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Moostache

(9,895 posts)
12. Sadly, that pretty much sums up youth voters on election day...
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:50 AM
Feb 2016

If the 25 and under crowd were an actual reliable voting bloc instead of a campaign vehicle that swerves off the road on the last day of the journey to get tacos at some roadside street vendor instead of actually making it to the polls and casting a cote...if only their passion and commitment would finish the entire marathon instead of going 26 of the 26.1 miles to the finish line...but the truth is THEY (the youth vote) are the lemur with the banana.

Campaigning is like social media for them...its an "EVENT", its something to do to meet people and to have a place to go and something to talk about, but when the finality of the moment arrives, the opportunity to actually follow through on the promise of a campaign and a movement, well.....that's too much bother man.

I have seen it over and over and over since I turned 30 years ago...

The Battle of Seattle?
Howard Dean?
Barrak Obama?
Occupy Wall Street?

Now it is Bernie Sanders. I LOVE his message. I LOVE his supporters, too...I just would not count on them if I needed a kidney transplant and they were the delivery driver from the hospital to the operating room...too many shiny taco stands en route.

That should read Donald Drumpf shouldn't it.... 4bucksagallon Feb 2016 #1
LOL eom LittleGirl Feb 2016 #4
For later viewing tnlurker Feb 2016 #2
That was BRILLIANT! beac Feb 2016 #3
Fan fucking tastic. morningfog Feb 2016 #5
He won't sue, truth is a defense! Dustlawyer Feb 2016 #6
Gotta love John Oliver... Wounded Bear Feb 2016 #7
I saw this last night Rebkeh Feb 2016 #8
Loved the bit about Trump signing stuff with a gold Sharpie. mac56 Feb 2016 #9
That 'dig' LittleGirl Feb 2016 #11
Please fuck off, I have a banana Half-Century Man Feb 2016 #10
Sadly, that pretty much sums up youth voters on election day... Moostache Feb 2016 #12
John Oliver is the BEST RockaFowler Feb 2016 #13
Drumpf v. Oliver coming up soon in a court near you L. Coyote Feb 2016 #14
Oliver seems to have done more opposition research on Trump... thesquanderer Feb 2016 #15
And CNN and MSNBC and FOX and CBS and ABC and NBC and PBS progressoid Feb 2016 #16
Here's the website and twitter feed. progressoid Feb 2016 #17
excellent. thanks! n/t LittleGirl Feb 2016 #18
Drumpf's grandfather also ran brothels. If your granddad ran whorehouses, you might have trouble tclambert Feb 2016 #19
. libodem Feb 2016 #20
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