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Beto vs Ted

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Carl Herrera, Jan 24, 2018.

  1. Bobbythegreat

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    That's flatly inaccurate, Mr. O'Rourke has entirely focused on the nickname, and I've just pointed that out.
     
  2. Ottomaton

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    Just smile and nod and say, "whatever you say Bobby".

    You'll be happier. Six pages arguing with bobby about some inconsequential point does not make compelling reading.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
     
  3. Bobbythegreat

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    Certainly works better than making feeble arguments that are easily torn apart.
     
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  4. FranchiseBlade

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    I've pointed out to why you're wrong. Show me one of the hundreds of town halls he's done where his nickname was the focus. Show me one interview on television or in print where his nickname was the focus. Make sure to include the entire interview or article.
     
  5. Bobbythegreat

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    During the town halls he was making motivational speeches devoid of political substance....but in every ad for him the nickname was front and center. The only time he started talking about actual issues is when he was forced to do so in debates....and that's when his numbers tanked and he started his presidential bid.
     
  6. BruceAndre

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    Sometimes the most interesting analysis is in the comments:

    "Sometimes I think that the "freeer" something seems, the more costly it truly is. I lay a lot of the blame for inflated healthcare costs in US to that.....third party payers insulate individuals from the tangible impact of writing the check every time they buy it, in so doing, introduce moral hazard and opportunity for sellers to inflate prices. Same is true for college tuitions, which are the only thing to outpace healthcare inflation for the past twenty years."

    This paragraph explains perfectly why single-payer/medicare-for-all is a bad idea. Also how the same phenomenon perfectly ties into rising college tuition costs. It's the same thing. And this is why I love Breitbart. I don't see this anywhere else.
     
  7. HP3

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    Using bretibart as evidence is really really dumb.
     
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    Oh yes, he call himself Beto because Hispanics can relate to him and think he's one of 'em.... oh yeah, and he speaks freaking Spanish, how cool is that amigo.
     
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    It's super cute that's what you think has happened. I realize that you can only barf out the information as it's processed in your tiny little mind...but you're just wrong. The only people focusing on the nickname were people that think, like Rafael Cruz actually did, he created it to run for office.
     
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    Is it possible to get some results for the early voting?
     
  11. REEKO_HTOWN

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    no. only exit polls.
     
  12. Ottomaton

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    At this point it's like watching election day on TV and trying to draw conclusions when 1% of precincts are in. If they could, it would be more obfuscatory than revelatory.

    I seem to remember near the end of early voting, they are able to make some vague predictions, but I think they are even more vague and subject to error than election day estimates.
     
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    Yes, his name that he is known by and has been since he was a kid does appear in his ads. I don't think that means he is making the focal point of his entire campaign. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. A candidate name in an ad isn't really a focal point.

    You can claim that his town halls were motivational speeches, but that would show that there was a different focus other than his name.
     
  14. Bobbythegreat

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    It's almost the ONLY thing that appears in his ads so yes, it's the focal point. A candidate name on ads often shows up.....but "O'Rourke" is nowhere to be seen.....wonder why that is? Oh, would that be because his culturally appropriated nickname is the focal point of his campaign exactly as I said?
     
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    Why don't you have a problem with Lying Ted hiding his Canadian birth, Cuban ancestry, Californian wife?

    The freak portrays himself as a born and raised Texan and he's not and it's a major focal point of his campaign too. But you don't have any issues with that... You're intellectually dishonest or stupid and I don't think you're stupid.

    At least BETO is factually true unlike Ted's Tough as Texas horseshit.
     
  16. Bobbythegreat

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    Why would Cuban ancestry be a problem, and how has he hidden it?

    Also, I know many people who consider themselves Texans who weren't born here.....hell of all of the people I've met the most stereotypical "Texans" of them have been a guy born in Rhode Island and another one born in El Salvador.
     
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    The benefit of the doubt and excuses you have for Lying Ted are amazing. He is family or something?
     
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    You should know. You make feeble arguments all the time and when you are shown intellectually inept you block people. I know you won’t see this but this isn’t for you anyways. It is for everyone else to show how pathetic your attempts are at trolling. I would say you are a payed Russian bot but I don’t think that is the case. You do this because you enjoy it, which is sad. I could understand it if you were paid to troll. What a sad sad life.
     
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    Psychopath Patrick just told the crowd vote straight ticket Republican and these morons CHEERED there little idiotic hearts out. Nothing like cheering your own vote and worse will away.


    Now the psychopath starts "WE LOVE TRUMP!!" chants. That's fascism and before anybody attacks me the Dems do it too and it's just as pathetic.
     

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