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Charting The Rise Of Bernie (And Demise Of Republicans)
Democrats are the happiest relative to Republicans in over 3 months according to Bloomberg's Consumer Comfort index. In fact, whether because the market is tumbling or The Donald is soaring, Republican 'comfort' is the lowest since Nov 2014 while Democrat 'comfort' remains relatively stable...
Democrats confidence surging relative to Republicans...
But it is driven by the collapse in Republican confidence...
Charts: Bloomberg
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The whole thing is a shit show.
Who are we kidding?! With the media as weaponized as it is -- the GOP has no chance of winning, irrespective of candidate.
I hope Bernie wins. Give the government to Americans that they seem to want so badly.
While I despise party politics in general, the ignorance of the liberals on the financial issue irritates me along with their short-term memory. Sanders is a typically grandstanding politician. When the HR 1207 passed the house, Sanders introduced a similiar bill but it was only limited to an audit of TALF and TARP, which showed some $27 Trillion being laundered to other central banks and other foreign banks. The Vitter Amendment was proposed (http://www.thecenterlane.com/?tag=vitter-amendment) which would have given the Audit Bill of Sanders in the senate, the opportunity for Americans to peak at the FOMC, discount window, and other machinations of the fed. While the debate was raging, the May 2010 flash crash took place and Sanders gutted the amendment from the final bill.
Bottom line, Sanders points fingers at Wall Street and the Fed for a show and nothing more. He had the opportunity to see behind the curtain and decided against it. The thing is, for Sander's paradise to take place the Central Bank would have to do exactly what it is doing today so that the costs for social and corporate welfare can be kicked down the road for later repayment. Sanders ia fucking nut, Hillary is a corrupt thief, Trump is a platititude giving schmuck, Rand Paul is impossible to understand where he stands, and the rest can go stick a fist up their ass. I don't need no king.
A typical sheeple - why do you give up. If we are to take the country back to what our ancestors gave us, you join the charge (and not on visa). Do not support the economic system any more than you have to and starve the beast.
HA! Giving up? You have no idea how many years I dedicated to political activism and working through "their" process to try and give a true voice to the people. I can tell you from experience, even when successful in turning the ship a bit, the system will go right back to it's course over the cliff. There is no stopping this avarice and political power grabbing. The system will implode on itself. Until then, I just stay off the radar as much as possible and ignore the sick cunts.
Article headline: "(And Demise Of Republicans)"
Oh really? The republicans are already in demise, so you mean demise from demise, right? And the democrats - they are a disaster - so Bernie represents the socialist disaster to come, and the republicans an unprincipled (by and large) opposition party (though ostensbily in control of 2 of 3 branches of federal government.)
Vote for Bernie because we need more central planning.
Bernie is consolidating the votes in the Romney 47% FSA
The fact that Bernie's socialist ideas are being welcomed as "fresh" is a scathing indictment on the United States' educational system. #HomeSchoolingRocks
Speaking of comfort, I may break open a bottle of Southern Comfort if he wins. And I don't drink. That should tell you something.
God help us
The Republicans ceased being an opposition party when the Progressives took over the reins. Much like Fox News, manufactured dissent in the MSM (as Murdoch is a member of the CFR so its all the same).
Bruce, please check out the article "Americans have Never Been Dumber." I'll give you a hint, it is at the top of the stack.
Enjoy!
- Ned
agree , but there is much more we can all do easily and legally. Just gtte get off the couch and do it ?
I hear ya, Rand needs to grow a set like Trump and back it up with the years of information that I am certain he as from his father.
The only political trait Rand Paul got from his father was a last name.
Yes!!! Hurry up with the free shit and final death of the Republic and the secession of productive states and people!!!
I withdrew my consent a long time ago anyway. Fuck em.
Free socialism for everybody. I just can't wait to see California as the new Venezuela......
Democrats are happy for now because they are still getting their welfare, unemployment and disability checks along with food stamps. None of their "wealth" comes from the market, but rather from gov't handouts. See how happy they are when the gov't checks stop coming in.
The truth of the matter is that the government checks/promises will never stop, however, they simply will stop being accepted...
Soviet Union, 2.0, global Weimar, etc.
