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L O L !!!!! The Uygar Perspective The Jones Perspective ( a bit more comprehensive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m-42A37zxM

You are grossly mistaken if you think Trump is taking a backseat to Pence, or would take a backseat to anyone for that matter. Allegedly he made such an offer to Kasich where he'd be a backseat 'Chairman of the Board' President to Kasich's 'Chief Executive' VP. Whether it's actually true or not who knows, but Kasich would be a better choice than Pence and is in a critical state that Trump pretty much has to win. Withholding the Republican infrastructure there would asterisk Trump over, badly, so the offer is at least plausible. Kasich would have been a worse choice for Trump than Cruz would have been. He's a twit to put it nicely. Out of the ~17-18 candidates who ran, only Bush and Santorum were less electable at the national level. The convention is in his own state, and he was the last candidate in the race to bow out, yet he didn't have the balls/decency/taste/whatever to show up for it. All other criteria aside, you need to choose a VP candidate you can work with. Kasich is not that guy for Trump, and probably most everyone else that doesn't ooze slime. Whatever Pence is (my verdict is still out), I've no doubt Trump chose someone he could work with. Oh... and whoever made that allegation is either legitimately retarded or attempting to plant seeds of destruction.

I look forward to the day when you realize the Libertarian Party is an option no different than the Republican or Democrat party. All are thoroughly corrupt. My hope is that day is before you kick yourself hard for not realizing it sooner. Also, whether you like Trump (or Bernie when he was in the race) or not, neither was an establishment candidate, and neither could be said to be a run of the mill Republican/Democrat (hence the great deal of shenanigans by both parties to prevent said candidates from winning the nomination (as well as the plethora of anti-Trump and pro Clinton propaganda from most of the main stream media). The Libertarian Party's candidate is much more establishment than both of them. So much so it's probably safe to say that Johnson will get more protest votes from former (or just vacationing (like Bush)) Republicans/Dems than he will get votes from actual libertarians (people who adhere much to that philosophy, not party members) this go around. As imperfect as Trump is, he'll get more votes from the Ron Paul/libertarian crowd (a man who also ran Republican and who happened to be a lot more libertarian and anti-establishment than Johnson), and for good reason. I suggest you watch and listen to Thiel's speech tonight. While I can't be certain what he'll say, he's definitely a prominent libertarian who is pro Trump. And Trump gave him a prime time spot to speak..... Also, read this: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian (a few years old, but most of it still rings true) Thiel has a better handle than most on the lay of the land in politics and the world. I agree with much of his sentiment in that essay an have observed much the same as he, especially the first half of it (until he gets to solutions). You are fighting a losing battle if you think voting the Libertarian Party today or for tomorrow will ever amount to anything good.

You are grossly mistaken if you think Trump is taking a backseat to Pence, or would take a backseat to anyone for that matter.

Fridge must have been born in the USA and be at least 35 years old. This would disqualify the vast majority of fridges out there. A pretty good looking ticket methinks:

All of the white South Africans should move to the U.S.. This would be a boon in many ways. A) Racism would end there, because only white people can be racist. B) It would leave the land to the natives, who will no doubt take much better care of it. C) We'd have a whole bunch of white 'African Americans' in the U.S., which could very possibly turn that StierScheisse culturally Marxist and divisive term on it's head. D) BruceVC would finally have real skin in game concerning the nation he's so invested in. Throw the white people out of South Africa and build a wall around it I say!

Not at all. There's oodles of different dynamics at play compared to what Pocahontas and co. faced, not the least of which is that the technology gap isn't there. A completely different scenario is like to unfold, and a much much much uglier one at that.

Alizée is very possibly France's greatest contribution to the world in the last ~200 years...

Seems natural to me....

If worse comes to worse, write in Yosemite Sam and don't cry.

Zombie sheep in action.

I don't acknowledge a number of your superfluous posts if you haven't noticed. Nor do I wish to argue a point with folks who think that anyone turning themselves from a millionaire into a billionaire is no great achievement, nor folks who are deluded enough to think that all one has to do to make money is to throw their money into an index fund (neverminding this is not how Trump made his money). Nor folks who won't put their money where their mouth is. Nor folks who make up BS excuses for why they weren't successful before they are. The greater point I was trying to make was made. If you can't see it, you can't see it. It has been my observation that you don't see a lot of things. The numbers I pulled from wiki, which pulls the numbers from all over. I never said Trump was worth $100 billion, so far as I know, neither has he. Frankly his exact net worth doesn't matter to me, and the number I gave was stated to be a rough one. Also, for the sake of argument: if Trump only made himself 100x wealthier (or even just 10x wealthier) than when he started out, one is a fool to not think that is a great accomplishment. Only fools who have never done such themselves would take that sour grapes view. But hey... I sincerely hope you get wealthy via index funds, if you actually do put your money where your mouth is. Given how easy some here seem to think it is to grow an investment, to not make that investment would be foolish.

