Displaying 841 To 870 Of 19,504 Comments JOIN THE LIVE CHAT TONIGHT: Trump’s Speech to Congress at 6:00pm PST These are selling like hotcakes on Breitbart (not): [img]http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/donmojis/trump_arm_band.png[/img] » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2017 @ 9:08 pm He was in full Mussolini form, with the pursed lips and raised chin. I was surprised he didn’t propose an “Axis” partnership with Nazis. » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2017 @ 7:35 pm Note To the DNC: Don’t Chase After Trump Voters…If You Build It, They Will Come RSGMusic, please try to consider what’s real and worthy of your energy and what’s imaginary and not worthy of anyone’s energy. Neither Hillary nor Bernie will be running in 2020. Continuing to pour so much energy into railing against Bernie and those Dems who supported him is completely pointless and irrelevant. You’re outraged daily by something that happened last year and by things that will never happen in the future. Give yourself a break, all that stress over nothing that matters today doesn’t make sense and isn’t good for you. This is March of 2017, the world has moved on and it’s no longer a pertinent issue whether Hillary is better than Bernie. It doesn’t matter anymore. You might as well be arguing whether the Cubs or Indians will win in last year’s World Series. What’s the point? It’s over and has been for many months. Perhaps a little soul searching would be valuable, trying to understand oneself and why one is holding onto such blind anger and blame with a death grip after all this time. It’s not a good idea to live in the past, it’s not 2016 anymore and Hillary and Bernie are not running for president now or ever again. It’s 2017 and big things are going on all around you while you obsess about meaningless things. Instead, I hope you’ll finally recognize this and join us to stand against the REAL issues confronting Democrats (and all Americans) under Trump in 2017. » Posted By AdLib On March 1, 2017 @ 10:18 am RSGmusic, no, the discussion is about the DNC and how they win elections. Re-read my article, it is not about Bernie nor is it about portraying him in a good light or a poor light. Your obsession with attacking Bernie bewilders me. He doesn’t matter anymore when it comes to the DNC or winning elections. You’re locked into being angry at him and anyone who supported him, it’s not healthy. Hillary won the primary and Bernie supported her in the GE and repeatedly urged his supporters to do the same. Since you may have forgotten this: Bernie Sanders Just Urged His Supporters to Vote For Hillary Clinton “This is not time for a protest vote. This is time to elect Hillary Clinton and then work after the election to mobilize millions of people to make sure she can be the most progressive president she can be.”
This is reality. This is what Bernie actually did and said, supporting Hillary and pushing his supporters to vote for her and most did. What more could he do than endorse her and campaign for her? Some hardcore Hillary supporters seem to be in denial about reality, they can’t accept that she lost. She did though, she lost the election, that is reality. She didn’t campaign in the blue states she lost that handed the WH to Trump. That is reality. Hillary made those decisions that ended up causing her own loss and whatever the emotional need, trying to pin the blame on everyone but her is just being in denial. I wonder if you realize that it has now been 4 months since she lost? You’re still railing against Bernie 9 months after he lost the primary…9 months…does that sound sensible? Right now, in reality, Trump is out there causing havoc and instead of joining in protests and the Resist Movement, instead of looking for ways to help unify and strengthen the party you seem so passionate about, you’re just attacking the other half of the party that supported the candidate who lost 9 months ago to Hillary. Consider making an effort to move forward after 9 months of endless resentment and hostility towards the other half of your party. All that matters now is the future and working towards Dems taking back Congress in 2018 and the WH in 2020. It’s your choice to continue to be part of the problem or begin to be part of the solution. » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2017 @ 9:05 pm RSGMusic, the reply box is where it always is, not a good sign to start with conspiracy theories. Hillary supported the Iraq War, the TPP, Wall Street and called African American youth “superpredators”. That’s not Republican? Put simply, you don’t make