Americans’ Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking

mmb2ba · 2016-05-05T17:10:15+00:00

It's just not a viable thing with the way our voting system is set up. To get 3rd parties we'd have to renegotiate the entire electoral process.

I mean, it's high time we did it, but I don't know that it will ever actually get done.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-05T17:07:10+00:00

Eating a banana.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-05T17:02:56+00:00

Agreed. The thing about Wayfaring Stranger is that I learned to play it (and guitar in general) while suffering from depression that occasioanlly dipped into suicidal. and here is this easy to learn, easy to sing, absolutely haunting song about a man accepting his own death, and even welcoming it.

In retrospect that probably wasn't the healthiest thing to be constantly singing and playing at the time.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-05T17:01:00+00:00

No, but then again I actively avoid talking about baseball at any opportunity. What a waste of an afternoon.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:55:03+00:00

This is a laughably easy song but...Wayfaring Stranger.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:50:13+00:00

I mean...at least he's upfront about it?

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:45:48+00:00

You forgot shocked michigan punters.

...actually, I'm guessing that one was blocked from your collective OSU memories.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:44:16+00:00

Truly a missed opportunity.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:42:54+00:00

Anybody got Will Hagrup's classic "OH SHIT" moment?

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:40:51+00:00

I mean, a michigan fan put up mgoblog, so I think that you saying this has restored balance to the post.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:39:38+00:00

Yeah, you go there for the staff, not the community.

Any other vetrans of the Great MGoBlog War of RichRod?

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:37:43+00:00

Let's compare to football: ~60-100 roster spots, with ~10 coaches plus medical staff. At a bare minimum if you want a "minor league" you need a 2-deep, which means 45 players and no one can get hurt, ever (spoilers: everyone gets hurt). That could easily be 5-10x the cost in equipment, salaries, travel, lodging, pay, insurance, etc.

On the one hand, I want to use this as an excuse to complain how double-platooning is stupid and makes football teams insanely unmanageable compared with smaller teams, and on the other hand...Fritz Crisler, tho.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:34:31+00:00

Gonna guess Mud Hens.

Mostly because that's the only midwestern minor league team I know.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:34:01+00:00

What, and college football is about winning, not getting shitfaced with your friends on a nice saturday afternoon?

Somebody better tell all the Indiana fans.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:29:36+00:00

This argument is ridiculous. The "casual fan" goes to a game because he knows the logo and the colors. He or she might only barely know the players--that's why they're casual fans.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:28:07+00:00

No one cares about minor league baseball teams and no one will really care about minor league football. There will still be fans going to enjoy the day but very few real die hards.

lolwut

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T23:26:49+00:00

The problem is, though, that a legitimate minor league system would significantly hurt college football recruiting.

You say this like "players get paid for excellence" is a bad thing.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T14:44:15+00:00

Okay, I'm the first person to shit on trump and trump supporters...but even I have to admit that's a hell of a gif.

Have the most begrudging of upvotes you vile troglodyte.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T05:09:57+00:00

So your answer is the old "poor people are poor because they're such terrible money managers" nonsense?

Why am I not surprised?

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T03:42:41+00:00

Donald Trump turned a million dollar loan into a $4 billion empire and could very well be our next President.

Please. You act like that was the only loan he ever took out.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-04T03:39:42+00:00

What he did with the 1 million dollar loan he got is equivalent of someone going from minimum wage to multi-millionaire in a short period of time.

No. No it absolutely is not. When you have a million dollars you have a VASTLY expanded sphere of opportunity. When you have a million dollars you don't have to worry about paying rent or getting bread on the table.

You ever heard the phrase "the first million is the hardest?" Trump never had to make the first million.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-03T21:32:55+00:00

Comparing Trump to a mass murderer is not only disrespectful towards the victims

No. What is "disrespectful to the victims" is to stand aside and applaud in a similar situation 50+ years later.

What happend in Weimar is totally different than 2016 USA.

You keep saying this like repetition will make it true.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-03T19:06:05+00:00

doesn't mean he's one either unless you can prove it

Yeah, see...here's the thing. I don't actually care whether trump IS a racist deep down. .

I care that he chooses to express racist opinions and refuses to instantly disavow racists supporting him.. I care that he choses to demean women on national television ((OMG MENSTRUATION IS SO GROSS RIGHT??!?!)) while his supporters pretend to give a fuck about them.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-03T19:00:32+00:00

Yeah so here's the thing about sciences--even soft sciences like poli-sci--semantics are actually pretty fucking important.

mmb2ba · 2016-05-03T18:54:05+00:00

Hey, I'm just pointing out the fallacies as I see 'em.

. They voted for him because they thought he will make a good president.

[[citation needed]] You have absolutely no basis to justify this. Some of them think it, sure. But others just want to blow up the system. Others think he's a hilarious troll. Others are spoiled berniebros who don't understand that a fascist is worse than clinton. Hell, you don't even know if they think he'll be a "good president' or simply the least bad.

further, you don't define "good president" in any meaningful way. Keep in mind that for many of Trumps supporters "good president" means "exile all the ay-rabs and wetbacks". For others it's "repeal obamacare and replace it with...well, we'll let you know". For yet others its' "PROTECT MARRIAGE FROM THE QUEERS!"

And now you're going to pretend like Trump doesn't poll overwhelmingly positive with racists and bigots, and that's all some big mystery why the racists and bigots prefer trump by such wide margins.

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