Summary of US Midterm Election Results

[Ephemeral]

[Vatican Assassin]

the 2 parties have been in bed for so long that they are really just the same damn animal wearing elephant and donkey suits and really it's us--the leaves of grass (walt whitman knew, he KNEW)--that are getting trampled isn't that the truth Ephemeral oh i think it is

[RoDNeY]

i feel bad for the people that think theres a difference between republican and democrat
evil can wear multiple faces, doesnt mean its not evil anymore
i also to some degree think its insanely funny that i come from the same town Ralph Nader was born in roflroflroflrofl
and were building a ralph nader museum bahah

[Azov]

The results don't end up putting us in any different of a position. It's a one-party system designed to appeal generally to people who either have liberal or conservative beliefs by simply flavoring the rhetoric that way to get votes to continue the insanity. But substantively, nothing really changes except the rhetoric.

The only way real choices will be offered to the American public is a third party option. People get excited about third party candidates because they get exposed to genuinely different ideas. But what happens? They get scared off by November and march in line to vote for more of the same. But if you can get people past the fallacies that its a "wasted vote" or it "takes away" from the mainstream candidate (as if they owned your vote to begin with), then you'll get change.

Until then, expect more big government, more war, cost of living increases, and quality of life decreases.

[mtine]

The American government is in many aspects the same as TW Staff.

[Ephemeral]

Wtf?
Funny, I recall a bunch of people who thought Obama and Dems were going to change everything on this very forum about 7 years ago. I mentioned then that all politicians were all the same but got nothing but push back on how everyone would now get a chicken in every pot, ObamaCare was great, and Gitmo would be closed down in a few weeks. Where are those people now?
Eph

[RoDNeY]

Wtf?
Funny, I recall a bunch of people who thought Obama and Dems were going to change everything on this very forum about 7 years ago. I mentioned then that all politicians were all the same but got nothing but push back on how everyone would now get a chicken in every pot, ObamaCare was great, and Gitmo would be closed down in a few weeks. Where are those people now?
Eph

probably fled to canada by now

[the_paul]

Wtf?
Funny, I recall a bunch of people who thought Obama and Dems were going to change everything on this very forum about 7 years ago. I mentioned then that all politicians were all the same but got nothing but push back on how everyone would now get a chicken in every pot, ObamaCare was great, and Gitmo would be closed down in a few weeks. Where are those people now?
Eph

on food stamps. That being said, they're too busy on their ipads.

[Jerome Scuggs]

on food stamps. That being said, they're too busy on their ipads.

interestingly enough i know at least 6-7 people irl who no longer have to use WIC/food stamps thanks to being able to afford health insurance :P

obamacare is working. sorry, but noone on this forum has spent more time arguing against the idea of government-provided healthcare, and i've since then had to eat my own words.

if republicans wanna save money maybe they should start by prosecuting corporations who have hidden over 100billion in offshore tax havens since 2013 alone. maybe they should also stop giving these corporations over 90 billion/yr in corporate welfare kickbacks.

giving money to those in need is one thing. giving 13 billion to Boeing, for instance, is another.

you can say what you want, but at the end of the day the biggest drain on the federal budget is corporations. that's the facts, jack, one might be able to argue that giving these companies billions on top of their billions is a good thing, but you can't argue that they aren't far more of a budget drain than the impoverished.

[Jerome Scuggs]

also fwiw the largest groups of welfare recipients are employees of walmart and mcdonald's

so you can thank welfare for keeping these corporations profitable. if we got rid of public benefits these companies would be forced to, i dunno, pay their employees a god damned living wage

[Jerome Scuggs]

basically what i am trying to say is, democrats may be stupid pussies, but republicans are actively self-destructive and wanton

[Bioture]

interestingly enough i know at least 6-7 people irl who no longer have to use WIC/food stamps thanks to being able to afford health insurance :P

obamacare is working. sorry, but noone on this forum has spent more time arguing against the idea of government-provided healthcare, and i've since then had to eat my own words.

Obamacare is definitely working for people in specific situations. It doesn't "work" for everyone in the sense that it's an improvement over the old healthcare system for everyone - especially middle-class Americans who already had pretty good healthcare.

[Vatican Assassin]

My healthcare went up 300 a month but now jerome's dead beat friends get it for free SHIT IS WORKING

[Jerome Scuggs]

My healthcare went up 300 a month but now jerome's dead beat friends get it for free SHIT IS WORKING

hard worker like u should be able to afford it, no? get shit on by the 1% and blame it on the 99%, typical

[Jerome Scuggs]

actually ima call you out, why dont you compare your previous plan to your new one? why did it go up? where do you work, aren't you a teacher?

my insurance didn't go up one cent because my employer isn't a cheap scumbag and provided a decent plan pre-ACA

and ima let you calling my buddies deadbeat slide, i dont have to defend or explain their situations, and someone like you clearly doesn't have the emotional capacity to give a shit anyways. oh, and they don't "get it for free", thats not how the ACA works. they get it at an affordable price. vati are you ok bro?

edit: basically what im trying to say is,

dont blame ur shitty job on obama, and also, ron paul's dream is dead libertarianism is over-idealistic and just give it up already