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   casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:18 JST casey is remote

   It's a shame that #VivekRamaswamy is out the 2024 race, now I don't really know who to support in the #GOP primaries. All the remaining candidates are problematic in some way.

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     𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 (ryan@rebased.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:04 JST 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘

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     In 2008 I liked Ron Paul but I also really enjoyed Mike Gravel. He participated in at least one Democrat debate before switching to Libertarian and spent most of the debate literally red in the face screaming about how every single one of them was a war criminal.

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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:09 JST casey is remote

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     @sj_zero @RandomDeamon Even 8% would have been okay but he got like 7.6%.

     I was too young to remember who I liked in 2008, but in 2012 I supported #RickSantorum and #HermanCain, and in 2016 I supported #Trump and #TedCruz. Usually we have quality candidates to pick from, but #Trump has scared our deep bench away, perhaps for good reason.

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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:10 JST sj_zero

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     I'm often disappointed to see that leadership candidates I somewhat like often don't just not win (that's overwhelmingly likely), but get absurdly low levels of the vote. If Vivek got 10% that could've helped change the whole conversation, but at 8% it was a distant, distant fourth.
     
     Reminds me of Ron Paul back in 2008. Maybe you think he's not a good candidate for president, but a lot of people were really excited by him and ended up with a miniscule percentage of the vote. The only thing there is I think after 2008 he won in the end because the liberatarians were positioned as a much more powerful faction within the republicans.
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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:11 JST casey is remote

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     @RandomDeamon Dude had plenty of solutions.

     To be problematic as a politician, you must have either harmful policies or impaired judgement.

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     RandomDeamon (randomdeamon@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:15 JST RandomDeamon

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     Dude he was problematic too. His biggest problem is that he has no name recognition and really no real solutions that had any chance of being successful.

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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:17 JST casey is remote

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     @RandomDeamon While much of that may be true, I will miss having someone non-problematic that I can root for.

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     RandomDeamon (randomdeamon@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:18 JST RandomDeamon

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     He never had a chance at winning. Especially with Trump still in the race.

     People around here have had Trump flags up since before January 6th and they are still up!

     Vivek is too much of a silicone valley bro to appeal to much of the working class Trump voters.