I've watched Michelle Obama's 2016 speech three times now, and I get tears in my eyes every time. I love her speech. And I'm frustrated she will never hold office.
i don't think she'd ever seek office to be honest
I've watched Michelle Obama's 2016 speech three times now, and I get tears in my eyes every time. I love her speech. And I'm frustrated she will never hold office.
I've watched Michelle Obama's 2016 speech three times now, and I get tears in my eyes every time. I love her speech. And I'm frustrated she will never hold office.
Winning.
Catching up on today's Trumpster fire.
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 12m12 minutes ago
There is great unity in my campaign, perhaps greater than ever before. I want to thank everyone for your tremendous support. Beat Crooked H!
Bigger tent.Long term?
Don't like how Clinton is warming up to moderate Republicans.
What's the long term advantage?
Bigger tent.
Trump isn't the cause of the GOP's problems, he's a symptom.Risky.
Repubs aren't going to stay after Dumpster Fire is gone, I guess take advantage of the short-term benefits.
Repubs aren't going to stay after Dumpster Fire is gone, I guess take advantage of the short-term benefits.
There's a leader and an article in this week's Economist, on what they think is the new political divide.Risky.
Repubs aren't going to stay after Dumpster Fire is gone, I guess take advantage of the short-term benefits.
The conventions highlighted a new political faultline: not between left and right, but between open and closed. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, summed up one side of this divide with his usual pithiness. “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo,” he declared. His anti-trade tirades were echoed by the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.
America is not alone. Across Europe, the politicians with momentum are those who argue that the world is a nasty, threatening place, and that wise nations should build walls to keep it out. Such arguments have helped elect an ultranationalist government in Hungary and a Polish one that offers a Trumpian mix of xenophobia and disregard for constitutional norms. Populist, authoritarian European parties of the right or left now enjoy nearly twice as much support as they did in 2000, and are in government or in a ruling coalition in nine countries. So far, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has been the anti-globalists’ biggest prize: the vote in June to abandon the world’s most successful free-trade club was won by cynically pandering to voters’ insular instincts, splitting mainstream parties down the middle.
IS POLAND’S government right-wing or left-wing? Its leaders revere the Catholic church, vow to protect Poles from terrorism by not accepting any Muslim refugees and fulminate against “gender ideology” (by which they mean the notion that men can become women or marry other men).
Yet the ruling Law and Justice party also rails against banks and foreign-owned businesses, and wants to cut the retirement age despite a rapidly ageing population. It offers budget-busting handouts to parents who have more than one child. These will partly be paid for with a tax on big supermarkets, which it insists will somehow not raise the price of groceries.
Drawbridge-up populists vary from place to place, but most share a few key traits. Besides their suspicion of trade and immigration, nearly all rail against their country’s elite, whom they invariably describe as self-serving. British people “have had enough of experts”, said Michael Gove, a leader of the Brexit campaign. Mr Trump last week said that the elite back Mrs Clinton because “they know she will keep our rigged system in place….She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.”
Distrust of elites sometimes veers into conspiracy theory. Poland’s defence minister suggests that Lech Kaczynski, a Polish president who died in a plane crash in 2010, was assassinated. Mr Trump talks of “the plain facts that have been edited out of your nightly news and morning newspaper”. Panos Kammenos, a member of Greece’s ruling coalition, wonders if Greeks are being sprayed with mind-altering chemicals from aeroplanes.
Nearly all drawbridge-up parties argue that their country is in crisis, and explain it with a simple, frightening story involving outsiders. In Poland, for example, Law and Justice accuses decadent Western liberals of seeking to undermine traditional Polish values. (A recent magazine cover spoke of “Poland against the Gay Empire”.) It also plays up the threat of Islamist terrorists, who have killed no one in Poland since the days of the Ottoman Empire—but will start again, unless the government is vigilant.
There's a leader and an article in this week's Economist, on what they think is the new political divide.
There's a leader and an article in this week's Economist, on what they think is the new political divide.
