@f00l yes... yes they did... Now... If only someone else could pull an upset... I'd be happy... :) #BernieorBust! (Although I'm also in the ABC crowd...)
@PocketBrain apparently you have to look like an .... to get coverage, or have to pay people off to get votes... If you try to talk about the real issues you get ignored.
@PocketBrain Trump is a master of media and reality tv, and the media just went along with - or fell for - or pandered to the entertainment value of - his game.
Camacho 2020! Someone needs to tweet Terry Crews and tell him he needs to find his old costume and have the Old Spice Guy as his running mate. I'd vote for him.
I still remember ERB's line in the Romney v Obama rap by Lincoln. THE PRESIDENT SHALL NOT BE THE SHINIEST OF TWO TURDS! (or several turds, Im not a fan of anyone thats currently running...)
@mehbee doesn't mean that with enough support he couldn't win :) yes I may be delusional about it. But I truly think there are enough that are ticked off that will either just vote Trump or will attempt to get Bernie via write in.
This country has been officially humiliated in the eyes of the world. Even when he's eventually defeated, it's just too close, damage has been done. Making this country hate again.
@KDemo That's the problem. Instead of joining together and vanquishing those who spout hate, people choose sides and encourage and participate. I try very hard to spread the love but even I can get caught up in the arguing and fighting. It started with the current President, some of it his fault, some of it not, and is continuing is to a much deeper degree with this election.
@KDemo I am no great fan of the "30 sec to Doomsday" Cold War situation. The daily possibility of global annihilation has one or two downsides.
But, the downside of being "The World's Only Superpower" is pretty evident in the politics since 1990. Once upon a time, those people in DC actually valued our national wellbeing, and wanted to work together. Now too many seem believe there is nothing to lose if they become total asses.
Not to gloss over ye olde politics since The Great Depression. Lots and lots of that behavior and certain individuals also sucked hard, on both sides (or on every side). Any many bad decisions. But the boundaries of political public assheadedness behavior were quite different.
Makes one miss what is called by some "the Greatest Generation", even with all their flaws.
@f00l PS the way i mentioned "the Greatest Generation" may have left a mis-impression.
I had/have many disagreements with some members of that generation, and also a lotta respect. I am one who thinks they are "the Greatest Generation." Hands down, at least for the 20th century. That's prob sentimental by strict historical reckoning. Whatever. I'm good with it.
@f00l Well said. Those assheads who think because America is the "super power" they can do what they want and not continue to erode what America stands for (and it's not power) need to remember two words...Rome Fell! Keep putting yourself first rather than your COUNTRY and either the people will revolt(and I'll be right there with them), or America will cease to be the wonderful, amazing country it has been and hopefully will be again. I'm still proud to be an American. I will not desert my country no matter who wins this awful election and will continue to pray that our leaders see the light. I will also continue to be sad at the state of our country.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the only candidate worth anything withdrew from the race on 1 February. He's lead singer in his own Celtic rock band, and plays lead guitar and banjo. Former governor of Maryland, former mayor of Baltimore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_O%27Malley
well, i don't see any of us running for shit, nothing!! not city council, not school boards, not drain commissioner, nor, township supervisor, nor any elected position in any aspect with the government!!! we don't want the damn job!! but we feel free to criticize the people who step up to do the jobs, none of us wants... we know, we could do it way better than them..!. even though, we know, we are not willing, to to be in those positions at all!! and then we wonder , why we get, what we get... ehhhh, maybe that's just how i feel.....
@mick I feel free to criticize. And judge. And bitch. And think. And sometimes make a shallow joke. And ponder. Remember. Measure. Read up. Find that i am cockeyed, again. Learn more.
All that. Almost always, privately. Sometimes, rarely, publicly. I see it as part of my life job. Hope others feel the same.
I dont do it a lot in public. Politics and religion...tough topics for a productive day, or a friendly one....i have a thing for civility. I try to have a thing for avoiding the arrogance of being so fucking sure about whatever. That's hard, i suss, for everyone. I try....i hope i try.
