Posted on 10/03/2015 4:20:52 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Following a screening of Michael Moores new documentary Where To Invade Next at the New York Film Festival on Friday, the always opinionated filmmaker had a few thoughts about the current presidential election.
When a question came to Moore at the press conference about the republican candidates, he couldnt help but give his thoughts.
Oh, dont worry about them, Moore told the audience. Seventy-nine per cent of the United States are either women, people of colour, or people between the ages of 18 and 30. Thats the blocks you have to win to get elected. Donald Trump, he has none of those blocks. He cant win the majority of any of those.
Moore believes what people should be worried about is the turnout by the Democrats.
We dont show up, Moore said of the party. Were the slacker side of politics. Our side didnt show up at the congressional elections, thats why they have the house and the senate. Thats how the Republicans win, thats the only way they can win.
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Why does anyone care what anyone in Hollywood thinks? They’re all dysfunctional but people are stupid, and listen anyway.
Who let this pig out of the pen?
College freshman dropout thinks he’s a political scientist/historian. Why does anyone care what that lightweight thinks? What a loser!
Lionheartusa1 believes that Michael Moore is a fat moronic loser . Now I have spared Trump from having to say it .
I’m not going to be derogatory about Moore, though that would be easy.
Instead, I have a simple question: If he believes that Trump would lose, andhe ddoesn’t want him elected, then why not just keep quiet and let the Republicans make that mistake? Better yet, why not encourage Republicans to nominate him?
To me the answer is simple: he really thinks that Trump will win.
I am no fan of Trump, but I know he CAN win. Never in my 44 years of life have I seen the American so pissed off at the way things are going, more angry than in 1980 or 1992.
Their animosity is directed at Republicans and Democrats.
Trump has no deep ties to either party. He is saying the things that are a majority of the peoples mind that they are afraid to say. Although he is a shameless self promoter, he exudes confidence. His campaign slogan says it all, “Make America Great Again”. The like the confidence and optimism. Trump represents their anger at the establishment. This is why he CAN win.
Moore is the coarsest, grossest troll. He’s not there to convince anyone by argument or reason or logic. Here’s there to dispirit by dragging conservatives into the depths of wearisome deviltry.
By definition, the crap moore produces are not documentaries, he wouldn't know the truth if was inside a Twinkie.
Trump’s circumstances are fortuitous.
If conservatives are smart they will figure out how to fit into the area of Trump’s coattails. He’s painting the large, broad strokes. They will have ample room to fill in details if they can get off the dime of bellyaching how Trump himself is heterodox.
They are mockumentaries... not just mock documentaries, they are made for the purpose of mocking.
“I think Trump will get a much higher percentage of the minority vote than weve seen from a Republican candidate in quite awhile.”
Then throw in the Bradley effect where union members and other usual democrat voters, vote for Trump and say they didn’t.
Trump’s tax cut will slice off a lot of rat voters in the privacy of their voting booth.
It still begs the question of why doesn’t he let the Republicans make a mistake. He has the characteristics that you mentioned, but even he should have some rational self interest.
He isn’t rational any more than the devil is in the end (the devil would just sit and quietly pout in order to keep hell from being any worse).
I can't believe the Japanese whaling fleet hasn't harvested Michael Moore yet...
I guess Twinkies alone aren’t enough comfort for him. If they were, Mikey would be a lot, lot nicer.
I agree. I’m very conservative, generally being somewhat to the right of Ghengis Khan, but I am also old enough to know that it is either sheer luck or an actual miracle if you get everything you want in politics. Patton was right: the perfect is the enemy of the good. I only wish that more people here would understand that. The Dems could never have gotten as far as they did in destroying our nation over the last 50 years if they had insisted on an all or nothing package deal...they took what they could get when they could, and then moved to the next item on their agenda. We could learn a lot from that.
One might almost say that the liberal pride was humbler than the conservative pride, if one can use such a paradox.
Where you want to be, and how you intend to get there, could be two different critters entirely.
Agreed 100%
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