excelsiorlef
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Scathing.
Nice to see Good Maher instead of Dipshit Maher
Do we know if Alec Baldwin is doing another Trump on SNL?
Do we know if Alec Baldwin is doing another Trump on SNL?
Ballots are already printed. The process is done. They're not replacing himCouple of things:
1) How possible is it they replace Trump? If he were willing, how much would it shift the race? Is it even do-able?
2) Chances Trump drops out of the Town Hall?
Ballots are already printed. The process is done. They're not replacing him
I was planning on going out tonight, but drinking and seeing this thing unfold at home is so much better. I just wish I had cable so that I could watch CNN as well.
How does everyone see the debate playing out?
How does everyone see the debate playing out?
Couple of things:
1) How possible is it they replace Trump? If he were willing, how much would it shift the race? Is it even do-able?
How does everyone see the debate playing out?
Good question. Town Hall format, Rocked by a HUGE scandal, party is hanging him out to dry, being donald trump.
Dude is coming in with the deck stacked against him.
Hillary will have a well-prepared response for when Desperate Donald accuses her of enabling her husband.How does everyone see the debate playing out?
How does everyone see the debate playing out?
How does everyone see the debate playing out?
How does everyone see the debate playing out?
I feel like there has to be one moment during the debate where he lets out all his resentment out. Resentment against Hillary for beating him, against the voters in the audience (probably), against the Republicans renouncing him and pulling their endorsements.
Has someone called Sean Hannity yet?
I actually use my parents' cable log in for CNN, but YouTube live is streaming Fox News and CNN 24/7.
How does everyone see the debate playing out?
I can't even begin to fathom it, really, except that Trump's going to interrupt more, bring up Bill, probably yell at an audience member (or the whole audience), yell/interrupt Cooper, maybe get up in Hillary's face.
Good question. Town Hall format, Rocked by a HUGE scandal, party is hanging him out to dry, being donald trump.
Dude is coming in with the deck stacked against him.
The only way Trump doesn't get destroyed is if Clinton doesn't even show up.
(And even then I'm not too sure!)
Hillary will have a well-prepared response for when Desperate Donald accuses her of enabling her husband.
Trump interrupts Clinton every time she tries to talk. He regurgitates things about emails and Benghazi. He saves his attack on bill for the end of the debate, in hopes of hitting Clinton with a "surprise" at the end like she did with Machado.
And all Clinton needs to do is say something along the lines of, "Donald, I know you don't respect women, and you wish you were debating my Husband and not me. But you need to accept that I am your opponent, not my Husband."
I think we see more Republicans withdrawing support tomorrow and he ultimately doesn't show up for the debate.
Trump spends 90 minutes talking angrily about Bill's affairs.
Moorehead has represented Workers World Party on many international solidarity trips including South Africa, Iraq, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, France the Dominican Republic and the Philippines.
From the movements against racism, police killings and mass incarceration; to the struggle against imperialist war and neocolonialism; to solidarity with Cuba, Palestine, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, the DPRK, and all peoples struggling for self-determination and sovereignty; to the struggles for womens and LGBTQ liberation; to battles for union rights, disability rights, environmental justicefrom local struggles to international movements, Monica Moorehead has devoted her entire life to the great cause of building a better world.
"Trump doesn't really have solutions, and his supporters don't really have problems. The only thing poor about them is their judgement"
Ouch.
She's already been the nominee twice and lost, she doesn't even understand true communism won't come from the ballot box.I have finally found a Tankie candidate for president hardcore enough to support Duterte AND North Korea:
http://www.workers.org/wwp/our-campaign-candidates/
Watch the fucking throne.
And somehow, the right-wing media will spin this as Trump winning the debate, no questions asked.I can't even begin to fathom it, really, except that Trump's going to interrupt more, bring up Bill, probably yell at an audience member (or the whole audience), yell/interrupt Cooper, maybe get up in Hillary's face.
I think we see more Republicans withdrawing support tomorrow and he ultimately doesn't show up for the debate.
Election of Duterte
This year, the Philippine presidential elections in May caused tremors in the capitalist world, especially in the U.S. The winner, Rodrigo Duterte, a “shoot from the hip” populist, describes himself as “the first president of the left.” (The Guardian, May 10) U.S. imperialism regards him as an unknown quantity, especially after a record voter turnout of more than 80 percent of Filipinos.
What is critical to the U.S. military is the “Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement,” signed in 2014 with the previous Philippine government. After years of mass opposition, the Pentagon was forced to evacuate its bases in the Philippines in 1991. The EDCA allowed the U.S. to use its former military bases as staging areas, consistent with the “Pivot to Asia” of the current Obama administration.
Duterte, however, has voiced opposition to the EDCA, as well as the “visiting forces” agreement regarding U.S. military cooperation with the Philippines.