Different people take different life paths. Only some of them lead into politics. The rest of us do get to judge and argue and criticize. And be asses sometimes.
You know, America, Bill of Rights, Shot Heard 'Round The World. All that. Some ancestors of mine were in that fight. A few of them spozedly signed something or other. Hope i honor them.
It's our job, or part of it. It's also, i hold, our job not to be asses - more than we can help - while doing it. Some people start out good at that. Many people do get better at the non-ass quality after years or decades of practice. And many don't.
I can tell pretty much what people have opinions i respect, by the measure of visible thought, speech, reflection, doubt, restraint, compassion, ability to deal with complexity, ability to listen and learn, ability to see the strengths of various POVs that are not that person's favs, and even argue those strengths at times, respect for strength across ideologies, valuing of achievement over grandstanding.....even if i'm pretty sure that person is far, even quite far from me on various political measures.
I avoid conversation with the people that are so sure of their own final rightness, esp regarding economics and narrow morals, and people who show disgust or moral arrogance toward others with whom they disagree. Well...ok there are a few obvious targets who cant be hurt, who thrive on it. Fair game. Hell, those people enjoy it. And the conversations/insults/jokes might lead to something.
I usually avoid speaking in terms of strong political viewpoints period, and also avoid most mild political talk, unless i have a feel for the person(s). Except with one beloved relative who disagrees with me about many things....we differ on everything....and yet, we love to discuss it all. And are damned good at rolling thru issues in interesting ways. (Tho he cant think tech or math, the baby). I cherish that he and i can go down all those tangents together, sleays drawing separate conclusions. And thanks, Dad, Mom, thanks for paying for all that fancy "i'm too good to follow rules" education which both parents were sceptical of and disturbed by. We did get something from it after all. ;)
Often i can tell that i respect another's POV even tho i know we disagree, or have diff approaches/philosophies, and even tho we never discuss politics or political philiosophy.
Would you prefer everyone just shut the fuck up?
Altho i deplore the lack of decency, civility, common respectful conversation and debate, and esp the lack of any attempt at intellectual honesty and lack of intellectual humility, the lack of the need to grow and learn and challenge your own perspectives that is now so normal.....bad manners, bad thinking, bad rhetoric have become the daily Washington game-face...for all that....still, i would not want people to shut the fuck up.
Even if our news, our politicians, our public debates, our commentators, and half the people we meet are just a lot if noise and nonsense and hooey....(even those are mostly good souls, and they'd be there if the big bad hit, i believe, likely still talking too much...)
And all that noise and opinion - even all that incivility and stupidity....
@mick@f00l Jeffersonian concept: informed citizenry. "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:207 (-source http://www.politheo.com/thomasjefferson.html on 5 May 2016)
@OldCatLady According to my esteemed grandmother, who let everyone know she was always right on every issue, thought quite highly of herself, but was a great lady (as the phrase was used mid-century), and had a great sense of humor and was beloved in spite of all...according to Olga G, who kept track of family honor....some of my ancestors were way tight w TJ. I mean, posse! They b bros!
@f00l For fun, have a DNA test. His family DNA tests are apparently in the Ancestry DNA database, and hilarity may ensue if your SNPs match some of his. I love hilarity, there's not enough of it in the world. Sorry, I can't find an emoji for a saliva sample.
@mick speak for yourself. I ran for and was elected too my state licensing and examination board. I work with our state legislature as an expect on a regular basis. Do not shout generalizations about people you do not know.
@OldCatLady Oh, we know their names, or can look them up, from way before the TJ era. Way before they sailed the ocean blue. Goddam, even way before the Magna Carta (allegedly signatories there also, according to lore), back past 1066. Or so Olga (grandmother) told us. By the time a family farm became Arlington National Cemetary, i'm told some ancestors thought highly of themselves. And managed to make the wrong choice and spend 5 years defending a horror.
