This is a topic about the DNC. I'm talking about the DNC.
You're right tho. I would have been unlikely to vote for Bernie, since I've admitted that I'm a fiscal conservative.
I don't think Trump is "allied" with the Russians, no. I do think that Putin may have more respect for him, though, than Hillary... and I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I don't think American vs Russian Arms competition in the middle east has worked out well for anyone. Maybe it would be positive if we could open communication with the Russians, to perhaps help bring stability in countries like Syria.
When you get back, read this: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...applebaum_on_the_russian_hack_of_the_dnc.htmlAnyway, Hillary defense force, I've gotta be away from my computer for a while. Talk to you guys on Monday probably. It's been interesting.
The Putin Trump relationship
Damn that's good. The artist captures a lot of nuance in their expressions.
Meanwhile, Donald claims that he can't compete with football & it's all the dirty DNC's fault-
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/759222916387069952
The debates were scheduled some time last year....
When you get back, read this: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...applebaum_on_the_russian_hack_of_the_dnc.html
It's an interview with Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and a pretty good honest writer in general.
Weisberg: There was one other incredibly sinister tidbit from the Republican convention. Trump didn’t care about anything in the platform, but he made a big point about getting the plank removed that said Republicans supported helping Crimea resist the Russian invasion. He got that taken out.
Applebaum: Yeah, I have to tell you, when I saw that, alarm bells went off. When I saw that very specific thing being done, particularly given that the Trump campaign was apparently not that much interested in the rest of the platform, most of which is far more conservative than anything that he stands for. When I saw that they were specifically interested in that, I thought either they’re trying to show someone in Moscow, Look, we really have influence, so you can go on helping us, or there’s someone on his staff who genuinely believes that and wants to push it through.
Weisberg: They’re also his biggest investors now. American banks don’t lend Trump money anymore because he stiffed them after going bankrupt. His biggest investors are Russian oligarchs allied with Putin.
Applebaum: Yes, this is something I hadn’t fully realized until recently: the degree to which his business seems to survive on Russian money, including some rather dodgy Russian money. There was a description of one of his companies that describes how money would suddenly appear from Kazakh bank accounts to keep it going. And boy do I recognize that. That’s a way in which business is done in the former Soviet Union. This of course is what the Russians like about him: He owes them something, he’s entangled with them, they know stuff about him, they know details about him.
His campaign manager is Paul Manafort, who was for many years working in Ukraine on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, who was the pro-Russian president of Ukraine who escaped Ukraine after the Maidan revolution in 2014. And Manafort knows very well all these tactics. He used them in Ukraine. This is very much Ukrainian-style politics: nasty leaks, Twitter trolls, the use of thugs at meetings, this is all very East European. And of course Manafort himself has deep links to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, and therefore via them to the Kremlin. So the idea that they would want Donald Trump as president is not remotely surprising. It’s not even secret. You didn’t need to be conspiratorial-minded to see it. He’s got these connections, he’s got these political views that they like, and he’s surrounded by people they know.
Damn that's good. The artist captures a lot of nuance in their expressions.
Meanwhile, Donald claims that he can't compete with football & it's all the dirty DNC's fault-
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/759222916387069952
The debates were scheduled some time last year....
none of that really matters because at the end of the day there's only 2 valid options: you are either voting for trump, or against a trump presidency via hillary clinton.
Can this be independently verified? If true, this would be HUUUUUUGE. Even HUUUUGER than the conversation with Kasich and the offer of most powerful VP.plank removed that said Republicans supported helping Crimea resist the Russian invasion.
Can this be independently verified? If true, this would be HUUUUUUGE. Even HUUUUGER than the conversation with Kasich and the offer of most powerful VP.
Who am I kidding? It does not matter what Teflon Don does or says.
Can this be independently verified? If true, this would be HUUUUUUGE. Even HUUUUGER than the conversation with Kasich and the offer of most powerful VP.
Who am I kidding? It does not matter what Teflon Don does or says.
The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.
So why are we worried about the Ukraine again? So many people justified obama sitting on his hands by saying we didn't have a defense treaty with the Ukraine and that it wasn't a democratically elected government and was a coup. Now they are pissed trump pretty much agrees?
Go go Warhawks.
Missed the convention. Whenever I tried to watch, I got nauseous.
Apparently not, it turns out they won that day too.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/28/media/democratic-convention-ratings-day-three/
Reported in:
Forbes : Trump, Deferring To Putin, Deleted GOP Platform's Call To Supply Ukraine With Lethal Defensive Weapons
The Washington Post: Trump campaign guts GOPs anti-Russia stance on Ukraine
New York Magazine: Is Donald Trump Working for Russia?
The LA Times : In a shift, Republican platform doesn't call for arming Ukraine against Russia, spurring outrage
And, a raft of other sites, but not in USA Today or, apparently, on Youtube, so . . . :'(
Who won the convention ratings race, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?
Trump, by a margin of two million viewers, according to Nielsen, the TV ratings firm.
Clinton's Thursday night acceptance speech at the DNC averaged 29.8 million viewers across ten broadcast and cable channels.
Trump's speech at the RNC one week earlier averaged 32.2 million viewers across the same channels.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/media/democratic-convention-night-four-ratings/
Who won the convention ratings race, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?
Trump, by a margin of two million viewers, according to Nielsen, the TV ratings firm.
Clinton's Thursday night acceptance speech at the DNC averaged 29.8 million viewers across ten broadcast and cable channels.
Trump's speech at the RNC one week earlier averaged 32.2 million viewers across the same channels.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/media/democratic-convention-night-four-ratings/
At every opportunity for him to show dignity, to show his ability to be presidential, he can't help himself.
Trump got more viewers for his speech, the Democrats got more viewers for everything else. Pretty simple.