(07-11-2024, 03:47 PM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote:

(07-11-2024, 03:11 PM)mikesez Wrote: Our elections only let us indicate one choice for one seat.
Therefore, we should only ever vote for third parties if we are truly ambivalent about which of the top two candidates wins.
If you view one candidate as worse than the other, you have to vote for the better candidate.
Biden listened to advisors and delegates well when his mind was still sharp.  Now clearly those advisors are basically in charge.  Not great.
Meanwhile you have Trump who has never apologized for his role in January 6th and promises to require political, partisan loyalty tests for thousands of federal jobs that are currently non-political.  Put those together and he clearly wants to make it harder for any party not in power to gain power again.

I guess it comes down to belief. I do not believe Trump was responsible for Jan 6th. Trump put in measures to prevent this and Pelosi Ignored them.  There is a viral Video Of Nancy Peloci admitting to a driver she was responsible for the whole thing.  Also I got to be honest, I could give 2 craps about Jan 6th.  When I can't afford the bare necessities a riot on DC does not matter to me.  How about all the Riots and the Destruction during BLM?  Biden and his staff fully endorsed the "peaceful protest" while those idiots were tearing down Statues, Destroying Property and just causing Havoc?  Funny you point to Jan 6 but nothing against Biden's Woke Administration and the destruction BLM caused on multiple cities that was fully endorsed by Biden.  Biden was never running the country and doubt he listened to anyone.

You are not the first person to bring those things up... Maybe not even in this thread.
Pelosi took responsibility for the protestors being able to get as far as they did.  She overestimated her forces and underestimated the forces that would come in that day.
Trump is responsible for them trying to come in in the first place.
Pelosi is like the rape victim admitting that she should have asked someone to walk with her to her car that night.  Trump in that metaphor would be the rapist's buddy who gave the rapist cocaine and told him "go for it, she's weak and she won't remember in the morning anyhow."

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