There is an insular quality to the Democrats’ current fears, along the lines of ‘how could Clinton be tied with Trump, when I don’t know anyone who supports him?’. For the most part, they’ve blamed Trump’s rise on the media, saying the fourth estate is not calling out his lies. This is ridiculous, since about 99 per cent of pundits are against Trump, and even ‘straight reporting’ news journalists are saying they have a moral duty to oppose the Republican candidate, apparently because he is such a threat to the country.
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Sean Collins:
If this could become a wave, there is reason to vote for TRUMP.
Ah yes, once again the dance of “I’m moving to ___________ if __________ is elected.”
It rears its tiresome head every election.
Bring Money
” For the most part, they’ve blamed Trump’s rise on the media, saying the fourth estate is not calling out his lies.”
1.Social Justice Warriors ALWAYS lie.
2.Social Justice Warriors ALWAYS double down.
3.Social Justice Warriors ALWAYS project.
There’s more of course, but apparently a rogue algorithm is shutting down Facebook accounts that retweet links to Vox Populi’s site. It’s for their safety.
The annoying thing about Lefties is that they never feel the need to keep their promises.
Alisa : Did they ever ?
When Obama was running, I feared some cracker was going to assassinate him. I wasn’t looking forward to the result if he was. Now, I’m pretty sure someone will go after Trump if he wins. I don’t know what the fallout will be, but it won’t be pretty. To the point, I don’t think people will move if he’s elected in big numbers – someone will likely go after him rather than move.
‘how could Clinton be tied with Trump, when I don’t know anyone who supports him?’.
Well see, that’s your problem right there… you should get out more. Smokey Joe’s Diner, or Milligan’s Tavern, perhaps. That’s the sort of places 90% of your fellow unmet citizens hang out at, you know.
Yes Alisa.
I have yet to hear that Saint Bob of Geldof, has rented out even the box room of one of his several properties to Asylum Seekers, as he promised to.
Somebody already has.
Hey, have some pity for us in Oz! Leftoids, like Streissand, have threatened to come here to live! We have our own lefties! Might be time for Libertarians to move here in massive numbers, just to keep us as a free-enterprise society!
The problem isn’t Trump or Clinton. It’s the metastasising power of the state via ever more roles, regulations and taxes.
This is the real threat, in the US and elsewhere.
We live in a bizarre time where modern tech is liberating the individual on one hand, and government is strangling us with the other.
No one has land lines anymore, ergo…
Poll inner cities. Malls are a good place. That’s where people are; do your job en masse and go home.
Poll “likely voters”. That is, pretend that this is a status quo election, which of course it isn’t.
Polls have been overwhelmingly in favor of the democrat establishment candidate. Wow, whodathunkit?
Meanwhile people who have been fed up with the rigged system for decades and haven’t voted for this reason, and who aren’t living in “inner city” dwellings are no doubt going to come out and vote for Trump.
SOMEONE’s filling those stadium seats at Trump rallies, whereas Hillary can’t gather a crowd at a county fair.
Plus, she’s been scandalized doing virtually everything at this point short of hand-jobbing the pope. 7 out of every 10 people in America considers her dishonest and corrupt.
And to boot, the “commie” pretending to be a libertarian is stealing “Bernie” votes away from her.
Say hello to President Trump.
Nicholas,
Apparently Susan Sarandon, who has always been gal-pals with Hillary, is appauled by her true self, exposed by congress, the FBI and others. Maybe she’ll start a trend.
RAB, Bob Geldof is a little shit. Actually he’s a 6’2″ shit. Feel free to ingore his ass, like Adele has.
Thailover, why don’t they move to Canada, like draft-dodgers of old? Why should we have to put up with Democrats?
Didn’t sugar hypocrite Jamie Oliver promise to bugger off if the Brexit vote went the wrong way? Talking of sugar, the BBC was giving the stuff a good bashing on the breakfast news this morning. Apparently people are eating much less sugar but more needs to be done.
I have yet to hear that Saint Bob of Geldof, has rented out even the box room of one of his several properties to Asylum Seekers, as he promised to.
