Displaying 961 To 990 Of 19,504 Comments Murph, I’d also add that there is an ironic spite of democracy that I’ve seen expressed for example at DailyKos by Hillary fans who blame Bernie’s participation in the primary for Hillary’s loss. In other words, they complain that had Dems just allowed the Dem Party elites to pick Hillary as the candidate and not allowed there to be a primary that allowed voters to participate, she would have won. So the less democracy the people have, the better it is for the people. And someone noted that Hillary contested for the nom against Obama in 2008 and took her best shots at him and he won the Presidency. If a candidate is too fragile to compete in a primary, they’re too fragile to compete in a GE. » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 8:13 pm Murph, I guess that’s about what I expected they’d say. It’s astounding to me how naive and trusting they are towards a politician who promises them the moon…after being so upset that they’ve been betrayed time and again by Repub politicians who have done the identical thing. Critical thinking is something that’s acquired, if one hasn’t learned how to do it along the way, it’s like not being able to understand a language. » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 8:04 pm Murph, really appreciate it. Yes, you can share it with our Yabberz friends. I do think you’re right, The Repub House would have tried to destroy her presidency with hearings and possibly even impeachment hearings. Don’t know that they would have impeached her but as they did with Obama, they would have spent her term doing all they could to destroy on disempower her. Also, considering that a key reason she might have won the presidency is that she was running against Trump, I would guess that adding the Repub Congress’ gridlock and persecution to having even a modest Repub candidate to run against in 2020, I think she almost certainly would have lost and been a one termer. So one could argue that out of the next two terms, we’d lose one of them anyway but the problem with losing this term is the SCOTUS pick and the destruction of the ACA which would have been much harder to destroy 4 years from now. On the other hand, after all of Trump’s disasters, Dems should be able to do very well in 2018 and 2020, in time to change redistricting to be more reflective of the real population. Either way, we’d have to take a big bite of a crap sandwich. It’s just going to be sooner instead of later. » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 4:42 pm RSGmusic…sorry but it is bewildering that instead of holding Hillary, Trump, Comey, Putin, Assange, etc. responsible for the trouble she had in the campaign, you go on a long unrelated attack against Bernie Sanders. Sanders did not run in the GE, he supported Hillary throughout, campaigned repeatedly for her in AZ, MI, etc. and repeatedly called for his supporters to vote for her. There is no legit estimate of how many Bernie supporters didn’t vote for Hillary, just from anecdotal evidence, most apparently did. The research is already in showing that it was the “Reagan Democrats” who cost her the election, the older, white conservative Democrats in WI, MI and PA who switched parties to vote for Trump. That is documented and contradicts your scenario. There are so many to blame for this horrible outcome but Bernie Sanders isn’t one of them. He didn’t have anything to do with Reagan Democrats jumping the fence to support Trump in those key states that gave Trump the win. And in a change election like this, like in 2000, independent candidates always do a little better because…people are looking for change. And an establishment candidate like Hillary will always have an uphill battle to win in such years. » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 4:24 pm Murph, very interested to hear what their perspective is. They’ve voted to have their health insurance taken away, do they feel it’s worth the sacrifice to themselves to have Trump in the WH? Or do they believe that somehow Trump will give them other health insurance (even though that’s not possible without the ACA)? Curious to hear… » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 4:12 pm Hey Kes, you may have an ad blocker or spam blocker that’s preventing the thumbs up, check that. I added it for you (and to you!). Thanks! » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 12:04 pm And BTW, as I think you know, there is no “other” Trump. There is only one who will do and say whatever helps him satisfy his emotional needs…including reading pandering garbage off of teleprompters (like his phony acceptance speech last night) when necessary. He is who we have seen him to be. He doesn’t give a shit about America or any of those who elected him and that will become clear very quickly. No