CNN: Trump 'is bringing more hope and change than Obama ever could'.

[crazytown]

This a quote from an OP by John Blake, published by CCN. Whatever the intentions of the author, this piece is a disgrace.

CNN, August 23, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/us/trump-obama-change-blake/index.html

Trump is doing what Obama couldn't

Some Democratic voters are looking for a candidate who can restore the optimism of the Obama era. But what if the progressive champion they're looking for is already sitting in the White House?

Call it the audacity of President Trump: He is bringing more hope and change than Obama ever could.

I know, I know. For some people, this is blasphemy. Yet one of the biggest ironies of Trump's presidency is that he has become a more effective catalyst for progressive social change than Obama.

(snip) I never thought I'd say this. As an African-American man, I felt pride when Obama walked into the White House. I loved seeing how devoted he was to his family. I smiled when he broke into an Al Green song onstage. And I blinked away tears when I saw that Oval Office photograph of a five-year-old black boy reaching up to touch Obama's hair just to see if it really felt like his.

And yet I wonder today if I and others drew the wrong lesson from his election. Maybe the deep, systemic changes that so many yearn for couldn't come through his temperate, "No Drama Obama" approach. Maybe real change only comes through chaos and crisis -- Trump's leadership style.

[jcgoldie]

1. Terrible

This premise is as ridiculous as Sarandon's irresponsible Trump will bring the revolution argument.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Indeed

[uponit7771]

2. More "burn it down to save it" thinking, not novel and pretty lazy

[0rganism]

3. because the easiest way to remodel your house is to burn it down

yeah you're gonna get real change all right, and you are not going to like it.

[UniteFightBack]

34. When the foundation is cracked yes this is what you do. nt

[kozar]

5. when you start,

to accept the enemies concept to win your battle or war,,,you have already lost both. umm its called propaganda.


Koz

[dalton99a]

6. Jeff Zucker will give him a nice bonus for that piece.

[Newest Reality]

7. Khoroshaya rabota, drug!

What an outstanding job he does for Minitrue. A fullwise upsub goodthink.

Is his favorite tea Stockholm Orange?

Oh, sure, slash and burn is a strategy. A little chaos and crises never hurt anybody.

Yes, I too thought that there was that kind of value as far as the catalyst aspect was concerned, but it has gone way beyond that because our mobilization and solidarity is not as much a factor as what we will inherit after the massive, slow motion trainwreck, so this is not really the time to be making those kinds of statements, methinks.

This is NOT drama. This is a bona fide disaster and it is getting worse all the time.

[crazytown]

12. and clocks are chiming 13

Whoever has the best five year plan for war with East Asia gets a free bottle of Victory Gin from me for $20 + 25% tariffs.

[Newest Reality]

18. ++good! Oldthinkers crimethink, ungood!

Oceania, Tis For Thee

Strong and peaceful, wise and brave;
Fighting the fight for the whole world to save.
We the people will ceaselessly strive
To keep our great revolution alive.
Unfurl the banners, look at the screen;
Never before has such glory been seen.

Oceania, Oceania, Oceania, 'tis for thee.
Every deed, every thought 'tis for thee.
Every deed, every thought 'tis for thee.

[crazytown]

23. blackwhite 4u, thoughtcrime 4me, gotta get a rain check on blame

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"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today." - Henry Ford

[Thekaspervote]

8. Let's just all boycott cnn until they stop interviewing shitheads

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Translation:

Trump had to take this country down to its rock bottom depths where we could eyeball the Republican gutter reptiles and their scurvy agenda. And it's here that we were all forced to come together for change that we can all believe in.

[Aristus]

10. Wow. And I thought the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days Of Sodom" was some crazy shit...

[Duppers]

13. Read down into the article. nt

[SCantiGOP]

15. It sounds like every comment above yours

Read only the title and not the article.
“Boycott CNN” shows a complete lack of reading comprehension and the same attitude we usually see from the FOXbots to wanting their news to toe the party line.

[crazytown]

17. I have read the article in full.

Whatever else trump has delivered, it is not hope but desperation.

[SCantiGOP]

25. The author is using the words in the title as irony

He is not actually saying that Trump is producing feeling of hope in the populace.

[crazytown]

32. Disagree

[Renew Deal]

14. It's sort of the theory that Trump will be so bad

That Democrats will dominate going forward.

[mwooldri]

16. Trump came in like a wrecking ball...

... and methinks it'll need a professor with a plan to come in and fix the damage he caused.

[Vinca]

19. I don't know what this guy is smoking, but he's definitely hallucinating.

[tblue37]

20. This is what Susan Sarandon believed. nt

[UTUSN]

21. cnn.com wants "alternative/non-traditional" voices, like Ruben NAVARRETTE the wingnut creep

[struggle4progress]

22. "We've decided to support Adolf because he'll bring the opposition together!"

[crazytown]

24. + a million

or 20.

[triron]

31. Perfect!

[kysrsoze]

26. Change, yes. Hope, nope.

[librechik]

27. WTF?

whatever Trump has, it's spreading.

[brewens]

28. It could end up Trump does end up bringing more positive change,

unintentionally and the hard way. A blue wave that buries the republican party for a decade or two would be nice.

[Bradical79]

29. Yes, true change can come from chaos and crises...

A few examples I can think of:

The change of fertile land from burning crops and salting the Earth.

The change of having a head, to not having a head.

Asteroid strikes bring some major changes.

Same for toxic spills, nuclear attacks, extreme climate change...

Not all changes are good!

[kentuck]

30. Yeah, what have you got to lose, Chump?

[smirkymonkey]

33. WTF?

Seriously, wtf? This is insane.