American Politics the 2016 edition |
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20609 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 13:52 |
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LearsFool
Prog Reviewer Joined: November 09 2014 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 8642 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 16:38 |
Pray Carson doesn't do a 180 on backing away from the musical cabinet the way Trump's done with his relationship with Christie.
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 23:26 |
Almost picked it up at a bookstore, had no idea a book was out. I didn't because a quick flip made it look generic and what he's already hammered on, but I feel like as Sandernista I should pick it up for the cause Speaking of the revolution: My former State House Representative and big Bernie supporter (who was stripped of his superdelegate status before the DNC without reason....cant imagine why...) John Wisniewski is running for governor of NJ. The current Democratic frontrunner is a typical big donor insider Democrat with Goldman Sachs ties...so this really may be the Sanders/Clinton (or establishment/progressive) battle continuing. |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: November 22 2016 at 23:34 |
While the Dems did fall short of expectations in the House, here is a great article explaining why they were never gunna win the House anyway, why they continue to be in such a lowly position and why the future is a tad bleak. Despite changing demographics...the GOP isn't going away anytime soon.
Why? Republican gerrymandering. I thought 2010 was a great accident for them, but seems they actively realized the potential of a midterm year falling on a census, attacked and capitalized. With new fangled technology on their hands, took gerrymandering to new heights and it's really hurt the Dems. |
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20609 |
Posted: November 23 2016 at 04:15 |
Oh, speaking of Sandinistas, Bill Maher once said that if Che Guevara was still alive, he'd wear a T shirt with Bernie's picture on it!
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The Dark Elf
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13065 |
Posted: November 23 2016 at 16:06 |
Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education.
Wants to eliminate public education. Wants to defund public education and go to a voucher system so people can either go to charter schools or private schools or simply home school their little inbreds on bible studies. Once said "high wages" were one of the things that made Michigan noncompetitive. Her foundation has the stated purpose of building "an American education system that equips every child to achieve his or her God-given potential." Which is fine. If your god is white and protestant. And caters to wealthy patrons. I feel badly for the children of this country. Among other folk in this country I feel badly for. f**k. Edited by The Dark Elf - November 23 2016 at 16:08 |
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micky
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46833 |
Posted: November 23 2016 at 16:09 |
2020... you can't come soon enough
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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HackettFan
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2012 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Posted: November 24 2016 at 12:39 |
BTW, I remember a time way back when when Hillary advocated school choice. Glad she lost her commitment to that! |
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A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now)
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20609 |
Posted: November 25 2016 at 05:07 |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: November 27 2016 at 02:48 |
Yeah, not feeling the DeVos pick at all.
Support for vouchers. Automatic no go in my book. All the nice market oriented, "freedom!" and "choice" theories can be given to us until the cows come home but it's very clear what it is: an attempt to farther defund public education. Plain and simple. That's pretty much all I got because......that's all I can find in relation to education Shocker of the century: She's an unqualified person who's donated tons to the Republican Party. A businesswoman with no education experience that I can tell, and has gone to private Christian high school and college. Seems her only involvement with education is wanting to gut public education, that she clearly knows so much about, and wanting to Christian it up. More superb choices from President Elect Trump! |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: November 27 2016 at 03:01 |
So, it seems Russia was behind a good bit of the fake news spread around the internet this campaign.
Not all of it of course, but yeah. Between Trump's nothing but laudatory comments on Putin, the links between some of his team and Russia, that server Trump had believed to have been communicating with a Russian bank, now this? Let's not forget Trump's "The President can't have a conflict of interest" comment. Do people seriously still dismiss the idea there's no possibility of Russia having undue influence on him? Or at the very least there's not any concern about Russia? It's funny to me, every time I post this type thing, people are quick to say "There's no concrete proof" and quite overwhelmingly those very same people believe every single thing they hear about Hillary without a shred of care Anyway we shall see, Trump seems like he will pull a Bush and just appoint business people and/or friends to every possible post he can. In a weird way I at least feel comforted knowing he will behave exactly as we imagined. Those who wanted to "drain the swamp" and break the oligarchy, establishment blah blah hope they enjoy the guy who will likely be our ultimate plutocrat!
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Atavachron
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65272 |
Posted: November 27 2016 at 05:43 |
^ On the contrary: now the US to knows how it feels to have their politics manipulated by a meddling nation. Rings a bell, don't it?
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twseel
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 15 2012 Location: abroad Status: Offline Points: 22767 |
Posted: November 27 2016 at 06:28 |
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/donald-trump-scotland-wall.html
Edited by twseel - November 27 2016 at 09:14 |
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rogerthat
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2006 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 9869 |
Posted: November 27 2016 at 07:15 |
Ahem! You scare me, I hope Trump won't be as bad as Yelstin.
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: November 27 2016 at 16:56 |
Believe me...I do appreciate the irony. As a looong time opponent of US foreign policy it is a bit hard to feel angry, it's absolutely got a "well guess we deserve this" feeling. That said, I am fair...I do accept the wrongs we've done so I am still pretty unhappy about it. I wanna say this could be a lesson for the US but of course it wont be. |
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progaardvark
Collaborator Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Sea of Peas Status: Offline Points: 51135 |
Posted: November 28 2016 at 06:59 |
Next in the roller coaster ride of 2016... recounts!
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The T
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
Posted: November 28 2016 at 09:36 |
It's time for full blown secession and return of the non-United States
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20609 |
Posted: November 28 2016 at 10:18 |
^Is that like moving to Canada?
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lazland
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13637 |
Posted: November 28 2016 at 10:46 |
I wonder what the liberal reaction would have been had Clinton won, and the Democrats taken control of both houses, and the Red states called for secession from the Union
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timothy leary
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: November 28 2016 at 10:46 |
Washington, Oregon and California.......the new nation called Cascadia
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