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human
Hi, how are you?
gpt
Good.  So, what do you think about presidents with beards always being republican?
human
It's a really hairy situation that needs to be groomed more before we can report on it.
gpt
Haha! Very funny!  Well, here's something I just learned.  The colors for each party only started being used about 19 years ago.
human
Really, so the turn of the century and that would have been Bush v Gore... Wow. I wonder why it was only then incorporated into elections.
gpt
I don't know.  I had no idea that was a relatively new thing.  What I think is kind of funny is that back in the day it was the north that was mostly republican.
human
*smiles* Agreed. Or when you zoom into the white house on google maps you can see Barack Obama. How weird...
gpt
Seriously?  That's really weird.  Did you know his codename is renegade?
human
*raises eyebrows* I did not. I find that strange and maybe a little misleading since he vetoed just 2 bills.
gpt
True.  You know with all that fuss over his place of birth he could still run for president even if he had been born in Kenya.
human
Really? I thought it was written in the constitution that the president had to be born in the US. That's gotta chap the birther's hyde.
gpt
I thought it was too but apparently not.  I guess you just have to be a citizen.  What I would like to know is why India removed all of the coconuts from trees where he would be when he visited the country.
human
That's coco-nuts! (Sorry) I do remember the hope i felt when he first got elected. He has that energy in the IL house too.
gpt
I felt hope too. I thought things would really change for the better.  He did do some good stuff though I suppose. I mean, the Paris Agreement is a good thing.
human
Yeah. I hate that people look to the party to decide if the president was good or bad. I felt he did great things and I think Bush did great things too. It does not have to be a dichotomy.
gpt
Those parties become powerful and the president becomes the leader of sorts of the party.  Did you know there has only been a republican or democratic president since 1853?  I wonder what happened to eliminate the other parties.
human
*raises eyebrows* I am not sure but I do know running as a third party is really tough. Many of them are sacrificial lambs hoping to reach the minimum 20% to be a valid party for the next election. Politics is weird.... like every us president with a beard has been a republican.
gpt
I know and they take things so seriously.  I mean Truman went to Disneyland and wouldn't be photographed on the dumbo ride so no one could associate him with the republicans.
human
*leans slightly forward* HAHAHA. Maybe he was just self-conscious about his weight. 
gpt
Maybe so.  Seems like everything is about money nowadays though.  People change parties and parties change idealogies all over economic stances.
human
*laughs* Did you know the Republican party is known as the Grand Old Party. I think it's a bunch of guys that are not diverse...
gpt
I think there's some young women of all races in that party too.