There were books. There are Keepers Of The Family Flame, whatever flame that is, somewhere, i've never met. No one i know now makes anything of it, or cares, few family members even know about it. Olga would not approve. I only know this stuff because Olga thought she lived in our house when i was young, even tho she had a house of her own 6 blocks away.
@caffeine_dude On exactly what topic has DT not flip-flopped, excepting, of course, his own wonderfulness?
I completely agree with the Scott Adams contention that he could have picked a different set of hot button issues, run as a Republican on those, or as a Democrat using yet another set of buzzphrases, and still torpedoed the normal election process.
The talking head idiocy of the last few decades, plus increasing political reliance on buzzword-induced applause (me too!) or outrage (those anti-American assholes!), with lots of idiology and "facts", without any viable solutions included or discussed, has primed us for electioneering as hot button entertainment.
All it needed was a billionaire egomaniac media master who is all offence, all hype, all "win", no defence, and who allows zero reality/rationality/decency considerations, who understands marketing and hot phrase response, for the political process to be pwnd.
As a young conservative, I was really hoping for an outsider, and initially (very initially, as in I heard he was running, but hadn't heard him speak) I was excited for the Trump. Now I am getting behind Bernie; I personally doubt that his fiscal policies will work, but I'd rather have someone who will shake up the system than someone who loves it or someone who will destroy it....
@nishthenarwhal I was excited about him for about 5 minutes for the same reason. He opened his mouth one too many times where idiocy fell out. Lost that excitement very quickly.
@therealjrn My personal sense of caution: Whatever chortling some are doing, or defeat some are feeling, i suss this is a highly unstable and unpredictable situation. It might not turn out well.
@OldCatLady Yeah but Scott Adams is also a gross dude who questions how bad the holocaust really was and equated women getting equal pay with not punching handicapped people: it's just easier for men to let it go and not waste their time. ...On second thought, he might have the perfect frame of mind for insight into this election.
@Moose Adams is well beyond gross, but his jaundiced description doesn't seem to be satirical. I wish it did. Certainly the Rs and their traditional funding sources are flapping like a chicken house with a fox in it. Cancel that, I like foxes. I'm reading non-U.S. media to see what the world thinks of him, and it's embarrassing.
If Donald gets elected, I think one good thing that will come out of it is that congress will start using their constitutional power to limit the power of the president, something that (in my opinion) has been too broad since before Bush jr... Just a thought... Also Impeachment is a thing too
@nishthenarwhal If Drumpf does get elected, he has broad powers, including spending Federal money that was budgeted for different projects, via executive orders. The Supreme Court can halt implementation of EOs, but if the Rs/cons have a majority of justices, he will in effect rule uncontrolled, even if Congress goes D. Now there's a nightmare scenario.
2015: I can't believe Donald Trump is running for President 2016: I can't believe Donald Trump won 2017: I can't believe President Trump actually did that 2018: I can't believe my district won this year's Hunger Games.
Speaking of all those talking heads for a second...the "experts" and spinmeisters and spokespeople on CNN, Fox, talk radio, talk cable, etc...Why The Fuck are they still talking?
Please, someone, duct-tape their mouths and put them into a 12-step anti-sound-of-one's-own-voice group!
Let joy be unconfined: Drumpf is scheduled to appear on 'Meet the Press' this weekend. Paul Ryan has invited him to meet with the R 'leadership' today, presumably to tell him to 'grow up'. Reinhold Priebus will 'broker a detente', at which I would dearly love to be a fly on the wall. My prediction is that Donald will talk a good game, the Rs will pretend to believe him, and backroom deals will heat up.
First I thought, since Trump supported Hillary in the past he was going to Ross Perot the election for Hillary.
(Ross Perot was a millionaire that ran independent and pulled enough votes away from the republican party that won it for the democrat.) Now, I know his stance himself is he is fantastic, the best even.
