Today in English class we watched a portion of the most recent Republican presidential debate. I must say, as a whole, the next four years are looking pretty bleak if any of those candidates are elected president. Before I get too ranty, let me share an awesome gif of John Kasich playing Fruit Ninja.
Now we know what John Kasich was doing with his hands during the debate. https://t.co/U6izaJyCVD pic.twitter.com/Nq5L0f3JZn
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 17, 2015
Now that you’ve laughed at one of the candidates’ hands, time to fear for your life at everything that comes out of their mouths. First, and dumbest, of all is Donald Trump. All I can say about him is that if he is elected president, I am putting the odds at about 50% that we will all be nuked off the face of the earth before I can graduate college (on the bright side, I won’t have to pay back student loans). The only other thing I will say is that the only thing that is scarier than his ideas, is the fact that 40% of the Republican party supports his ideas. Now time for another quick gif to help forget that terrifying fact.
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The rest of the candidates are potentially even more harmful than Trump because they are actually creating policy out of their crazy ideas and their ideas are no less insane, or illogical, than Trump’s. My favorite was Ted Cruz’s call for “targeted carpet bombing” of ISIS. Carpet bombing, by definition, is not targeted, it is designed to destroy large areas, and “targeted carpet bombing” would then just be bombing, which is no different from what we are doing right now. There were also plenty of misleading statements and outright lies, like that George Bush deported 10 million illegal immigrants while in office. 10 million is the total number of people who were turned away at the border for various reasons during that time, a vastly different thing than deportation. The other repeated mistruth is that our military is shrinking. Yes, we do have less ships than before, but the ships are much larger and more advanced. An aircraft carrier does not equal a tiny destroyer. We also do not have as many active troops, but there are no more open battlefields and we have unmanned technology like drones replacing human jobs. Alas, I do not have enough time to debunk every lie that was said, but if there is one thing to take away it is that we are in for a rough four years (if we don’t get nuked first).
I have to say that I was appalled at the overwhelmingly unqualified vibe that all of the candidates gave off during the debate. However, we must remember that growing up, although we ourselves did not witness the debates that defined our past few presidents, I am sure that they too were criticized as we are now criticizing the candidates now. While they may seem unqualified, radical, and completely idiotic, I have full confidence that one candidate will emerge to lead this nation as has been the case in years past.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that there are so many supporters of these people is what is more worrisome. People will almost always have stupid things to say, the problem is when they get a microphone. That is when other people who think the same things can go "yeah lets vote for this". With the constant evolving of hoe information is sent, the politicians we elect need to be smarter than the normal person, not dumber.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about something similar in my post. I agree, the debate was very scary. The lack of logic and foresight onstage, especially from Trump, was very frightening, especially because he is leading the polls. And Cruz isn't any better--besides being horribly homophobic, his 'carpetbomb them all' military strategy is brain dead--we'd kill probably 10 civilians for every 1 ISIL member.
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