sense. Only a portion of primary elections were open, allowing independent voters. So he got nearly half the vote in Democrat-only primaries. And you don’t want independent voters voting Democratic? How do you think Dems ever win again without all the Dems and independents who supported Bernie? The Dem party would never win another election. Do I really have to explain this? The candidate with the most votes wins, you WANT the most voters if you want to win. Yet your proposition is apparently that chasing off Dems who supported Sanders and indie voters will lead to victory? If we can’t agree on the basics of mathematics, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on all of this. » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2017 @ 7:30 pm FD, wow, love that Goya quote! I think we’ll see Trump voters fall in one of three categories after they see he lied to them and is harming the country. First, the tentative ones who just hoped he’d make things better as he promised. they will become disillusioned and abandon him as they already are. Second, the poorer Trump voters who grudgingly accept they were conned as inflation goes up and coal mining jobs don’t. Third, the racist and misogynist, hateful morons who are like cult followers and will goosestep behind Trump even if it’s right off a cliff. Considering that Trump only won the Rust Belt states that gave him the WH by a total of around 70,000 votes, that’s enough lost support to crush him electorally in 2020. » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2017 @ 5:36 pm RSG, Let me boil down your points and my responses to them: 1. Hillary was a very good candidate. She received less votes than Obama did in both of his elections, she didn’t campaign in the blue states she lost, she had record negatives and she was beaten by the worst candidate to ever run for President, Donald Trump. I’d hate to see what a candidate who wasn’t very good would do. 2. Bernie Sanders is a GOP moderate. You know this isn’t true, you’ve blamed him in the past for being an independent (not a “real” Democrat) and socialist. Now you make this GOP moderate baloney up just to say something insulting. It’s irrational and undermines everything you wrote. 3. Bernie Sanders and nearly half of the Democratic party that supported him are traitors. This is just unhinged. So your version of democracy is that only those people who chose the same candidate as you are “real Americans” or “real Democrats” and those who chose a different candidate are “traitors”? You sound like a Trump supporter, you should actually be happy that he won because you sound like an authoritarian who favors authoritarianship instead of open democracy. Your obsessive anger towards Bernie Sanders and everyone who preferred him over Hillary is not healthy. Obsession in general is unhealthy but being so obsessed with hating half of your party and insulting them is simply self-destructive. Do you really think the Dem party could win any elections if your wish came true and half of the party (“the traitors”) left to form another party? The only path forward is unity and my article was pointing out something that you (and Trump) don’t seem to like people to discuss, facts. There is a struggle for power in every organization and the Dem Party is clearly not immune to that in your opinion or mine. I addressed some of the problems and contentious issues and the focus of my article was not about Bernie Sanders at all, it was about urging the DNC not to change their policies in a futile attempt to woo Trump voters. Do you agree with that or disagree? Let’s have a discussion over the actual issue I was focused on. The question your response underlines is, where do we go from here? Do you really think hating on half of your party is a recipe for success? Do you see that as a rational game plan to defeat Trump and the Repubs? Trump mentions Bernie from time to time, hoping to keep the fire of anger burning in those Dems obsessed with hating Bernie, to keep the party divided. You’re working for Trump right now, this is exactly what he wants you to be doing and that ain’t looking good on your resume. Why not think about what you want to see happen in the elections 2018 and 2020 and if it’s not watching Repubs and Trump win, re-consider your campaign to chase away half of the Democratic Party. » Posted By AdLib On February 28, 2017 @ 5:22 pm Trump Taps Milo Yiannopoulos to Helm National Child Protective Services Ruh roh! Looks like I wasn’t far off calling Maher a mini-Milo. Check out this WAPO article about Maher being pro-pedophile depending on the sex of the pedophile: Hmm…did Maher just pull a Milo and destroy himself with his ego? » Posted By AdLib On February 24, 2017 @ 7:42 am Kes, it is pretty stunning how quickly Milo self-destructed, being blown up by his own need to say the most offensive things. Agree with you and your son, it does seem like he was a perverse Tinkerbell, if people weren’t gasping at him, he would die. “What a world!” indeed! » Posted By AdLib On February 23, 2017 @ 11:21 pm Kalima, I think Maher started out okay but grew into a mini-Milo after the Bush Admin got his first show cancelled when he accused the military of being more cowardly than the 9/11 attackers because they killed from afar with missiles, etc. I think even that statement was intended as a mini-Milo shock statement to get publicity and it worked too well. Many celebrities intentionally say and do things to vie for media attention, very often not even believing in what they say. As you say Arianna was one of those too and you’re so right, she went loony towards the end of her time at HP, becoming obsessed with her wack New Agey BS about sleeping and thinking nice things solving all the world’s problems. Maher had no intention to harm Milo when he had him on, it was all about Maher showing how coool he is by being able to bond with Milo as he has with other toxic women like AH and Ann Coulter. He practically cuddled with Milo and often agreed with him about terrible things. It was an unintended by-product I think that certain people got so pissed at Milo being mainstreamed by Maher that they posted the pedophilia-praising video. And Maher, being the egotistical Milo-Lite that he is, had to splash around in the media saying, “I meant to do that! Look at me! Ain’t I great?!” Milo is a vicious, bitter and insecure teenager who never grew up and in a way, so is Maher. » Posted By AdLib On February 23, 2017 @ 10:56 pm Kalima, I am a bit torn about Maher having him on his show. From the outset, I thought it stunk of a cheap ratings stunt and using Milo as a vehicle for Maher to sneer at those who oppose his bigoted words towards Muslims and insults of those who voice their disapproval of him. As you said, Maher called him a young Hitchens and complimented him repeatedly. Yet after the pedophilia quotes came out, Maher was bragging to the NYT that HE brought Milo down. I thought Milo was a symbol of free speech who deserved to speak his hatred, Bill? Isn’t he a young Hitchens? But your master plan was to lie about all of that as a trick to psychically “know” that someone else would uncover that interview with Milo praising pedophilia? Maher is an egotistical ass who tries to pass off his self-promotion as conscience. Remember, this was the guy in the 2000s who was still hanging out at the Playboy mansion to pick up starstruck teenagers. And he’s “friends” with Ann Coulter who hasn’t a redeeming bone in her bony body? Maher can make many strong attacks on Trump and Republicans but there’s a portion of him that is all about ego and ignorance and that always peeks through at one time or another. Yes, I loved Larry’s and Malcolm’s smacking Milo with the kind of anger he finds amusing to whip up from a distance, he looked like a cowering child when having to face off with real people who take horrible words seriously. » Posted By AdLib On February 23, 2017 @ 8:45 am Cheers Kes! Sounds really desperate to me, having to insist that he’ll still be around 30 years from now. Like he knows this is actually his downfall and it all declines for him from here. It’s an act but he’s married to it and depends on it, no escaping it or pedophilia now, that will never go away. This was really the only way to destroy someone like this, they have to self-destruct. Demonizing him just gave him more import but now, being a leper even in the RW circles, he can be ignored and forgotten about. If a deranged gadfly with no conscience falls in the media and there’s no one there to listen to him, does he really exist? He is so over now and that is so sweet! » Posted By AdLib On February 22, 2017 @ 11:14 pm KT, when you see such fragile, insecure, overcompensating assholes like him and Trump, you can only love when the public turns on them. They so desperately need to get attention and they’ve learned that by acting like assholes, they get it. But when you go a bridge too far, the public turns away from you and that’s the worst pain they can suffer. Looking forward to Trump’s impeachment/re-election loss because that will destroy him. » Posted By AdLib On February 22, 2017 @ 11:06 pm Thanks Kalima! I wouldn’t believe a word Milo says including his claim of being abused. Usually, I