@caffeine_dude It's hard to convince innocents that sociopaths really don't see themselves as evil, that they are always entitled to do whatever they do, and that there is no way to make them see your side of any issue. If they want it, and if they can do it, they will. They are sincere, and they are not capable of regret.
The Republican Party has finally reached the climax Tea Partiers have been bitching, whining and wet-dreaming for.
And the Democratic Party is too much of what used to be wrong with the Republican Party when it was only mostly fucked up. I've actually been more-or-less a party loyalist since before I could vote (though my values have always leaned much farther to the left). I'm about done. Fuck 'em both.
We have to figure out how to break the two party stranglehold and, just as important, the plutocracy pulling its strings.
They did this to themselves.
@f00l yes... yes they did... Now... If only someone else could pull an upset... I'd be happy... :) #BernieorBust! (Although I'm also in the ABC crowd...)
Ah, if only the popular news media would give another candidate such an unfair advantage as they did the Donald...
and yet he complains of them.
@PocketBrain apparently you have to look like an .... to get coverage, or have to pay people off to get votes... If you try to talk about the real issues you get ignored.
@PocketBrain
Trump is a master of media and reality tv, and the media just went along with - or fell for - or pandered to the entertainment value of - his game.
@medz so true, it hurts.
@Thumperchick
You mean that thing on his head is growing? Or that thing on his neck?
@f00l Maybe that 'thing' between his legs?
@medz CAMACHO 2016
@Mehntok
sigh This is what this country has become...
Camacho 2020! Someone needs to tweet Terry Crews and tell him he needs to find his old costume and have the Old Spice Guy as his running mate. I'd vote for him.
@medz we have blamed goats in the past for various infractions, but you really did it by allowing this travesty to happen. #ABT
@readnj I dunno. Blaming political fuckery on the goat here may be a bit too far ...
@narfcake Agreed, but it was under @medz watch
@readnj Not really, he just became goat..this started and got out of hand quite awhile ago. I'm going to cry if I have to vote for that woman.
@mehbee
Crying party? ;)
@mehbee You got that right! "Lesser of two evils?"
@highnomore And isn't sad that our choices are two evils...
@mehbee so vote Bernie!
@mehbee
I still remember ERB's line in the Romney v Obama rap by Lincoln. THE PRESIDENT SHALL NOT BE THE SHINIEST OF TWO TURDS! (or several turds, Im not a fan of anyone thats currently running...)
@sohmageek Because he might not be the candidate!
@mehbee doesn't mean that with enough support he couldn't win :) yes I may be delusional about it. But I truly think there are enough that are ticked off that will either just vote Trump or will attempt to get Bernie via write in.
This country has been officially humiliated in the eyes of the world. Even when he's eventually defeated, it's just too close, damage has been done.
Making this country hate again.
@KDemo Uhmm, I'm pretty sure that happened when #43 was in office...
@compunaut - True. Have you ever seen sorryeverybody.com?
@compunaut At least, the vast loss of respect 'in the eyes of the world'. The hate really ramped up in opposition to #44
@KDemo That's the problem. Instead of joining together and vanquishing those who spout hate, people choose sides and encourage and participate. I try very hard to spread the love but even I can get caught up in the arguing and fighting. It started with the current President, some of it his fault, some of it not, and is continuing is to a much deeper degree with this election.
@compunaut I was very sorry to hear about your massive head injury.
@KDemo
I am no great fan of the "30 sec to Doomsday" Cold War situation. The daily possibility of global annihilation has one or two downsides.
But, the downside of being "The World's Only Superpower" is pretty evident in the politics since 1990. Once upon a time, those people in DC actually valued our national wellbeing, and wanted to work together. Now too many seem believe there is nothing to lose if they become total asses.
Not to gloss over ye olde politics since The Great Depression. Lots and lots of that behavior and certain individuals also sucked hard, on both sides (or on every side). Any many bad decisions. But the boundaries of political public assheadedness behavior were quite different.
Makes one miss what is called by some "the Greatest Generation", even with all their flaws.