What market? A market picks winners and losers. No company in America is allowed to lose, as long as they donate enough to their crony politicians. The market in America only applies to those who cannot donate.
and that reality check is coming sooner than most think !
It's all welfare in one form or another. Welfare to the people or welfare to the corporations.
Really? Democrats are the ones on welfare? Perhaps you can explain why red stares in the deep south are the biggest feeders on the government tit... and perhaps you can also explain why heavily democratic cities like LA, San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland, etc are also where many of the jobs are? The people getting welfare are Wall Street, the banks, and their CEOs.
The ultra-left tide rose up to swallow a thriving economy that was once run by sane people 50 years ago. That tide will drown the California economy, even the ultra profitable computer businesses, who'll drag out their useful life by hiring a bunch more foreigners to take the jobs of their citizen employees.
You ZH-heads have an amazing ability to operate in terms of two conflicting and contradictory models of the world!
You know the economy is collapsing, and the working folk, blue white or pink collar, didn't cause that.
You know tens of millions of hardworking folk have lost their jobs and are struggling to survive with the help of increawingly mean-spirited and humiliating social welfare assistance.
You know tens of millions of young Americans, including those who did what we said that they should and got an education, are facing a future with no future in it.
You know that the social welfare programs, set up to help people through hard times, are collapsing due to the same system failure precipitated by the same criminal financial scams that created the growing need for them in the first place.
Yet you can gloat over their suffering, take satisfaction that it will get worse. Just what lesson will THAT teach them?
How many folks are turning out to support Bernie because they are happy about any of this?
And by the way, just where do you get the idea that Democrats are happy about Bernie? Very few working-folk who vote Democratic really consider themselves Democrats.
And as for the Democratic Party, go look up Democratic Candidate Endorsements on Wikipedia. As of Aug 30 Bernie had ZERO endorsements from Congresscritters, Senators or sitting Governors (one from independent ex-Governor Jesse Ventura). Three Mayors, including the Socialist mayor of Seattle and the Mayor of New London. ZERO Democratic State Party Chairs. 21 State Legislators, half of them from Vermont. Locally, some tell me they love him and wish they could support him, but the Democratic Party has intimidated them into silence.
This is actually quite impressive. I had no idea the Democratic Party had that much power and control over its members and officeholders.
Amen
Whoever can get the coming race war started is who we all should be voting for. I was hoping the hate-monger Obama would do it. We need to cleanse our land of blacks and progressives.
makes sense though. the whole nation is on the "anyone but Bush/Clinton" theme.
Like monkeys in the zoo all flinging shit at each other. Wear your goggles and enjoy the show.
Bernie is an old fart! Im voting for Ted Cruz/Ben Carson - Trump is my third choice.
BULLSHIT
EVERYTHING IS BULLSHIT
Fake wars
Fake enemies
Fake attacks
Fake money
Fake political system
Fake food
....
don't forget fake boobs. could not resist
yes it is and that is why I always speak of the many illusions we all live under here in USSA today ! becasue we do.
and there is a much better way
So long as the public employee payroll checks cash and the EBT cards refill on time, the Democrat voters are comfortable.
Yes, I'm pissed because I have to pay these assholes
The only robust growth in America I have seen in the last 6 years is exponential growth of the FSA and foreigners.
Then stop.
not pay them , but pay to get fucked everyday in a myriad of ways !
Dems are happy with the prospect of Uncle Bernie, a real dyed in the wool socialist, in the driver's seat given that 51% of immigrant households and 30% of native-born Americans are riding the US welfare gravy train, accessing Medicaid, cash, food, and housing programs.
When you’re in a big-mall restaurant in California and by looking around find that you and another guy are the only whites there, realizing that you and he in all likelihood are paying for the gravy can be “depressing.”
-- In the four top immigrant-receiving states, use of welfare by immigrant households is significantly higher than that of native households: California (55 percent vs. 30 percent), New York (59 percent vs. 33 percent), Texas (57 percent vs. 34 percent), and Florida (42 percent vs. 28 percent).
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2571257/?utm_content=buffer9363e&utm_medium=social&utm_source
How do they figure this out
Awesome lets trade the current retard for a new one...he'll fix things just wait and see, this time its different we promise.
Bernie is and Israeli and a communist from Vermont. Enough said.......
