2016 Presidential Elections

[Jetthebinturong]

Question: Why are either of them allowed to run for president? Donald Trump has confessed to sexual assault and tax avoidance which should land him jail time, and Hillary Clinton is under heavy suspicion of numerous crimes.

[The Skarzs]

Because the morals of our country are in a very messed-up state.

[Ashleg]

We were talking about this in school--some kid in my class said it's the "Day America Expires".

[alexandre]

If I could I would vote for Hillary, at least she tear down all the good Obama put up however flawed she may be. I still don't understand how anyone who cares about other people could vote Trump.

[Jukka the Sling]

Question: Why are either of them allowed to run for president? Donald Trump has confessed to sexual assault and tax avoidance which should land him jail time, and Hillary Clinton is under heavy suspicion of numerous crimes.

Wait, what?  When did he confess to sexual assault?

[Hickory]

I'd post the video, but it's so disgustingly inappropriate I can't do it.

Basically, he bragged about violating women to someone in 2005, and the Washington Post released the video of him saying it, alongside that it was "locker room talk" according to Trump. It was incredibly degrading to women, and Trump, naturally, tried to shrug it off.

[alexandre]

I'd post the video, but it's so disgustingly inappropriate I can't do it.

Basically, he bragged about violating women to someone in 2005, and the Washington Post released the video of him saying it, alongside that it was "locker room talk" according to Trump. It was incredibly degrading to women, and Trump, naturally, tried to shrug it off.

He was talking to Billy Bush, it was horrible, but sadly not surprising after all that Trump has done and said already,

[James Gryphon]

I'd post the video, but it's so disgustingly inappropriate I can't do it.

If you had, I'd have taken it down.

To be honest, even your description made me think about whether I should edit the post or not.

It's safe to say that this is not someone that I feel someone who's fully informed can readily support. There's a very sweet person I know who is inclined to vote for Trump, and I couldn't explain why he's so bad because I couldn't think of any way to adequately describe how obscene he is that I wouldn't feel at least a little guilty about saying it to them out loud.

[Jukka the Sling]

I knew about that already.  I didn't think that he explicitly said he'd done any of that.  Although, from what I've heard about it, the things he said were atrocious.

[Cornflower MM]

Wait, that was from 2005? What does that have to do with this election in 2016?! The things these politician-things do to each other is incredible.

[The Skarzs]

Yep.

[Groddil]

If I could I would vote for Hillary, at least she tear down all the good Obama put up however flawed she may be. I still don't understand how anyone who cares about other people could vote Trump.

Yeah, swap Trump and Hillary around there. However bad he may be, he doesn't want to establish a no-fly zone over Syria, even after already being told that that will require WAR WITH SYRIA AND RUSSIA, like Hillary does. I'd rather have a jerk in charge than have war.

[LT Sandpaw]

The mental gymnastics required to try and reason that either of the candidates are morally worthy to take office would be impossible. Even Gary Johnson is a immoral hypocrite, and he's not even a libertarian.

If you want to vote moral-wise you've got to vote for Evan McMullin, who might win Utah. If he's lucky...

I'm personally going to vote Trump, I want him to get rid of Obamacare and business regulations, everyone knows Trump is going to help corporations and businesses (He's a business man after all) which is what I think is most important. He'll help secure the border, ICE and the Border Protection have endorsed him so we know they'll work with him to achieve that goal, whether he can build a wall or not, honestly I don't care about the wall, so if it never gets built I'm fine with that.

The last thing most Americans want is to emulate Sweden and Germany, so my vote unwillingly goes to Trump.

Fingers crossed.

@Groddil  Do you Watch GradeA UnderA by any chance?

[Groddil]

@Groddil  Do you Watch GradeA UnderA by any chance? Heh. Thought somebody would realize that.

[alexandre]

If I could I would vote for Hillary, at least she tear down all the good Obama put up however flawed she may be. I still don't understand how anyone who cares about other people could vote Trump.

Yeah, swap Trump and Hillary around there. However bad he may be, he doesn't want to establish a no-fly zone over Syria, even after already being told that that will require WAR WITH SYRIA AND RUSSIA, like Hillary does. I'd rather have a jerk in charge than have war.

I find it odd that you think Hillary would be the one to start a war, I would remind you all of what happened as far as the middle east goes last time we elected a Republican President, war.

The mental gymnastics required to try and reason that either of the candidates are morally worthy to take office would be impossible. Even Gary Johnson is a immoral hypocrite, and he's not even a libertarian.

If you want to vote moral-wise you've got to vote for Evan McMullin, who might win Utah. If he's lucky...

I'm personally going to vote Trump, I want him to get rid of Obamacare and business regulations, everyone knows Trump is going to help corporations and businesses (He's a business man after all) which is what I think is most important. He'll help secure the border, ICE and the Border Protection have endorsed him so we know they'll work with him to achieve that goal, whether he can build a wall or not, honestly I don't care about the wall, so if it never gets built I'm fine with that.

The last thing most Americans want is to emulate Sweden and Germany, so my vote unwillingly goes to Trump.

Fingers crossed.

@Groddil  Do you Watch GradeA UnderA by any chance?

I also find it odd that you think helping corporations is a good thing, how many people will have to lose their jobs and money before you will realize that the corporations don't care about you, they just want more money, your money. As for Trump being a business man, I would not call four bankruptcies anything a worthy businessman could call successful. Also, Cheney tried to run the country like a buisness, remember  what happened then?

Everyone wants border security from drugs and crime, it is just that we should be focusing on letting people enter the US legally and pave a path toward citizenship instead of feeding off of racism and trying to keep everyone out. This country was made by immigrants, so let us make them a part of our great nation, our American dream instead of insisting that they are stealing American jobs, they aren't stealing American jobs, they are equal to Americans and should be treated as such.

I find it more than a bit sexist that after everything Trump has done, people still find them equal. Trump has done and said things on more than one occasion that I am definitely not allowed to post on the forum. Trump also doesn't have any experience with the political world, he is a reality tv star, a lot of people like the fact that he is not a politician, honestly, I am perfectly fine with someone with 30 years of experience in the field being elected. The whole "we don't want a politician thing" kind of makes me think of a class of kindergartners, most of them probably would rather have a teacher with no experience that just gave them time to play all day while their brains slowly crumbled, and they would later regret not learning than have a teacher who teaches them what they need to keep learning and grow up and be successful even if the teacher could be quite mean sometimes. In the Metaphor, the second teacher is Hillary. Anyone old enough to vote should have grown out of that attitude by now.