@f00l
PS the way i mentioned "the Greatest Generation" may have left a mis-impression.
I had/have many disagreements with some members of that generation, and also a lotta respect. I am one who thinks they are "the Greatest Generation." Hands down, at least for the 20th century. That's prob sentimental by strict historical reckoning. Whatever. I'm good with it.
@f00l Well said. Those assheads who think because America is the "super power" they can do what they want and not continue to erode what America stands for (and it's not power) need to remember two words...Rome Fell! Keep putting yourself first rather than your COUNTRY and either the people will revolt(and I'll be right there with them), or America will cease to be the wonderful, amazing country it has been and hopefully will be again. I'm still proud to be an American. I will not desert my country no matter who wins this awful election and will continue to pray that our leaders see the light. I will also continue to be sad at the state of our country.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the only candidate worth anything withdrew from the race on 1 February. He's lead singer in his own Celtic rock band, and plays lead guitar and banjo. Former governor of Maryland, former mayor of Baltimore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_O%27Malley
@OldCatLady yea; too bad he chose to run as a Republican...
@Steve7654 Uh, no, he ran D. Good VP option.
@OldCatLady
Damn. Banjo. Shit. Nobody with any kinda notable future political career in Texas has any banjo cred that i know of.
Jealous.
well, i don't see any of us running for shit, nothing!! not city council, not school boards, not drain commissioner, nor, township supervisor, nor any elected position in any aspect with the government!!! we don't want the damn job!! but we feel free to criticize the people who step up to do the jobs, none of us wants... we know, we could do it way better than them..!. even though, we know, we are not willing, to to be in those positions at all!! and then we wonder , why we get, what we get... ehhhh, maybe that's just how i feel.....
@mick
I feel free to criticize. And judge. And bitch. And think. And sometimes make a shallow joke. And ponder. Remember. Measure. Read up. Find that i am cockeyed, again. Learn more.
All that. Almost always, privately. Sometimes, rarely, publicly. I see it as part of my life job. Hope others feel the same.
I dont do it a lot in public. Politics and religion...tough topics for a productive day, or a friendly one....i have a thing for civility. I try to have a thing for avoiding the arrogance of being so fucking sure about whatever. That's hard, i suss, for everyone. I try....i hope i try.
Different people take different life paths. Only some of them lead into politics. The rest of us do get to judge and argue and criticize. And be asses sometimes.
You know, America, Bill of Rights, Shot Heard 'Round The World. All that. Some ancestors of mine were in that fight. A few of them spozedly signed something or other. Hope i honor them.
It's our job, or part of it. It's also, i hold, our job not to be asses - more than we can help - while doing it. Some people start out good at that. Many people do get better at the non-ass quality after years or decades of practice. And many don't.
I can tell pretty much what people have opinions i respect, by the measure of visible thought, speech, reflection, doubt, restraint, compassion, ability to deal with complexity, ability to listen and learn, ability to see the strengths of various POVs that are not that person's favs, and even argue those strengths at times, respect for strength across ideologies, valuing of achievement over grandstanding.....even if i'm pretty sure that person is far, even quite far from me on various political measures.
I avoid conversation with the people that are so sure of their own final rightness, esp regarding economics and narrow morals, and people who show disgust or moral arrogance toward others with whom they disagree. Well...ok there are a few obvious targets who cant be hurt, who thrive on it. Fair game. Hell, those people enjoy it. And the conversations/insults/jokes might lead to something.
I usually avoid speaking in terms of strong political viewpoints period, and also avoid most mild political talk, unless i have a feel for the person(s). Except with one beloved relative who disagrees with me about many things....we differ on everything....and yet, we love to discuss it all. And are damned good at rolling thru issues in interesting ways. (Tho he cant think tech or math, the baby). I cherish that he and i can go down all those tangents together, sleays drawing separate conclusions. And thanks, Dad, Mom, thanks for paying for all that fancy "i'm too good to follow rules" education which both parents were sceptical of and disturbed by. We did get something from it after all. ;)
Often i can tell that i respect another's POV even tho i know we disagree, or have diff approaches/philosophies, and even tho we never discuss politics or political philiosophy.
