His words really floored her.
"Yeah, the way this election is shaping up, if it comes down to having to choose between a douche bag and a turd sandwich, I'm not voting, and pardon my language!"
"Is that how most of your generation feels about it?" she asked him.
"Well, I can't answer for anyone else, I just know that if it's Trump or Hillary, it's like choosing between those two things I said, and I will just not vote."
"It makes me sad," she told him, "that it seems to always come down to this, especially since there are so few Trump supporters but his opponents can't get together enough to get him out of the way."
"That's part of what makes it so ridiculous," he noted, "but I also know that most of the people who could do the job well wouldn't want it, so this is what we get stuck with."
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Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade; Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade, 1146
King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree ordering Jews to convert or be expelled from Spain, 1492
Jews are expelled from Prague, 1745
Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade, 1854
Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy, NJ, becomes the first African American to cast a vote, 1870
The Eiffel Tower, commemorating the French Revolution, opens, 1889
Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft, 1903
Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1909
Construction begins on the RMS Titanic, 1909
Construction of the RMS Titanic is completed, 1912
The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands, 1917
Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time, 1918
The Royal Australian Air Force is formed, 1921
The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada, 1949
Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau, 1951
In the Canadian federal election, 1958, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265, 1958
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum, 1959
The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon, 1966
Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit, 1970
The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California, 1992
Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and is eventually spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, 1998
Amid unrest in the Mideast, activists claim China has launched the largest crackdown on dissenters in recent years, 2011
so very true about the election.
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ReplyDeleteBeing Australian it is best for me not to comment on another nation's politics. But I do wish the US well who ever gets elected lets hope you have a big turnout to get a true representation of the nation's wishes. Curiously here if you are registered to vote you are required to do so or may be fined if you don't! There are teams even going to hospitals to ensure those who want to vote but can't get to polling stations can do so. So naturally there is always a 90%+ turnout or more.
ReplyDeleteWow! I love that!!!
DeleteWow! I love that!!!
DeleteWow, Mimi. I think you've put into words what most of America is feeling right now. I'm watching the campaigning with fear and trepidation. I know for sure who I'm not going to vote for, but that is a poor way to make a decision.
ReplyDeleteYou just summed up how I feel. I'll vote because we always do, but his time it's a huge joke and the joke is on the American people.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day. ☺
Sorry, but I do not feel Hillary is the worst of the worst. Yes, she has her problems being rich connections, but these are also assets. ANYTHING is better than the two top GOP folks in my book.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Tabor; not quite sure why Hilary is so loathed, especially when compared to alternatives. She seems well-qualified and reasonable, even if she is an ambitious political type. Who else runs for president besides ambitious political types? She ain't perfect but I can't help thinking there's a double standard by which her actions are judged much more harshly than a man's would be.
ReplyDeletegood post... engage us (the Reader) and be topical and, and! still open ended enough to encourage Comment-discussion.
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Anyone who lies to the families of the ones that gave their life for our country, does not deserve to be President and that's just one of the many reasons, but it tops them all! Do we have a perfect system for electing a President...no, but it is what we have and we have to deal with it. I choose to pick from the lesser of the two evils!
ReplyDeleteAnyone who lies to the families of the ones that gave their life for our country, does not deserve to be President and that's just one of the many reasons, but it tops them all! Do we have a perfect system for electing a President...no, but it is what we have and we have to deal with it. I choose to pick from the lesser of the two evils!
ReplyDeleteA sad commentary on the state of our politics.
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