wonder he made a big deal early on about, “I love the uneducated voters!” Of course he does, conning the rubes is how he gets what he wants for himself. I kind of pity those fools who have no idea that they’re about to lose their health insurance, have their SS cut and Medicare reduced…not to mention have their Welfare cut. As the saying goes, there’s no fool like an old fool. Or a fool who dies from not having health insurance. » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 9:48 am Murph, you put your finger on so much that I think needs to be recognized and discussed with a sense of urgency. What the numbers point out, as you describe, isn’t that Trump outperformed as a Republican. It’s that Hillary underperformed as so many warned she would if she became the Dem nominee instead of Bernie. Hillary is not a bad person, she is not a criminal nor are her genuine political views far outside of many Americans. This was a populist election and despite the obvious evidence through massive crowds and rising from an unknown to a legit rival of the most powerful and connected woman in America, Bernie was sidelined by the Democratic Party establishment that had already placed the crown on the head of an old school politician representing and emoting the status quo. The concept of Hillary as the first woman president inspired people but Hillary herself as a person and a candidate was uninspiring. I think the Hillary campaign came down to the proposition that with enough money and political operations, she could be forced past the populist voters into the WH past the faux populist in the other party. Too much of America has moved on from the cliche of the uninspiring elitist politicians who play the game as it’s been played for decades (if not centuries). It was a tough battle to beat a media savvy populist with an old school elitist. Hillary was not one of “us” but we hoped this woman who seemed so detached from us could represent us. Trump ran as one of the “us”, it’s all a lie but his followers can’t tell a lie from a pit of acid. The way I look at it this morning, the night after Donald Trump has been crowned as the most powerful man in the world for the next 4 years, is that Hillary was fatally flawed from the start but the Dem Establishment anointed her because she was one of them, ignoring all of her handicaps because having one of their own in power was the priority over having the best candidate who stood the best chance of winning. I posted this to FD but just to underline my point, check this out from today’s USA Today: Would Bernie Sanders have defeated Donald Trump? During the primaries, one of the most common attacks on Bernie Sanders was that he wasn’t anywhere near as “electable” in the general election as Hillary Clinton. As Donald Trump is poised to assume the presidency, let’s take a look back at how Sanders was polling against Trump in a head-to-head general election matchup. The RealClearPolitics average from May 6-June 5 had Sanders at 49.7% to Trump’s 39.3%, a 10.4-point cushion. In that same time frame, Trump was polling close to Clinton and was even ahead in multiple polls. During an appearance on Meet The Press at the end of May, Sanders acknowledged that disparity: “Right now, in every major poll, national poll and statewide poll done in the last month, six weeks, we are defeating Trump often by big numbers, and always at a larger margin than secretary Clinton is.” That polling was of course based on a hypothetical scenario, five months from Election Day. However, Sanders’ popularity among white working-class voters might have been the difference in this election; voters that Trump ultimately won. Sanders defeated Clinton in both the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries, two of the states that Trump surprised in on Tuesday. It’s kind of like mass hypnosis. We knew, we were told way back in the midst of the primaries that Hillary was more probable to lose to Trump than Bernie but it was waved away by the Dem establishment that manipulated so much to complete the coronation they had predetermined should take place. We knew. The numbers were clear, Bernie’s big enthusiastic rallies vs. Hillary’s small uninspired crowds, Bernie’s widely viewed genuineness and honesty vs. Hillary’s perceived dishonesty and untrustworthy. We all watched this head on collision happening in slow motion and instead of being able to steer into a different direction, we just assured ourselves that the accident wouldn’t really happen. Looking at it in this kind of perspective, were the results of last night really so surprising (putting aside the deceptive polling that validated our denial of reality)? These results were presented to us months ago but we just chose to ignore them. And I say “we” loosely. The Hillary nomination was not organic nor