Would you prefer everyone just shut the fuck up?
Altho i deplore the lack of decency, civility, common respectful conversation and debate, and esp the lack of any attempt at intellectual honesty and lack of intellectual humility, the lack of the need to grow and learn and challenge your own perspectives that is now so normal.....bad manners, bad thinking, bad rhetoric have become the daily Washington game-face...for all that....still, i would not want people to shut the fuck up.
Even if our news, our politicians, our public debates, our commentators, and half the people we meet are just a lot if noise and nonsense and hooey....(even those are mostly good souls, and they'd be there if the big bad hit, i believe, likely still talking too much...)
And all that noise and opinion - even all that incivility and stupidity....
It sure beats whispers.
It sure beats silence.
@mick @f00l Jeffersonian concept: informed citizenry. "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:207 (-source http://www.politheo.com/thomasjefferson.html on 5 May 2016)
@OldCatLady
According to my esteemed grandmother, who let everyone know she was always right on every issue, thought quite highly of herself, but was a great lady (as the phrase was used mid-century), and had a great sense of humor and was beloved in spite of all...according to Olga G, who kept track of family honor....some of my ancestors were way tight w TJ. I mean, posse! They b bros!
Hope so.
@f00l For fun, have a DNA test. His family DNA tests are apparently in the Ancestry DNA database, and hilarity may ensue if your SNPs match some of his. I love hilarity, there's not enough of it in the world.
Sorry, I can't find an emoji for a saliva sample.
@mick speak for yourself. I ran for and was elected too my state licensing and examination board. I work with our state legislature as an expect on a regular basis. Do not shout generalizations about people you do not know.
@OldCatLady
Oh, we know their names, or can look them up, from way before the TJ era. Way before they sailed the ocean blue. Goddam, even way before the Magna Carta (allegedly signatories there also, according to lore), back past 1066. Or so Olga (grandmother) told us. By the time a family farm became Arlington National Cemetary, i'm told some ancestors thought highly of themselves. And managed to make the wrong choice and spend 5 years defending a horror.
There were books. There are Keepers Of The Family Flame, whatever flame that is, somewhere, i've never met. No one i know now makes anything of it, or cares, few family members even know about it. Olga would not approve. I only know this stuff because Olga thought she lived in our house when i was young, even tho she had a house of her own 6 blocks away.
Of course the saliva test might surprise!
@mick http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/17/rand-paul/rand-pauls-right-geneva-conventions-bar-donald-tru/
We spoke out, the military spoke out and Trump flip flopped on his stance on committing war crimes.
We have a voice and media for a reason.
@caffeine_dude
On exactly what topic has DT not flip-flopped, excepting, of course, his own wonderfulness?
I completely agree with the Scott Adams contention that he could have picked a different set of hot button issues, run as a Republican on those, or as a Democrat using yet another set of buzzphrases, and still torpedoed the normal election process.
The talking head idiocy of the last few decades, plus increasing political reliance on buzzword-induced applause (me too!) or outrage (those anti-American assholes!), with lots of idiology and "facts", without any viable solutions included or discussed, has primed us for electioneering as hot button entertainment.
All it needed was a billionaire egomaniac media master who is all offence, all hype, all "win", no defence, and who allows zero reality/rationality/decency considerations, who understands marketing and hot phrase response, for the political process to be pwnd.
As a young conservative, I was really hoping for an outsider, and initially (very initially, as in I heard he was running, but hadn't heard him speak) I was excited for the Trump. Now I am getting behind Bernie; I personally doubt that his fiscal policies will work, but I'd rather have someone who will shake up the system than someone who loves it or someone who will destroy it....
@nishthenarwhal I was excited about him for about 5 minutes for the same reason. He opened his mouth one too many times where idiocy fell out. Lost that excitement very quickly.
