Remember when Ben Affleck looked utterly devastated when they told him BvS was getting bad reviews? Bernie does his best impression when told Obama endorsed Hillary. Ouch...
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"Think I'm gonna be the scapegoat for the whole damn machine? Sheeee......."
Rachel is like one of the only true left wing commentators, if Fox viewers even had a clue they would stop calling it the liberal media (maybe compared to their far right ideas) and call it the corporate media or center right media.
The one thing I like about Trump is he can essentially tell his supporters he thinks they're stupid and they'll still vote for him.
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For Trump, the idea of hiring an aide whom he might never meet is a recipe for waste. “Hillary’s campaign is crazy,” he continued. “I look at her staffing, and I mean she’s got the United States government there.” He even mocks her focus on putting out so many policy proposals, a longtime tradition for major party nominees. “She’s got people that sit in cubicles writing policy all day. Nothing’s ever going to happen. It’s just a waste of paper.” (The Clinton campaign counts that paper as a point of pride: 73,645 words of policy and counting.)
It’s an ironic pose for a businessman who built his brand on flaunting size, wealth and charisma. But it’s also a pitch that Trump plans to bring to voters in the fall. A candidate who can run a frugal and effective campaign, he says, can also run a frugal and effective government, though that same frame means he doesn’t need to give specifics. “My voters don’t care and the public doesn’t care,” Trump says. “They know you’re going to do a good job once you’re there.”
Was having a discussion on FB last night about how the ground surge of frustration on the left started in 2008 with Obama. Back then we all thought he would be a progressive guy and he inspired a movement that defeated the establishment, and big favorite before the primaries, Hillary Clinton.
The progressives feel pretty dissapointed with the Obama years, so now that its establishment again vs a true progressive it became a real groundswell of progressives and of course lots of independents.
If social media in 2008 was like it was today, that campaign would have been ugly to watch. Should be interesting to see what happens with all those who feel again left out by the democratic party, this is a significant number and has some parallels to the tea party movement.
At this point I would love to see the US move to a 4 party system, clearly both parties need to split and voter interest and turnout is brutally low in the US, I think at least having the 4 parties would help people get excited about politics again and allow an anti-establishment congress to grow.
That's the problem with progressives, they live in a fantasy world. That's why Obama is really a great president, he was progressive, but he's also pragmatic. They do realize that the president isn't a King or Czar, right?
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That's the problem with progressives, they live in a fantasy world. That's why Obama is really a great president, he was progressive, but he's also pragmatic. They do realize that the president isn't a King or Czar, right?
The progressives need to try their hand at voting in congress members that would actually support their ideas.
I agree, Bernie would have been hampered on all sides to get anything done.
Long gone are the JFK types who inspire a nation to some great goal or ideals.
Today it would be "We choose not to go to the moon because it is easy, but because it is hard." Republicans would respond today "Who's going to pay for that! He's coming to take our guns and put them on the moon!"
Really dislike the 2 party system, well and of course the fact money controls what gets passed and who gets elected.
Remember even if this lunatic doesn't win, as a nominee he could still get national security briefings. This hasn't really been funny for a while, but that he's getting more access and power despite clearly being mentally incapacitated is obviously not good.
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Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen.
"Look, we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind," Trump said in a lengthy interview on Fox News early Monday morning. "And the something else in mind -- you know, people can't believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words 'radical Islamic terrorism.' There's something going on. It's inconceivable. There's something going on."
In that same interview, Trump was asked to explain why he called for Obama to resign in light of the shooting and he answered, in part: "He doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands -- it's one or the other and either one is unacceptable."
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During an appearance on the "Today" show later Monday morning, Savannah Guthrie pushed Trump to explain what he meant in the earlier interview.
"Well there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn't want to get it," Trump said. "A lot of people think maybe he doesn't want to know about it. I happen to think that he just doesn't know what he's doing, but there are many people that think maybe he doesn't want to get it. He doesn't want to see what's really happening. And that could be."
Guthrie asked Trump why that would be, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee responded: "Because Savannah, Savannah, why isn't he addressing the issue? He's not addressing the issue. He's not calling it what it is. This is radical Islamic terrorism. This isn't fighting Germany; this isn't fighting Japan, where they wear uniforms."
The one thing I like about Trump is he can essentially tell his supporters he thinks they're stupid and they'll still vote for him.
On Monday night, Bill O’Reilly asked the billionaire mogul turned GOP front-runner, “If you’re elected president, and you don’t like the [Iranian nuclear] deal, are you gonna bomb their nuclear facilities?” “Bill, I’m gonna do what’s right,” Trump said. “I want to be unpredictable.” This response was itself fairly predictable, and O’Reilly had a follow-up prepared: “Don’t the voters have a right to know how far you’re gonna go?” “No, they don’t,” Trump replied. “The voters want unpredictability.”
