sometimes i wonder if the deck knight account is just a satire of republicans created by a group of liberal smogonites
hmmmm
sometimes i wonder if the deck knight account is just a satire of republicans created by a group of liberal smogonites
Liberallogic101.com said:Because if the Titanic hit a second iceberg, not only might it not have sank, but it would also have become a more luxurious, efficient ship
She's like 50...Hilary for 2016? Only politician i like(yes because she is kind of hot)
can't wait for the republican party to die
It's so strange that Smogon is so predominantly socialist.
Very glad Obama won, and hopefully he will work on the economy
Why are people responding in tones which imply Obama is even a liberal? He's more or less Bob Dole, a "Rockefeller Republican." What planet does someone like Deck Knight even live on?
Keep fucking that chicken, DK <3Well it appears I have a small amount of crow to eat.
I completely blew the Presidential race, obviously. But I don't think my assumptions were off base, for one simple thing I haven't figured out yet: The House GOP has kept its majority and in fact gained seats.
This is a ticket splitting of unprecedented proportions. At the most local levels, every single GOP House race almost to a man stayed in the same control as it was before the election. This means that the situation on the ground (the basis of my prediction) was such that for some reason people voted for President Obama, then went down ballot and voted for their existing Congressman, even if that person was a Republican.
Yet one of the major Obama campaign themes was Republican obstructionism in Congress. I don't have any rational explanations for this. I do have some irrational ones, which I will share under the premise that these explanations follow from voting not being a completely rational act.
1. People believed the first black president deserved two full terms.
His clear and utter failure in the first term did not prevent people from believing that presidents are somehow entitled to two terms. Since we've had the last two presidents win two terms, there may still be some latent thought that it would be racist to deny Obama a second term.
2. Obama's massive expansion of the poverty and dependent class blame Bush as a specific person rather than Republicans as a party for the economic mess.
This isn't a rational thought to hold in your head based on campaign messaging, but it does make sense if you think that Presidents somehow control the economy and as a President Obama needed two terms to undo two terms of Bush. If you are utterly ignorant of the fact that Congress has the power of the purse, this line of thinking makes total sense.
Now, I still believe the left is going to lose, big time. And that people are tired of the left and will abandon it in droves. This is because Obama's second term agenda will be the same as the first. This means:
1. More poor people dependent on government assistance.
2. Massive civil disobedience from Catholics in particular and the employees of religious organizations that will not violate their beliefs because of government edicts in the HHS Mandate.
3. A death spiral into an economic depression as Obama attempts to borrow, spend, and regulate his way out of a financial crisis.
I'm cool with that. People will get exactly what they voted for. And while it's going to be incredibly nasty to be an American in the next four years, Obama's second term will finally be the wake up call the country needs.