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With the support of a unified Democratic behind her, Hillary will easily win.

Hillary is a total establishment (read corporate, big money) sycophant, toady, lackey. We've all had enough of that. Haven't you?

Hillary is a viable candidate for the same reason Trump is: widespread ignorance and functional illiteracy in America.

I may well cast my vote for Bozo the Clown if no decent candidate is on offer.
 
Hillary is a total establishment (read corporate, big money) sycophant, toady, lackey. We've all had enough of that. Haven't you?

Hillary is a viable candidate for the same reason Trump is: widespread ignorance and functional illiteracy in America.

I may well cast my vote for Bozo the Clown if no decent candidate is on offer.

I'm not thrilled about Hilary and prefer Bernie. However, almost anyone is better than Trump - or any Republican candidate.

She's establishment, no doubt. But Trump is a demagogue who would be worse than George W. Bush as a president. And in my opinion, the younger Bush is the worst modern president. Hilary isn't a demagogue, is willing to actually get stuff done, and at least in comparison to Trump or Cruz, seems to give a damn about someone other than herself, or people like her.

Consider holding your nose and voting Hilary if that ends up being she and Trump end up being the candidates.
 
Consider holding your nose and voting Hilary if that ends up being she and Trump end up being the candidates.

I probably will, I guess. But y'know, we're all getting old and the decades and centuries of fraudulent pseudo-democracy is wearing us all down. We should be able to overthrow our lying, fraudulent manipulators somehow. We truly are a bunch of ignorant, foolish sheep in this country -- and cowards too. We should perhaps get three or four progressive states to secede from the "union". They can't kill us all or put us all in prison if we do.

I'm weary. Are you not weary?

Gawd, if only everyone would kill their television, unplug their radios, stop reading the trash media (almost all of it is crap).... We should just stretch some strings between tin cans ... or talk to one another face-to-face (if only we could get folks to put their "smart phones" down for a minute). But I'll tell you what, anyone who believes anything dished out by "mainstream media" is a damn fool. It's all bullshit. It makes us into servile morons. :(
 
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Oh lord, with regard to mainstream media...

I put the news on every morning for weather and traffic. Of course in between, I get what passes for "news." You know what they are doing now? Regurgitating viral nonsense from the internet and calling it news. Things I saw on Facebook today, will be on the news tomorrow.

Remember the Starbucks red cup story? PEOPLE ARE OUTRAGED. What people...where? I asked. And it was on the news. And it turned out, that in fact no people were actually in any way outraged, it was BS made up by some evangelical con man who was trying to get traffic to his web page, videos, and fundraising efforts.

And yet. The news...reported it...as though it were news.

But you see, the part of me that hopes this whole Trump thing is just a bad dream, is encouraged by this. Like maybe he just bought the illusion of support, but none of it is actually real...

Yes. You bet your buns I am weary.

But ya see, I think that the "American Dream" is what's made it hard for the American people to stand up and demand changes. I read somewhere that America's poor people are just "temporarily embarrassed millionaires." Think about that. We all think we can work for and eventually get what we want here. We're raised to believe in that, I think. So many of us have too much to lose, our homes, cars, and stuff that we have worked so hard for, we don't want to risk that by standing up for our principles, let alone our lives. Even those of us who are living a lower standard of living than what we'd like, basically think we are on a road making progress toward that goal. We don't want to lose what we have worked to gain. The people you see protesting and rioting over the injustices and wrongs of the world, they either don't feel they've got much to lose, or they are some very, seriously, principled individuals.

Personally, I wish we could have got John McAfee into the White House. He is paranoid as hell and he hates the government. I think he represents me pretty well. Also...I think he's cute. I could watch him do speeches for a few years. Alas. He was not backed by the right kind of money and *poof!* Gone.
 
Personally, I wish we could have got John McAfee into the White House. He is paranoid as hell and he hates the government. I think he represents me pretty well. Also...I think he's cute. I could watch him do speeches for a few years. Alas. He was not backed by the right kind of money and *poof!* Gone.

McAfee is running for the presidential nomination with the Libertarian Party, which has only a teeny-tiny base of support in the USA, and it's not only because of the establishment powers that the Libertarian Party is very marginal here. It's also because the Libertarian party is a very far RIGHT party with regard to the economy, and, to the best of my knowledge, would do nothing whatsoever to prevent an even more rapid and intensive consolidation of corporate and big money power in the USA. Remember, power in the USA is money-power. Money is power here, and power is money. If a political movement cannot offer common people protection from ever increasing money-power it simply belongs in the wastebasket of American politics -- which is why I think ALL political parties in the USA are either merely useless or, at best, worse. This, of course, includes the Democratic party. And the Green party -- which in principal I love and support. But the Green party has NO power. And Ralph Nader was right about most everything all along, y'know.
 
This morning, I was trying to get ready for work, and I have the TV on the news for weather and traffic...unfortunately, I also get "news" in the mix. They showed that clip from the GOP debates and I was literally stopped in my tracks, jaw dropped, when Trump assured us all that he had a perfectly adequate penis. And also recently I saw a thing on FB that said, "Cruz just lost because he picked and ate a booger on live TV." So now we've got boogers and dick references. Fantastic. What is this, middle school? Where the hell is the dignity? I know, I know...dignity in politics? But even Obama at least behaves in a dignified manner whatever anyone may think of his governance or anything else. This...this is just killing me.

What the actual fuck, people??

If Trump wins, it's going to either be because the whole thing is rigged and there is no actual democracy even happening anymore...or because America wants a leader that validates the ugliest, most awful a-hole parts of themselves (such as bigotry, sexism, selfishness and xenophobia)...or because we just want to be entertained SO badly that we'd even put tremendous power in the hands of a walking cartoon just so we can watch him bumble about and make fools of us all on the global stage.

