SavannahMann
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Here's one simple to understand point:
Trump is using the White House to enrich himself and friends. That shouldn't happen and is a conflict of interest.
Now here is where you do your Deadwood impression
Ok. Find me someone who doesn't. Seriously. The last person to leave the White House broke was Truman. He's just about the only one to leave elected office in Washington broke.
Congressmen buy stocks in companies that they award contracts to.
Generals in the Army push appropriations through for new equipment and then take jobs with the company who's products the military just bought.
Congressmen leave politics and take jobs as lobbyists.
They give speeches for tons of money.
Now. How is it worse when Trump does it? How is taking his weekends at one of his resorts way worse than the Secret Service putting in a new room or building for them to guard the President when he is at his home?
Insider trading laws do not apply to Congress.
Congress insiders: Above the law?
So that argument is way beyond the pot and kettle stage. Oh. He's going to make money. He would have made more if he was not in the White House. Idiot.
The White House is like slumming for him. He is used to gold plated toilets and gold leaf everything.
Check out 'Trump Force One' — Donald Trump's personal Boeing airliner
For everyone else the White House perks might be awesome. For Trump, it is literally a step down. I know that is counterintuitive for some. But it is true.
Didn't your mama tell you things aren't right because everyone does it?
If the only thing you have is its OK because you say others do then you have no defense.
What choices do we have. Honestly this election was between the two worst candidates ever. I've voted Democrat all my life until Hillary. I couldn't stomach that.
Now. Tell me what candidate we could get behind to bring honest representation to the nation. Seriously. The very best we can honestly say is that this choice might screw us a tiny bit less than that choice. That's for either party.
Would Hillary have been more honest and all that? She never has been before.
During the Campaign people told me that Trump was liable to bungle us into a war. I said that was absolutely true. It was also true that Hillary would in all probability get us into the same war trying to be clever. Her long history has shown that she is perpetually that inch shy of being clever enough.
So give me someone to vote for. Give me a candidate that isn't as corrupt as all the others. Give me a candidate that is honest. Give me someone. Just screaming that this guy sucks is asinine. My point was everyone sucks. On both sides of the aisle. In every elected office.
That is what you don't get. Both candidates sucked like Black Holes.
What ever happened to bipartisan? Let me give you an easy example. Democrats could partner with the Libertarian leaning Republicans to legalize marijuana. We could end a useless and unpopular policy in the Government. We could affect real change. Are we doing it?
No. Because the Libertarian leaning Republicans are Republicans. Fuck compromise and all of that. First we have to have a huge majority of both houses and the White House before we can do jack shit.
60% of the people support legalization. Fuck them. It isn't about serving the people. It is about fucking over the other side.
The Democrats are for whatever the Republicans are against. The Democrats are against anything the Republicans are for.
Wake the hell up. It's kabuki theater. It is less than meaningless. That's why I gave you those examples. You don't care one damn bit that your side is doing the same thing. The only thing you care about is defeating the other side. It is a high school homecoming game run amok. Our side is going to win because they are blue. Your side sucks.
Every election we are stuck with the lesser of two evils as our choice. I shudder to think who the Democrats will run in 2020. I'm terrified that they'll run Hillary again. I hope the Democrats aren't that stupid, but I have a rule about betting against stupid.