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#337526: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:27:51 PM

Diversity tends to make urban areas more left-wing, also youth, being a renter compared to a home owner and simply the fact that you’re feeling more directly with society as a whole in an urban area compared to when you’re on your own in a rural area.

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#337527: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:36:46 PM

OK so

  • Tom Cotton (Arkansas)

  • Rick Scott (Florida)

  • Nikki Haley (South Carolina)

  • Josh Hawley (Missouri)

  • Ted Cruz (Texas)

Are ones to watch in the future,since they've come out and defended Trump when others Republicans have abandoned him

I definitely see Ted Cruz as someone who will definitely challenge them in the future

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#337528: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:38:04 PM

Cruz is not charismatic in the slightest. I don't see him winning the republican primaries unless the field is slim pickings which I don't think will be the case.

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#337529: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:40:37 PM

I'm surprised people don't find Cruz charismatic. I watched only one of his speeches and don't entirely recall it but he seemed plenty charismatic to me.

Though admittedly it might just be that I saw him as charmingly hammy.

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#337530: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:40:37 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if we see Ted Cruz again sold as the "great hope of sane conservatives" against Tom Cotton in 2024 because apparently our media narrative demand someone be "sane" and for there to be sides even when every choice is awful.

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#337531: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:41:06 PM

Isn't Cruz memetically unlikeable?

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#337532: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:44:10 PM

[up] Yes. There's a famous saying from a Republican Senator: "You could shoot Cruz on the Senate Floor and no one would find you guilty."

Since everyone seems to think Cotton has the best chances of winning a 2024 Primary, I'd be worried that Biden would essentially be John McCain to Cotton who would be Obama (not in personality just in age). I think Biden might need to accept being a 1 term President and try to get a younger protoge to run in 2024; say, Kamala Harris.

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#337533: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:44:17 PM

Maybe, to be fair at the time I was a lot more conservative than I am now, and I don't have a ton of respect for Cruz these days, nor have I given him much thought.

Edited by Protagonist506 on Nov 5th 2020 at 4:44:42 AM

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#337534: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:44:55 PM

Cruz's fans are mostly ironic as far as I can tell. The only reason he stays in the spotlight is because of how ridiculous he looks, that and he's a Floridan Cuban.

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#337536: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:45:53 PM

Was Cruz the guy who was initially against Trump, but then Trump broke him?

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#337537: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:46:15 PM

John Oliver at some point started dedicating Seuss-style poems to Ted Cruz whenever he made an appearance in a segment due to how unlikeable the guy is.

[up] If I recall correctly, Trump insulted him, his father and his wife - and the next thing people knew, there was a sad-looking Ted Cruz calling people on the phone to drum up support for Trump.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Nov 5th 2020 at 1:47:16 PM

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#337538: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:49:20 PM

[up]x2 Cruz was the son of JFK's true assassin according to Trump. Trump also said something really vile about Cruz's wife (that I can't remember for the life of me), but when Cruz lost the Primary he did nothing but kiss Trumps' rear.

And the most pathetic thing of all was that Cruz was the front runner of the Reagan Faction of the Republicans, coming in second in the Primary.

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#337539: Nov 5th 2020 at 4:50:56 PM

He said Cruz's wife was ugly IIRC.

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#337540: Nov 5th 2020 at 5:00:35 PM

I guess that's why Orange Skull was so successful during his entire life: because a Jerkass becomes more popular, recognized and successful in real-life than nice guys.

And because of Trump's success in his life I fear that younger people will try to follow his example in being a Jerkass in order to find their own successes.

Edited by clemont107 on Nov 5th 2020 at 8:04:44 AM

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#337541: Nov 5th 2020 at 5:06:21 PM

No, the reason the Orange Tumor was so "successful" was because he was born into wealth and privilege. And he's had people covering his ass for him ever since childhood.

He never outgrew the Spoiled Brat phase because everyone he's ever known in his life has enabled it.

Edited by M84 on Nov 5th 2020 at 9:07:21 PM

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#337542: Nov 5th 2020 at 5:06:40 PM

Cruz is only known as being the zodiac killer and the son of the jfk assasain at this point. tongue

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#337543: Nov 5th 2020 at 5:20:20 PM

What's even more infuriating is that more people voted for Trump this year than in 2016, even with the Covfefe-19 pandemic showing that Trump and his crew were unprepared to handle it, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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#337546: Nov 5th 2020 at 5:59:07 PM

Good. Every time I look at any of his tweets my anxiety levels increase.

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#337547: Nov 5th 2020 at 6:10:37 PM

What's even more infuriating is that more people voted for Trump this year than in 2016, even with the Covfefe-19 pandemic showing that Trump and his crew were unprepared to handle it, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Considering how Trump politicized the idea of taking a pandemic seriously the fact that he'd get a higher turnout, sadly, makes sense to me. The idea's probably that voting Trump means that lockdown procedures, social distancing, etc. will end sooner because he'll stop people from enforcing those things.

Either that or they're buying the sales pitch about how the vaccine is totes coming soon you guys I swear it just won't be here until conveniently after the election.

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#337548: Nov 5th 2020 at 7:23:41 PM

I'm reminded of my dad's stance on why people like Trump (He thinks Trump is kind of an embarrassment, but in general my dad's pretty conservative over here in the UK)

He thinks that for most people, all they really care about is the economy, which is doing ok under Trump, and tax breaks for small-mid sized businesses. If Trump gives you those as well as back up your feelings on immigration, then most people don't care what he's like as a person.

I don't know enough about US politics, but did Trump actually do those first two things?

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#337549: Nov 5th 2020 at 7:25:36 PM

Trump inherited Obama's rising economy, and he took the credit for it. He gave small tax breaks to the middle class, but at the same time gave huge tax breaks to the wealthy. As such, public services suffered greatly.

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#337550: Nov 5th 2020 at 7:42:31 PM

It is true that many of trump's voters likely only care about money, that much I can say.


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