Couple of anecdotes culled from omarosa’s book I cane across earlier. Thought I would share them just because. Saw her on the Daily Show a couple of days ago and her weird excuses for why she knowingly worshipped Trump for decades was nonsense.

I have admitted before I have a long history of being curious about Trump so I knew much more about him than most before his election run. This means I also ended up in the Omarosa backwash as well. She is not a good person and she very much has worshipped trump because she knows that she has the same ethical compass. That being said I actually give a decent amount of credibility to many of the things she has talked about recently.

I actually assume if it was up to Trump she would not have been fired, and she would have never quit. She ended up being a trading piece in some deal between Trump and Kelly. So nothing Omarosa is doing is to clean a guilty conscious, is strictly revenge and she would have likely been the last one to get off the Trump train.

I actually was quite worried by that same CNN poll, thanks to this line:

Some of you may recall that in the aftermath of the 2016 election, pollsters discovered that, "Who do you think your neighbor is voting for?" was a more valuable poll question than "Who are you voting for?" because people would lie about their Trump votes, but would have no problem saying they thought their neighbors would vote for Trump... and since a lot of people think their neighbors think like them, this turns into an accurate polling method.

This seems sort of similar. Obviously there could be some Democrats who are being honest because they understand gerrymandering and voter suppression, but we're in such a minority of Americans that think about that kind of stuff and analyze it, so I find this polling result VERY unsettling.

Yeah, I was about to comment about that theory that they're plotting to keep one foot in each DC circle. I think that's what it is, to be honest. I think the Conways stay up late at night planning ways for George to be in the establishment conservative circles and Kellyanne to be doing the Trump thing, then they fall asleep snickering about their genius. Then George relays info back to Kellyanne, while "rage" tweeting about 45. Kellyanne pretends to be having marital problems with George, while carrying water for the Trump administration.

Meanwhile who the **** knows what either of them actually thinks about the political issues of our time, or Trump, or any other candidate? They're dyed in the wool true believers when it comes to the political issues they truly care about: money, power, tax cuts for the rich, access, and the next opportunity to get more of the aforementioned things.

I never watched The Apprentice, and knew nothing of her but her name going into her arc in politics. But, read my last post about the Conways and apply it to her. She doesn't worship Trump and she never worshipped Trump for real. She would heap adulation on him in public to get what she wanted. She may have the same ethical compass as Trump, but she wasn't offering all of her admiration because she thinks they're kindred spirits. She was doing it to get what she wanted: money, power (that could be turned back into money), fame (that could be turned back into money), access (that could be turned back into money), etc...

She worships those things, not Trump... and Trump is just so easy to manipulate, anyone who can get their quotes in print or a soundbyte on Fox News knows that all they have to do is worship Trump and then try to get a job in the White House.

I mean, ****, if Democrats were smart they'd have paid a Democratic analyst on TV to make a heel turn in early 2017, worship Trump for a few months, then arrange a meeting with him to get a job in the administration... at which point they'd surreptitiously tape everything, and when the time was right, leak like a sieve and then destroy his presidency from the inside out.

As for Omarosa's credibility, it's all just whatever to me. This is probably the best chance in her life to make millions and I doubt she has any moral problem lying, so she'll do whatever will make her the most money. If she actually has the goods without lying, that's her play. If she doesn't, she'll make up whatever will sell the most books.

Once she has sold all the books she can sell, don't be surprised if she turns back the other way and starts praising Trump again and gives Hannity or Cuomo some long, emotional interview about how she's seen the light, Trump's being treated unfairly, etc, etc... Because once she sells as many books as she can, her best chance to capitalize off of all of this is in TV punditry... and nobody is going to hire her to argue the liberal side.

Gerrymandering has certainly worsened since then and increased this disparity. Plus fraud.

Yea, as far as I'm concerned, billionaires are hoarders. They just hoard money rather than the stuff the poors hoard on that TV show. No one on this planet needs more than a billion dollars. I get it, capitalism is king in this world, but it's an illness once you have that much money. Look at the Koch Bros. They are virtually on death's door and they happily spend $100 million to screw over the rest of society because *gasp* God forbid they pay a death tax.

This election cycle is different though. The world is burning and voter turnout among young voters is expected to be higher than in previous elections.

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And yet wages are still stagnant. **** off.

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How about Bill Gates? The guy donates tons of money to charity, probably more than his current net worth. It's just really hard to spend it all when you have that much.

In my more overly optimistic moments it is always a happy thought that this **** will be laid low because the media will do what it does best and that's fan the flames when this nest of ****s begin to eat each other.

Just a reminder but I believe Trump’s undergraduate degree is in economics.

Still not sure why Penn has been burned to the ground.

I 100% believe everything she said about Gene Simmons. Guy's never not been a scumbag. Watch a couple episodes of his "reality" show for confirmation. Even Fox News ****canned him and sent him to perma band camp

*and even Billo's security badge will at least get him in the front door still

Related to the billionaire discussion something that I read recently: (paraphrasing)

„Most people have no concept of how different a million from a billion is. A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 31.7 years.“

**** his base. Why are we trying to erode his base? We're trying to energize the ~50% of the country that didn't vote.

This seems a little disingenuous. 2014 had an incumbent Democrat; the primary was a foregone conclusion. Not surprising at all to me that Democrats would have the higher percentage increase in turnout.

He's certainly spent billions of dollars on propaganda to rehabilitate his image, as seen by you insinuating that he is donating his money to charity. Dude is probably one of the most evil people in the last few decades. Citations needed podcast had a great 2 parter on gates:

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneed...-western-media
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneed...ates-in-africa

Book by Dr. Linsey J. McGoey (guest on the podcast):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SPV9X9K...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

From a top 500 review of that book:
And hey don't forget about the $575 Million the foundation spent on teacher evaluation and teaching reform!

Fair or not, my hate for gates will never be diminished, even if he gives away 95% of his stolen riches.

'14 wasn't a presidential election year though

ETA and even discounting for historical enthusiasm of the oppo party 2 years after a presidential election, 204% increase is pretty big in terms of sheer enthusiasm

That attempted takedown of the Gates Foundation is not at all convincing.

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Neither is 2018.

What am I missing?

I thought "the primary was a foregone conclusion" was referencing a presidential primary