Nothing you’ve said here disproves the premise that you’re throwing a fit with your vote rather than making an adult decision. You’re voting with your emotions just as much as any Trumper or Trumpette.

If you start with the assumption that HRC = Trump, then yeah. But that’s also not really how logic actually works. You can’t just arbitrarily define things that make your preferred outcome a foregone conclusion.

And here I thought pragmatism was a liberal trait. Turns out, both parties have obdurate ideologues that are willing to make the perfect the enemy of the good.

The time for that kind of idealist posturing is the primary, when you do what you can to get your candidate through to the general. Once in the general, if your preferred candidate is not on the ballot, you vote for your preference, between the two that have been chosen. With a mentality like yours, you’re de-facto…

No, it’s really you. The fact that you are so sure of something that you are ignorant of, and in fact, proud of that ignorance, is what’s wrong with America.

That’s specious reasoning. “I have a rock that keeps tigers away. You don’t see any tigers around here, do you?”.

I’ll just leave this here for you.

Chase Utley, ruining baseball for everyone else.

They were parked when he pulled a gun on them, then he shot when they drove away. Were it not for the gun, they wouldn’t have driven off. You admit that his life was not in danger when he tried to kill those two kids, but, yeah, totally the kids’ fault. He escalated the situation into a life-or-death proposition the…

Why do you believe his account, without any fact checking, and not theirs? No crime was committed against the man with the gun, and he shot at them. This is about as clear as it gets.

I’m frankly surprised at the number of people on this thread that have willfully ignored both timeline and fact to come to the defense of a gun wielding public threat, that very well could have killed two (or more!) people. This is why we can’t have nice things, in this country.

The two players weren’t trespassing, i.e., they were breaking no laws. Man, admittedly, stands in front of their car and pulls a gun on them. At that point, they panic and try to drive away. You ever had a gun pulled on you at 1:30 AM on public property when you were breaking no laws?

If he hadn’t pulled his gun on them, they wouldn’t have panicked and tried to escape the crazy old man in a bathrobe with a gun. Late at night.

It doesn’t make sense because his version of events doesn’t make sense. He jumped in front of a car, pulled a gun on two kids, fired off several shots into the car as it drove away, and HE’S the victim? Other way around: this old man with more ammo than brains decided he was the law and that kids that were breaking no…

The old man’s reaction is a little extreme. He shot at kids parked in a car because he decided they were criminals that needed to be taught a lesson. What is it with people their cowboy fantasies that somehow makes it okay to blindly shoot at people?

You honestly believe a man that held up two kids at gunpoint and then started shooting wildly into the night? Because the worst he’s facing is...attempted manslaughter, unlawful discharge of a firearm, menacing, and probably a couple other serious misdemeanors, if not felonies. Meanwhile, the kids were on public…

Isn’t that...like...extortion? Pay money or you get no protection?

I’m so fucking sick of cops and their vewy, vewy sensitive fee-fees. It’s like that episode of The Simpsons wherein Homer does missionary work and the islanders ask him why they have to pray to God every Sunday. Homer’s response:

I did a Spartan Race one time that involved a javelin throw and it was TOUGH. And judging by the number of people that just couldn’t get it to fly straight, it wasn’t just me.

Trump’s strongest support is in Oklahoma, followed by West Virginia, and then Wyoming. At least, according to the statistical wizards at fivethirtyeight.com.