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30 Apr 2020, 4:00 pm

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... ump-225147



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30 Apr 2020, 6:37 pm

His plan to defeat the "Trump Machine" is simple:

1. Declare independence from the Republican Party.

2. Join the Libertarian Party.

3. Siphon votes from the Democratic Party.

4. Win the Presidency.

:roll: What could possibly go wrong?


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30 Apr 2020, 8:07 pm

Wouldn't he be more likely to siphon votes from the GOP?


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30 Apr 2020, 9:15 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
Wouldn't he be more likely to siphon votes from the GOP?
If I've understood the article correctly, he has very few friends left in the GOP, so those votes are gone.


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30 Apr 2020, 9:32 pm

Yes anybody in the GOP cult who dares to disagree with "God's Chosen One" ends up losing a lot of friends. Just ask Joe Walsh!



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01 May 2020, 4:43 pm

Justin Amash bought the libertarian cool-aid. He doesn't realize "small government" is bad-faith nonsense peddled by power-thirsty plutocrats. There is no such thing as meritocratic capitalism. The trend is always towards concentration of wealth and monopoly power. He honestly thinks conservatism has something to do with liberty, but that connotation only exists in America. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the world... i.e. it was manufactured by think tanks funded by oligarchs like the Koch brothers. Nobody on the planet that isn't American thinks letting gigantic corporations do whatever the hell they want is "liberty". When the vast majority of people don't even own property, they have about as much freedom as feudal peasants. Hell, being homeless is now basically illegal.