Hi so please vote Hillary so trans people can stay on hormones and go to the bathroom.
It would be nice if you could save your shows of write-in candidate bravado for a year when trans people aren’t being openly attacked and attacks on them literally aren’t part of the Republican platform.
I mean Bernie gave Hillary his endorsement and if he’s obviously gonna vote for her and not himself or a third party I think it’s time to vote for Hillary to not wreck a bunch of people’s lives for the sake of a spiteful political gesture.
He’s consistently said again and again after the primaries that his #1 goal is to: STOP DONALD TRUMP FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT.
So, with that goal in mind, it would be an absolute fuckton of a disaster if Bernie were to run third-party or begged his supporters to vote for him write-in, you know why? Because it would split the Democratic vote up in half. And because of that this would give them way less votes in order to beat Trump, and because of that Trump would lead in national votes in most states, and thus lead in the electoral vote, making him president.
Don’t believe me? Look at the 1912, 1968 and 2000 elections and tell me I’m wrong.
Bernie knows this too, that’s why he’s urging his supporters to vote for Hillary. He wants the Democrats united so Trump will be defeated.
He’s not “selling out”, he’s doing this so no supporter of his will either vote Trump or abstain from voting, and to make sure America continues progress. Progress that, unfortunately will be thwarted or reversed with Trump as president.
The political revolution fails if Trump is elected.
Also I would like to add this, copied from another friend discussing this…
“Then there’s also new murmurs that this move was intentionally done by Bernie so that he may speak at the DNC convention. Had he not endorsed her today, they might have stripped him of his delegates. Currently, his campaign office is reaching out to delegates to ensure that they’ll still be coming to the convention. I am not ready to lose hope. He may yet have an ace up his sleeve. Currently, what he’s doing is running parallel to what JFK did. So, I’ll wait until after the convention before I decide to abandon him for another.
Wait for the convention and hope he can pull off a miracle. He’s a chess player and he’s been in politics for a LONG time. The convention is the make or break for me. I’m was Bernie or Bust. I’ve eventually become Bernie or Jill. Especially since she opened up the Green party for Bernie should he not get the nomination. Bernie cannot accept any offers like this before the DNC con or he wouldn’t be allowed the floor to speak his stances. It’s a tacky situation. Just take a breath and hope he can pull it off.”
honestly why is nobody talking about how someone attempted to assassinate trump yesterday
So it turns out that a lot of people didn’t know about this because the US media aren’t talking about the situation much at all, but there is some coverage here in the UK (I’m guessing this is because the man who attempted to assassinate him is British). What basically happened is a guy turned up to Donald Trump’s rally in Vegas the other day (I thought it was yesterday but it was actually Saturday) and attempted to steal a gun from a police officer to shoot Trump with, but ended up getting caught. When he was questioned the man say he was planning to kill Trump and had been planning to do so for about a year. if anyone wants to read more about it there’s an article here and here as well as a few others which can be found pretty easily online.
Damn. 😦 Best of luck on the next attempt!
The thing that baffles me is he thought the easiest place to get a gun was to snatch one from a police officer. It’s like he had no clue what the US was like about guns. Nevada requires no licensing, no background checks, and is open carry. Like dude just go to Walmart. You can also pick up some refreshing snacks for the trip.
2015 – Here are some gifs of Donald Trump being attacked by a bald eagle named Uncle Sam, literally the least patriotic thing that can happen to an American.
I’m reblogging this again because I finally realized why this is so funny to me, as a bird person.
In the first gif, what you’re seeing is a man who has zero idea how to handle a bird. That’s a heavy bird, and he’s got his arm stretched out as far as it will go in an attempt to keep the bird away from his face. What that does is create unstable footing for Uncle Sam. The handler is there trying to hold up Trump’s arm, but the bird has already realized it needs to leave or it will fall. In the first gif the bird is not attacking Trump- it is trying to get away from him so it doesn’t get hurt.