@mehbee
I do believe he likes the sound of his own voice to a degree that reminds me of early Castro.
Using conservative unfair media tatics against other conservatives, the Donald should be flogged. NuyK Nuyk. Or ivy Lee never meant this to happen.
@therealjrn
My personal sense of caution:
Whatever chortling some are doing, or defeat some are feeling, i suss this is a highly unstable and unpredictable situation. It might not turn out well.
@f00l very true. I hope Meh delivers to Canada.
@RedHot - We've been invited!
http://cbiftrumpwins.com/
http://iftrumpwins.ca/
@KDemo
Cape Breton Island ulis pretty tempting even if i had never heard the names "Trump" or "Cruz".
@f00l - Did you see the prices of homes and the beauty of the place? Incredibly tempting!
This is a horrible prediction, but I can't fault his logic, or his track record.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-will-win-in-a-landslide-the-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/
@OldCatLady Yeah but Scott Adams is also a gross dude who questions how bad the holocaust really was and equated women getting equal pay with not punching handicapped people: it's just easier for men to let it go and not waste their time.
...On second thought, he might have the perfect frame of mind for insight into this election.
@Moose Adams is well beyond gross, but his jaundiced description doesn't seem to be satirical. I wish it did. Certainly the Rs and their traditional funding sources are flapping like a chicken house with a fox in it. Cancel that, I like foxes. I'm reading non-U.S. media to see what the world thinks of him, and it's embarrassing.
I like Nate Silver's comment: 'No, I didn't predict that the Republican Party would lose its fucking mind.'
@OldCatLady
My fav news source these days.
If Donald gets elected, I think one good thing that will come out of it is that congress will start using their constitutional power to limit the power of the president, something that (in my opinion) has been too broad since before Bush jr... Just a thought... Also Impeachment is a thing too
@nishthenarwhal If Drumpf does get elected, he has broad powers, including spending Federal money that was budgeted for different projects, via executive orders. The Supreme Court can halt implementation of EOs, but if the Rs/cons have a majority of justices, he will in effect rule uncontrolled, even if Congress goes D. Now there's a nightmare scenario.
@OldCatLady
And he's Commander In Chief.
2015: I can't believe Donald Trump is running for President
2016: I can't believe Donald Trump won
2017: I can't believe President Trump actually did that
2018: I can't believe my district won this year's Hunger Games.
Speaking of all those talking heads for a second...the "experts" and spinmeisters and spokespeople on CNN, Fox, talk radio, talk cable, etc...Why The Fuck are they still talking?
Please, someone, duct-tape their mouths and put them into a 12-step anti-sound-of-one's-own-voice group!
Let joy be unconfined: Drumpf is scheduled to appear on 'Meet the Press' this weekend. Paul Ryan has invited him to meet with the R 'leadership' today, presumably to tell him to 'grow up'. Reinhold Priebus will 'broker a detente', at which I would dearly love to be a fly on the wall. My prediction is that Donald will talk a good game, the Rs will pretend to believe him, and backroom deals will heat up.
First I thought, since Trump supported Hillary in the past he was going to Ross Perot the election for Hillary.
(Ross Perot was a millionaire that ran independent and pulled enough votes away from the republican party that won it for the democrat.)
Now, I know his stance himself is he is fantastic, the best even.
@caffeine_dude It's hard to convince innocents that sociopaths really don't see themselves as evil, that they are always entitled to do whatever they do, and that there is no way to make them see your side of any issue. If they want it, and if they can do it, they will. They are sincere, and they are not capable of regret.
The Republican Party has finally reached the climax Tea Partiers have been bitching, whining and wet-dreaming for.
And the Democratic Party is too much of what used to be wrong with the Republican Party when it was only mostly fucked up. I've actually been more-or-less a party loyalist since before I could vote (though my values have always leaned much farther to the left). I'm about done. Fuck 'em both.
We have to figure out how to break the two party stranglehold and, just as important, the plutocracy pulling its strings.