would take such a claim seriously but he’s so disqualified his credibility, it sure could be another convenient lie. He is a fake, as I joked about in my post, he’s just another version of Ann Coulter, building a celebrity career out of intentionally saying the most offensive things he can think of. He doesn’t believe most of what he says, it’s obvious. He just reels out horrible words and seems almost anxious to have someone verbally attack him, like he needs it emotionally. He’ll continue as Coulter does despite her self-immolation but like her, he will now be a redundant novelty only of interest to the RW nutjobs. Now, Trump needs to be next! » Posted By AdLib On February 22, 2017 @ 11:01 pm What Did Donald Trump Know About Flynn’s Russian Calls and When Did He Know it? Nirek, in 2018, if we can take back The House and Senate, we may indeed be able to do all the above! » Posted By AdLib On February 16, 2017 @ 6:41 pm Kalima, Trump tried to bury this Russian subversion with his batshit crazy press conference today and instead, it looks to have been properly regarded as a sideshow to distract from the main Trump Circus stage. Looks like the Intelligence community wanted to make sure when they leaked after it that Flynn lied to the FBI. Trump thinks he can beat the Intelligence agencies? They will bury him. » Posted By AdLib On February 16, 2017 @ 6:40 pm Kalima, I know I’m repeating this but I think it bears repeating. Trump knew Flynn was potentially a Russian spy and yet, because he didn’t want the humiliation of having to fire him so quickly, tried to just let it slide that a potential Putin operative was continuing to receive the most top secret info the U.S. had. It’s only because the Washington Post broke this story that he fired Flynn. Trump is a traitor, he would have been fine with Flynn being a spy for Russia and learning our most critical secrets if it meant he didn’t have to look bad by firing him. I think the FBI may have Trump oover a barrel now, they may have the proof on tape (digital recording) that Trump betrayed the U.S. and damaged our democracy as a partner with Putin to have a better chance to win the election. I keep hearing pundits say, “It makes no sense” why Trump has been so cozy with Putin. Isn’t it obvious? Doesn’t it make perfect sense? Putin was Trump’s ally, even if he’s b blackmailing Trump so why the surprise that he is completely capitulating to whatever Putin wants? Republicans are such hollow, unprincipled people. How can they keep protecting and supporting a Russian stooge like Trump and call themselves “patriots”? They’re only loyal to their own interests. » Posted By AdLib On February 14, 2017 @ 10:29 pm Kalima, we really dodged a bullet with maniacal Russian stooge Flynn being ousted. Whoever replaces him won’t be the Moscovian Candidate Flynn was. With tonight’s NYT revelation that the FBI has a wide ranging investigation over several Trump campaign aides being in regular contact with Russian intelligence agents during the campaign…while Russia was hacking and leaking to help Trump, I think the dam is going to break against Trump. I trust logic and common sense, Trump knew and was in cahoots what his NSA was doing with the Russian ambassador and he was collaborating with Russia’s hacks and campaign to help him win. Trump attacked and insulted the intelligence community, they’re going to take him down. Conway, Spicer, Bannon, his whole corrupt team can’t keep up the facade anymore. They’re all being exposed for the liars and crooked types that they are. Glad Conway is getting hammered, she is as evil as they come, no conscience about lying and spreading propaganda as long as it benefits her. She’s toast now, no credibility left at all. Do you think we’ll see a smoking gun nailing Trump and his campaign as traitors in bed with Russian intelligence to overthrow our election? » Posted By AdLib On February 14, 2017 @ 10:18 pm Nirek, agreed, Trump knew and is throwing the insane Flynn to the wolves. Yep, Trump is doing Putin’s work for him in trying to poisoon and bankrupt America. But the latest news about Trump having several campaign members in regular contact with Russian intelligence officers is a game changer. The odds on Trump’s impeachment are getting better and better. » Posted By AdLib On February 14, 2017 @ 9:49 pm gyp46, they’re working for themselves and the plutocracy/Putocracy. » Posted By AdLib On February 14, 2017 @ 9:43 pm Tweeted this: Republican response to proof that Trump knowingly installed a Russian-compromised liar as National Security Adviser. [img]https://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/image.gif[/img] » Posted By AdLib On February 14, 2017 @ 9:03 am Weekend Music Thread – Wag the Dog Trump destroyed by Roger Waters playing “Pigs”! Just discovered this, a perfect fit for this weekend’s theme!