The communist are happy? Never.. they always need MOAR of your money
Who cares? Republicans suck. Not that Democrats don't. Socialists Rule!!!!! Go Bernie!!!!
Democrats had a lock with Hillary several months ago. With her scandals mounting up - they are comfortable?
Maybe the Republican numbers reflect how comfortable the 'establishment Republicons' are. But many (not all) Republican voters are very happy to hear Trump and get excited again.
The Reps made a huge miscalculation with another Bush. My guess is they had no idea how deep the dissatisfaction is with the last Bush. To make matters worse, he's bragging about how successful his borther's Iraq war was?!
Clueless or an idiot? I can't figure out.
Not sure on the miscalculation angle. Trump's catalyst was the illegal immigrant issue. Bush, on the other hand, favors amnesty, because the arriving hordes do so "as an act of love". Think this may have more to do with their respective poll showing. But....what do I know?
Reince Prebus (Prince Reamus) and Karl Rove SHOULD be 'uncomfortable'!
Trump isn't our candidate, he's our murder weapon, and the GOPe is the target. Goodbye, Jeb!
no doubt this article is junk.
Ha ha ha! Politics!
Did not vote in the last election for the first time since 1976. If I were a betting man I would go with Scott Walker/John Kasich and Ben Carson (VP) on the repub side and Joltin' Joe and Lizbeth Warren for the dems.
Republican discomfort can be blamed directly on 2 people. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. Both were expected to take on Obama when put in the majority and all they have done is facilitate him.
The money that these puppets need to get and stay "elected" all comes from the same source, duh.
Agree but most people aren't aware of that
When it takes $20 to $50 million to get re-elected to job that pays >$200k, it is obvious ( and should be called out by journalists, but isn't ) that the recipient of the campain money must owe some favors after the election.
I had to log in just to tell you that I read your post too quickly and read it as "all they have done is fellate him", which, in retrospect, is equally accurate.
Exactly right. Those two epitomize Rn uselessness.
Hugo Chavez now has two new found brothers : Bernie and Corbyn.
North of the Panama Canal and accross the Pond.
What an amazing turn around. Hugo had one father : Che Guevara.
So the time line of "rebels with a cause" now rears its head.
Che now stands defiant like Cadmus of Thebes; sowing the dragon's teeth!
Pity that Thebes, (in this case S. America from Argentina to Venezuela), now burns also.
Economic war takes its toll in Latinos land south of the Panama canal.
+1 for the obscure Greek mythology reference.
Aregentina is in Greece?
LMFAO!!!! Red=Blue, stupid sheep.
We are here;
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Bernie...the least fit person in the country to be president is our savior?
That's right. Vote for Bernie, the scumbag career politician who has never worked a real job for a single day in his life. That socialist will lecture you on how to redistribute other hard working people's money. You didn't build that!
Big time wrestling at its best. Who has time for this farcical trite
It doesn't FUCKING MATTER who becomes "president"!!
The shadow government and un-elected beauracrats run this whole shit show...
Bernie is a Jew from Brooklyn, New York City who is rabidly anti-Second Amendment. All the demonrats who fled what they created in Massachusetts vote the same way they did in Massachusetts, the result is the transformation of states like Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire.
Jews and Jewish organizations lead the gun control campaign
As to why Republicans are uncomfortable compared to the Demonrats is that the DNC is FOR their base, the RNC is AGAINST its base, i.e. the White Christians.
Protective Stupidity
Of course, it's so simple. How do we fix a Socialist Economy that used to be free and is currently tanking becuase of government control? By electing a president who will institute more government control of course! What other way can we preserve freedom and liberty besides restricting more freedoms and liberties!
H. L. Mencken was right, "The common mans a fool."
BY EJECTING THE KIKES THAT ARE ENGINEERING IT!
I don't see why any Republican should be happy with the Republican party. And I don't see any reason why a Democrat should be happy with the Democratic party, because those voters have been slipped a mickey as well. The Democrats have migrated to far left Marxism and Communism, and the Republicans in power don't even try to define themselves in any useful way, instead pandering to groups for votes for whatever they think might keep them in office. Socialism sells? OK, this week we're Socialists. Obama's popular still? OK, this year we won't attempt to impeach him for his constitutional violations. Rule of law not working? Yeah, maybe we agree that's not good, but we're not doing anything about it, because we might upset people and be labeled as racist. So the whole stinking swamp in Washington is really a lost cause. They respond to money, and no longer represent the ordinary citizens of the country. That's over.