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[url]http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21702750-farewell-left-versus-right-contest-matters-now-open-against-closed-new[/url]
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[url]http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21702748-new-divide-rich-countries-not-between-left-and-right-between-open-and[/url]
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They also said that a person like Trump/Johnson/Farage/LePen would struggle much more in 2024, open/closed borders will be less of an issue in the future ( if young people don't suddenly change opinion... )
Don't like how Clinton is warming up to moderate Republicans.
What's the long term advantage?
Don't like how Clinton is warming up to moderate Republicans.
What's the long term advantage?
I definitely agree that the traditional left / right axis of politics simply aren't functioning right now in the face of the nationalist tides rising across the west. Also agree with the economist that this is the dying splutter of older generations -in a decade this will have faded.
Which reminds me, something I've been meaning to rant about for a while. Whatever happened to Generation X? I'm classed as that (by a month or so) rather than the "Millenial" generation, and all you ever hear talked about are either the Baby Boomers still dominating political discussion and thoughts, or the rising tide of Millenials who are very different. Gen X seems to have just been skipped by everyone!
(Probably fits very well with our emo background... ;-) )
More frustrating it was anti-Hillary, not anti-Trump. I mean what the hell are they doing?I just saw Jill Stein advertising on MSNBC what
GET OUT OF HERE
anyway I cannot believe how badly Trump is continuing to fuck up. Not sure what he can do in the next critical couple of days to reverse this damage.
Those nuclear weapons comments by Trump...
Any sanity he had is slipping away at a rate of knots
I can't even any more.
"If we have them, why can't we use them?" HE ASKED THIS 3 TIMES. Nuclear weapons, and the guy wants to use them. He's insane.
Jill stein is an awful trash candidate. They will not help her.LOOK AT ME I'M JILL STEIN WOO
What a troll. She can't win. Gotta wonder if these ads will help her. Pretty low that she left Trump out of the ad but attacked Hillary.
LOOK AT ME I'M JILL STEIN WOO
What a troll. She can't win. Gotta wonder if these ads will help her. Pretty low that she left Trump out of the ad but attacked Hillary.
She attacked her criminal justice record saying she locks too many people up. That's when I walked in the room. I was making my coffee.what were the attacks she used?
Prediction: Trump can't top today in terms of bad political days.
Chuck Todd saying the next step is GOP asking Trump to drop out. LOL
Good luck with that!!
Still not too late for RMoney or someone else to mount a last minute independent bid. I think the deadline is Sept. something?
I definitely agree that the traditional left / right axis of politics simply aren't functioning right now in the face of the nationalist tides rising across the west. Also agree with the economist that this is the dying splutter of older generations -in a decade this will have faded.
Which reminds me, something I've been meaning to rant about for a while. Whatever happened to Generation X? I'm classed as that (by a month or so) rather than the "Millenial" generation, and all you ever hear talked about are either the Baby Boomers still dominating political discussion and thoughts, or the rising tide of Millenials who are very different. Gen X seems to have just been skipped by everyone!
(Probably fits very well with our emo background... ;-) )
You missed so much.. Oh man.. It was so good.Ok, apparently a lot happened today? Can someone fill me in? I'm just now sitting down to read the news.
I love that it took 6 hours lol@reidepstein Reid J. Epstein
Asked @seanspicer if RNC agrees w/Trump that gen elex might be "rigged." He said: "You should seek further clarification from the campaign."
@reidepstein Reid J. Epstein
Also: It took Spicer six hours to come up with that answer
That would be amazing.Pence meeting with McCain privately seems like significant damage control. Given the rumors that Clinton personally reached out to Whitman and McCain is friendly with her I'm sure he has been approached and really think there is a likely chance he flips in a dramatic fashion.
I think you could get away with it this time.I'm in NoFap, please stop, you are making it impossible.
And you doubted him last night thinking he couldn't top yesterday..I can't even any more.
"If we have them, why can't we use them?" HE ASKED THIS 3 TIMES. Nuclear weapons, and the guy wants to use them. He's not capable to handle this job.
The continuing adventures of Mr.Trump's Wild RideI can't sleep so I just casually checked Twitter. What the fuck did I wake up to?!
Just saw the Morning Joe thing - don't know how this will get any play unless there is better sourcing.
Just saw the Morning Joe thing - don't know how this will get any play unless there is better sourcing.