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TRUMP:  "We'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."

MEDIA: "Oh there he goes again with his ''deliberately ambiguous' phrasing..."

What fucking part of that sentence was ambiguous???

• Mr. Dressup
• Circle Square
• Danger Bay
• The Racoons
• Switchback

So so many from my childhood.

Edited: Removed Romper Room, I could have sworn it was Canadian, but apparently not. Replaced it with Circle Square (it's creepy Canadian Cousin)

I'll never forgive Switchback for sending me Boggle when I specifically won Jenga, and calling me Paula instead of Paulo.

Come to think of it, that's probably when I subconsciously decided that someday I would drop the "o" when I was old enough.

I'm Gen X and I can tell you from experience that that is mostly accurate.

We're the generation that was born, came of age, and entered the workforce when Boomers were still far from retirement age and hording all the good jobs. We had to all go to university to study for the leftovers.

It was the generation after us, that second round of kids that you talk about, that came of age and started going to University right around the time that Boomers began to retire, leaving all these well paying jobs for them to pick up now that us X'ers had already settled on the crappy jobs.

I believe even state owned prisons can "lease" out their prisoners for labour in order to bring extra money into their budgetary coffers. Though I could be wrong.

And this is why the for-profit american justice system isn't about rehabilitation.

A supply of slave labour requires recidivism.

America is barbaric.

You are correct. My fault. In my over-eagerness of typing I forgot to take the under 18s into account.

My point still stands though.

Yep close to 40% of the country will turn out and vote for him.

This idea right here needs to actually die for the sake of democracy.

No...close to 40% of the country will not turn out to vote for him. Close to 40% of people WHO VOTE will turn out to vote for him.

just under 155 million Americans voted in 2020 (out of a population of just over 331 million) which makes a voter turnout of 46%.

46% of the country (conservative and liberal) don't vote because they just don't care. Neither side truly represents them and, whether they consider themselves conservatives or liberals, they're just folks who want to live their lives and let other people live theirs; what I call the "Your fist my nose" voting bloc; people who believe (regardless of their own leanings) that "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins".

more than half of America doesn't vote. If they live a conservative lifestyle and they don't vote...they're NOT a Republican. If they have a liberal mindset and they don't vote, they're NOT a Democrat. That's literally the definition of Republican and Democrat.

But instead of actually talking to those 46% of people people, everyone just pretends that every Conservative is just as bad as a Republican and every Liberal is just as bad as a Democrat and therefore there's no point in conversing.

It's absolutist shit like that that keeps the status quo in effect and prevents any meaningful change.

They might have thought they were electing a virtual king this entire time.

There is no doubt in my mind that when Trump first ran for president in 2016 that's exactly what he thought he was running for. He had no concept of the actual limitations of the president and thought that it would be carte blanche across the board.

I've accepted my fate.

I have zero problem with competitive gaming. I have zero problem with huge money making tournaments where teams win lots of money and have managers, etc....

But come up with a different name than "sport". Because it's not a sport. Just because you put an "E" in front of it doesn't make it a sport by any definition of the word.

Chess tournament...not a sport. Spelling Bee....not a sport. Highschool Debate Team....not a sport. Bingo...not a sport.

Be competitive. Have fun. Make some money. But for fuck's sake, you're not a "sport" any more than any of the other things I listed are.

Edit: I forgot to add probably the most obvious Analogy....Poker Tournaments. Because every time I say "not a sport", someone rears up their head to say "well actually, esports involves a lot of concentration and sitting for extended periods of time, which is tiring and exertion...so it's just like any other sport".

To which I say, first: Shut up, nerd. And second, Poker tournaments involve the same amount of concentration and exertion and no one is calling that a fucking sport.

Well that should give Trudeau a nice boost in popularity, I'm guessing. I'm relatively sure we're not crying in our Molson Canadians because a 'roided out douche isn't going to come here.