2020 Presidential Election: let the jockeying commence

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by ProdigalHorn, Dec 6, 2018.

  1. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    I certainly understand not wanting young people to vote. They, the 18-34 year old, voted overwhelmingly for Clinton in '16 and 24 million of them showed up to vote. More of them showed up than seniors in a lot of states. Frankly I'm surprised they were able to tear themselves away from their gaming consoles in such vast numbers.

    CIRCLE » An Estimated 24 Million Young People Voted in 2016 Election
     
  2. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Somebody should tell the twitter mob about this. Maybe they could get a few politicians fired.
     
  3. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    I wonder how many bio males who identify as female actually do register.And I wonder what would happen if a female(male) fought it , if they ever actually pursue people not registering.
    Maybe creepy porn lawyer could take the case.
     
  4. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    That increase of the Federal Minimum Wage to $7.25 on 9/1/91 must have sucked, huh?

    There is a search function at your disposal for posts. Just look up anything from Horn6721 in 2008 to see the responses.

    Attention-whores will always be whores. He must have felt he wasn't being mentioned enough in the news...similar to our POTUSx attempts to scream "look at me!"

    Age doesn't always correlate to wisdom. I've experienced extremely knowledgeable and bright 18yr olds...and idiot stoners. This site has some Sr. citizen posters that based on their posts are as equally ignorant and lack wisdom as said stoners.

    It's perfectly fine that if you can fight for your country you should have a voice in deciding your commander-in-chief.
     
  5. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    While I'm about the same age as you are I've found most of the senior citizens here to be much more informed than you are.
     
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  6. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Take another puff.
     
  7. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    I don't mess with that garbage.
     
  8. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    You're wrong, it was to $4.25 an hour. I know because I was making that. Know what you're talking about before you type. Obama pushed minimum wage to $7.25 in 2009.
     
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  9. VYFan

    VYFan 2,500+ Posts

    The way to get past all this word nonsense is to have laws or regulations define people by their chromosomes. "XY" registers, or "bathroom for "XX".... period. No surgery or costume can change a person's DNA in each of their 37 trillion cells.
     
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  10. VYFan

    VYFan 2,500+ Posts

    I know that I had two summer jobs in 1979, life-guarding and teaching swimming lessons. One paid $2.90, and the other one generously rounded up to $3.00 an hour. (But at that country club, I also got a discount on meals at the grill.)
     
  11. Horn2RunAgain

    Horn2RunAgain 2,500+ Posts

    As a senior citizen who can google & search, the minimum wage was raised to $4.25 in 1991. This is another example of you posting **** you know nothing about and / or are too lazy to fact check.

    Great job husker, keep up the good work.
     
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  12. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Nah...I just grabbed the wrong datapoint. The $7.25/hr minimum applied to tipped positions. Below is the relevant information I grabbed from Wikipedia. I sit corrected. I have no problem recognizing a mistake. So, I made attempts to quickly look up accurate info. What's your excuse?

    The correct info was right below that for non-tipped roles.
     
  13. militaryhorn

    militaryhorn Prediction Contest Manager

    If that is hard to argue, then why aren't they old enough to buy alcohol?

    The same logic should apply if it is based on perceived maturity. Not trying to argue just building on what you stated.
     
  14. militaryhorn

    militaryhorn Prediction Contest Manager

    Why haven't women pushed for equality when it comes to Selective Service...things that make you go hmmm.
     
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  15. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Maybe, but I'm not so sure that applies here. Trump is clearly an attention ***** - has been at least since the early '80s. I very clearly remember seeing him on tabloid covers at the grocery store when I was a little kid.

    However, I had never heard of Avenatti before he got into the Stormy Daniels story. He's not a Gloria Allred who practically invented the attention whoring lawyer. That's why I suspect he might do this for other reasons. Obviously I don't think he expects to win the nomination and certainly doesn't expect to win the presidency.

    You are correct. You'll always find anecdotes who go against the stereotypes, because we're generalizing and yes, discriminating on the basis of age. There are probably some very wise 10 year olds out there who would make very good voters and some very unwise and ignorant 50 year olds who have no business in a voting booth yet have the right to vote. So long as we're using age as a qualification for voting, there's no way around that. We'd have to use some other criteria besides age (such as a political awareness or civics test).

    I understood this more during the days of the draft (though I still question why this is true now but wasn't true during WWII). However, we made a permanent constitutional change based on a temporary situation rather than a real structural need for change, and that's almost never a wise move.

    In addition, the argument that troops should be able to help choose their commander in chief has some merit. That was the political argument made at the time. However, if that was the real agenda, why didn't we simply do that? We could have given it to all military personnel regardless of age. Instead, we exploited the sympathy people have for the troops to give voting rights to far more LSD and pot-ridden hippies on college campuses. And of course, that was the real agenda.
     
  16. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    In my lifetime, the legal drinking age in Texas has been 21, then 18 (1973) then 19 (1981), then back to 21 (1986). The legal drinking age is another, arbitrary political football. If you're in the military, I think you can still drink on base regardless of your age.
     
  17. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    When I was in the military in the early 90's you had to be 21 to drink.
     
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  18. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Castro is following the advice of Obama's guy, David Plouffe, by doxxing Trump donors
    It's a good way to get somebody killed, just ask Steve Scalise, this is similar to the way he was targeted for death -- and did indeed almost die
    It was less than 24 hours ago they were blaming political rhetoric for one (but not all) of the latest shootings. Yet they immediately turn around and try to direct their followers to commit the same acts they decry.



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  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    In Nuevo Laredo, it was if you were tall enough to hand the bartender the money
     
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  20. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Liberals responding in typical fashion to the Castros' doxxing campaign -- there is a definite, identifiable pattern to much of this stuff - lol

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  21. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    At Ramstein Air Base, the drinking age is 18, because the drinking age off base is 16. The last thing they want is for airmen leaving base and getting piss drunk at some of the sleazy bars and whorehouses in the area.
     
  22. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Considering the donkey shows and hookers with Adam's apples in Nuevo Laredo, booze is probably one of the more wholesome things people partake of.
     
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  23. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    I once saw a show where the performer was wearing a merkin (which is a stage actor's prop). It was crowded so I had to sit at a table with people I didnt know. When the merkin was revealed, the guy next to me started howling in spanish. The one part I definitely understood was the stage prop looked like Fidel Castro's beard. We laughed so hard everyone else caught on and pretty soon a "Fidel" chant filled the establishment. Was a great moment.
     
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  24. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    Those were the good old days. Bet you don't do any drinking or catch any "shows" down there now.
     
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  25. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    Castro reportedly getting his a@@ handed to him online, which is surprising.

    But he's a hard-left extremist. His Momma raised him to think the Alamo is a symbol of white supremacy, so there's no hope he'll apologize.
     
  26. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    I have always asked which one of them is the dumb one. Now I know.
     
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  27. 2003TexasGrad

    2003TexasGrad Son of a Motherless Goat

    What's he saying?
     
  28. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    He released the names and possibly addresses of about 40 Trump campaign donors. He wants them to be attacked... what else can we say about it?
     
  29. 2003TexasGrad

    2003TexasGrad Son of a Motherless Goat

    Oh that's right. Nuts.
     
  30. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    And to think the left REALLY wonders why sensible people in Texas tend to support the right to carry concealed...
     

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