Discussion: Jeb Bush Thinks It Would Be 'Powerful' Statement If Nobody Voted This Year

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Jeb, you had your chance to influence this election in a meaningful way. You could’ve been the man who stopped Trump. You had him on the ropes in the December debate. You had to have realized that Monday night, if you didn’t pick up on it before. You HAD HIM, and you let him go. He was getting angry, and he was getting snappish, and you stood there smugging it up instead of pushing him over the edge and putting him away.

YOU. Nobody else—nobody else—put him there during the Republican primaries. Just you, because you were his first target. You were the one he needed to cripple to establish himself.

And you let him go. Because you have no political instincts. You have no ability to seal the fucking deal. Not even when everyone in the world can see how to make Trump stick his own nuts in a blender and push ‘puree’ all on his own.

Your brother wouldn’t have screwed that up. Your brother, the man most of the country still thinks of as an idiot, the man most of the country still despises as incompetent, would have done it right. You? You failed when it mattered the most. And not even because you gave it your best effort and came up short. You failed because you stopped trying, and decided to stand there and look all pleased with yourself like you were expecting mommy to pop up and stick a gold star on the fridge.

You made this. And now your ‘solution’ is to tell everyone else to stop trying? To not vote?

STFU, Jeb. And just keep shutting the fuck up. Your brother’s a war criminal. Your father is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, both in having helped Reagan supply chemical weapons to Iraq, and in having been one of the principle parties involved in IRAN-CONTRA, and the death squads we ran in Central America.

And I’d take either one of them over you. In a heartbeat. Rat bastards or not, they knew how to be decisive when it mattered. They knew how to step up and answer a challenge—even if they did it badly, they fucking did it.

You? You’re the kid who failed out of Pee-wee baseball critiquing Nolan Ryan on his fucking technique.

Go away, Jebya. You blew it.

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“Well, if everybody didn’t vote, that would be a pretty powerful political statement, wouldn’t it?” Bush said, according to CNN.

Bush is suggesting that we shouldn’t vote for anyone, because the choices are terrible. He seems to forget that Republican voters decided that Trump, terrible as he might be, was still a better choice than Jeb Bush.

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And he’s the smart one.

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Perfect analogy…just look at mcCain.

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Isn’t Jeb’s position merely Republican suppression of democracy taken to its logical extreme?

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Old man must be very proud of his 3 sons!
Neal’s a crook and con-man,
W is a drunk and
Jeb is a certified idiot!

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Or, lack thereof…

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IIRC, when Jebbie’s brother invaded Iraq, and imposed democracy on them, many of the Sunnis refused to vote. They wanted to make a statement that the election wasn’t legitimate. End result: the Shiites got control of the government and everybody did not live happily ever after.

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He sure did blow it. Trump, as disgusting a bully as he is, exposed Jeb! and the other GOP contenders for their complete lack of backbone. Jeb! could have effectively stood up to him and saved our country the danger of being so close to electing a fascist, but he didn’t. Perfectly in line with his recommendation not to vote. Nothing but abdication of responsibility for the situation we are in.

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Jeb! truly is the dumber Bush.

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Isn’t it time for Jeb! to step up and take some responsibility for the debacle?

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He was hoping for at least one write in vote, but Dad’s voting for Hillary instead…

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One thing’s for sure, Jeb!
I will NEVER vote for you.

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Inspired rant! I love it!

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A powerful statement on the depth of the gene pool in the Bush family?

Jeb’s ridiculously childish fantasy: The entire country abstains from voting while Jeb casts a single vote for himself.

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Still dumb. Hard to believe the Repub cast of characters.

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Where is the bravery? The reason we have Trump in the first place is that Republicans and Fox News have created a beast that they can’t control. Now we have an enormous block of people that don’t trust the “elites”, don’t trust the government, don’t trust Wall Street, don’t trust big business, don’t trust the media (including Fox News now) and so who do they Trust? What do they believe? They are ripe for a character like Donald Trump.

Worse, the “elites” have no courage to call it as it is for fear of risking their position, job, money. Where is the bravery, the courage, the character to call the situation what it is? Instead people act like Hillary Clinton is the devil for some reason instead of a target of character assassination and pretend that the Donald is somehow relatively normal or to be tolerated and might in fact be preferred as a controllable patsy. He is dangerous. And Republicans and business and media interests should find the balls to say so. Plainly.

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A republican expressing a desire that people not vote? That isn’t news. Republicans don’t want you to vote.

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This gutless mediocrity should at least have enough grounding in reality to know that Hillary Clinton is not some uniquely awful monster who’s going to destroy the planet. I don’t know whether he’s vapid enough to believe that crap or whether he just doesn’t want to get into arguments when he goes to the club. But there comes a time when you have to be honest with yourself and the world. If he were any kind of human being he’d be telling everyone to vote for Hillary. But he’s a gutless dweeb and he’s bobbing like a rubber duckie right now on a vast sea of well-deserved contempt.

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It’d be nice if everyone voted. But here’s the thing Jebya’s clearly not aware of:

It doesn’t matter if nobody votes. I don’t mean it doesn’t matter in terms of who wins, I mean ‘someone will still win, you idiot, stop trying to weasel this shit’.

If, somehow, nobody voted, the States would be free to apportion their Electors in accordance with local laws as long as they can get those laws passed and in effect before the 11th of December. Failing laws, Gubernatorial executive orders would at least suffice long enough to get to the middle of December before any legal challenge could be effectively brought (plaintiffs would have to be able to show they have standing—that they’re being damaged by the decision despite their own choice of not voting).

As long as the Electoral College meets, everything’s normal as far as the Constitution’s concerned.

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