Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

The GOP optimism is almost completely gone now. The party, over 25 years, sold its soul to the right-wing media, which has done its job only too well. The relentless misery! The Coulters and Savages and Levins and Ingrahams! And the media - not the party, but the media - will do something more dangerous and defend the clear, abject weaknesses in Trump's candidacy as well, actually strengths.

I'd love to see one of these right wing media types step out of character for a minute and say "we just have to stop doing this, America is addicted to negativity and it'll eat its own skin, like one of those junkies on bath salts, if we keep going." But I don't think it'll happen yet. The ratings are still too good, and major right-wing politicians just can't bite the hand that feeds them. They need Americans to hate their country and their neighbors to have success in elections.

It's a big ol hustle, is what it is, a long, irresponsible con of rhetoric. It still pays too good to stop using it.

 

There's a bit of Hunter Thompson in there. Good job.

 

As a side note, I'm surprised some of the bigger media/polling organizations didn't release a poll between the end of the Republican convention and the start of the Democratic convention. You'd think they'd want to have measured the bounce/lack of bounce.

Maybe they wanted to skip the "noise" but then they'd have to wait a week or so after the Dem convention too before resuming polling, which is a big gap.

 

And now the democrats have off loaded angry white blue collar workers to the
Republican Party. It's a great weight off their back

 

I've seen polling that indicates his convention speech was not well-received. I suspect that his bounce may be due to other events, not just the convention. I'm sure Nice helped him, just as Orlando did.

 

Well, they've been told to hate her. They've been told to hate Obama, too, and many do, and he doesn't have a fraction of the supposed warts she has.

Many Americans have come to hate the country they live in. If they're really honest, they hate America dearly, and we see daily on Facebook and on this thread.

 

What do you know, all that glitters is not gold:

Melania Trump’s website goes dark | New York Post

 

Because most know his bleak view of the world was BS.

 

Exactly columnist like Maureen Dowd just never stop beating on Hillary.
Dowd is widely read and has conditioned a lot of Americans hate Hillary.
Loren Michaels has not helped either.

 

We just need an American Sweetheart to make us feel good again. Where have you gone, Kerry Strug?

 

Trump's Twitter supporters were shocked and upset to see Bradley Cooper at the Democratic National Convention last night.

Because he played Chris Kyle in a movie.

This explains the whole "what-reality-do-you-live-in" phenomenon.

 

Sean Hannity makes $23 million a year being a professional sneer and cartoon character. He ain't giving that up any time soon in exchange for honesty.