There's a number of cases I'd say are worse than Kelo v. New London in recent times. As bad as the Kelo v. New London ruling was, it was at least within the legitimate scope and power of the SCOTUS, and as you pointed out the States have (and some have exercised) the ability to circumvent the ruling by passing laws to do so. Two high profile cases that I'd say were worse than that ruling were Obergefell v. Hodges ('gay marriage') and National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius ('Obamacare'). There's a lot wrong with both of those rulings, not the least of which is that States have little to no recourse in regards to passing laws to circumvent the ruling. Kelo v. New London didn't take power away from the States and put it in the hands of the Federal government, these two cases did (two of many rulings that ignore the 10th Amendment). I don't want to get into a large discussion on this topic though (at least not in this thread) so I'll just leave it at that. If you want more of my opinion on this, feel free to PM me. Make no mistake though, I agree that Kelo v. New London was a horrible ruling, as well as agree that the five justices should have been dragged out of the courthouse at the end of a rope and hung in the streets. I'm of the opinion that a majority of everyone on Capital Hill should be. The general populace at large hasn't yet gotten to that point however, so we're stuck with the evil for at least a while longer. That said, more and more are thinking along these lines everyday. People aren't just buying guns because they think that the 2nd amendment is going to go away. And only fools with their heads in the sand think that at this point such people are only fringe loonies. One of the primary purposes of the 2nd amendment may be lost on some, but it is not lost on all. One of the best speeches ever in my opinion applies very much in the USA today: https://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm There are more and more people from all walks of life who would agree with Mr. Henry's sentiments applied to 2016 USA every day. As I said, this may be the last Presidential election in the U.S. that matters, for a variety of reasons....

Wake up. What further evidence do you need that the 'Libertarian Party' has been hijacked beyond Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney saying they might go that way? At the end of the day, that party is owned by the same people who own the Blues and the Reds, and has been for at least a few elections at this point. Ah, so if by some miracle Johnson manages to get enough votes to win, you can just say the libertarians are really just a part of the big 2 parties. How convenient for your rhetoric. Also your math is off by a few zeroes. If Pid had 100,000 then he could turn it into a million by investing smartly over 40 years. Not 1,000. Not convenient no. I truly wish there was a legitimate third party (and fourth and fifth at least) alternative to the establishment two.While there might be one or more out there on the fringes, the Libertarian party certainly is not it. And to be clear, I personally agree with a great deal of the 'libertarian' philosophy, and in fact on a philosophical level I would go much further in the true freedom direction that most libertarians ever would. However, I realize that the political party that pretends to adhere to those values, does so at about the same rate as the two majors adhere to their supposed values. On top of that though, I always go with the better candidate, regardless of their party. The last two go arounds I supported Ron Paul, there is very good reason I do not support Gary Johnson. And no, my math isn't off. Trump's net worth is roughly 1000 times what he started with. And that's after all his relatively well publicized failures.

Doesn't matter. By your philosophy you could simply turn even $1000 into more than a million, just by investing in an index fund. I assume any index fund will do, as you don't need to be intelligent or successful to realize which one of those you'd even need. As WoD said a page or two back: Successful people are not afraid to fail. I'll go one further and say that successful people also don't make up BS excuses for why they weren't successful before they are. Either put your money where you mouth is, or realize you're full of it. Or, continue to bask in your willful ignorance, thinking things that are patently untrue and ignoring the realities all around you that prove such.

Lots of people inherit a million or two dollars. Lots of people get fronted similar amounts of money by their parents when they start out. Extremely few turn that money into billions as Trump has. You are uninformed or a fool if you don't see that. He didn't inherit 1 or 2 million dollars, he inherited a lot more. The money Trump got from his dad was enough to net him billions of dollars as long as he invested it in some index fund back in the 70s. Ok. It's clear now. You are a fool. Good luck getting rich on your philosophy. You'll need it.

Wake up. What further evidence do you need that the 'Libertarian Party' has been hijacked beyond Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney saying they might go that way? At the end of the day, that party is owned by the same people who own the Blues and the Reds, and has been for at least a few elections at this point.

Lots of people inherit a million or two dollars. Lots of people get fronted similar amounts of money by their parents when they start out. Extremely few turn that money into billions as Trump has. You are uninformed or a fool if you don't see that.

This could be an epicly fun game, but not in the Forgotten Realms universe. For it to reach maximum fun potential it would have to take place in modern day America.

I am not dissapoint. Erdogan anounce castration of Turkish army and we support him now Sure, sure. But how do you curtial the rise of islamism in the region? Like or not, Kemalism brought stability whereas Erdogan's policies....not so much. But Turkey is NATO member/EU future member. Not our problem The wackoloons who would accept Turkey into the EU, are absolutely not friends of Russia, and it's that lack of friendliness which is a primary reason some want Turkey in the EU to begin with. Turkey being in the EU would likely ultimately be a big problem for everyone. Hopefully the EU falls apart before that insane harbinger of war becomes a reality.

I'm dying lmfao!I am surprise at the amount of money spent. Not on Hillarys side of course, but trumps. Trump is far more intelligent than many here are realizing. He's easily the smartest front runner we've had in more than half a century (and I am not one who is dumb enough to think that any frontrunner was less than well above average intelligence). If you do realize it, as well as how elections fundamentally work, how the media game is played, and how people are really swayed, you'll realize that Trump has been playing it about as perfectly as one can. His campaign against Hillary has barely begun, and look where he is....