Socialism is plunder; by law it converts plunder into a right.
What Frederic Bastiat wrote in “The Law” more than 150 years ago applies perfectly today: “The law is perverted. And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! ... The law became the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!”
Bastiat wrote when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism:
“Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.
“But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.
“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain—and since labor is pain in itself—it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.
“When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.”
are you describing socialism or are you describing taxation? there is a difference, you know?
Why bother with ownership of the means of production when you can tax and regulate all you want, and destroy the livelihood of any who object.
he's running for president, not king.
I'm voting for Bernie because from the perspective of international aggression, bodycounts, and money squandered on needless war, he's the best option.
I'm not too worried about him redistributing wealth from the koch brothers to illegal immigrant welfare moms - and you shouldn't be either.
The red team blue team shit is bullshit - Sanders and I may not agree on much but he's said the same shit for 40 years, there will be limits to his power to make the country more like Denmark {oh no!!} but where he can act, with the military and diplomacy - every other candidate is more of the same. Trump, too. The man on foreign policy sounds like a borderline moron.
If Obamacare were implemented as written in law, there would be an uprising. Is Bernie willing to say, we are going to follow the rule of law. None of this bullshit 220 exemptions from Obamacare for favored interests (unions, public employees).
When Bernie talks about "fairness," is this what he means?
Don't you need a Federal Government of the United States of America
There is just about no MSM coverage of Bernie. Today on the CBS morning show, Hillary was the only democrat talked about.
... intentionally.
Yes, let us see what other monstrosities the Demoncrats can foist upon the citizens of this country. Yes, are there any other Obamacare-esque schemes in waiting...to be unleashed upon the already broke middle class?
Vote for B-man then. He's the face that brings in the crowds, but then it's back to the old corrupt Democratic machine tricks.
Here's a monstrosity for ye, Gab. Please google "Guaranteed Retirement Plans."
This is an ivory tower initiative that was shelved as the Obamacare wars heated up. But it's still there, waiting to be dusted off by Bernie! Here's the broad strokes:
1) Most americans are woefully prepared for retirement.
2) There's a shitload of equity in 401(k) plans out there, like ripe fruit on a tree, waitng to be picked.
3) 401(k)'s have benefited only the wealthy.
4) This is not fair.
The grand solution is, of course, to nationalize 401(k) plans, and pay an annuity to the planholder. And how much will it pay? Enough to ensure a "comfortable retirement." "Comfortable" defined by whom? Take a wild fucking guess! Not you!
Brainwashed by Socialists = Democrat Comfort
Democrats are Evil...Republicans are Stupid.
Charts explained in 3 words....
IGNORANCE IS BLISS
In Soviet America, Taxpayer pays for you!
I feel like the electricity's shut off and I'm in an elevator with 20 people and we all have diarrhea.
We are fine, so long as we enjoy a nice cup of steaming Shit with our Fava beans.
And the building manager keeps yelling through the door that there's no such thing as diarrhea, that it's just a construct, a complaint only of the privileged white minority.
I used to think ZH readers were smart. I was wrong. Most of you seem to think it matters who is president. Morons.
Fear not, sir, elections always make this happen to ZH. Those of us who know that it matters not whether Team Red or Team Blue is in control of the ball will still be here when the circus has packed up its tents and left for the next small town.
GOP loves cock, DNC loves dick.
if everyone accumulated or earned enough money for everyone to be "comfortable", would there then be too much money in existence?
if every working tax slave walked off the job at the same time for a few weeks or maybe a month the game would be over
Or withdrew their financial support from the big businesses who sell us out.
Gee, uh, I don't know...ignorance is bliss...maybe?
Whenever I want to read some racist homophobic anti-Semitic ranting, Zerohedge is the place to do it. You guys are worse (better?) than Stormfront. Que grupo de pendejos. Chupa la verga, pinche gringos.
I don't speak Swedish. Could you translate please?
It means, "Bend over, QE4 is coming."
It is a good news for Republicans: the more Democrats are happy and complacent, the more inert and passive they are. On the other side, unsatisfied people are more eager to fight for change