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06 Mar 2022, 2:08 pm

Anyone but Trump or Rotten Cotton.


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06 Mar 2022, 2:32 pm

Pepe wrote:
So, why isn't Pence a contender?

He’s a Christian extremist. Homophobic, misogynistic, and was riding with Trump for almost the entire presidency. Pence was party to 99% of Trump’s wrongdoing.

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Charlie Baker, Larry Hogan, Phil Scott and Chris Sununu are the four I’d consider voting for against a weak Democratic candidate (if I had a vote). Kinzinger would be a possibility, as would Lisa Murkowski and a few figures who have stepped back a bit from politics like Jon Huntsman, Bill Weld, and Jeff Flake.

Asa Hutchinson is a bigoted idiot who I wouldn’t support. Clearing the very low bar of condemning Trump is not enough.

How is Asa bigoted?He welcomed immigrants and took on white supremacy?
I don’t agree with his stance on LGBTQ,
but sadly he has to represent his constituency.
He’s even called out bigots.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/18/54452328 ... ottesville

https://www.thv11.com/amp/article/news/ ... 0f25fef226

Anti-refugee:
https://twitter.com/AsaHutchinson/statu ... 0352466944

As you say, he’s also homophobic.

Away from explicit bigotry, he’s anti-abortion, supports the death penalty, has introduced work requirements for Medicaid, and his COVID response has been dreadful.



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06 Mar 2022, 2:47 pm

i could not vote for anybody in a party with such a mercenary, brutally ableist platform as the GOP.



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06 Mar 2022, 2:55 pm

The_Walrus wrote:
Pepe wrote:
So, why isn't Pence a contender?

He’s a Christian extremist. Homophobic, misogynistic, and was riding with Trump for almost the entire presidency. Pence was party to 99% of Trump’s wrongdoing.

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The_Walrus wrote:
Charlie Baker, Larry Hogan, Phil Scott and Chris Sununu are the four I’d consider voting for against a weak Democratic candidate (if I had a vote). Kinzinger would be a possibility, as would Lisa Murkowski and a few figures who have stepped back a bit from politics like Jon Huntsman, Bill Weld, and Jeff Flake.

Asa Hutchinson is a bigoted idiot who I wouldn’t support. Clearing the very low bar of condemning Trump is not enough.

How is Asa bigoted?He welcomed immigrants and took on white supremacy?
I don’t agree with his stance on LGBTQ,
but sadly he has to represent his constituency.
He’s even called out bigots.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/18/54452328 ... ottesville

https://www.thv11.com/amp/article/news/ ... 0f25fef226

Anti-refugee:
https://twitter.com/AsaHutchinson/statu ... 0352466944

As you say, he’s also homophobic.

Away from explicit bigotry, he’s anti-abortion, supports the death penalty, has introduced work requirements for Medicaid, and his COVID response has been dreadful.

He was one of the first governors in the South to mandate masks.Daily Covid briefings begging people to get vaxxed.
Welcomes migrants.We have a large Hispanic population in northwest Arkansas and a large population of people resettled from the Marshall Islands.
https://www.4029tv.com/amp/article/gov- ... s/30319164
Many republicans are pro-death and homophobic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -bill.html

How many other Republican candidates walked into an armed standoff and negotiated?
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entr ... lord-4031/
I’m on Medicaid and no one has asked me to work.If someone is able bodied and getting temporary assistance then no reason why they can’t do some work.I don’t know one person that has been forced to.And most of this county is on benefits.
I have a family member incarcerated, where they were at was horrible.You have no idea.With one phone call to him I got my relative transferred to a work release and they are looking into what’s going on in the bad unit.


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06 Mar 2022, 6:35 pm

DW_a_mom wrote:
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I'd pick Reagan. exhume him, let him run with the same program he had the first time.


The income gap between the rich and everyone else has grown exponentially since the start of his presidency so, no, no way, for me, at least. There is a lot of debate over whether he started the trend or simply exemplified a trend that was already in the wind, but we really need to go the other way economically, have the gap narrow. The economic health of the vast majority of American families has declined steadily since 1982.


that's sort of what I was getting at: let him run, demanding the same top income tax he was advocating for in the 80s. - the US moved past his wildest dreams since then, and Reafan's wildest dreams sound pretty leftie today


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06 Mar 2022, 7:15 pm

^^^^I'm impressed although we don't have a great track record with governors from Arkansas.

