Heard the Jeb Bush announcement yesterday and got that horrible pit in my stomach I get every four years when it’s election season. Just one time I’d like it not to be “Who will I hold my nose for this time?”
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I didn’t say he wasn’t crazy. I just think he’d be entertaining and maybe highlight the worst of Clinton.
That said, anyone who annoys McCain and Cheney must be getting something right, surely? 
Anyway, just to keep @cowicide happy, my non existent vote is firmly behind Sanders.
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Zathras jealous of rug, yes.
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Alternate headline:
A herp-a-derp made some noise today not even other herp-derps could understand.
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“…make this country great again!”
Uhhh, OK. . . as I see it, the USA is still pretty great. These guys always bring out that promise to make the USA “great again” (I heard at least two other candidates said the same thing this year), but I also know every single one of them will insist that "The United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth!"
So which is it?
Well, see, we’ll be great again when a rich white dude is in charge again… /s
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I love the DNC’s response.
Today, Donald Trump became the second major Republican candidate to announce for president in two days. He adds some much-needed seriousness that has previously been lacking from the G.O.P. field, and we look forward hearing more about his ideas for the nation.”
A statement sent out to reporters from the Democratic National Committee, welcoming Donald Trump to the 2016 presidential race, with just the slightest hint of sarcasm.
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I’d vote for him IF and ONLY IF they made a 24/7 reality show about it. Like cameras on him the entire time other than the bathroom and maybe he can do an option where he has 1hr of sexy time a week allowed.
They have a daily 30 min show highlighting the day before, but for the True Trumpers (I am trying to start a new thing here) they could pay for premium service, featuring like 20 live feeds to rooms in the white house, the live Trump cam that follows him around, and for many occasions they may have 2 or 3 cameras so you can swap angles. All proceeds from the channel go to paying down the national debt.
Tell me that wouldn’t just be great TV, but we could see how politics really works. The most transparent administration ever.
Cameras on ALL of the lying shitweasels ALL the time would get my vote.
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He adds some much-needed seriousness that has previously been lacking from the G.O.P. field
Oh shit, I think he might out-crazy-hair Bernie…
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Hey, a jury of his peers has found him more than qualified to be president:
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They never seem willing to say exactly when they think America hit peak greatness either. Was it prior to the Civil War, when many Americans were bought and sold as livestock? Was it during the era of expansion when we were committing wholesale genocide against Indigenous Peoples? World War I, before women were allowed to vote? The 1950s, when LGBT people were basically illegal and racial segregation was a mainstream political platform? We’re all dying to know!
Personally even though I think America has a lot of room for improvement in the “greatness” category I still feel like we’ve been generally moving in the right direction for the last 240 years or so.
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No contest. Bernie Sanders is enough of a realist to know that he’s bald. Donald’s hair just looks like something he had to shoot with a tranquilizer gun just to keep it from running away.
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Yeah, but in context, we weren’t doing anything different than most of the rest of the world. Not saying what was done was right, just that attitudes were different.
Neil Young to Donald Trump: Don’t Rock in My Free World | Mother Jones
When Donald Trump strode on to the stage at Trump Tower on Tuesday to announce that he would enter the Republican race for president, a rock and roll anthem blared: Neil Young’s "Rockin’ in the Free World." It was an odd choice, given that the 1989 song seemed to slam a Republican administration for not giving a damn about the poor. And Young has taken exception to Trump's appropriation of his tune. A statement issued to Mother Jones for Young by his longtime manager Elliot Roberts suggests Young was not pleased by Trump's use of the song:Donald Trump's use of "Rockin' in the Free World" was not authorized. Mr. Young is a longtime supporter of Bernie Sanders.
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I’d describe it as more of a “slither”.
Suddenly it occurs to me that Sarah Palin might not have gotten anywhere near the following that she did if people weren’t so interested in hearing what ridiculous thing she was going to say next. This could be the start of something bad.
That sounds like damning with faint praise. After all, America ostensibly was doing something different; it originated in a war with some ten thousand deaths in battle alone, and people today still claim this as a great revolution in the name of equality.
Meanwhile the British Empire, which I think on its own counts as a pretty large portion of the world, banned the slave trade in 1803 and slavery itself in 1833. America wouldn’t abolish slavery until 1865, and then it was still prevalent enough that this involved a war killing hundreds of thousands of people.
If America needed so much bloodshed just so it would not be much different than anyone else, why would anyone look at that as greatness of any kind? I’m with Brainspore; at least today it isn’t so far behind countries like England, Canada, and Australia.
Right, meanwhile… Boing Boing has yet to mention Bernie Sanders since well before he’s officially launched his campaign.