Professor Jose Maria Sison, chairperson of the International League of Peoples Struggle and political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, said the following about the recent elections:
“Apparently foreign monopoly interests and the local oligarchy of big compradors and landlords have advised the Aquino government that it was a better choice to desist from electoral fraud and avoid the risk of widespread and uncontrollable civil strife. They are confident that the Duterte presidency would still be financially and politically manageable by using as a lever the underdevelopment and poverty of the Philippines and the huge foreign debt and total public debt of the Philippines, amounting to more than U.S. $77 billion and Php 164 trillion respectively. …
“The CPP has challenged Duterte to assert the national sovereignty of the Filipino people and defend the territorial integrity of the Philippines, to let the toiling masses of workers and peasants empower themselves against the oligarchs, to develop the Philippine economy through national industrialization and genuine land reform, to promote a patriotic and progressive culture, expand the public school system, and foster international solidarity for peace and development.”
The capitalist media also went overtime on the sexist remark made by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte towards President Barack Obama. This was particularly unfortunate, since it allowed racists to ridicule the only Black president in U.S. history. Duterte later apologized.
President Duterte’s popularity in his country is based on being the first Philippine leader in a century to refuse to bow down to U.S. imperialism. Duterte has resumed peace talks with the leftist National Democratic Front and has demanded that U.S. Special Forces leave Mindanao province.
Duterte has also released from prison liberation fighters Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Tiamzon, the alleged military leaders of the New People’s Army. The NPA has declared a cease-fire. The two released prisoners have joined the peace talks being conducted with the Philippine military in Europe.
None of these actions is to the liking of the brass hats in the Pentagon.
African Americans and Filipinos share a common heritage of being victims of racist mass murder. After the U.S. declared war on Spain in 1898, the McKinley administration urged Philippine independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo to return to the Philippines, then a Spanish colony. Philippine freedom fighters soon defeated the Spanish colonial army and surrounded Manila.
President McKinley double-crossed Aguinaldo and declared the Philippines a U.S. colony. One million Filipinos were killed by U.S. Army massacres and disease. Gen. Jacob Smith declared, “I want no prisoners, I wish you to kill and burn: the more you kill and burn, the better you will please me.”
These massacres went hand-in-hand with at least a hundred African Americans being lynched annually in the early 1900s. The favorite term of U.S. racists for Filipinos was “n——r.” (U.S. War Crimes in the Philippines, worldfuturefund.org)
McKinley’s double-cross of Filipinos was like the betrayal of African Americans in 1877, when President Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction and returned the South to racist rule.
During the 1898 war, David Fagen was one of the Black GIs who went over to fight for Philippine freedom. U.S. officers put a price of $800 on the African American’s head and some reports say he was executed, although others say he escaped. (“The Philippine War — A Conflict of Conscience for African Americans,” National Park Service, 2016)
Long live the unity of African-American and Philippine freedom fighters. Black and Filipino lives matter!
Mike Lee now, too, which must drive Cruz up a wall.
There is a fucking hurricane hitting the United States, and it basically got zero news coverage tonight, that's pretty amazing
Two hurricanes hit the united stares tonight though
I like it but I'd probably shorten it down to just, "Donald, which Clinton do you think you're running against?"Trump interrupts Clinton every time she tries to talk. He regurgitates things about emails and Benghazi. He saves his attack on bill for the end of the debate, in hopes of hitting Clinton with a "surprise" at the end like she did with Machado.
And all Clinton needs to do is say something along the lines of, "Donald, I know you don't respect women, and you wish you were debating my Husband and not me. But you need to accept that I am your opponent, not my Husband."
Somebody didn't watch Fox News.There is a fucking hurricane hitting the United States, and it basically got zero news coverage tonight, that's pretty amazing
I like it but I'd probably shorten it down to just, "Donald, which Clinton do you think you're running against?"
I like it but I'd probably shorten it down to just, "Donald, which Clinton do you think you're running against?"
Trump interrupts Clinton every time she tries to talk. He regurgitates things about emails and Benghazi. He saves his attack on bill for the end of the debate, in hopes of hitting Clinton with a "surprise" at the end like she did with Machado.
And all Clinton needs to do is say something along the lines of, "Donald, I know you don't respect women, and you wish you were debating my Husband and not me. But you need to accept that I am your opponent, not my Husband."
It's probably not that simple. If he goes after Bill, he'll likely include the matter of Hillary participating in investigations/whatever toward the women. Hillary's response will have to be more nuanced, and she'll potentially have practiced multiple variations to use depending on how exactly Trump frames the accusation.I like it but I'd probably shorten it down to just, "Donald, which Clinton do you think you're running against?"
Hillary's luck is that Trump can't frame the charge properly, most conservatives can't either because they can't frame it from "the left/social justice/etc." point of view because they don't understand it. And Trump can't do it for additional reasons. His stuff has to be pithy. Low energy, Lyin' Ted, Tiny Marco, etc.It's probably not that simple. If he goes after Bill, he'll likely include the matter of Hillary participating in investigations/whatever toward the women. Hillary's response will have to be more nuanced, and she'll potentially have practiced multiple variations to use depending on how exactly Trump frames the accusation.