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11:15 am, July 23rd, 2016 - 16 comments
Categories: us politics -
Tags: apocalypse now, donald trump, reaction
The Economist:
https://twitter.com/EconomistOnce/status/756366759075123200
The KKK:
https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/756334475223638016
Bernie Sanders:
Bernie Sanders rips Trump’s RNC speech: ‘Is this guy running for president or dictator?’ https://t.co/54B7M2MJAt pic.twitter.com/SGI2wEYmBx
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton:
This is real—Donald Trump just accepted the @GOP nomination.
RT if you agree: We can't let him become president. pic.twitter.com/3C5WLPv33W
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 22, 2016
Yoda:
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Trump will win, he’s the anti politician.
Also Clinton is shit.
Clinton had the chance to choose somebody for a VP who not only knows stuff, but would have shown that she wasn’t in the pockets of the banksters. Elizabeth Warren. She blew it. Now she is safe she is returning to the natural leanings.
Warren would not have been a good choice as VP. Two women would have been a bit too much for conservative America. A too easy target for Trump.
Also, I think Warren would rather be part of the administration and really make a difference than VP. And I have no doubt she will be an important part in Clinton’s team.
Warren is better off in the Senate (and would have gifted the Republicans a Senate seat had Clinton picked her). Kaine is safe, boring, and harmless: the sort of pick you make when you don’t want to take a risk.
If Clinton had really wanted a “Wall Street” candidate, she’d have picked Cory Booker.
“Kaine is safe, boring, and harmless: the sort of pick you make when you don’t want to take a risk”
He’s also the son of a welder. True blue collar, which is no small thing given the opposition.
https://onsizzle.com/i/if-i-were-to-run-id-run-as-a-republican-1541344
Snopes reckons not true
http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/
The ‘operation’ continues ad nauseum
That certainly wasn’t “Morning in America” or “Hope and Change”. Hell, it wasn’t even “It’s the economy, stupid”. More like “malaise”.
Fox News has a lot to be either proud of, or deeply ashamed. Take your pick Don.
I have some funny computer talk today between “Leave a Comment” and the box for text. Anyone else?
Garry Kasparov’s reaction.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/donald-trump-reminds-me-of-vladimir-putin–and-that-is-terrifying/2016/07/23/36397692-50e5-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html
Vladimir Putin has approval rates of 80% to 85% in Russia.
The liberal pro US Atlanticists that Kasparov is part of has 2% to 3% support in Russia.
The thing about Trump that interests me is no one is really asking the question why? Everyone is running around like panicked whack a moles without asking if the current system is even worth defending anymore.
Trump, like Sanders and Corbyn and Farage, represents a popular uprising against a political establishment that is hopelessly compromised. Sleek, professional politicians tell smooth lies via the meaningless words of PR hacks while benefitting from a system that shuts out the ordinary voter. The media and political elite live gilded lives utterly unrecognisable to Joe and Jane SixPack while preaching free trade and endless austerity.
As any Marxist famously knows, the contradictions of globalised neoliberal capitalism are inherent in the system itself. Capitalist globalisation will inevitably lead to a crisis. These contradictions cannot be done away with within the bounds of the global neoliberal capitalist order. That is whhy the change agents are coming from both ends of the spectrum, neo-fascists offering corporate authoritarians and socialists offering a return to directed captialism.
The thing is, if Trump becomes president it will be because an inherently unstable system has collapsed under the weight of it’s own decadence and contradictions allowing the fruits of victory to simply drop into his hands, not because he won it.
Yes.
And Trump would have been easily defeated by Sanders.
But the system, as you noted, will not allow such solutions to eventuate, even if they will be the very things that can save the system.