Posted on 04/16/2016 12:38:31 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Ayatollah So
Posted April 14th, 2016 @ 8:21am in #Trump
In Iran you can vote for anyone for President so long as that person has been approved by the Ayatollah Khameini. We Americans call that system a dictatorship.
Voters in America recently discovered that they live under an Iranian type of system and didn’t know it. In the primaries, voters participate in some sort of ritualistic placebo voting while party leaders select the candidates. In the general election, the richest and smartest of the elite use money and psychology to brainwash the masses into imagining they have independent opinions and that their votes matter. We call that a republic.
Everything was going fine until Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders ripped the cover off of the American system and showed it to be more illusion than democracy/republic. In a way, this is the first contested election in our lifetimes. And by that I mean citizens are trying to wrestle control from the big money interests driving the political parties.
Sanders probably has no chance. He will be super-delegated out of the nomination.
But Trump has improved his haircut and he started negotiating with Megyn Kelly for an interview. He also hired some campaign professionals who know what they are doing. You can stop wondering if he’s playing to win. He’s engineering his third act solution as we speak.
Thanks to social media, and Trump, America will get its first taste of real democracy. If it doesn’t work out, we can always go back to the Iranian model and hope for our self-awareness to diminish over time.
I’m not smart enough to know who would be the best president. But I certainly appreciate the richness of choice we have this election. We haven’t seen anything like this.
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The best one-sentence description I have seen of the Colorado system.
We have the Obamatollah and Iran doesn’t !!!
He’s right, of course. We’re like prisoners yelling out through the bars of our locked cells, “I’m free. I’m free!”
good one.
wonder what excuse they’re going to use to turn the troops loose on us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kk5iXZFaCQ
Heh. Reminds me of a Paula Poundstone appearance on the Tonight Show.
Paula - I think the police are out to get me.
Carson - How’s that?
Paula - The other day I got pulled over for attempted speeding.
They won’t turn the troops on us, unless we hit the streets.
If we lose in Nov, we may have no choice.
Just the Statement :
"Allah wills it !! ", signed the RNC , "Allawho FUBAR !"
lol
I need more coffee. I just now got the joke in the thread title.
Hillary won't bother with an excuse.
The RNC/GOP has been deciding who we will get to vote for for President for a long time. Every GOP candidate since the last amnesty has been an amnesty candidate. This was supposed to be Yeb!’s turn to be the Designated Loser, but Trump upended the usual plan.
The establishment is on Plan D (desperate) getting behind Cruz solely to stop Trump.
“In the general election, the richest and smartest of the elite use money and psychology to brainwash the masses into imagining they have independent opinions and...”
Has anyone discovered yet how Cruz and Kasich figured this all out but “the richest and smartest of the elite” candidates didn’t? Moles? Secret decoder rings? Feet on the ground, grinding it out?
True words
Cruz and Kasich are not winning - they are the establishment’s last hope to knock out Trump till the convention after Trump screwed up their game plan. Because the establishment in the GOP race was caught flat footed we get to see the machinations more clearly.
“Cruz and Kasich are not winning - they are the establishment’s last hope to knock out Trump”
Can you point me to the post, ANY post, where I said they were winning?
No. You can’t. Argue with yourself if you want to make shit up. I just pointed out that their campaigns figured out the rules, and wondered how.
While all these 2 and 4 years circuses have entertained and distracted the common populous the party leaders have placed the nation into the slavery of debt. The debt is so huge that nobody has any idea of how long it will take to pay it off. When you are in debt to someone they control you. Dependency is the opposite of being independent.
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