Several months ago, I watched Trump on Jimmy Fallon. Fallon would ask him what he thought we gotcha questions...when Trump answered he spoke directly to the American people, staring directly into the camera, and I was actually stunned by how well he did this. It reminded me of Ronald Reagan (no not his message or conservative credentials - just his ability to communicate).
Fallon was literally doubled over in laughter at how absurd he thought Trump’s answers were, and Trump just ignored him, and continued communicating with the camera.
Right then, I knew he was no joke. Fallon certainly thought he was a joke...as does most of the media. But he isn’t, and IMHO the only person who could beat him is another populist like Bernie. If its Hillary, he runs away with it.
Then his geusts were whining about all the "free" airtime Trump had received.First the media covered him because like Fallon they thought he was a joke.
Then they covered him even more becuase they thought surely he would say something so bad or stupid that everyone would laugh him out. Now that has bit them on the ass big time and they will (like all liberals will.)not take the blame for their mistake of discounting the american people's disgust with uniparty system.
I’m not afraid of Bernie Sanders as President. If our uneducated, inexperienced young people vote him in, I’m prouder of them than of the previous voters who were electing Obama and Clinton and even Bush the second time.
Bernie is not corrupt. And he sees (and feels) the corruption. He isn’t part of the Slavery Lite cabal. The youth don’t have the lesson we do about communism and top down government. Hell, if Bernie found that lesson difficult, lets forgive our kids.
Bernie would not be able to implement more than one -if that - of his really socialist ideas. Whichever one he went for (I hope it’s college) WILL FAIL. And it will fail like a textbook example, and teach us all about “free stuff” and “unintended” (but seen if you play chess with any idea before implementing it, imagining three moves ahead, always) consequences.
IF OUR NEXT GENERATION THOUGHT SOCIALISM MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA, THEY BLEEPING NEED THIS LESSON.
I do not want Bernie Sanders as President. But he isn’t part of the oligarchy and for that reason alone, he’s better than Clinton. He’s an honest outsider with very wrong ideas. But he isn’t the king with the bear trap around our limbs like we have now.
The press has been collectively wrong about Trump from the moment he stepped out on the political stage. According to them, he was kaput after his announcement speech. And then they called him finished just about every other day for months on end when he would say something outlandish. The press covered Trump because he WAS the story. He didn’t play their game but he is “playing” them. He is playing his own game, not theirs. And it is a game with which they are unfamiliar. He is like no candidate the press or the American people have ever seen. He was underestimated and dismissed as a circus act his whole campaign and now the politicos and press are at a loss for why he has done so well. They are out of touch.
So I don’t see the press all of the sudden getting smart enough collectively to stop this guy. Hillary’s got more dead bodies buried than Trump has so-called scandals that haven’t already been exposed in the New York press for years. The general election campaign will be a blood bath on both sides. The press has been wrong about him every step of the way. I don't think that now, all of the sudden, they’re going to somehow become more effective at going after Trump. He will continue to confound them.
Trump is the new shiny, bright object in this election cycle. Hillary is the old, dim bulb. One-on-one, he looks and sounds like a winner and a leader. Hillary looks old, stale and dreary. That screeching, screaming, hoarse, fingernails-scrapping-across-the-chalkboard voice of her’s will get old quickly. I predict Trump beats Hillary in November going away.
We’ll see. Stock up on the popcorn for the fall. It will be a good one.
I’d like Jimmy Fallon to get run over by a train.
Slowly.
He is emblematic of a generation who needs desperately to be “edgy” and “ironic” at all costs, and who see sincerity and empathy as a behavior for uncool losers.
I have a brother in law like that: he is absolutely obligated to view all new developments in life as an opportunity to be cool, clever and edgy. The most important thing when faced with tragic events is mock it and somehow blame George Bush!
I also have a homo brother who does the same thing. They both really appear to be stuck in perpetual adolescence.