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user-inactivated  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you're voting 3rd party, if you're not voting, please at least give me 2 hours of your time.

    The Frontline thing is kind of amazing in that about three different people from the Trump camp (as in, actively working with Trump right now) insinuate that Donald Trump is running for President to get back at Obama for embarrassing him at the Washington Correspondent's Dinner.

He wanted to run with the Reform party in 2000.





wasoxygen  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    He wanted to run with the Reform party in 2000.

I learned this from a music video while ironing a shirt.

Supporters of third-party candidates in potential swing states can consider swapping votes with people in nonswing states.

user-inactivated  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hipster RAtM, occupying Wall St. before it was cool.

For a while I was seeing polls that put Gary Johnson as close to Trump as Trump to Clinton, and was implausibly hoping he'd come in second. I wouldn't want to see him win, but if you lean right this election your choices are libertarian or pants on head crazy and I'd be much more at ease if the other half of the country stated a clear preference for guns, drugs and capitalism.

wasoxygen  ·  2734 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, we can do you capitalism and guns without the drugs, and we can do you capitalism and drugs without the guns, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you guns and drugs without the capitalism. Capitalism is compulsory.

Apologies to Tom Stoppard

kleinbl00  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He toyed with running with the Reform party in 2000. I think as soon as it was obvious he'd be seen as "yet another Pat Buchanan" he was all done with that.

user-inactivated  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough, though if he was worried about how he'd be seen then he must have gotten over it, but it's still not like running for President came out of nowhere because he got snubbed.