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DanTex

(20,709 posts)
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 08:51 AM Sep 2016

Greens and BoBs are falling over themselves to try to salvage Trump's performance.

While the whole world collectively gasped at Trump's incoherent and ignorant rants about nuclear weapons, Glenn Greenwald's Intercept found his answers bizarrely credible and soothing.
https://theintercept.com/liveblogs/firstdebate/trump-to-the-left-of-obama-pledges-not-to-use-nuclear-weapons-first/

The inimitable HA Goodman was up right away on YouTube proclaiming Trump the winner. Which is good news because that guy's been wrong about every single thing he's ever written about. His next article should be about which powerball numbers are definitely not going to win.

And of course there's JPR, but at this point I don't think it's accurate to describe that as a pro-Green website, they're pretty much fully behind Trump.

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Greens and BoBs are falling over themselves to try to salvage Trump's performance. (Original Post) DanTex Sep 2016 OP
They really have gone full bore for Trump over there, haven't they? Dr Hobbitstein Sep 2016 #1
As far as the Greens go. NCTraveler Sep 2016 #2
One of the people that used to troll here and runs that dump is defending Trump Renew Deal Sep 2016 #3
 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
1. They really have gone full bore for Trump over there, haven't they?
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 09:25 AM
Sep 2016

"True progressives" my ass.

Should figure, though. Their founder (MG) was a Reaganite who's biggest regret was voting for Obama.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
2. As far as the Greens go.
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 09:29 AM
Sep 2016

Let them have at it. They are an insignificantly small number at this point. The party united at the convention. It left the Greens with nothing outside of the need to use Trumped up verbiage. They are marginalized to the point we do not want to spend a dime on them, we do not want their voice in our party, and we can't even really marginalize them any further. They are not mentally competent as a group and Stein is willing to trash the whole party. An absolute train wreck of a candidate and her supporters are a good match for her. I truly hope they kick Stein to the curb and get their shit together moving forward. I believe they have been a positive force in the past.

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