Politics Thread

Savage.

My mom desperately searched for something bad to say about the DNC and after mentioning the Bernie or bust disagreement,the only thing she could say is that the traffic there is bad, and the people in the convention left trash everywhere .

Well duh, mom. Every city that has a big event has traffic delays and it's hard to find parking. And there is no venue on Earth that doesn't have a lot of trash when everyone leaves lol

Here we go....

www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-hack-hillary-clinton/index.html

The Bernie Bros. are showing just how enormously divided the Democrats are. Listen to audio of several of the speeches from the DNC, from Sarah Silverman to Elizabeth Warren to Bernie himself, they're all drowned in boos and shouting. All this because the leaked emails exposed how Debbie Wasserman Schultz, equally the dumbest and most unattractive Democrat on the east coast, and the rest of the DNC were stumping for Hillary the entire time making sure that she became the nominee over Sanders. Bernie supporters are right to be pissed, the tops reps from their own party screwed them the entire time. Three months is a long time in an election cycle and anything could happen but a lot of Democrats, especially the youth that both parties want to get, are none too happy. Granted they're never happy but they're even less happy right now.

The RNC on the other hand, a lot of them don't like Trump but will probably end up voting for him anyways. That's old news.

Look, I voted for Bernie and I'm glad I did. But this "#NeverHillary" is complete B.S. and totally childish. If anyone really thinks Hillary is worse than Donald then please, just look at the vile shit he supports: building a wall and deporting "illegal"--how would he verify this exactly?--Mexicans, banning Muslim immigration (also no way of verifying) from Europe and the Middle East, censoring the media when they call him out, ceasing to assist our allies in Eastern Europe, getting into bed with Putin (and many other dictators), and a million other things. Hillary, while corrupt, is nowhere near as awful as this power hungry orange troll who could very well become a dictator. I'm usually voting for the independent (Jill Stein, Ralph Nader, etc), but this time it's different and much more serious.

There DNC leaks, if anything, tells me how much of a non-issue Bernie's conspiracy theories about the DNC were. If you release any organization's emails you're bound to find some embarrassing stuff, just look at what happened to Sony Pictures. The fact that there wasn't a single smoking gun in the whole email trove beyond one guy coming up with a scheme to discredit Bernie which was never even carried out basically tells me what I already knew: Sanders lost fair and square. Granted, Debbie Wasserman Schultz does bear some responsibility for failing to appear as unbiased as she could be and that bullshit about only having seven debates was questionable but Bernie Sanders' "woe is me, the party is corrupt" schtick is ridiculous and irresponsible. The dude let his screaming crowds get to his head and started to believe his own rhetoric (and delusions of actually winning). If Hilary ends up narrowly losing he's going to have a lot to answer for.

I can't think of a better way to guarantee that every computer in Drumpf's campaign gets attacked by Anonymous than saying this.

I've never watched Trevor Noah, is he as bad as people say he is?

People don't like him cause he isn't angry. They're mad cause he does what he gets paid to do: mock the news. Larry Wilmore is the same, but his show DOES have fundamental issues. That being said, I do think John Oliver and Samantha Bee are better, but like Dracula said, that's cause they're only on once-a-week. I can see Samantha's show being on 4 or 5 days a week and succeeding, but Oliver's show is specially built on being weekly. So I give Samantha a bit of an edge. But like Oliver and Jon Stewart, the constant ranting would get tiresome after a while. That's why I like Trevor Noah. The fact he's more chill and focuses on the humor as opposed to the soapbox makes it easier to digest his show on a daily basis. Stewart was that way for a LONG time too, but the insanity of politics definitely got to him in the later years. People responded well to it and it's whats being imitated now, but they forget it's the comedy that got them hooked in the first place. 

Trevor Noah is great.