Is it 2016 all over again? Attention is focused on the chaos within the GOP. But the Democratic Party is an even bigger mess. The DNC is still controlled by the corporate Hillary Clinton wing of the party but the energy and momentum of the party is with the progressive Bernie Sanders voters. Now the DNC is teeing up California Senator Kamala Harris as a potential candidate for 2020. But progressives don’t like her ties to Wall Street banks or her reluctance to embrace economic populism. Here we go again?
2020 is the new 2016
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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In the event that the US Democrats want to go for a woman candidate in 2020, why not choose Hawaiian representative Tulsi Gabbard ? At least she doesn’t seem to be big on wars or, for that matter, an unregulated Wall Street….
Henri
That’s why Tulsi won’t be allowed her shot.
You beat me to it, Ted.
But addressing the cartoon, I predict:
1) Trump won’t be around any more for the 2020 election (whatever reason there might be).
2) Elizabeth Warren will become the first woman president
My predictions have never been wrong.
Alas. I’m not enamoured of her Hindutva enthusiasms, but to my limited knowledge, she seems to be the best of the field….
Oh well, there’s no guarantee that we (i e, H sapiens sapiens will make it to 3 November 2020 in the first place ; if we do, that will be a plus….
Henri
The Democrats better be thinking about 2018.
For their love of Wall Street, Democrats choose death before dishonor.
Again.
Suckers.
Dunno, Glenn – from my viewpoint, it looks like the dummycrats chose death AND dishonor.
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Democrats will hardly feel more shame than a feudal aristocrat would feel walking naked before his inconsequent servants.
Where ROI (return on investment) is king, there is no shame before the plundered they lord over. This goes for our economic royalists, as FDR named them.
“Why, dear me, ANY kind of royalty, howsoever modified, ANY kind of aristocracy, howsoever pruned, is rightly an insult; but if you are born and brought up under that sort of arrangement you probably never find it out for yourself, and don’t believe it when somebody else tells you. It is enough to make a body ashamed of his race to think of the sort of froth that has always occupied its thrones without shadow of right or reason…”āMark Twain
Dishonor?
The billionaires who fund the Democrats would shame them unceasingly for overtly recognizing needs of the hoi polloi, an act showing softness, and unmistakable as an overt saying goodbye to their hard core sugar daddies.
A “dead” (loser) Democratic Party will still be valuable to the ruling parasite class as a block to any third party success with real intentions to change the status quo.
If the Democrats donāt hate the little people, their big money funders will hate them.
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I did get your point, Glenn, just having fun with the language. I’m pretty sure that me & thee both find the dummycrats dishonorable at best.
They do remind me of Cruella de Vil’s henchmen. She asks one of them, “What kind of sniveling sycophant are you?” to which he replies, “What kind would you like me to be?”
@CH
āWhat kind of sniveling sycophant are you?ā to which he replies, āWhat kind would you like me to be?ā
Hysterical!
A comic site is a place for fun, after all.
I welcome your replies in kind.
One possible strategy would be to run Hillary again. I’m pretty sure she’d win if we had a do-over today. Not that it would be GOOD thing, but it would add to the overall entertainment factor. The slogans write themselves.
“Get it right this time, Vote Hillary.”
“She won the popular vote in 2016”
“You’re not stupid enough to vote for Trump a second time, are you?”
Assuming Trump makes it through his first term, I can’t believe he’d win a second. Short of curing cancer and the economy, he’s not gonna have a chance. He’s at a 34% approval rating (61% disapproval) with three+ years of tweeting to go.
Will he step in it badly enough for his own party to impeach him? If the dems take the senate back an impeachment is almost certain. (With an ironic rule change from supermajority to majority to convict.)
Or will reality finally penetrate his yuge ego? If he ever realizes how badly he’s fucking up he should be put on suicide watch. There’s no way he’d resign. But that assumes that one of his aides reads him the polling results. He’s probably got a sycophant dedicated solely to telling him how much the people love him.
“The Ringling Bros. circus elephants performed their final show Sunday after years of giant tricks and synchronized dances.”
Trump, I’m sure, will find suitable new employment among those skilled in following elephants with shovels and buckets.
> new employment among those skilled in following elephants with shovels and buckets.
Republican Aides and Interns?
“among those” not “for those”
Now pitifully I’m correcting my corrections.
āfor thoseā notā among thoseā
My thought outraces my fingers, and I’ll leave it at that.
Actually, Glenn – I liked it better the first way.
That would be a job that Trump is actually qualified for, unlike, say, real estate mogul or POTUS.
Glenn, speaking metaphorically, isn’t rather the other way ’round, with the elephants and other members of the deep state and assorted dung beetles following Mr Trump with shovels and buckets ?…
As I see it, the problem is that these good cleaners (to which, by the way, we are continually taken) have a habit of dumping those buckets on our heads and then claiming that we smell like roses….
Henri