In the second gif, what we see is a bird that remembers what just happened and is blaming Trump for it. Uncle Sam sees Trump reach for its tether, and makes a lunge at Trump’s hand to keep him away. The bird /does not/ want to hang out with Trump because it has learned that Trump has no idea what he is doing.
Uncle Sam is rejecting Trump based on Trump’s proven inability to properly handle Uncle Sam. And that is both hilarious and beautiful.
Good bird.
Always reblog Uncle Sam telling Trump to fuck off
This is a better explanation of these gifs than I could have given!
In a two-page memo to The Washington Post, Trump outlined for the first time how he would seek to force Mexico to pay for his 1,000-mile border fence, which Trump has made a cornerstone of his presidential campaign and which has been repeatedly scoffed at by cureent and former Mexican leaders…
In the memo, Trump said he would threaten to change a rule under the USA Patriot Act antiterrorism law to cut off a portion of the funds sent to Mexico through money transfers, commonly known as remittances. The threat would be withdrawn if Mexico made “a one-time payment of $5-10 billion” to pay for the border wall, he wrote.
But Libertarians for Trump?
Because libertarians should support an expansion of the Patriots Act?
Right?
Completely fucking laughable how any libertarian could actually support Trump.
Trump is just as authoritative as any other politician running for president.
Trump is definitely just as authoritarian as any other politician, but I fail to see how one government threatening another government would mean much to a libertarian.
Then you don’t quite get it well. Remittances (remesas in Spanish) is money that immigrants send to their impoverished families in Mexico and all other Central American countries. For many families it is their only source of income, for others a great help to their meager wages.
Trump is threatening the Mexican government by threatening innocent Mexicans that have done nothing but receive money earned by their relatives. It’s a threat against individuals. Of course it would concern libertarians. Any libertarian that only cares about their own government treating them well is a poor libertarian then. Ignoring the injustices one’s government commits against other peoples because it’s treating your government decently is a lot like conservatism to me.
@moralanarchism any libertarian that takes themselves seriously would only support Trump ironically. Since everyone claims that he would be disastrous for government then perhaps he is the best man for the presidency. Ironically, his health and tax proposals are the best from all other candidates; not that that excuses an endorsement but it’s just there as a fact.
If any libertarian thinks he will make America great again then they’re probably not a libertarian at all. But if any libertarian thinks he will finally drag the US to the ground then that’s a good excuse to “support” Trump.
So basically he is taking control of the mail, the banks and wiring of money capabilities but not to just Latin America – everywhere or they could send one place and then have it resent where they wanted it. Gee that is a lot of control for what really is not a terrorist act – and by the way how often has government given up power once achieved?
This is insane and anyone who still supports this man is a traitor to our country and what it stands for.
I want to repeat that
This is insane and anyone who still supports this man is a traitor to our country and what it stands for.
I’m a Bernie supporter but u all need to chill on calling him grandpa and a cinnamon roll and all that shit he’s still a politician you still need to be critical of him don’t fan girl over him that’s weird and I’m waiting for the “ur fave is problematic” post about him the way y’all glamorize him like he’s in a boy band or young adult novel turned film trilogy okay don’t put your full trust and adoration into him he has power he could be the president of the United States and not being critical of him is very not good okay always always always be critical of people in power no matter how much they align with your views you can’t trust politicians I’m sorry
Anon: “I’m Jewish and I want to support Trump, how can I prove he’s not an antisemite?”
Blogger: “There is zero proof Trump is antisemitic. His daughter converted. He’s from New York, where there are a lot of Jews! He has a Jewish friend!”
I actually sent this question, posing as a Jewish Trump supporter, to try and see if Trump supporters had any reasonable counters to the rightful charge of Trump’s soft antisemitism.
the answer “he has a close Jewish friend and he lives in New York” was highly unsatisfying and borderline antisemitic on its own
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