EDIT this was a response to Misslizard not shlaifu.


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06 Mar 2022, 7:22 pm

MaxE wrote:
^^^^I'm impressed although we don't have a great track record with governors from Arkansas.

EDIT this was a response to Misslizard not shlaifu.

LOl That’s for sure.At least he can keep his hands to himself and isn’t a horn dog like Clinton was.
I hope we get a progressive candidate like Bernie.
Asa would be better than Trump if it comes down to it.
Just please not Cotton.If he was POTUS right now we’d be in WWW3.


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06 Mar 2022, 10:33 pm

rotten cotton is also opposed to the very thought of democracy, he has said he believes in the divine right of kings.



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06 Mar 2022, 10:45 pm

Scary.
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06 Mar 2022, 11:16 pm

Looks like Nikki Haley will make a run for it. Bookmakers have her third place behind Trump and DeSantis.



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06 Mar 2022, 11:44 pm

auntblabby wrote:
i could not vote for anybody in a party with such a mercenary, brutally ableist platform as the GOP.


I don't think they would have you. :P



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07 Mar 2022, 3:58 am

shlaifu wrote:
DW_a_mom wrote:
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I'd pick Reagan. exhume him, let him run with the same program he had the first time.


The income gap between the rich and everyone else has grown exponentially since the start of his presidency so, no, no way, for me, at least. There is a lot of debate over whether he started the trend or simply exemplified a trend that was already in the wind, but we really need to go the other way economically, have the gap narrow. The economic health of the vast majority of American families has declined steadily since 1982.


that's sort of what I was getting at: let him run, demanding the same top income tax he was advocating for in the 80s. - the US moved past his wildest dreams since then, and Reafan's wildest dreams sound pretty leftie today


Ah, right. He lowered the top federal rate to 50%, I believe it was. That would be an increase today.


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07 Mar 2022, 4:09 am

even at 70% the richie riches did alright.



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08 Mar 2022, 8:13 am

So far as I can tell, throughout the whole Trump presidency Democrats considered him to be the LESSER of two evils compared to Pence. Just as extreme, but far more competant at turning his views into policy.


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08 Mar 2022, 8:24 am

How about posting a question for those on the RIGHT of Politics......



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08 Mar 2022, 8:31 am

Misslizard wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Pepe wrote:
So, why isn't Pence a contender?

He’s a Christian extremist. Homophobic, misogynistic, and was riding with Trump for almost the entire presidency. Pence was party to 99% of Trump’s wrongdoing.

Misslizard wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Charlie Baker, Larry Hogan, Phil Scott and Chris Sununu are the four I’d consider voting for against a weak Democratic candidate (if I had a vote). Kinzinger would be a possibility, as would Lisa Murkowski and a few figures who have stepped back a bit from politics like Jon Huntsman, Bill Weld, and Jeff Flake.

Asa Hutchinson is a bigoted idiot who I wouldn’t support. Clearing the very low bar of condemning Trump is not enough.

How is Asa bigoted?He welcomed immigrants and took on white supremacy?
I don’t agree with his stance on LGBTQ,
but sadly he has to represent his constituency.
He’s even called out bigots.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/18/54452328 ... ottesville

https://www.thv11.com/amp/article/news/ ... 0f25fef226

Anti-refugee:
https://twitter.com/AsaHutchinson/statu ... 0352466944

As you say, he’s also homophobic.

Away from explicit bigotry, he’s anti-abortion, supports the death penalty, has introduced work requirements for Medicaid, and his COVID response has been dreadful.

He was one of the first governors in the South to mandate masks.Daily Covid briefings begging people to get vaxxed.
Welcomes migrants.We have a large Hispanic population in northwest Arkansas and a large population of people resettled from the Marshall Islands.
https://www.4029tv.com/amp/article/gov- ... s/30319164
Many republicans are pro-death and homophobic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -bill.html

How many other Republican candidates walked into an armed standoff and negotiated?
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entr ... lord-4031/
I’m on Medicaid and no one has asked me to work.If someone is able bodied and getting temporary assistance then no reason why they can’t do some work.I don’t know one person that has been forced to.And most of this county is on benefits.
I have a family member incarcerated, where they were at was horrible.You have no idea.With one phone call to him I got my relative transferred to a work release and they are looking into what’s going on in the bad unit.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a ... btq-people

The dude is an inexcusable bigot who enables discrimination and endanger's the f*****g health of people.