I get that but why?

I think you have to be somewhere between narcissist and full blown psychopath to be in the running. It's in the rules. Idiots can maybe be allowed in too, as long as they show some signs of general self serving meanness.

Biden is starting to look like fucking Mason Verger.

Nice to see Stewart back.

Stewart is correct in pointing out how old the candidates (Biden and Trump) are. But the main issue should be how far to the right the system has shifted. It's not just Trump, it's the whole Republican party. The Dem's aren't far behind either. They've shifted so far to the right that the future of NATO is becoming a topic of discussion. With the EU also undergoing this spiralling shift to the far right the future becomes a lot more uncertain.

I'm not a huge fan of NATO because of certain aspects of it (safeguarding traderoutes over stopping a genocide) but it did keep the threat of world conflict at bay. If this shift to the far right continues, what'll happen to NATO? Will our system become ever more authoritharian? Outlook is grim.

We need to burn it to the ground and start again

tin_robot wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

I get that but why?

Because the only way to function in the political system as it now stands is to be “corporate” - that is, to be seen to be at one with whatever the party’s position is on all things at all times. Doing so inevitably results in a need to compromise on your principles, thus successful political candidates have to sacrifice their integrity in order to achieve power. We have a system that actively weeds out integrity.

But, certainly for the right, you can get in (Trump) and they think you're their man, then do what the fuck you want. Or even worse now, only be a risk of getting in and still be too shit scared of the guy to even try to go against him. He's now talking about going scorched earth on the security services and justice department. It could all be pre-election posturing of course, but who knows with this mad fascist. 

What I don't understand is why can't a well liked guy like Stewart play a similar card? Do what you need, pretend to be "their" man, to get into power, then do what the fuck you like once in. Bring in a bunch of progressive policies, fuck it, even try to rip up the current way the constitution is being enforced. 

I'd also heard a stat that about 70% of campaign funding comes from working people in America, not your big companies. If anyone could push that percentage up, I would have thought it was Stewart, who has campaigned a lot for the working man/woman. At that point, do you even need big business to support you.

It's probably just an old man dreaming, but if we wanted someone to help really make America great again, Stewart would be a top choice.

Pretending to be something just to get in really just makes you a lying fuck, like all the rest of them. It's essentially what they all do.

I think Jordan Klepper has consistently shown that it can't really be changed.

$450 with interest

Trump sneakers then.
Another leap in the Idiocracy direction for America.

As classy as the man himself.

Imagine the Trump crazies at conventions with those sneakers on. The BLING.........

Are there press photos of Trump wearing them? Please say there are.

This is why he needs prison time, not fines.
His nutters pay his fines for him.