On the other side, I’ve not heard anything of Ms Hopkins “sausage run” either, but perhaps that’s not a bad thing.
I hear North Korea is lovely in late November,
Hillary Clinton is the weakest Democrat candidate I have ever seen.
It is not just a question of her policies, even higher government spending and taxes and even more regulations, Hillary Clinton is well known to be CORRUPT. Mrs Clinton is detested as a corrupt hypocrite bleating about the poor while she lines her own pockets with the money of other people.
A person selected, at random, from the telephone directory would defeat Mrs Hillary Clinton in the election – if Mr Donald J. Trump loses his key supporters (the people who really gave him the Republican nomination) will have a lot to answer for. For it is they, the key supporters of Donald J. Trump, who will given the world President Hillary Clinton.
Allegedly, President Bush Snr has stated he will vote for that woman.
This is the Establishment closing ranks of course, as they always do.
But they may be about to discover – as the Remoaners have over here – that if you patronise, ignore, denigrate, insult, and sneer at people long enough, eventually they turn round and slap you.
Thanks Thai-lover. Now I have spaghetti on my computer screen.
The victim in all of this is Canada, if Trump wins the only solution is for Alberta to join the US or become independent.
Stonyground, more always needs to be done. That’t the BBC’s idea of balance. The government doing more on one side of the argument, and the people saying the government isn’t doing enough on the other.
When I was in New York recently I met some people who were looking to vote Trump, not because they thought he was a good candidate, but because they saw Clinton as being the epitome of what is wrong with US politics. I’ve said it before: Trump is a symptom of the appalling state of US politics whereas Clinton is very much a cause. And as I’ve also pointed out:
It has often been justly said that it will be time to believe in anthropogenic global warming when those who preach it act as if they did – instead of jetting around the world to conferences on it in Bali and suchlike.
It will be time to believe in liberals’ views of Trump when they act like they did – instead of offering a candidate like Hillary to oppose him.
Just my 0.02p 🙂
Of course, the less jokey aspect is that my jest above can maybe be partly turned around. Neither the republican party establishment nor the tea party exactly chose Trump – the esteblishment had candidates like Jeb and I think a majority of the tea party would have chosen Cruz. However there’s no doubt it was a group of very anti-Hillary primary voters who chose Trump. We’ll see what can be said by them and to them in a couple of months.
I had no intention of voting for Trump, but the more the Beautiful People bash him, the more I’m considering it.
Trump is pointing out the obvious truths in his speeches that the establishment wishes to hide.
Hillary is masking, lying, hiding and obfuscating.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Unusually I’m in agreement with John Galt III: I wouldn’t go as far to say Trump is not lying, hiding and obfuscating as well mind you, but he is pointing out the obvious truths (and the myths that arise from hiding truths, which are potentially more potent) and this is appealing to people as far as I can see. Perhaps because the vast majority of people are not signed up to the ‘liberal’ (can we stop using the word in this way? Please?) ideas of identity politics and government doing good, even if they vote for the Democrats.
Amen!
Re:Liberal
After year of failed radical experimentation
by folks who donned the sheeps clothing years ago, the
camouflage of “liberal” has largely been abandoned for,
(Lest we forget) “Progressive” (in the US anyway)
Thanks to the Electoral College and being in a state Hillary is going to carry by 20 points regardless, I feel free to vote my conscience (Gary Johnson).
Paul Marks wrote,
‘Never happen.
CaptDMO & Watchman.
I’ve stopped calling them “liberals” many, many moons ago. They’re Leftists. I don’t choose to use any of their Orwellian opposite-speak self-applied terms, like Progressive for instance. (Though I will use it in mockery).
Andrew Duffin @ September 22, 2016 at 11:18 am
Or it might be Bush reacting to Trump’s vitriolic attacks on his son.
The election of Clinton will be the death rattle of democracy under law, but inasmuch as Trump is a long-time liberal Democrat and Clinton crony, will it really make enough difference which of them wins for Bush (or Ted Cruz) to overlook Trump’s personal attacks on their families?
Thailover: how about Liberal-Interventionist (poorly disguised) authoritarians ? Not a snappy catch-all phrase but perhaps accurate ?