2016-05-04, 02:24 PM
Marksman Bryan Wrote:Cruz finally gave up (which is for the better. he was worse than Trump).
I've actually started researching the candidates for this election, and I understand why people support Trump. That said, I heavily disagree with pretty much all Republican values and thus dislike Trump. But at least he isn't bat-pomegranate crazy like Cruz.
I'm starting to think he would be better than Hillary, but he denies climate change and that's the most important issue in my eyes. But who knows if he really believes that or if he just said it for votes.
I've seen all the records of Hillary changing her position/lying/stretching the truth and that just doesn't sit well with me. How can citizens trust a word out of her mouth?
So that leaves Bernie. Unfortunately he's also too extreme in my opinion but he's the best choice available.
I agree with most of this, including Bernie being the best choice, which will surprise people on the forums who have seen me post, particularly in the past. There are many reasons I feel this way, most of them are not strictly because I like him, but you don't have to like a president, in fact in most cases you shouldn't, the only important thing when it comes to political leaders is what they can and cannot do. In Bernie's case, what he cannot do is the biggest deciding factor for why I think he is the best choice; in the vast majority of the things he tries to pass, there will be a supermajority against him because even his own side won't support most of it.
Nothing will get done in the next 4 years, which is in my eyes the best possible outcome at this point, given who is left on the field. Nobody sane on this planet trusts Hillary, she is a lying sack of pomegranate and lying sacks of pomegranate should not get what they want, ever. I don't trust Trump either, but for different reasons; I don't think he is as much of a straight up liar as she is, but...remember that that episode of Always Sunny where Charlie is given the title of "Wild Card", and cuts the brakes on the truck and jumps out to watch it crash? That's kind of how I think of Trump. I think he is straight up crazy, as in, mentally unstable, and as a mentally unstable person myself with legitimate medical issues related to it, I can say with pretty good amount of certainty that I would not make a good president, which I'm sure most of you could agree with.
xparasite9 Wrote:http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/04/25-yea...ing-point/
http://www.dailytech.com/After+Missing+5...e33457.htm
The doomsday global warming scenario reminds me of Harold Camping and other nuts.
It's a religion based off of science, and you can buy your Indulgences (carbon credits) to offset your sinful nature.
If the bigwigs REALLY cared about the earth, they never would have signed the Kyoto Treaty, which allows China to run roughshod all over the environment, polluting rivers, strip mining, and the smog that can be seen from space.
The only scenario I am afraid of when it comes to climate change is the oceanic methane bubbles starting to burst due to the temperature of the ocean rising slightly too high, because when/if that starts occurring there is no return from that point, it's over and there's nothing we can do but watch. The more that burst, the more that are at risk of bursting, and the only way to stop them would be to cool the ocean back down, which at that point would be impossible because of the drastically increased rate of warming caused by the previous bubbles breaking. That scenario is the only one I take seriously as a legitimate threat to our future; the rest of the things they claim are doomsday scenarios can be curbed at any time even while they are ongoing, which is by definition not a doomsday scenario since you still would have some control over it.
And why would you assume bigwigs would care about the earth to begin with, of course they don't. Most of them are already either quietly earmarking or flat out investing the majority of their money on moving to another planet before this one kicks the bucket, rather than spending it on helping this one. Simply being rich, followed by their personal survival, are the two things that are above all else to them, of course they don't care about this planet or anyone else on it, they will probably pay for a bunch of people to move with them simply so they can start a new round of slavery on Mars holding the "we saved you from the apocalypse" pomegranate over them for centuries. Because what point is there to being rich if you can't lord it over someone else?

