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I love ARNIE
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SirTripAlot
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I *try* and not hate, hence my selections...I will say trump makes that near impossible. No question that a choice between a man that has clearly lost a step and a man with 90+ criminal charges makes this the worst choice in my lifetime (I would also argue in history)
I would vote for Arnie. Pretty sure he is forbidden not being natural born citizen, though (same for VPs).
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Everything's relative. Arnold would now be the sanest Republican, and also not senile, and both party's frontrunners are. His acting was OK at best, but as a politician and a person I would break my lifelong vow to never vote GOP if he was eligible.
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Arnie seems like a good person overall from what I've seen. He is pro-choice, which is super rare to see a Republican say, so that's cool. He seems very intelligent and emotionally intelligent and kind. I bet he could improve our country.
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and I agree with him: I want to see someone new as President. Biden does a good job behind the scenes, but it is hard to watch him give speeches sometimes... sometimes he speaks clearly... other times he slurs whole sentences, especially like he did in the first half of his press conference after meeting with China's Xi a few days ago...
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No STAL Invalid Poll.

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I'm a huge fan of Schwarzenegger, always have been, would vote for him in a second given the chance.
I actually already did vote for him, in two different elections.
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He made some noble speeches on youtube.
A sane decent republican, exactly what the GOP needs
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Re: I love ARNIE [Re: Asante]
#28556711 - 11/26/23 04:47 AM (2 months, 16 hours ago) |
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Guy was a lousy governor who tried to sell state owned properties and lease them back from the new owners with taxpayer money. Typical Republican nonsense.
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OK, he was a Republican, but not much of an ideologue. Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsome seemed pretty cool, but were they better Governors?
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They didn't try to sell off state infrastructure and lease it back.
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I don't know.
First of all, you can't really compare a governorship to a presidency.
Sure, Reagan (or whoever was feeding him instructions) used the same deregulation and privatization playbook at the national level that he had in California. But he really had opportunities to shine as president that simply weren't there in the governor's office. Iran-Contra, "tear down this wall," and so very much more.
So we really don't know what a Swarzenegger presidency would look like. Would it be King Conan doing the best he could, or just another cyborg skynet shill?
And sorry if I'm missing an inside joke by pointing this out, but yah know he's not eligible, right?
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Re: I love ARNIE [Re: B Traven]
#28556874 - 11/26/23 08:37 AM (2 months, 12 hours ago) |
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I'm assuming that you're responding to OP...
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I think alot of major cities do that. In 2008 Chicago sold all of its parking meters (to a private foreign entity), think about that one....so glad I left that shithole.
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They also sold the Chicago Skyway to a joint venture Australian and Spanish group and leased it back for 99 years. It was city not state so definitely Democrats. First time in U.S. history a toll road went from public to private ownership.
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This nation was quite literally founded by private business interests. Being against privatization is unamerican. Renting a car and beating the shit out of it is the best way to honor the sacrifices of our forebears who were tired of kicking up a cut to the crown. But were we to find ourselves in elected office, we'd have an even greater responsibility- to sell the government to our golf buddy for a song, THEN lease the cars back. That's how you keep the checks in balance. It's all right there in the constitution.
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Quote:
ballsalsa said: I'm assuming that you're responding to OP...
I guess.
Kinda just a thought salad, really.
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Re: I love ARNIE [Re: B Traven] 2
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B Traven said: This nation was quite literally founded by private business interests. Being against privatization is unamerican. Renting a car and beating the shit out of it is the best way to honor the sacrifices of our forebears who were tired of kicking up a cut to the crown. But were we to find ourselves in elected office, we'd have an even greater responsibility- to sell the government to our golf buddy for a song, THEN lease the cars back. That's how you keep the checks in balance. It's all right there in the constitution.
Did you see "Gangs of New York" where two private fire departments were competing? Whether they put out the fire or let the house burn, they stole anything of value.
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Sounds like a healthy free market, unlike the communist fire departments we have now.
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Quote:
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B Traven said: This nation was quite literally founded by private business interests. Being against privatization is unamerican. Renting a car and beating the shit out of it is the best way to honor the sacrifices of our forebears who were tired of kicking up a cut to the crown. But were we to find ourselves in elected office, we'd have an even greater responsibility- to sell the government to our golf buddy for a song, THEN lease the cars back. That's how you keep the checks in balance. It's all right there in the constitution.
Did you see "Gangs of New York" where two private fire departments were competing? Whether they put out the fire or let the house burn, they stole anything of value.
Yeah, that was epic.
And that movie was based on a historical book.
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