Yes, the media does pay more attention to Trump than to Clinton — he’s more entertaining. That’s why he received the almost $3 billion of free advertising that helped get him the nomination. He thought that was great before the scandals, but now he says there’s a conspiracy against him.
It’s just too much fun to mock him. Trump has said he and Hillary should take drug tests before Wednesday’s debate because he was sure she was high during the last one. Andy Borowitz says the suggestion
has sparked fears that such a test would reveal that he is not on drugs.
In interviews conducted across the country, voters said that they would be “alarmed” and “distressed” to learn that the billionaire’s statements and actions were the product of a mind unaltered in any way by a controlled substance.
Earlier people speculated why he’s even running for president, because he clearly isn’t interested in governing. The first few minutes of this PBS program may be right — it says he wants revenge for being humiliated by Obama at a 2011 White House Correspondence dinner. What better way to get it than to force Obama to give him the keys to the Oval Office.
Yes, it’s scary stuff. But he’s not boring.
Boring? Anything but. He has been entertaining me and many of my friends ever since he announced his candidacy.
Of course. He’s a great source of material for cartoonists and comedians.
i suppose he IS entertaining. but there is an undercurrent of malice too.
i’m not as fearful of him winning as i am of what his ‘followers’ with their idol-making adoration of his hatred instigating rhetoric will do when he loses.
and he will lose.
but then what? are they all just going to quietly go away?
as a kid in school when we studied the rise of nazism i used to wonder how a nation of regular people could be swayed to that extent by just one man.
i’m seeing how that is possible now. given enough anger and frustration with the status quo it’s amazing how the ‘hate and vengeance’ message is accepted by multitudes. it’s seems rather frightening to me.
Human nature in action. It’s not always pretty. I remember when I was in Stanford-in-Germany (in 1960, 15 years after the war ended) one of my classmates told a middle aged German that Hitler could never have happened in the U.S. She was so arrogant, but now realizes how foolish she was.
Let’s hope that history and the rise of Nazism will not be repeated. There certainly are similarities. One thing is sure—it will soon be over.
Or just starting. Who knows?
It’s a sign of desperation when a candidate resorts to endless claims of voting irregularities, dodgy polling places, electoral fraud by illegal immigrants etc. It sounds like he knows he’s going to lose and is looking for a way of explaining his defeat.
I think Tammy’s right about the threat of nazism and how so many people can be swayed by one forceful orator. Trump is leading people down a very dangerous path.
Unfortunately a lot of people are desperate, and they don’t want to be passive about it.
While I agree that Trump is frightening and some of his supporters are terrifying, I think Hilary is pretty scary too.
I don’t like liars and I don’t trust her.
That Johnson character has stuck his foot in mouth too many times for me to vote for him.
I don’t even know if I’ll vote and that upsets me.
I wish someone like Mike Rowe would run.
Yes, I ended up not voting for either Johnson or Jill Stein. John Oliver did a piece on third party candidates, including both of them. He said even if you vote for one of them you won’t be happy with your vote. I would do a post on that video, but he’s too raunchy for my tastes, even though some of the things he says is brilliant.
Yes, it is all simply a conspiracy to increase ratings and reduce media losses. If the nation were well managed by competent politicians, there would be no point in watching the news.
😀