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Again I'm not voting in todays primary.I've been given a choice between AIDS or cancer. Yes there are congressional choices, but will my vote matter??? Who ever is elected, will one day answer the the "knock at the door", and there will be a well dressed stranger, with a bag of cash, telling who ever won, how to vote. Wont be me, I couldn't even lift that many pennies.
[QUOTE=kygorski;555381]Again I'm not voting in todays primary.I've been given a choice between AIDS or cancer. Yes there are congressional choices, but will my vote matter??? Who ever is elected, will one day answer the the "knock at the door", and there will be a well dressed stranger, with a bag of cash, telling who ever won, how to vote. Wont be me, I couldn't even lift that many pennies.[/QUOTE]
I use to think that it was a duty and a privaledge to vote in this country. But the people who get into office don't ever do what I hoped they would do for me. Like you said they answer to the carpet baggers who knock on their office door with tons of cash to hand out. So that is why I clicked on the like button for your post in this new thread.:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=kygorski;555381]Again I'm not voting in todays primary.I've been given a choice between AIDS or cancer. Yes there are congressional choices, but will my vote matter??? Who ever is elected, will one day answer the the "knock at the door", and there will be a well dressed stranger, with a bag of cash, telling who ever won, how to vote. Wont be me, I couldn't even lift that many pennies.[/QUOTE]Even though there was only two national offices on my entire ballot that was up for vote I still took the time out of my busy day to go vote. While I can't control what they do when they get in office I do have a say in who's going to be in that office and I'll never turn down the opportunity to let my voice be heard. If for no other reason don't you think we should make the effort to go vote as, at the very least a way to honor all of the brave souls who has fought for and/or died for our right to do so? Just saying.
My first official ballot was an absentee cast in germany while I was in the service. and I never failed to vote till last years govenors race. I had two choices then, as now, bad and worse. Opting out is also a choice we have,In my opinion casting a ballot just to vote, is carrying on what is happening. I don't know if you've noticed, but I refrain from any discussion on state politics, because I gave that right up. I think that Bernie is an honest man, but some of ideas are misguided. Hillary is owned by wall street, and the banking industry IMHO
[QUOTE=kygorski;555400]My first official ballot was an absentee cast in germany while I was in the service. and I never failed to vote till last years govenors race. I had two choices then, as now, bad and worse. Opting out is also a choice we have,In my opinion casting a ballot just to vote, is carrying on what is happening. I don't know if you've noticed, but I refrain from any discussion on state politics, because I gave that right up. I think that Bernie is an honest man, but some of ideas are misguided. Hillary is owned by wall street, and the banking industry IMHO[/QUOTE]
I honestly don't get folks that bitch up one side and down the other about the political process, and who we have and who we get..........
AND then don't vote.........you honestly just need to STFU.
And don't tell me that your vote doesn't count. Locally, it counts more than ever, and LOCALLY is where races are regularly won by a single vote or two.
Just think.......if 200 folks like you would have went to the polls in Florida in 2000, Gore would have won.
I wonder how many die hard democrats regret not going to the polls during that election........
Later,
Geo
that a person should vote or don't gripe about things being the way they are, but the STFU comment is completely out of line in my opinion. There is a whole lot better way to say something than some of the ridiculous comments you make. It's not international law that someone has to have the same opinion as you. You are definitley the biggest keyboard badass i have ever saw post. lol Geo you would definitley make a person go completely off the deepend when face to face if you acted like you do behind the keyboard. I know you take your politics seriously, but the crap you post is absolutley ridiculous. Oh by the way I voted for Bernie Sanders simply because Trump is so full of crap & will prove to be sorry as crap as president if elected, just like the current POTUS. Trump is a frigging complete idiot. That's my opinion of him & if you don't agree with me maybe you should do just like you previous commennt. lol Crazy MOFO lol
I don't take geos remarks too seriously. He considers anyone who dosn't follow limbaugh religioisly[?], a leftist liberal. Since most of his views are tempered by fox and rush, it means he's never wrong[in his opinion}.Me, I admit at times I'm an a--hole, us leftists know there are TWO sided to most stories, and both can be right at times. Will I STFU , heck no, I may not have voted recently, but I did serve my country to guarantee the right to everyone of free speech.
