Presidential election, 2016

[Eric the Green]

(11-16-2016, 05:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(11-16-2016, 02:29 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(11-16-2016, 01:29 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Given how fully the Republicans fell in line behind Trump, I am pessimistic about any impeachment happening. And given that lots of Democrats feel that Pence is worse, they would wonder about what the point is.

The point would be, go for least worst. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, or even, don't let it be the enemy of the still f__ed up but nonetheless,  less f__ed up.

No, there's no point to it. After Trump, Pence. After Pence, Ryan. After Ryan, who knows? Don't let the horrible be the enemy of the horrible? You might think so, but the Democrats won't. If Trump commits horrible crimes, they might have to impeach him. But that won't make any difference to the issues we face. You may think a warmonger is better than a traitor, but most Democrats won't think so, or may not see it in those terms.

One point in favor of your scheme, however, might actually be Pence's 9-9 horoscope score for the 2020 election. 9-9 is more beatable than 8-4, although most Democrats and even anti-Trump Republicans are not likely to go by my scoring system when deciding whether to impeach Trump or not. Oh, and Pence will be going through his Saturn Return in office if he takes over before 2020. Not something that any president or candidate has ever survived intact, in one way or another.

I might have to revise the scores a little bit with Hillary's loss, however. You see, I thought she would win, and it's a lot of work to feed in two more candidates to my data later on, so I went ahead and added Hillary and Trump's aspects into my data as winner and loser. But now I have to feed them in again anyway, if I continue with my system.

One reason I rooted for Trump over Ted Cruz is that Cruz was doing better in the polls against Hillary than Trump. Also, Cruz is more conservative. However, astrology told me that Cruz had no chance. His 3-12 score would have doomed him against Hillary. Although Trump is wrong when he says "everybody likes me," he was far more likeable than Cruz. Truth be told, I had predicted Trump would be the nominee, and I wanted my prediction to come through. Fortunately, I had no voice in the matter.

But Trump beat Hillary in the rust belt by promising to repeal the trade deals and thus bring back jobs. Cruz was promising to protect their individual right to bear arms and their "right" to discriminate against gays on religious grounds. Trump had the stronger appeal to the Rust Belt, even though their views were similar; it was a question of emphasis.