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Jim Messina, a former President Obama and UK Conservative Party adviser has recently come out against Bernie Sanders and claimed that the Vermont Senator would not be able to win a general election against sitting President Donald Trump and further mentioned that Democrats would "struggle" if Sanders was the nominee. So, who exactly is Jim Messina and why should we trust his opinion? Messina was hired as Obama's national chief of staff in 2008 and was key in his election victory that year as he controlled a $750M budget and also worked for Obama's 2012 campaign but subsequently left in 2011 and begun giving paid corporate seminars and speeches to companies such as Apple, Facebook, Zynga, Google, Microsoft and DreamWorks. Furthermore, in August 2013, Messina signed on as a paid consultant to the UK Conservative Party to work for both David Cameron's and Theresa May's campaigns in 2013 and 2017 respectively. Seemingly, Messina's advice didn't seem ...

Hillary Clinton supporters have a new theory as to who put Donald Trump in the White House: Hillary Clinton herself. These are the very same people that have spent the last two years blaming Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Russia, sexism, and non-voters for their loss but have now flipped and claim that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats knew what they were doing all along and that purposefully losing the 2016 election was a part of an extravagant scheme. The reasoning they have for their theory is that Hillary was "weirdly quiet" and that it's all "a plan to get citizens engaged in politics" and personally I have no idea how they've come to this conclusion because everything Hillary and her election operatives have done since the 2016 election is blame voters and has appeared on plenty of UK and US talk shows such as The Graham Norton Show, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The View, to name just a few. There...

According to the  US National Debt Clock , a website which tracks the real-time total of many governmental figures ranging from the US National Debt/Deficit, how many Americans currently use Food Stamps or the current amount of people who are currently unemployed in the US - which currently sits at 12,420,110 people or 3.7% of the population. Even since writing that paragraph and taking the time to make a cup of tea, an additional $7M has already been added to the US Federal Budget Deficit that is pictured above, which shows just how quickly it is increasing. Given the Republican Party's stern opposition to any federal spending because we "have to cut the deficit and pay down the debt", which is exactly what any sane governmental official should look to do during their time in office, but also provide an increase in the quality of life for each and every American citizen. The Republican Party are however extremely hypocritical when it comes to government spending an...

Polls that were undertaken by polling organisation Gallup have produced some rather worrying signs for both major political parties in America and good news for smaller, lesser known parties. The polls, which were published in January 2018, show that the number of Americans who indentify as Independents has seen its largest ever increase a year out of a presidential election. As you can see pictured above, the number of Independents has been increasing sharply since Gallup's recording began pre-1989, and very rarely dipping below the numbers of Democrats or Republicans. Gallup also mentions how decreases in Independents is usually a result of people choosing to back the candidate with either a (D) or (R) next to their name as they vote for someone that resembles their ideas as closely as possible. The large increase in Independents also spells bad news for both parties, however. Ever since Barack Obama's historical 2008 victory, the number of American Independents has bee...

Not all babies get tears from Jimmy Kimmel. Got it. #AlfieEvans pic.twitter.com/ebt48exgod — Steven Crowder (@scrowder) April 27, 2018 American conservatives such as Steven Crowder, among many others, have began using their ridiculously low level of understanding about UK healthcare and the harrowing case of 1 year old Alfie Evans in order to push back against the growing popularity of a single-payer system being implemented in the United States. Crowder has stated that "the state chose to let Alfie Evans die", which isn't the case whatsoever but that doesn't matter to people such as Steven Crowder, who has a history of lying to his audience. While Crowder pretends that the UK Government had the final say on whether or not Alfie's parents would be allowed to take him from Alder Hay Hospital in Liverpool to a hospital in Rome that had suggested it could possibly save Alfie's life, that's simply untrue. The Alfie Evans case was between doctors at ...

In our last piece , we discussed how Sally Albright, in her pursuit of "bringing back liberal" (whatever that actually means), has consistently alienated left-wing voters and essentially foams at the mouth with propaganda about how progressives "don't know politics" and how we are complicit in electing Donald Trump as we didn't all trip over each other in order to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though she isn't entitled to our votes, she has to earn them and that was not the case. After further research on Sally's extreme dishonesty when it comes to her selective political outrage, we have found her driving force for twisting words, spreading damaging rhetoric and punching left. Her reasoning for her deceit isn't a belief that she is doing the right thing politically or an admiration for the facts within a political debate - her driving force is to make money in any which way she can, or in Sally's case, helping get Republican's elec...

Family members and spouses are often pulled into the political battleground as their significant others begin the journey of hopefully becoming President of the United States. This is something we see occur frequently because of affiliation to the candidate rather than matching political beliefs, as close family are seen as responsible for the rise of a political figure that they don't agree with - as we see with right-wingers holding animosity against Michelle Obama because her husband Barack is 'coming to take our guns and put us in FEMA Camps', supposedly. Whether the hopeful Presidential candidate is Democrat or Republican, there have been numerous tasteless jabs at politicians families and spouses who are merely along for the ride, this including 2016 defeated Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wife Jane Sanders. Mrs Sanders was the target of several pro-Hillary and Trump-supporting twitter accoun...