If we are looking at a Hillary/Trump race, I think Hillary's entire platform should just boil down to: "Hillary 2016. She's not Trump."

Sorry guys, rant over. *sigh*
 
It's actually the Republican-controlled Congress that worries me the most.
 
Trump in '16! Yes we Klan!
 
It's actually the Republican-controlled Congress that worries me the most.

Personally...and I disclaimer that my opinions are just opinions and I'm certainly not an expert on politics or anything...my feeling is that if Sanders got elected, which I would like, then Congress would probably block him from doing anything TOO extreme when it comes to his socialist ideas. We'd have a lot of stalemates in DC...and for the duration of his Presidency, a lot of "same old, same old" as far as everyday life is concerned. I think, maybe.

Clinton, I believe, would do a whole lot of illegal sneaky crap with emails and China. She may or may not go the way of Nixon or worse, if she were elected.

Trump, backed by a Republican congress...I just can't even think about that without wanting to hide under my desk.

Repeat after me, America. Plants do NOT like electrolytes.
 
The word about to go totally freaking viral on the internets in the next twenty four hours is ...

"newsertainment". It combines the words "news' and "entertainment, but you know that, because you're paying a tension (Are you feeling tense about that?).

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Dr. John Oliver has said that the Trump family name was originally Donald Drumph, but that's not true at all. In fact, the original name of the royal family was Harrumph, a fact which the royal Harrumph family has done everything in its multi-billion dollar interest to conceal from the voting public.
 
Like if Darth Vader was running, you know, like everyone would vote for him, because he's like cool, famous, and scary.

"Your powers are weak old man."
 
Darth Vader's real, birth name is actually Anakin Skywalker, a man who as a boy attended high school with both Donald Hubert Walker Harrumph AND William Henry "Bill" Gates III. You can verify all of this yourself with Google. They all went to high school together in Albuquerque, vowing together along with Bugs Bunny never to forget to take a left turn in Albuquerque.
 
Derek Zoolander would be fired.
 
Personally...and I disclaimer that my opinions are just opinions and I'm certainly not an expert on politics or anything...my feeling is that if Sanders got elected, which I would like, then Congress would probably block him from doing anything TOO extreme when it comes to his socialist ideas. We'd have a lot of stalemates in DC...and for the duration of his Presidency, a lot of "same old, same old" as far as everyday life is concerned. I think, maybe.

Clinton, I believe, would do a whole lot of illegal sneaky crap with emails and China. She may or may not go the way of Nixon or worse, if she were elected.

Trump, backed by a Republican congress...I just can't even think about that without wanting to hide under my desk.

Repeat after me, America. Plants do NOT like electrolytes.

I saw Idiocracy a few years ago and did not imagine we'd soon have a candidate for President trying to make it come true. *puke*
 
I am disappointed in Clinton. Perhaps she's just aging, but gone is the spark I saw eight years ago, when I was torn between her & this too-young Obama guy (who I felt needed to wait another 4-8 years to be properly seasoned).

As others note, she is indeed The Establishment, & thus a shoo-in for the nomination, & likely the election as well.

Set aside all the "emails" nonsense: even if there's some basis for it, this is mostly yet another Wingnut trope -- remember Travelgate, Troopergate, Fostergate, Penisgate...

Speaking of which --
D’Souza Will Destroy Hillary Just Like He Destroyed Obama
(note: the title is intentionally sarcastic.;))
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I kinda sorta want to like Trump... but he really DOES act like a "dry drunk." Look stuff up:
Here are some of the attitudes common with the dry drunk syndrome.

Grandiosity - a self-centered, the-world-revolves-around-me attitude. It does not have to necessarily mean that I believe I am the best; it can also be seeking attention through playing the victim or sitting on the "pity pot."

Impulsivity - poor impulse control, doing what we want when we want, with little regard for self-harm or hurting others. Impulsivity can be linked with grandiosity to engage in behaviors designed to make us the center of attention.

Being judgmental - When we judge a person as being better than or less than, we are setting up a situation where we can inflate our egos, feeling superior to other people, or (if we judge ourselves to be on the short end) we can feel bitter and generate low self-esteem.

Complacency - This is not only an attitude of somebody in dry drunk syndrome, but a red-flag warning sign of someone who is well into the relapse process. If you become lazy or disinterested and stop being proactive about your recovery, the natural tendency is to fall back into addictive behaviors. Your re-engagement in them is just a short step away.
And who LIKES raging drunks (dry or otherwise)? That'd be the sort of people who LOVE justifying their sense of helplessness by having someone to blame for their own cowardice & sloth, & an abuser can either be that target, or deflect blame to a "straw man" villain.
Once you are lured into any of these attitudes, they start to affect how you think. Once you start to buy into self-centered thoughts, chances are you'll engage in the actions stemming from them.

Here are some destructive patterns and actions that can result from dry drunk thinking:
  • We become restless and irritable and discontent.
  • We become bored, dissatisfied, and easily distracted from productive tasks.
  • Our emotions and feelings get listless and dull, nothing excites us anymore.
  • the euphoric recall of yearning for the Good Old Days, and for repeating the pain and shame of failure.
  • magical thinking to distract ourselves with fanciful expectations and dreams.
  • The LAST thing we want is to engage in introspection to actually have ANY hope to improve our situation.
  • We start to feel unfulfilled, and have the feeling that nothing will ever satisfy our yearning, or fill the hole in the soul.
mostly borrowed: http://www.soberrecovery.com/addiction/what-is-a-dry-drunk/
 
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