You may want to consider that the status quo is largely due to a GOP-controlled Congress that stated on the day they took control in 2010 that their primary mission was to block every single thing The President tried to do and have done just that. It takes cooperation and compromise to govern. The acute polarization between Democrats & Republicans and Congress & the Executive branch has created historic gridlock where no progress is made. That is what dismays me.
Yep. The GOP lost credibility with their obstreperous behavior, seemingly coming out of nowhere. If it had a legitimate focus, it wouldn't have appeared racist - which it did no matter how much they deny it.
Both Dem and GOP lost touch with a large part of their base, except for the subset that's just angry. They seem to want something that's not the norm - so the part that identifies as GOP (wanting smaller government) has been pigeonholed into voting for Trump. Is he really an agent for change to create smaller government, with less intrusion into people's lives? I don't see that.
The Democratic field has had the Hillary/Bernie choice - and the magnitude of Bernie's longevity is the sign of how disaffected those folks are.
Hillary's the only mainstream candidate, but the others are the emblem of the voters' dissatisfaction. If only the GOP had some better folks in its stable, they could've beaten Hillary. Instead, they'll have to wait - and it's all their fault.
You may want to consider that the status quo is largely due to a GOP-controlled Congress that stated on the day they took control in 2010 that their primary mission was to block every single thing The President tried to do and have done just that. It takes cooperation and compromise to govern. The acute polarization between Democrats & Republicans and Congress & the Executive branch has created historic gridlock where no progress is made. That is what dismays me.
Well, if you are happy with the way things are going then the choice is clear, vote for Hillary.
Me, I'm fed up with the status quo.
The thing that I don't understand is that you are now making a choice for something objectively worse, just to spite others. You haven't gotten your way and you are frustrated, so your solution is to break everything. I don't see anyone legitimate thinking that Trump will be any kind of success, and the common refrain is 'tear it all down so we can start over'. But what you wanting to start over with is a situation that put many at a disadvantage so you could have your privilege. California was never 'yours', your family lineage and early seat at the table was never a guarantee. The system you wish to support was unsustainable.
By taking this 'burn it all down' step, you are going to make things worse for everyone. This may bring you some personal satisfaction, but there are a lot of people who are on the edge, and when you make it worse for everyone, you will make it really bad for them. I'm not going to like a Trump presidency should it come to be, but I'll survive. Heck, I might even find ways to prosper. But most people, including many who really can't make adjustments, will be seriously harmed. I know you don't care, but I seriously can't understand why not.
Well, if you are happy with the way things are going then the choice is clear, vote for Hillary.
Me, I'm fed up with the status quo.
Of course, that's not the reason you vote for Hillary. You vote because you have to pick someone, and of your choices she's the one that makes it most likely that Trump won't stumble into a position where he can ruin the nation. It's not a vote of love for Hillary; it's a vote to prevent Trump while the GOP gets its act together - or fragments more completely and something rises from its pieces.
Yeah, I have problem with number 1, too. Its really annoying. A simple link with the headline as the click to is fine, but all the other bombast is just plain worthless. Rubbing somebody's nose in bs is self defeating.
Just to be clear, I do not admire Trump in any way shape or form. I see him as an opportunity to change the way things are done, that is to change the SOP. We, this country, have reached the point were we are at a Mexican Standoff within the two sides of the established power structure that controls this country. Something has to give. The only two I see capable are Sanders and Trump. HRC is the status quo. If the choice is between HRC and Trump, its a slam dunk. Bernie and Trump, I'd have to think about it and see how it would unfold. Either one of those two is a train wreck in DC waiting to happen and that is what I am voting for.
So now people are voting to witness train wrecks? I never knew the bar could be set so low.
Female Trump supporter ganged up upon, cornered and egged. The police just watched, having been ordered to stand down and not protect the Trump supporters emerging from the San Jose rally as it might "enrage the protesters even more".
Here the media excuse this behaviour and blame Trump.
As long as you are not white the media will give you a free past to be as racist and violent as you like.
Imagine if the roles were reversed here, white Trump supporters chasing down a black Bernie supporter. The media would be in spasms for weeks. As it happened here though they just shrugged. He's a Trump supporter and deserved to be chased down.
Mexican illegals want to conquer parts of the south, all sanctioned by the Mexican government.
The perfect example of the media giving non-whites a free pass to racism is Ali vs Hogan.
With all due respect, rotekz, you are one confused soul.
As long as you are not white the media will give you a free pass to be as racist and violent as you like.
Imagine if the roles were reversed here, white Trump supporters chasing down a black Bernie supporter. The media would be in spasms for weeks. As it happened here though they just shrugged. He's a Trump supporter and deserved to be chased down.
I’ve decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States.
I’ll start by reminding readers that my politics don’t align with any of the candidates. My interest in the race has been limited to Trump’s extraordinary persuasion skills. But lately Hillary Clinton has moved into the persuasion game – and away from boring facts and policies – with great success. Let’s talk about that.
