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      Willie Horton is still alive and would make a younger president than the one we have now, anyway.

      Now that felons can be president and all.

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        Honestly, how much worse could he be? A convicted rapist who hires people that aren’t complete idiots to do the important shit would be a vast improvement over the current situation.

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      The problem is that Trump doesn’t see what he did as rape.

      He either had the right to it, or the women were throwing themselves at him.

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    Did you know that their original family name (that they changed upon arriving in america) was “Drumpf”?

    That is the german word for the sound it makes when you hit a hollow vessel.

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    Stumping?

    Whoever got paid to write that title…

    What the hell does it mean to stump in North Carolina?

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      stumping = campaigning. From the days of climbing up on a tree stump to make a campaign speech, for yourself or someone else.

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        Imagine hearing a politician speak in the park for a few minutes about what they believe in and stand for. Imagine a politician that speaks directly to us instead of going through social media or even worse, only speaks to big donors like 80% of our politicians.

        I recently heard about the idea that all of us get selected entirely at random to run the government. Sounds crazy but the quote that stuck with me was, “You don’t like it? What are you worried we’ll get bad leaders?”

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          I’ve literally heard this same concept in the format that you actually want the person who least wants to be the leader in that job. And to suspect anyone who vies for leadership as having ulterior, generally self serving motives.

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            I feel like I’ve known that the best person for president is someone who doesn’t want it since before middle school. But absolutely I had it ingrained in me by the time Bush was up for a second term. I still couldn’t vote yet but I knew everyone who wanted that job was a bad choice.

            How do I reconcile that now? I don’t know, I keep voting for people who want the job I guess.

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      What it means everywhere else, in all other states, for the last like hundred years?

      Next time when you see a word you don’t recognize, you could look it up?

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    T.V. is The stomping ground for political candidates Where bears in the woods Are chased by Grecian Formula’d Bald eagles

    T.V. is mechanized politic’s Remote control over the masses Co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases Watch for the PBS special

    It’s the perpetuation of the two party system Where image takes precedence over wisdom Where sound bite politics are served to The fastfood culture

    Where straight teeth in your mouth Are more important than the words That come out of it Race baiting is the way to get selected Willie Horton or Will he not get elected on

    Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation On television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

    T.V. is it the reflector or the director? Does it imitate us or do we imitate it Because a child watches fifteen hundred murders before he’s Twelve years old and then we wonder how we’ve created A Jason generation that learns to laugh Rather than abhor the horror

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    The people old enough to remember this, are too old to remember this. Dude just loves the 80s and racism.