Ted Rall for December 24, 2016
Transcript:
Narrator: The outgoing president is polite to his successor, even though he insulted him. Barack Obama: Just respecting our tradition of smooth transitions of power. Narrator: The media treats the president-elect with difference despite his contempt for them. Woman: It's not our job to call him out. The people have spoken. Narrator: The opposition party rubber-stamps his cabinet picks, who are politically extreme and remarked unqualified. Man: Presidents get their picks. It's the American way. Man 2: Gotta love that smooth transition of power. Woman 2: So important!
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 7 years ago
Rall, the Democrats are unfortunately not in a position to block every Trump nomination, no thanks to you. They will try to block the most egregious ones.
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You had a chance to pick a side. You chose Trump’s. Own it.
Guy Fawkes over 7 years ago
Gotta love that endless regurgitation of it’s somebody else’s fault…
The American way can be smooth transition of power or revolution- not both. President Obama’s sworn duty is seeing to the former. ‘The Media’ is a worthless catch-all generic stereotype for nearly 800,000 information outlets. That some reputable journalists still report factual occurrences and events without spite or propaganda is a very good thing. Government servants are morally and legally bound to work with opposition servants. Private citizens can (and should) engage in civil disobedience, while our chosen representatives cannot.
We’ve messed up America’s immediate future pretty good. Sinking the ideals of future generations over one or two silly politicians is unthinkable.
Crying hypocrisy on each institution, government, and church, along with every last man, woman & child extant seems a poor way to run humanity. What exactly does that accomplish? We are all part of the same hypocrisy. The only part of U.S. culture that is not full of s#/t is the Constitution. American citizens have the means, motive, and opportunity to govern themselves. The consequences for not doing so cannot be abrogated by snark and finger pointing. Vote!
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
Getting a little ahead of ourselves, aren’t we?
mommadillo over 7 years ago
“Presidents get their picks. It’s the American way.”
Tell that to Merrick Garland.
jespence97 over 7 years ago
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Lets just hand the keys over to the orange psycho and sit back as he destroys everything.
wmbrainiac over 7 years ago
I’d reduce it to something this simple: You support a guy who makes fun of disabled people at a public speech, you are going to hell. The same might be true if you fail to actively oppose him.
wmclay over 7 years ago
Rall destroyed Trump’s competition on a daily basis on the run up to the election, now he wants to whine that people aren’t doing enough to stop him.
Flash Gordon over 7 years ago
The former ussr had a smooth transition of power too back in the 1920’s. After Lenin suffered a stroke, the monster stalin took over. After he recovered enough to speak, Lenin warned everybody about stalin but by then it was too late. At least 60 million soviet citizens died from various causes under stalin’s despotic brutal rule, that’s in addition to the 27 million soviets lost in world war two.
HabaneroBuck over 7 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/us/white-house-vandalized-in-transition-gao-finds.html——————————————————-Sigh….some people are just too stupid for help. It gets so old.
wyneaux over 7 years ago
From one server of the super-rich to another even more pliant server…. totally apt depiction!
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
Don’t you mean the rightist crybabies who tried to block Obama at every turn, so their vision of a White Christian America can finally come to pass?To the spoilers went the victory.
Malcolm Hall over 7 years ago
I am a Democrat and a liberal. But I have to say I will not miss Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton in the slightest. Sha na na ha (etc.)
GreggW Premium Member over 7 years ago
By all means (literally), let’s continue to uphold the facade that the US is a healthy democracy.
vorpal7 over 7 years ago
Trump is Hitler…keep telling yourself that and the republicans could have 65 senate seats next time! Love me some democrat misery and blindness.