The New American Politics thread

[flylock shox]

Yeah, if Adams ever had something, he's lost it based on the last few things he's written that have been posted in this thread. Just a bunch of babble.

[Knut]

You guys should do this survey www.isidewith.com and answer honestly.

Ending up supporting Hillary most and Trump least. Oddly enough Jill Stein was second.

Great snapshot into the policy differences.

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by Hes

You guys should do this survey www.isidewith.com and answer honestly.

Ending up supporting Hillary most and Trump least. Oddly enough Jill Stein was second.

Great snapshot into the policy differences.

I got 97% for each of Stein and Clinton. 77% libertarian, 12% orangutan.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Which are what exactly?

Substantially more impressive than her opponent's.

[Itse]

Funniest part of that Adams blog is that Trump hasn't even made any clear changes in his policies. Mostly he has hinted that maybe he actually might consider the human side of it.

It's a laughably low bar.

[activeStick]

Clinton 95 Stein 91 Johnson 62 15 Trump

[BlAcKNoVa]

Candidates you side with...
49% Jill Stein
46% Gary Johnson
43% Donald Trump
41% Hillary Clinton

[KootenayFlamesFan]

94 for Hillary, 12 for Trump.

[FireGilbert]

Johnson: 92%
Stein: 90%
Clinton: 82%
Trump: 56%

I'm slightly freaked out I agree with Trump more than half the time.

[Fuzz]

Stein: 96%
Clinton: 93%
Johnson:83%
Trump: 33%

33% Trump? I need to examine my life choices...

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by Buster

Another good read by Adams.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1494123...-man-or-hitler

I'm glad I wasn't a sucker for all that "Trump is a racist" rhetoric. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.



MOD EDIT: Please do not post entire articles.

You, and Adams, really need to learn what cognitive dissonance is. The media is not displaying any of it when discussing Donald Trump. I'm not sure what Adams is really trying to get at? Trump has a long history of racist behavior, so him changing his public comments on the issue does not alter that history. I mean, Trump's relationship with "The Blacks" has always been at arms length at best, and usually he viewed them as a group that was an easy target to exploit in his con games. Adams is coming off as a bit unhinged IMO. Believing that a man is, or what he believes, is based only on the last words to come out of his mouth, rather than the actions of his previous 50-60 years of behaviors, is pretty stupid. To me that screams rube more than it does high functioning intellectual with opinions worth listening to. The whole false dichotomy of whether Trump is a racist or a con-man is pretty weak too. Trump is a racist AND a con-man. That has been his life work and he has succeeded in both areas, no matter how hard Adams objects.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Johnson: 92%
Stein: 90%
Clinton: 82%
Trump: 56%

I'm slightly freaked out I agree with Trump more than half the time.

I wonder if Trump would get over 50% Trump if he took the test.

[JohnnyB]

Stein: 94%
Clinton: 79%
Johnson: 53%
Castle: 20% (Who?)
Trump: 11%

[Lanny_McDonald]

96% Stein
91% Clinton
37% Johnson
17% Castle
14% The Great Pumpkin

[killer_carlson]

I took the test and ended up with 76% Clinton

But it surprised me that there wasn't an anti-establishment category which is a key part of Trump's platform (and sanders).

[PsYcNeT]

So I'm not going to give Scott Adams clicks to read the article because #### him, but does he explain whether he thinks trump is a ConMan or Racist, and why either is acceptable as a president?

I'm assuming it's another Glenn Beck-esque "just asking questions" thought-exercise to rile up internet people because he's such a puppetmaster.

[Senator Clay Davis]

I'm too lazy to check, but did Dilbert have a blog in 2008? If he did, did he talk about how amazing Bernie Madoff's powers of persuasion were? And if he were around in 1993 and 1978, would he do the same for Koresh and Jim Jones? Seems like he just likes grifters and is fascinated by their ability to dupe stupid people into believing absurdities. Or maybe he just sees a chance to boost his audience since the vast majority of his blog readers and Twitter followers are Trump supporters, so milk those rubes if you can I suppose.

[FlamesAddiction]

Gary Johnson - 69%
Jill Stein - 64%
Hillary Clinton - 55%
Darrrell Castle - 42%
Donald Trump - 26%

I don't consider myself a libertarian, but just a pragmatic liberal.

I always find the abortion question difficult. I am against abortion personally, but I don't think it should be a legal issue or government policy.

[Caged Great]

Stein 99
Clinton 98
Johnson 32
Castle 4
Tiny Hands 2

[Senator Clay Davis]

Even by the insane ramblings we've seen from this woman this cycle, this might take the cake.

ErikWemple
‏@ErikWemple
Katrinia Pierson on CNN just said Trump hasn't "changed his position on immigration, he's just changed the words he's saying."

Clip

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/768801575527706624