Michael Avenatti, best known as Stormy Daniels' lawyer, in Houston for child separation case

Mr Person said:

How is it lazy thinking?

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Because comparing anything to Trump is too easy. Avenatti would be an emergency solution, and it would represent a bend downwards for our country, a bend that trump caused (or if you like...represents), and would not get the country back on track. At worst, we will be voting for our own strongman. I follow him on Twitter, and based on what he writes there I can say I don't trust him one whit to be our President. The way he lashes out at those who criticize him is disturbingly familiar.

I certainly wouldn't mind having him as my lawyer, but that's it.

Mr Person said:

Obama would be preferable over both. But he can't run.

Your vote determines whether Avenatti or Trump wins in 2020. Just assume it. Are you really going to sit at home? Protest vote and let the senate pick?

I know that if I have to choose between burnt alive and being stabbed to death, I'm gonna say stabbed to death. I'm not going to stay silent because both suck.

At any rate, I doubt he'll actually run. But we'll see.

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This was the same logic that got us the 2016 election. It didn't work out very well for us.

Cardinal said:

This was the same logic that got us the 2016 election. It didn't work out very well for us.

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A whole lot of things got us to that election, but voting for neither proves little until there is a critical mass. Chicken and egg, I know.

Let's just say that if I'm going to vote 3rd party, Trump cannot look like a possible win.

Roadvirus said:

Apparently being Stormy's lawyer isn't paying the bills anymore.

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Yeah, I don't think money is Avenati's motivation for saying he's mulling a presidential run. My guess is his motivation is two-pronged: 1. Trolling trump and his supporters; 2. Self-promotion (what? is Lurch claiming that TV lawyers crave notoriety? Is Lurch crazy?).

Mr Person said:

A whole lot of things got us to that election, but voting for neither proves little until there is a critical mass. Chicken and egg, I know.

Let's just say that if I'm going to vote 3rd party, Trump cannot look like a possible win.

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Well, we should be hashing out the midterms before we start throwing pots and pans at each other over the 2020 election. There's still about a year and a half to go before we face the Democratic primary, and we have no idea how he's polling yet, but I hope to God somebody more inspiring than Michael ****ing Avenatti walks along by then. Clinton was uninspiring but competent. I knew that if she were elected the international and environmental policy scene would be stable (even if the domestic scene was utter chaos due to her being impeached 24/7). But Avenatti gives me the screaming heebie jeebies.

danarhea said:

What's the sweetest sound in the world? Throwing a banjo in a dumpster and hearing it hit an accordion. :mrgreen:

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That joke is just plain

danarhea said:

I'm going to vote............... And once again it will be Libertarian. Sure, not a snowball's chance in hell of him winning, but I refuse to slime myself with either of the 2 major parties.

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Much as I admire you, I must point out that your vote is a vote for Republicans, but then you probably knew that.

Cardinal said:

Well, we should be hashing out the midterms before we start throwing pots and pans at each other over the 2020 election. There's still about a year and a half to go before we have to face the Democratic primary, and we have no idea how he's polling yet, but I hope to God somebody more inspiring than Michael ****ing Avenatti walks along by then. Clinton was uninspiring but competent. I knew that if she were elected the international and environmental policy scene would be stable (even if the domestic scene was utter chaos due to her being impeached 24/7). But Avenatti gives me the screaming heebie jeebies.

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I don't disagree with that.

danarhea said:

Here's my approach - I see Republicans as a mean father. Get out of line, he will stomp you to death with his boots. I see Democrats as an overbearing mother. She loves so much she wants to protect you from yourself, and so she wraps her arms around you and squeezes,.... and squeezes.... and squeezes.... Until you suffocate and die. Either way, you die. So, when I go into the voting booth, my vote is for...... Parenticide. LOL.

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But you're ultimately handing the vote to the "mean father who has a bushel basket full of plutonium encrusted VX gas beads welded to a large chunk of Ebola with a cyanide chaser", and he intends to detonate it in the kitchen because mom burned the toast.

danarhea said:

Yes, this is the main story, but there is another story buried within this one, and as you get towards the end of the article, you find out that Avenatti is going to run for President as a Democrat in 2020.

You think that one clown in office is bad? The 2020 election may be about to get a lot clownier. People ask me, since I don't like Trump, why don't I vote Democrat. The answer is as obvious as the nose on your face.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-...el-Avenatti-in-Houston-for-child-13155025.php

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"he celebrated his birthday alone in a federal shelter for immigrant children last week."

The Federal Government is doing something wrong if this boy was the only child in the federal shelter all by himself.

You would think, given the space they had, they would house many more children.