"Bitter, angry and above all else afraid."

Spare me...

Trump is bad...but not nearly as bad as the left makes him out to be.

...and most would eagerly install their own version of Trump, provided he moved the progressive ball a little closer to the goal line.

Anyone who supports Bernie has no business criticizing Trump. He's as ignorant and uniformed and petty as DJT...He just leans further to the left.

#58

And TLAM. For God's sake, don't forget the fxxking Navy.

"I never knew who this guy was until after we killed him."

Are you in the military? maybe working for one of the three-letters?

Then why would you know?

"#23 I'm surprised it took this long for the conspiracy nuts to come out"

To be fair, there was a LOT of overlap between US and Syrian/Russian/Iranian counter-ISIS operations.

Even in Afghanistan, there were times when the Taliban was fighting ISIS...we didn't know what to do.

I was rooting for the Taliban though. I don't like the Taliban...but I would have no moral issues if each and every ISIS member was lined up and shot. They're that bad.

"What are you miserable hate mongers gonna do when Trump is voted in for another 4 years?"

Complain about bankers, the rich, and the EC. Pretty much the same as they're doing now.

"If people elect him that's hardly what you describe."

He's not being honest. He's making the argument that he can take from the rich and give to the less rich. You can only do that if the rich are willing to do so.

At the same time, his plan is to prohibit private healthcare. That's pretty much unprecedented in the western world.

I don't disagree with you though...if Bernie and his vision is what this country wants, then it's also what they deserve. Plenty of other countries for me to move to.

"But then say voters should vote for him because he hasn't destroyed those trends."

You can go back and forth on who deserves credit, but it is and always has been the case that an incumbent president, even one like Trump, is going to benefit enormously from what is perceived as a strong economy.

Republicans?

What does that mean eactly?

So far as I can tell, there are no Republicans any more. Only Republicans.

Trump could go full Bernie Sanders on economics, full Bloomberg on gun control, and full Cortez on the environment. The Republicans would still treat it as if it was the greatest things since sliced bread...since it came from Trump.

At least the Dems can still claim some ideological diversity and independence.

"Bernie is the true existential threat that all those other Deplorables thought Hillary represented?"

I think so, but I'm an econ nerd. I look at Bernie as being our (US) Salvador Allende. Someone who would happily dismantle personal and economic freedom in the interest of ideology.

If the Dems nominate anyone other than Bernie, they'll get my vote. I want Trump gone. But not if it means a worse, left-wing version of Trump coming to power.

"Yeah because you'd rather have a con man crook in charge than a guy who will fight back against the bankers."

That con-man crook is damaging this country. Bernie is out to destroy it.

In all honesty, even if he were elected, I don't think he would get anything done. His legislative record is abysmal due to his position on the far left. Republicans wouldn't work with him at all. I don't think many Dems would either.

But that doesn't change the fact that he is looking to push revolutionary change down our throats, whether we want it or not.

As a strait male, I feel like I can honestly identify as a transgender lesbian.

"Hey. Maybe you could identify as a snowflake."

Unable.

You can't be a snowflake without first being woke.

Fact.

"The Census Bureau defines "Hispanic or Latino" as "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."

The census bureau also defines black as: "person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black or African American," or report entries such as African American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian."

If this guy had black ancestors, he's black...according to the census definition. But even the census definition references those who "indicate" their race as black. Maybe somewhere else it implies you actually must be black...but not here.

And technically, we're all of African descent. That's where it all started.

"It's not that Laura hung out with women until the day Laura decided she was a woman."

Laura is not a woman.

Laura is a male human in women's clothing.

That's OK, but let's not pretends that nature has been overridden by personal choice.

"Here's the thing about transgender people. They're confident about who they are and who the aren't."

No they're not. Otherwise we wouldn't have this whole gender-neutral thing going on.

"Gender dysphoria is in the DSM. Racial dysphoria is not."

It's not racial disphoria if you actually have black ancestors. With very few exceptions, a person is born either a man or a woman...dysphoria is simply a mental condition where they identify as something different.

"Race is just as much, if not more of a social construct as gender."

Yup.

Consider Barak Obama. I feel like he's been labelled as a black man by society, but would he skewered if he were to identify as a white man? He's as much white as he is black.

In this case, the officer in question even brought up the fact that he had black ancestors. So why shouldn't he be able to? Elizabeth Warren seems to have been given a pass for saying she was Native American, even though she wasn't. And furthermore, even if she were a descendent of a white person who was raised by or amongst Native Americans, why could she not be able to claim it?

What this shows to me is that identity politics are not so much an honest effort to allow people to align with who they identify as, but rather a political tool for progressives in an attempt to manipulate society.

I was glad when restrictions on gay marriage were put to bed, but also very disappointed that the same people who championed gay marriage remain some of the staunchest opponents to polygamy, even though both represent government telling consenting adults who they can or cannot marry.

You're so woke.

I wish I was woke enough to understand what was acceptable when it came to self-identification and what wasn't.

"They'd rather pull the house down around them then fathom anybody else having it as good or better than them."

You do realize the Bernie Sanders entire platform is about suppressing those who have become successful because others have not.

I'm not disagreeing with you completely. I think there are a lot of people uncomfortable with the rigid, "woke" doctrine being pushed by the left. And they see Trump as a counter-balance to that.

But I think there are also those who vote for Trump because they view the Democrats as going further and further left. Personally, I don't know that they are, but the loudest supporters-those in the activist class, tend not only to drown out all the others, but eviscerate them when they deviate from far left doctrine that they see is being essential in creating a revolutionary change.

As I've said before-I hate Trump. But I would vote for him in an instant if Bernie is the Dem candidate.

When did Rolling Stone become a less intellectual version of Counterpunch?

I guess if it were intellectual, it wouldn't hold as much appeal for it's teenage audience.

"It's pretty easy to tell the difference between actual identity issues and a man who is lying for personal benefit."

You can tell?

Is that your superpower?

It must be, because I can't tell.

"Sanders is also the only candidate that has realistic solutions to solving most of our most troubling problems."

Sanders is presenting what you view as realistic solutions because you really, really, really want to believe. But he is selling you a false bill of sale. It's a scam.

"Wonderful! Then Sanders it should be!"

The nominee for the Democratic Socialist's presidential candidate?

I hate Trump. He will get my vote if the election comes down to him and Trump.

"No one is saying apocalyptic doom."

From #10

"The world Greta Thunberg and her generation will inherit from the Boomer Generation is in many ways indeed a world of "mass doom".

You may have meant smart people are not saying "apocalyptic doom." The scientists certainly aren't.

That doesn't mean there aren't millions of idiots out there spouting off like Moder8 was.

"Crickets because this is a stupid troll thread."

Crickets because self identification is occurring in a fashion deemed inappropriate by the "woke" mob.

If this individual had been penalized for self identifying as a different gender, you and your lefty friends would be losing their ---- right now.