driven by the base of voters. It was constructed behind the scenes a long time before the primaries began. Hillary lined up her support in the Dem establishment, got her pledges from Superdelegates, brought the Congressional Black Congress on board and of course had her previous campaign manager, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as head of the DNC, planning drastically limited and poorly-scheduled debates and doing all they could to diminish and scare off any competition while they custom fit the nomination for Hillary. Add to that the greatest fundraising network every constructed, thanks in no small part to the relationships with the wealthy and Wall Street she and Bill had built through The Clinton Global Initiative and she had a preset path to win the nomination that would frighten away any serious contender who could take it away from her. Of course, then came Bernie. In the era of Trump, it’s ironic that perhaps the core failure of the Dems was having an elitist group choose the candidate for the party and present her as inevitable…completely disconnected from their membership and their wishes, ignoring any value of having their base decide for themselves who would be the best candidate. Dems had no choice, it was already decided before the primary that Hillary was entitled to the nomination. All the big money and Dem elite were already lined up behind her and they rattled the cage to threaten anyone from challenging that. The fact that an unknown named Bernie built up such enormous and daunting support is a further testament to how much Hillary was not the natural choice of party members. Ironically, before the primaries, many thought it would be another Bush/Clinton face off. Jeb Bush was foreshadowing what Dems refused to recognize. He had the party behind him, he had the huge war chest, he was one of the elite family who had already reigned as President. And he was crushed in the face of a populist despite how disgusting he was. Hillary is the Dem’s Jeb Bush. They went back to the well with the old school elitist pol who wasn’t inspiring but was entitled to be a nominee and President. It failed with Jeb and it failed with Hillary. In this environment, motivation and inspiration is needed to drive out sufficient voters to win a national election. Obama had it, Bernie had it, Trump had it…but Hillary didn’t. She came off as archaic, a dinosaur of a politician who originally planned to cynically swing to the left in the primary to steal Bernie’s thunder to cut his knees out from under him then move back to the center in the GE. When it became clear that Dems, already questioning her as being genuine, wouldn’t be too keen at her swerving back to the middle, she stayed with much of Bernie’s platform through the GE. It wasn’t enough though to attract the rural and outer suburban whites though who still were only looking for an angry outsider (like Bernie…and Trump) to politics-as-usual who would really fight to change things. It never felt right from the start, Hillary installed as the untouchable, inevitable front runner even before she announced her candidacy. And Bernie’s incredible rise to compete with her neck and neck was as big a warning sign for the “inevitable” candidate as there could have been. Hillary is not a natural campaigner nor a very good one. She lost the 2008 primary despite all these advantages she had then too, she nearly lost the primary this year to an unknown despite all her strengths and now, she’d lost what should have been a slam dunk win against a con man. Hillary has always been a pretty poor candidate with too much baggage to escape. She rebounded off of Bill’s presidency and the public humiliation she was subjected to due to him and won the NY Senate seat. There too, she had all the power and money of the Dem establishment to push her past the finish line. It worked then, it worked in the primary this year but it’s proven to be a flawed strategy that’s inconsistent. Sometimes, using primarily muscle and money doesn’t help an uninspiring candidate get the turnout they need to win elections. This is Groundhog Day…except the groundhog is now going to become president. Hillary has been an uninspiring candidate who has lost or nearly lost most of the elections she’s run in despite enormous advantages. Thanks to this (in addition to many other factors including the whipping up of white racial anxiety by Trump), we now have a tsunami of terribleness coming our way that’s going to last at least 4 years. The best things we can do is take a little time to work through this disaster, unite to fight against it and strip the DNC of having the kind of power and influence they used to install one of their own elitists as a nominee who was too flawed and uninspiring to win against a man despised by 60% of the nation. » Posted By AdLib On November 9, 2016 @ 9:28 am FBI Director Comey Opens Investigation on Ham Sandwich BREAKING NEWS: James Comey releases video statement on FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails:
