I was actually thinking of going for him!

You can't even spell his name right!

Butt-I-gag?

Never mind me, I'm totallly out of it,,,

I agree with your last statement, but that hasn’t happened since the ‘80’s.

Oh well, I voted for Pete in the primary here. May well sit out the general based on what’s left

I'll vote for a head of lettuce if they are the Democrat nominee because that head of lettuce is better than Trump.

You're kidding right?

You honestly think that Trump is better than Bloomberg, Warren, or Sanders?

I didn’t say that, but I can’t support Biden, and it looks like he has the powers of the DNC behind him, so I’ll just sit on my vote this year

Frig that, do what I'll be doing now that Klobuchar is out and the DNC will throw Gabbard off a boat somewhere if they have to and also what I did in 2016 and other years: Vote Third Party.

I really think this year, voting 3rd party will help Trump even more than just not voting

Along those lines, exactly, and if Bernie mounts a 3rd party campaign after being dumped by the DNC, I could see it happening again.

Not sure he will accept the DNC payoff this time around.

This is his last hurrah and any 3rd party campaign of any sort will help only one person, and it's not creepy joe.

Thing is, that's what Americans are told to think every year since the Depression when other parties threatened the two headed corporation that controls it all, isn't it?

3rd Party isn't why Trump will win, the duo/monopoly machine that screwed Bernie for the sake of Hillary last time and won't mind so much if Trump wins because he's a Golden Goose for DNC politicians as well is why he'll win again, providing the economy is doing well.
And since we are due for a recession, whomever wins will get the blame for the ruined economy, unless it's Trump who will blame Pelosi or whatever.

Thus come 2024, a Republican will win again to take credit for the rebound, and the dismantling of the USA will continue. And for those who think Trump is an anomoly, that's what everyone thought of W Bush too, so get strapped in, the fun has just begun.

You do realize though that there is no chance a third party candidate will win the Presidential election. It's impossible. And I'm not talking about the numbers. From what I understand, even if a third party candidate miraculously somehow manages to clench the popular vote, the electorate will step in anyway to vote for either candidate in either the Republican or Democratic parties.

So I don't see much in the way of difference in voting third party and not voting. And it doesn't show the duo/monopoly machine a damn thing if you protest vote or not vote at all.

Oh, but it's not about scoring one for Team A/B that has the public duking it out with each other like lobotomizied chimps on meth battling to see which slips on the banana peel first, it's about voting the way one wants because that's what voting is about.

The DemoRepublicrats have fought hard to stamp out other parties - successfully taking legal action to block Greens and Libetarians from the ballot in some States because the Communists and Anarchists and union parties and whatnot threatened their monopoly back in the 1920s - 30s.

ONE DAY abortions will end, ONE DAY capital punishment will cease, ONE DAY there will be no more for-profit wars, ONE DAY the rich will pay increases in taxes, ONE DAY the poor will get their streets swept like on the other side of the tracks and their PUBLIC district schools will be just as good as the PUBLIC schools where rich folks live, ONE day there will laws to bring jobs back to the USA instead of subsidizing them to move to the next cheap Asian sweat shop.
But in the meantime, the 99% will get to whine with memes and FB posts and Tweets while we get fat on susidized corn syrup and soy products.

You really can't be serious. Voting third party in this election is voting for Donald Trump.

Sometimes you have to pick between what we have and what we don't have. If you're cool with what we have, then just say that instead of voting Third Party.

You mean like Hillarat the last time, the less worserer of two evilists?
Haven't you learned?

In 2016 the corrupt DNC screwed Bernie out and ordered Biden to not enter, now they tell the idiot flock that THOSE two are the only chance they got to um, 'not' guarantee Trump's reelection which is totally dependent on the state of the economy anyways.

THE reason Trump won was because of crooked Democrat Party moves. Trump got as many votes as Romney. Hillary lost to Hillary. Sometimes people have to stop pretending they're stupid and take credit where credit is due. The DNC done screwed up, and they're fixing to screw up again. On purpose.
You wanna tack your name to that blessing, that's your move.