Thanks you for your service Sir.
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
[QUOTE=Tim_T;555583]"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."[/QUOTE]
They pick and choose who runs and who gets nominated in the primaries. Think Super Delegates in the Democratic Primaries. Hillary already had all those Super Delegates pledged to vote for her before the people's voting even started. Not sure how the GOP does their primaries but they did have 16 different candidates running for the Presidency. And of all of those the only one to come out on top was Donald Trump? To me that says a whole lot about the state of the GOP these days.
I have never voted in a primary before and probably won't start now. I have voted in the presidential elections ever since I turned 18 years old. I vote absentee these days as it's so much easier. They send me a ballot and I fill it out and mail it back in. Do they count it? Heck if I know for sure. But I'm not really keen on any of the two possible canidates for either party. I fear that Trump will run reckless and get us into a shooting war with either Russia or China or both at the same time with his mouth and lack of discipline in foreign affairs. And with him holding the nuclear codes really scares the you know what out of me.
Hillary wants to ban my AR15 and my 30 round magazines and I hate the though of a post menopausal woman in the White House. Sorry but the White House and this country needs a MAN in control of the Country not a **** woman. Why the Dems even considered running a woman for the job is beyond me. That along is about enough to make me vote for Bernie. Bernie is less enthusiastic about going after our guns as compared to Hillary. They will get my AR15 by prying it out of my cold dead hands. it's stupid to try to ban guns as then only law obiding citizens will give up their guns voluntarily. The criminals will never give them up no matter what the law says. I go by the 2nd amendment and consider any law that violates the 2nd amendment as unconstitutional and void. This bypassing the 2nd amendment is pure BS. They don't have the guts or the votes to change the 2nd amendment the proper way as outlined in the US Constitution. They go around the back door and bypass the requirements that are written in the Constitution on how to change it. The US Supreme court needs to rethink how they vote on this issue. And I'm sort of glad that they GOP is not letting Obama's Supreme Court nominees get a vote in the Senate as he would swing the court even further to the left when it comes to guns. Now I'd like to see him appointed for his views on protecting the environment as I want air emissions and water pollution controlled better. So I have mixed emotions about this Supreme Court Nomination Process right now. I'm hard right on the Gun issues and hard left on the Environmental Issues. I'm more of an Izaak Walton type guy than a Sierra Club person. But both organizations are for protecting the environment which includes the fish and wildlife we hunt and we humans. I'm definitely not a PETA person at all. I think that most of them are NUTS. Anyone who kisses their dog after it licks it's butt is NUTS and just asking for a tape worm infestation. LOL. Actually I like dogs and cats but I will never think of them as human or dress them up in outfits. That's just plain disgusts me.
Do you have a daughter? I do, and she was never a second class citizen in my book. In 16 years of schooling she received one grade lower than an A. She lettered in two sports, volley ball and tennis, and held office in student counsel. she was the driving force in her childrens graduating from purdue.[mysonis also a boiler maker].Ever hear of Golds Mier? Margreret thatcher, or merkel from germany? It's a shame that our female candidate for potus is hillary, there was a better choice.Us old white guys days are drawing to a close, we didn't do that good a job as we thought we did.
[QUOTE=kygorski;555596]Do you have a daughter? I do, and she was never a second class citizen in my book. In 16 years of schooling she received one grade lower than an A. She lettered in two sports, volley ball and tennis, and held office in student counsel. she was the driving force in her childrens graduating from purdue.[mysonis also a boiler maker].Ever hear of Golds Mier? Margreret thatcher, or merkel from germany? It's a shame that our female candidate for potus is hillary, there was a better choice.Us old white guys days are drawing to a close, we didn't do that good a job as we thought we did.[/QUOTE]
I disagree 100% on not doing a good job. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world. Hillary's push is to be the first female potus and dems who are nothing more than brainless boobs (both sides has them) will vote for her. It's sad....