» Posted By AdLib On November 6, 2016 @ 7:23 pm For those worrying about the election, all major news sources I’ve reviewed today are focused on the following Trump stories, Melania illegally working as an undocumented alien, Giuliani getting FBI leaks and the FBI leaking to manipulate the election, the National Enquirer buying a Trump sexual assault victim’s story to bury it and Bret Bair having to apologize on Fox News for claiming charges against the Clinton Foundation are imminent. Not one story negative about Hillary is featured among news outlets today (other than the race being tight). The WAPO poll that earlier in the week (was the only major poll that showed Trump leading) showed Trump +1 now shows Hillary continuing to strengthen and back to +4 over Trump. Other polls show Hillary’s numbers rising too (at Real Clear Politics). What seems clear through the weekend is that the explosion of dishonest FBI propaganda that hurt Hillary last Friday has already backfired and been equalized by the stories of FBI impropriety. What seems to be filling its place in the news now are negative stories about Trump and Melania. Hillary has consistently held around a +4 lead in the national polls, she’s there this weekend so by Monday morning, with only 1 day to go until the election and a massive amount of early votes already in, she is leading with a healthy margin and stories of enormous Latino turnout are growing. It’s stressful that Trump is as close as he is to the Presidency but there is every reason to be a bit confident that Hillary will win…as long as we all do our duty as citizens to vote on Tuesday (if we haven’t done already). As the Brits say, “Keep Calm and Carry On”. » Posted By AdLib On November 5, 2016 @ 7:25 am Check out this video that has the clip of a evilly grinning Giuliani saying that something big that hurts Hillary and helps Trump will come out in two days…two days before Comey gave that outrageous letter to Congress to harm Hillary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEO7HuDNSvw This is what a coup looks like. Arms of the government using the power Americans gave them to protect them, to manipulate elections to control the outcome. There needs to be a purge of the FBI by the Clinton Justice Department, prosecuting all those criminals in the FBI who leaked info to influence the election. And Giuliani should go to prison right along with them. » Posted By AdLib On November 4, 2016 @ 9:42 am Kalima, this is literally terrifying…and a genuine attempt at a coup! » Posted By AdLib On November 3, 2016 @ 9:22 pm If Hillary has been saving an October Surprise to spring on Trump before the election, tomorrow or Friday would be the time to do it. With or without it though, she will win as long as we GOTV! » Posted By AdLib On November 2, 2016 @ 10:46 am Kalima, I don’t think anyone would confuse you for a white man! Unfortunately, racism and hatred is irresistible for the ignorant white people out there and Trump is the vehicle for expressing that. There is little resembling critical thinking in those who would vote for Trump. He’s clearly lying to them about everything but they want those lies to be true so badly, they override any sense of reason. For them, it’s all about blind faith in the con man to transform 2016 into a 1950s that never existed. In the back of mu mind, I kind of wish all Trump supporters could be sucked into an alternative universe where Trump won and the country and world came apart. But instead of focusing on their just desserts, I am focused on winning this election and crushing the racists and haters like the cockroaches they are. » Posted By AdLib On November 2, 2016 @ 10:42 am Kalima, unlike the TrumpTrolls, I don’t think polls are skewed but the big swings in them, despite how convicted voters are one way or the other, seems to portray polls as more measurements of immediate emotions than commitments to voting for a candidate. That is, they are general indicators but not as accurate as they may seem. Consier how quickly alleged Trump voters were so outraged by his taped admission of sexual assault …but once Comey says he’s re-examining Hillary emails, they’re back to supporting Trump? Either much of the population are brain damaged and have the memories wiped clean by the latest news or people just communicate their disappointment or anger about the politician who’s most recently attacked in the MSM. My proposition is that the race has possibly been around the same margin for Hillary for some time and continues too be so but the emotional meter of the polls makes it look like it’s been rising and falling