Me? I ain't gotta play along.

That sounds a bit generalized to me. It also isn't practical nor mature to see the game is rigged and walk away. It just seems bonkers to me to sit out a general election just because your primary pick didn't make it or dropped out. Wishing something were true doesn't make it so. And doing your civic duty and voting doesn't make you a cog.

Honestly, I think I have more respect for Republicans who voted for Trump than I do people who know how the Electoral College works and still failed to cast a vote by either Hillary or Trump. And this time around. The same. I rather someone vote for Trump than not vote at all.

Wait a minute, I sorta blurred through this reply, because it's the sort of party hack drivel I'm used to seeing from, yup, you guessed it, GOPers, but then I came back and reread it because...

Anyways, are you aware what "voting third party" is? You seem to to think it's boycotting, abstaining from a vote, or like some States have, a "None of the Above" option in the ballot.

You mistake me. With the exception of my state officials which is mostly filled with potentially good Republicans, sane ones; I have begun voting primarily Independent for Congressmen as far back as 2008. My Presidential track record has mostly leaned Republican since Reagan. Yes. That far back. And Reagan wasn't even my first President I could vote for.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with voting third party. If it counts. Unfortunately, the only votes that count in a Presidential election are the red and blue ones. I agree, it is often a shitty choice. If I could change it, I would keep voting for opposition Presidents as far back as Clinton. At this point, I'm convinced neither party should keep a President longer than 4 years until both of them get their shit together.

I can't pretend that I didn't breath some sigh of relief that Hillary didn't win in 2016. And I voted for her too. The first Democrat I've ever voted for in almost 30 years. Not because I thought she would win but because I honestly thought she was a better choice from that blowhard tv-personality wanna-be Millionaire. I even still hoped that fat bastard would prove me wrong. He didn't.

Still, I swallowed my pride and voted for that evil b**ch. And so what? I still would rather have had her as President than Trump. And the fact the Popular vote chose her makes me think we still got a shot in voting him out. It's a longshot, though. If nothing else, it'll bring a smile to my face to know he lost the Popular vote twice!

Did you READ what I said?

If you want a history of other parties, then look it up.

And no, I ain't talking walking away, I'm talking about acting like an adult with a mind of your own, not some obedient little mindless puppet voting for one two branches of the same corporation as you're told to do. That IS the reason why it's illegal for actual children to vote you know.

Anyways, what's your beef about poor sad Hillary losing to Trump, didn't you say earlier today you're a Republican?

Is ayone for real on this site? Foreigners, kids, Rs & Ds who all claim they never voted for yadda yadda this is boring

I don't vote explicitly along party lines. Most people do nowadays.

Yet here you are lecturing me on how it's immature to not vote as your party overlords command.

Can you clarify, as an immature ignoramus, I'm so confused how can you fall out of line with your masters without getting a time out and no cookies before nap time?

Oh, and should I register for a party, and which of the two only candidates legally allowed for informed voters who've attained maturity as they coursed down the assembly line shall I vote for? I would hate to commit an infraction against the independent thought machine, "free will is slavery" being a thang n all,,,

Pete gave a lot of vague answers to questions and later would say an opposite vague answer to a similar question. Like he was kind of in favor of m4a but later in the week kinda wasn't.

It caught up with him.

There's only so far a plain oatmeal persona can take someone.

That's too bad. I personally wanted someone younger than Methuselah (and other than Trump) to be in the White House.

Looks like Experience outweighs Youth in this race. As it should be. If I have anything nice to say about Trump, he has more experience behind him than he did in 2016. But it's still nothing compared to the rest of the candidates. Bloomberg included.

Bloomberg is Trump 2.0, just that he has a D after his name. Trump was a democrat that ran as a Republican. Bloomie is a republican running as a democrat.

Thank god he is out.

Yup, at least Trump is an honest crook, unlike Bloomie who's a covert one who just suddenly realized all his policies as King Dipwad of NYC for 12 years were wrong now because he needs the votes of those he used to step on like they were pigeon poop on the sidewalk.