This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear.
That is good persuasion if you can pull it off because fear is a strong motivator. It is also a sharp pivot from Clinton’s prior approach of talking about her mastery of policy details, her experience, and her gender. Trump took her so-called “woman card” and turned it into a liability. So Clinton wisely pivoted. Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see Clinton’s numbers versus Trump improve in June, at least temporarily, until Trump finds a counter-move.
The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels).
If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate their own leader. I too would feel that way if an actual Hitler came to power in this country. I would join the resistance and try to take out the Hitler-like leader. You should do the same. No one wants an actual President Hitler.
So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president. But I do know which outcome is most likely to get me killed by my fellow citizens. So for safety reason, I’m on team Clinton.
My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton.
The rest of you are on your own. Good luck.
I think Scott Adams got lost in the pretzel-logic world of his cartoons.
1. Did Clinton explicitly "pair the idea of President Trump with...Hitler"? or the Holocaust? Not in her latest speech, as far as I can tell.
1a. She did call Trump "temperamentally unfit" to be President and pointed numerous instances of his lack of understanding about current events and policies. Most adults who've been paying attention would agree with her.
1b. Although I've just skimmed the speech, I can't see where she implied that a President Trump would be a dictator.
2. Clinton's speech wasn't a great departure from her earlier speeches, as far as I can tell. She did contrast her knowledge of and experience in foreign and domestic policy with Trump's deficiencies in those areas, and did so to great effect. She did touch on Trump being thin-skinned and rash.
3. If Clinton's numbers do go up in June, it may be in part because she gave a great speech that exposed Trump as a rambling, know-nothing, hate-filled ranter. Any rise in popularity may also be due to an apparent shortage in Trump's campaign funds for the next month or so.
Scott next loses his tenuous grasp on reality.
4. "The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States."
Wait, what?
How did Scott jump from Hillary supposedly fear-mongering about Trump all the way to an imminent race war?!?!? Does Scott seriously think that people are going to start killing each other if someone says that Trump is temperamentally unfit to be POTUS? Are non-whites supposed to start fighting with whites over Trump's thinning scalp?
5. "And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms..."
Yes, that's absolutely right. I think America is going to be taken over by a right-wing dictator, so I'm going to jump into a race war. And a cartoonist whose cultural influence definitely peaked a while ago is on my Top Ten List of Assassination Targets justbecause he admires Trump's "persuasion skills."
5a. Who knew that Democrats were such vicious Red Guard types ready to kill at the bidding of Madame Hillary. Lynch the capitalist-lackey cartoonist!
6. "Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd."
They're never violent. All that hitting and punching and dragging of protesters during a Trump rally? All staged. They're practicing for the WWE.
7. "As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president."
Scott, if you think you need psychic powers to figure that out, you're sorely lacking in other mental capacities.
I will do my level best to get you into the nicest re-indoctrination/labor camps when Chairman Hill assumes power.
I’ve decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States.
I’ll start by reminding readers that my politics don’t align with any of the candidates. My interest in the race has been limited to Trump’s extraordinary persuasion skills. But lately Hillary Clinton has moved into the persuasion game – and away from boring facts and policies – with great success. Let’s talk about that.
This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear.
That is good persuasion if you can pull it off because fear is a strong motivator. It is also a sharp pivot from Clinton’s prior approach of talking about her mastery of policy details, her experience, and her gender. Trump took her so-called “woman card” and turned it into a liability. So Clinton wisely pivoted. Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see Clinton’s numbers versus Trump improve in June, at least temporarily, until Trump finds a counter-move.
The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels).
If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate their own leader. I too would feel that way if an actual Hitler came to power in this country. I would join the resistance and try to take out the Hitler-like leader. You should do the same. No one wants an actual President Hitler.
So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president. But I do know which outcome is most likely to get me killed by my fellow citizens. So for safety reason, I’m on team Clinton.
My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton.
Not saying he's trying to be pope, but he'd be the most amazing pope ever, you're gonna love it. Bring back the inquisition, the Crusades...make Catholicism great again!
He would kick our current low energy pope's ass. It would be embarrassing. Loser.
Not saying he's trying to be pope, but he'd be the most amazing pope ever, you're gonna love it. Bring back the inquisition, the Crusades...make Catholicism great again!
Not saying he's trying to be pope, but he'd be the most amazing pope ever, you're gonna love it. Bring back the inquisition, the Crusades...make Catholicism great again!
If Trump wins, will he want to downgrade his digs and live in that dump at 1600 Penna.?
No, he'd have to tear the disgusting dump down, because it is a disgrace as left behind by the last tenants, but he'll have it beautifully rebuilt (with lotsa, lotsa gilded kitsch) in no time. It'll be yuge and beautiful, 'cause he knows beautiful. In fact, no one knows beautiful like he does. Oh, and youse are gonna pay for it.