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[My Penis is hungry]

Excellent, and so she should

[Flashermac]

She was preferred over Hillary, but she decided not to challenge her for the nomination.

 

 

 

"Under Bill Clinton’s leadership in the 1990s, the Democratic Party tried to appeal to culturally conservative white working-class voters without abandoning its liberal convictions. During the middle of the George W. Bush administration, Democrats revived that approach, running candidates opposed to abortion and gun control in some rural districts.

 

"But the political collapse of Republicans at the end of the Bush administration and demographic changes favorable to liberalism made this kind of trimming seem unnecessary to Democrats. In the Obama years, the Democratic Party seemed to be able to move left while enjoying an enduring advantage in presidential politics. In the early months of President Obama’s second term, he concentrated on issues such as climate change, same-sex marriage, legalization for illegal immigrants and gun regulation, without much concern for bringing these voters back into the Democratic coalition."

 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-10/obama-s-cultural-liberalism-helped-sink-democrats

[Flashermac]

Oops ...

 

Recall Issued for Newsweek’s 125,000 ‘Madam President’ Hillary Clinton Editions

 

 

http://theantimedia.org/recall-newsweek-madam-president/

[Flashermac]

And now everyone is saying it ... "We told you so!"

 

 

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Sanders pollster Ben Tulchin noted at the time that the Vermont senator’s overwhelmingly “positive profile stands in stark contrast to both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who are both deeply unpopular.â€

 

Of the three major-party presidential candidates who remained in the race at that time, Sanders was the only one with a net positive favorability rating. Clinton had a net favorability rating of negative 21 percent and Trump’s was negative 29 percent.

 

In fact, Trump and Clinton were the least popular presidential candidates in the history of the United States. An August ABC News/Washington Post poll found that Trump had a 63 percent unfavorability rating among U.S. adults, with Clinton following closely behind at 56 percent — amounting to record-breaking levels of dislike and distrust.

 

Sanders, by contrast, is the most popular major political figure in the U.S., according to an October report. The popularity of the longtime independent Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist skyrocketed throughout his campaign, which mobilized millions of people and launched a massive grassroots movement.

 

A humorous July poll showed that Trump and Clinton were more disliked by millennials than Lord Voldemort, the villain from the “Harry Potter†fictional universe. Trump had a net favorability rating of a staggering negative 53 percent, with Clinton’s at negative 32 percent, whereas Sanders had a positive net favorability of 34 percent. (The question about Voldemort was inspired by a previous poll, conducted by The Washington Post in June 2015, which also found that Sanders was the only major political figure with a positive net favorability rating.)

 

For months, poll after poll indicated that Sanders led Trump, in a hypothetical general election matchup, by wider margins than Clinton did. Whether Sanders would actually have beaten Trump is of course impossible to say for sure, but his chances were much higher than those of Clinton, who did not lose by much.

 

Even Trump recognized that Sanders was a bigger threat. In May, he tweeted, “I would rather run against Crooked Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders and that will happen because the books are cooked against Bernie!

 

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http://www.alternet....aged-him-anyway

 

 

So now we have "The Trumpster".

[bust]

Worthy of the dumpster

[buffalo_bill]

If only somebody would come up with a clean drawing how the frustrated ex-workers from the rust belt could be brought back into well paid jobs . Future President Donald Duck some time ago proposed a 45 % import tax on anything from China . Brilliant move , one of the results shall be a price increase of a Waltmart fridge fom 200 USD to 350 once it is made in Cleveland again . Ask the ex-workers if they know that .

 

Potential future President of the Republique Francaise , Madame Le Pen ,plans to make France great again by solving the problems with the millions of immigrants from North Africa . By doing what with them ? She further plans to lead the French economy into a bright future . By increasing the silly 35 hours worktime / week to maybe 40 ? Good luck with the unions .

 

And so forth , we shall see anyway .

[My Penis is hungry]

If Hillary had offered VP position to Sanders, I suspect he would have taken in, then she could have won, with everyone pausing for breath every time she walked down the steps

[Coss]

What you said

[Flashermac]

There was no way Hillsie would allow Sanders on the ticket, though there were calls for it. First of all, her ego wouldn't allow a veep who was so much more popular than she was. Also, Sanders really meant to do the populist things he said. Hillary was in bed with the "elite" that Bernie wanted to hold to account. She was part of the problem, not the solution.

 

 

 

 

p.s How about the DNC getting rid of the absurd "superdelegates", who made sure than Hillary got the nomination? Even the much malined Republican Party doesn't have such an anti-democratic system. What is the point of having primaries, if the party establishment can ignore the voter's preference and do whatever it wants? It reminds one of the "democracy" installed in Thailand after the 1932 "revolution", where the coup markers created a parliament half elected by the people and half appointed by themselves.

[Coss]

Democracy ... ahhhhh such a lovely concept.

 

It sucks when there's more of them than me.

 

It sucks even more when there's competing groups of them and they are more than me.

 

I watched Idiocracy (2006) and this movie is about a guy waking up 500 years into the future after having been frozen and finding that the populace had dumbed down a lot, quite a lot, he's easily the most clever man on the planet.

 

B grade movie which I'm sure is based on a SciFi story, if anyone knows the book or Author I'd appreciate being told, I've forgotten it and I'd like to read it again. ahh ha I found it

 

The premise of this movie - someone waking up several hundred years in the future and finding that people have gotten much stupider due to an expanding population and a lack of evolutionary pressure - was previously used in "The Marching Morons", a short story written in 1951 by Cyril M. Kornbluth.

 

Any hoo, the intelligent have some way to go, to convince the idiots, that the clever, are worth voting for again.

 

For a long time people understood you needed clever people to do clever things, but after the the last 50 years, where clever people just enriched themselves, at the expense of the less able, well, this is what you get.