dramatically. I think that the temporarily discouraged Trump voters who expressed that in polls up until Friday were going to vote for him anyway even if they said otherwise. Same with the post-Comey Hillary voters, the effect of Comey’s outrageous stunt is fading now and the same voters who were going too vote for Hillary will be doing so. Unfortunately, a smaller margin of victory for Hillary may have been the real “poll” all along, people have just been jerked around by the illogically big swings in polls that may only be mirroring the negative emotions and not the voting plans for many who have been polled. » Posted By AdLib On November 2, 2016 @ 10:35 am Kalima, yep, the Repub version of an October surprise is too have their partison FBI director stir up a criminal investigation on Hillary in the last week of an election…based on nothing! Comey has no actual evidence of any wrongdoing yet outrageously formally announces this, breaking with all precedent and defying the DoJ? I don’t think Trump wins due too this but Comey may be helping her win by a smaller margin that could empower Trump and Repubs to insist she is illegitimate. Comey is a traitor to the nation IMO. He is de facto helping the Russians through his actions to try and hand Trump the election despite the true sentiment and intentions of the majority of voters. Suppressing the vote is an attack on democracy and not only do I agree that Comey needs to go but he should be prosecuted under the Hatch Act. Our democracy is under unrelenting assault and in dire straits. » Posted By AdLib On November 1, 2016 @ 12:36 pm If you’re not a white male, yes. » Posted By AdLib On November 1, 2016 @ 12:28 pm PPO – Word is that the ham was also on Russian rye and had French dressing so Interpol has been brought into the investigation. » Posted By AdLib On November 1, 2016 @ 12:27 pm Trump Campaign Cancelled Due to Low Ratings Hey Kes! I don’t think it was intentional since Trump is surprisingly stupid but he injected the reality tv series format into politics at a time and in a year when it was ideal. After 8 years of angrily resisting a black man residing in the White House (who provided solid and brilliant leadership), the racially, intellectually and socially under-developed segment of the American public wanted something different, exciting and entertaining. Trump was their Obama, he had charisma, he was a “star” and (in their eyes) he was an outsider who wanted to change government. But most importantly, he was reviled by the establishment and educated voters (“the others”), the enemy of those they saw as their enemy. The perfect vehicle for their resentment of a world moving forward in time when all they wanted was for time to go backwards to the 1950’s. So they became fans in the true sense…fan is short for fanatic. And his loving audience. As for the MSM and most of the rest of America, it’s fitting that Howard Stern has been involved in this because his story is very similar. I remember a study about his listeners in his heyday, people who loved him listened to him less than people who despised him and both sets of people said the reason they listened to him was that they wanted to hear what he said next. The Trumpman Show is proving that in the end, it is a flop. The MSM made a fortune off of it along the way but the GOP and Trump himself are being destroyed by bad ratings. They had hoped for at least 4 more seasons but they’re going to be cancelled in two weeks and “Madame President” will be filling that time slot for the next 4 seasons. » Posted By AdLib On October 25, 2016 @ 10:23 pm JOIN THE LIVE CHAT TONIGHT!!! The Final Clinton/Trump Presidential Debate – 6:00pm PDT Chris “Hack” Matthews asked Harry Reid what he would miss the most since he’s retiring. He responded, “Not you.” So funny though not to Matthews. » Posted By AdLib On October 19, 2016 @ 5:23 pm No problem. Let the regurgitating begin! » Posted By AdLib On October 19, 2016 @ 5:20 pm grammit, but with a moderate to liberal SCOTUS, maybe we can finally get Citizens United overturned! These people have a sad future ahead of them as they become a smaller and smaller minority. America won’t go back to the 1950s, ain’t gonna happen. Time only moves forward and the country is going in that direction as well. » Posted By AdLib On October 19, 2016 @ 5:19 pm Hey grammit! Welcome to The Planet! Agreed, I keep waiting for the issue discussions and recognize that this is pretty much the last night to even hope for any. Considering the circus/reality show Trump is already putting on with his choice of guests (just heard Sarah Palin has been invited by him too…pretty clear he’s not trying to win anymore but just lock up his base for further exploitation), I highly doubt we will get much more than personal attacks and accusations from a desperate and losing