TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?

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Kimmio said:
Bernie's catching up to Hillary, though.
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With her lead in superdelegates, though, he's got a real tough slog ahead. I'm glad he is doing it and that a real, serious left-wing politician is actually getting some attention in the US but I still can't see him getting the nomination. Trump I am less skeptical about though Cruz's win in WI seems to suggest that the GOP fight is far from over (not that I'd be especially happy to see him in power, either).
 
This is definitely a soap opera. What a lousy system the Americans have. I wonder why

they think it is a democracy.
 
Mendalla said:
With her lead in superdelegates, though, he's got a real tough slog ahead. I'm glad he is doing it and that a real, serious left-wing politician is actually getting some attention in the US but I still can't see him getting the nomination. Trump I am less skeptical about though Cruz's win in WI seems to suggest that the GOP fight is far from over (not that I'd be especially happy to see him in power, either).
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There's always the chance that in a brokered convention once the delegates are released after the first ballot they may have to find a compromise candidate.
 
None of it matters. American democracy ended a long time ago. And it's not coming back. Whoever wins the presidency will be working under the instruction of the Koch brothers and their sort. Even Sanders would have to obey or lose the support of congress. I have never known such a dreary political scene.
The Panama Papers, by the way, are an obvious scam. They're genuine enough , but the so-called investigative reporters were financed, to an important degree, by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. So what a coincidence we got a tax haven not used by the Fords or Rockefellers or by many Americans at all.
And what will be done? Virtually nothing. And Justin Trudeau will lead the pack in doing nothing.
 
crazyheart said:
This is definitely a soap opera. What a lousy system the Americans have. I wonder why

they think it is a democracy.
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a US conservative atheist who I came across quite accidentally & who I've come to enjoy talking to because he gives me invaluable insight into another culture has pointed out that the US isn't a democracy and that that isn't a bad thing -- it is a constitutional republic

Instead of rule by the people, the people give power to representatives to represent their needs & wants

I have also read a few interesting articles in a conservative online newspaper where they posit that the US has changed from a constitutional republic to an elected monarchy & that this isn't necessarily a bad thing (cf. the Stephen Fry video where he says that the happiest countries are those with a monarchy)

So, whenever I hear someone on tv going aboot 'bringing democracy to this country', I've seen it as one of 3 things: 1) they don't know what they're talking aboot but are using it as a filler or a slogan, 2) they are being cynical-ironic, or 3) they are talking aboot a country that is totalitarian or authoritarian (pyramid-shaped society, where the largest class are the poor) and are talking aboot remaking that society into a diamond-shaped society (where the biggest class is the middle class, with the upper class & poor being the smallest)

or something like that
 
i think it'd be cool for the Ewe Ess Eh to have a Social Democrat as POTUS

they'd become more like Canada -- without the hobbitness, of course, of course
 
You may have heard aboot the FBI wanting Apple to give it a special code so that it could hack into a certain phone that a certain terrorist had?

Well, here's John McAfee (you may recall an anti-virus program called McAfee Antivirus? That's him...he's a pioneer in computer security...) telling the world how easy it is to hack an iPhone (he says it would take 1/2 hour), thereby calling out the FBI on their fibbing...


So here the US is, with a gov't that lies etc etc etc (and a dangerous world, yes, with very dangerous people) -- and we have only two of the main POTUS hopefulls actually speaking out against this US Machine -- Bernie & Trump -- tis one of the reasons why I laugh & chuckle when I read or hear people comparing Trump to Hitler etc (cf. Scott Adams' Moist Robot perspectacle)

And now I hear that John McAfee is running for POTUS -- good for him :3
 
Trump spouts off anything to get a reaction and doesn't care about anything but winning. Who knows what he'd do if he were actually elected. He's a loose canon. Bernie, I think, really believes what he's saying and he's more aware of the issues, and I think, smarter, and would make a more sane leader than Trump.

Can you believe two of Trump's kids who've been accompanying him on the campaign didn't register to vote in the NY primary because, as Trump said, "They didn't know the rules" ... If they were interested wouldn't they or their dad look into it and make sure?
 
Trump, Clinton and Cruz followers see the world as being in a religious war - something with a touch of the middle ages about it. They're also drawing on end of timers who are chortling with glee at the idea that judgement day is on us.

Curiously, the Wahhabists ( as represented by Saudi Arabia which supports the Jihadists) has the same end of times belief. They, too, expect Jesus to return soon - and to get married. Muhammed will come to join them - and judgement will begin.

But, except for Sanders, the race is not about any political principals at all. This is the ultimate brainlessness of TV - the projection of personalities - nothing else.
 
Clinton may have her problems...she is more of a 'hawk' than she can appear to be. I have never thought of her as an "end-timer" appealing to the religious right-wing. Cruz on the other hand, yes. And Trump, as said before, will spout off anything he thinks might help him win. But it's too unclear what he would do as president except he's more likely to make off the cuff decisions if he leads the way he runs.
 
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Oh, I didn't say she was an end-timer. I said (actually, I did say it. I was wrong). what I meant to say is that both sides treat this as if it were a religious war. The U.S. certainly puts it to the American people that way, nicely ignoring the fact that the US has been supplying ISIS.

This is a real, TV election. I learned early in the game that if you have anything to say, you don't use TV. Your use print or radio. Both of those require active involvement by the audience. But TV requires no involvement. You just sit and look in a sort of stupor. TV has no room for any sort of intellectual involvement.
 
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