» Posted By AdLib On February 12, 2017 @ 10:49 am God Condemns Muslim Ban – Trump Tweets Against “So-Called God” Thanks Kalima! I read that too, that he kept it secret he’s taking hair growth medication that could be making him impotent and confused. Then again, isn’t most of the GOP? I think it affects spelling and self-restraint, he’s going after Nordstroms now? And not Putin? It’s only a matter of time, probably the first sudden crisis will panic and unhinge him. He will commit impeachable offenses or prove to be unfit (in a way that even Repubs can’t ignore). It’s scary to have someone so mentally unstable in the WH…and equally scary that other Repubs and his voters prefer that to Dems. Insanity is better than social equality. Sick people. » Posted By AdLib On February 8, 2017 @ 5:40 pm Nirek, let’s see if he starts forgetting what he’s just said, then he’ll be fitting the full description of dementia. The sad thing is, the Repubs would still dutifully follow and support him even if he was fully demented…because they are. » Posted By AdLib On February 8, 2017 @ 5:27 pm Kalima, my spell checker is giggling. This is unpresidented in the history of the Untied Stayeds! Trump’s next complaint may be that the press is under-reporting their under-reporting. » Posted By AdLib On February 7, 2017 @ 5:46 pm To quote the 2nd worst president in my lifetime, “Bring it on!” » Posted By AdLib On February 7, 2017 @ 5:40 pm Are Trump and Bannon Trying to Inspire a Terrorist Attack? Kalima, I don’t think Trump is as insane as that, to use nukes against Al Qaeda. I hope not and hope that the generals and military will refuse such illegal orders (you can’t nuke Iraq, they are an innocent, sovereign country and Trump woould become the worst war criminal since Hitler). I do agree with the other article and as we’ve seen on both sides of the aisle, most politicians are cowards. So Repubs may talk tough but they’re afraid of Trump coming after them soo in the end, they’ll back down. It’s also stunning to me how reticent Dem politicians have been in taking Trump on like the radical tyrant he is despite the millions of people rising up around them. They should be leading or at least riding this massive movement that represents the majority of Americans and instead, many of them keep just dipping their toe in the water to see if it’s too hot. This is a time for courage, determination and action and millions of people around the world get it. As the saying goes, lead, follow or get out of the way…and that goes double for the Dem establishment. As for Repubs, the saying that applies best to them is, “You can’t run and you can’t hide,” we’re taking away their power after their cowardice and allegiance to an enemy of our people and democracy. » Posted By AdLib On February 3, 2017 @ 1:34 pm Well said, FD! And we won’t forget how Ryan, McConnell and the rest of the Repubs backed the neo-nazi, anti-Semitic, misogynist, racist and plutocratic reign over America. The bill is already coming due! » Posted By AdLib On February 3, 2017 @ 1:20 pm Thanks Kalima! Yes, Bannon’s role models as I referenced above are Lenin, Cheney and Satan. He’s vowed to destroy our government and now he has his hands on the lever of power. It’s insane. But I do agree that it’s only a matter of time until Bannon and Trump jump way off the cliff hand in hand. In the meantime, they will be poisoning the public and the world against them day after day. There is no way back for them…except a terrorist attack that forces the fearful to rally around them. That’s why I worry about their welcoming such a thing. It is inspiring though too have the press really stepping up and at least having the British people standing with us…even if their leadership is holding hands with Trump. [img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/275A/production/_93847001_holdinghands_976epa.jpg[/img] » Posted By AdLib On February 3, 2017 @ 1:13 pm Nirek, so true! I wrote this article trying to explore what big picture schemes may be of this madmen. They are trying to throw grit in the eyes of the press and public everyday with surprise outrages…but Trump and Bannon know that it gives them cover to do much bigger, horrible things. We have to watch them very closely. » Posted By AdLib On February 3, 2017 @ 12:56 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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