Trump. Meanwhile, I am hoping Hillary focuses on details of her proposals for various issues. It will be a stark and welcome contrast to Trump’s ugliness that even his own campaign has declared he will display. » Posted By AdLib On October 19, 2016 @ 4:22 pm Thanks KT! Most alt-rights and Trump supporter live on the bank of the same river…you know where I’m going with this…denial. They attack those who call them on their racism as “the real racists”, call Trump’s racism, “Telling it like it is” and “Straight talk”. They want to believe racist things, they just don’t want to be called racists. » Posted By AdLib On October 19, 2016 @ 4:17 pm Top 5 Craziest Things (So Far) About Trump in The Presidential Election James, my impression is that Dem voters are very motivated to vote and become even more so with each Trump rant that’s delivered. This recent paranoid conspiracy rampage by him, to attack American democracy in a way that Putin could only be applauding, only seems to energize those who want to make sure he’s nowhere near the White House. I know the TrumpChumps claim that the polls are wrong and that there’s a hidden Trump majority hiding out there but I think the opposite could happen. Once people are in their voting booths, they might seriously think about what a Trump Presidency would mean and may change their vote to Hillary. From the beginning, I wondered if Trump’s nomination might mean a Goldwater-type loss of yuuge proportions for him. There are still nearly three weeks left in the campaign, things could happen but as of now, that seems more likely than not. And GOTV will ensure that, all Americans should see Trump’s denigration of our democratic system as a challenge to go out and vote and make a statement that we believe in American democracy and no petty, would-be tyrant will get away with trying to undermine it just to gratify his narcissism. » Posted By AdLib On October 19, 2016 @ 10:11 am Kalima, there are so many polls around on so many questions but what stood out to me was that a majority of Trump voters say they’re voting against Hillary more than they’re voting for Trump. He absolutely has bigoted lemmings following him off the cliff but some of those voters are misogynist Democrats and Independents too. It sure seems to me that what this is really all about is a segment of the nation that is uneducated, white and resentful/scared about the rise of minorities to being peers with them. The loss of white superiority coupled with less blue collar jobs that pay well, all pointing to the nationalism and bigotry they express. Trump is the carpetbagger who has jumped in front of the protest and many ignorant protesters think that means he’s leading them. Many may follow him for a while after the election but I think that before too long, they will lose their faith in The Loser and look elsewhere for their White KKKnight. Tonight should get ugly, like Trump’s soul, but that will only make him a bigger loser which works for me. » Posted By AdLib On October 19, 2016 @ 10:01 am fjb, it usually starts with segment of a nation that is ignorant, angry, scared and bigoted then a narcissist comes along to exploit them and their emotionalism to grab power for himself. It’s a long and disgusting path that the GOP has plowed that has taken us here but the silver lining is that they are now being devoured by the monster they created. » Posted By AdLib On October 18, 2016 @ 12:53 pm PPO, good idea! We’ve seen how upset he is with Alec Baldwin’s skewering of him on SNL. He can’t take being laughed at. That would really get under his skin! » Posted By AdLib On October 18, 2016 @ 12:47 pm KT, I agree, if all of these outrageous things have proved anything, it’s that the GOP is devoid of any genuine principles and would jeopardize the entire country to benefit their party. Their party comes first before everything. Principles, sanity, stability, peace, a working economy and definitely before religious beliefs. How clarifying that evangelicals were the first to declare full support for Trump after the tape came out. They are the worst and the most unprincipled of them all. There are a number of Repub voters who are repulsed by Trump and won’t vote for him, we need to be fair about those principled people, but the party leadership and most of their politicians? They deserve to goo down with the Trump ship. » Posted By AdLib On October 17, 2016 @ 6:05 pm JOIN THE LIVE CHAT TONIGHT!!! The 2nd Presidential Debate at 6:00PM PDT Kalima, sure looks like that’s the impression most debate viewers came away with. Trump is going down in flames, scorched Earth desperation which will only immolate him and the GOP. So it’s all good. » Posted By AdLib On October 10, 2016 @ 2:48 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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