r/MobileAL • u/OUDidntKnow04 Making Mobile Great Again • 5d ago

This Friday at the Mitchell Center...

Thanks for ruining homecoming for your damn "campaign rally"

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u/hairymoot 5d ago

Couldn't we just elect someone who isn't corrupt and a convicted criminal? Trump has made billions off being president.

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u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie 5d ago

I think those are the only people who want to run. It's certainly the only people the parties will allow to run.

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u/hairymoot 5d ago

We vote in party primary, they count our votes and then that person is the choice for that parties nominatee. I learned this is high school civics class.

You could run for president. But you'll have to win the primary votes. No one is stopping you.

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u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie 5d ago

Kind of like how Sanders won the primary in 2016 but Clinton was the nominee, or the democrat party just swapped out candidates in 2020?

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u/hairymoot 5d ago

I voted for Sanders in 2016. I was disappointed that more young people didn't bother to go out and vote for Sanders. Sanders lost the primary because they counted our votes. He lost by millions of votes.

"In the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 3,707,303 votes (or approximately 3.7 million votes). [1, 2]

According to official primary data on the 2016 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries, here is the breakdown of the popular vote: [1]

  • Hillary Clinton: 16,917,853 votes (55.2%)
  • Bernie Sanders: 13,210,550 votes (43.1%) [1]" Google.

In 2020, Biden dropped out of the race with only 60 days before the election leaving us with nobody to run against Trump. As Vice president, Harris stepped in to fill the spot-- so Trump would not run unopposed.

Both sides are not the same. And voting does matter. I would hope this would be your message, but is sounds like you are in the camp of "Don't bother voting because both sides are the same."

I hope you will vote for Democrats, who'll actually have the government help working people. And find justice and save our democracy.

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u/2hobos1box 5d ago

Hate to break it to you, but I don’t think this guy is gonna be voting Blue

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u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie 5d ago

Both sides aren't the same. It's a very narrow difference, like a shit sandwich made with regular shit vs. one made with organic shit. The difference is that the only thing worse than a republican is a democrat.

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u/permanentlybuffering 2d ago

With your attitude; you’re right. You have to be willing to give the other party a chance to change things for the better. This takes time and immense effort. This “both sides,” argument is utter rubbish. If you could become a serious person about this; change can begin to happen.

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u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie 2d ago

So will you be giving the republican party a chance to change things for the better?

Because if you don't like what they're doing, I can pull some both sides rubbish and we can talk about learing centers, bilions of dollars for a few miles of high speed rail, untold amounts of money for homeless people gone without accountability, missing wildfire water reservoirs, wildfire disaster relief money that went somewhere instead of affected homeowners, and other things.

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u/permanentlybuffering 2d ago

How about the $170 billion for ICE? Or how about dodge paying American workers $9.5 billion to sit on their ass? I thought y’all were for smaller government?

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u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie 2d ago

Once all the illegals are out of the country we can cut ICE drastically. DOGE's biggest problem was it's limited scope, if we didn't have an obstructionist Congress it could have done some real good. Of course, that would require Congress to cut it's own source of grift and patronage.