days, Texas will threaten to secede, college students will flee to their safe spaces and then the cattle will return to their fields to graze once more.

[Pokesan]

I have more faith in my countrymen than you do, I suppose.

[maskedmelon]

I have little faith in men, so I am sure you are correct.

[AP2002]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry guys, but this is how I felt after last night's melee.

Marco came off as a little shit.

Cruz remains an erudite asshole.

And Trump, well he has small hands.

To quote an ancient FQ celeb, Kasich sounded like "the lone voice of reason in a forest of Turkies."

Am I wrong?

This is why video gamers should not vote.

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[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by AP2002 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is why video gamers should not vote.

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Ty Blitz.

[Pokesan]

calling it defense spending while crying about our global hegemony ought to disqualify you from voting