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HOLY SHIT. Remember the Diazepam guy?
Hillary doesn't suffer from seizures. She has chronic DTs! SMOKING GUN!!!!one1eleventy
#drudgesiren
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Trump going hard in Ohio tying Clinton to Obamacare.
Looks like Aleppo lost his cool
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ers-marijuana-interview-video?CMP=embed_video
There's literally someone on the way home who has a Trump/Pence, Gregg (D candidate for Gov), Ritz (D Sec. of Education), Bayh, then all the local Republican candidates' signs in their yard.
The way he talks about taking people's "first vote" is kind of weird.
Ive always sort of viewed it a blessing we are where we are, considering i started this election season thinking Supreme Court nominations were all we could accomplish. We win back Senate, we already further than i expected. But i do genuinely believe polls will all be understating Hillary's final tally. We have never had such a large gap between campaigns in terms of data/gotv.
This article has some good bits but again, its an article which completely divorces civil rights and the potential beneficiaries of that policies. How many black store owners were protected in that mom-and-pop store bill, what about the giant expansion of government that probably did more to lead to prosperity rather than anti-monopoly power (medicare, medicaid, Social security, military expansion, war contracts and subsidies, the dearth of Asian and European competition due to the war)
Again, this is a conclusion in search of some historical justification for their claim to being the real Democrats
The economic populists never left (again, these always ignore that Black legsilators have constantly been one of the strongest voices for these same things but they're ignored in favor or the white leaderships view), the country movie right as a whole not some sell out democrats.
These analysis really really want to ignore so much of the world in favor of the idea that anti-corporate stuff is going to unite the working and middle class and lead to... hell I don't even think they know what... its just about reducing power.
I mean paragraphs like this illistrate the point
None of these are issues the American people want fixed. None of these are things people complain about or even believe need to be fixed by and large. In fact many of these HAVE lowered prices (especially Amazon) and just randomly smashing them up isn't going improve lives even if it improves competition, its a type of vanity project of having your goals and pretending people care.
Read it two days ago, but I think the thrust of the article was centered around economic populism, so I didn't dock it point for not talking about civil rights. The writer concedes that there was significant progress on the social front, and says that these gains have to be kept.
While Wright Patman was praised for his populism in the piece, the author noting that Patman supported segregation stained Patman plenty in my eyes. In a way, by arriving to the diverse coalition of today, we have the mind and care to implement economic policies and legislation with careful thought for minorities as well from this starting point, which is better than what it was before. I think that's a good thing and the author encourages thinking about economic policies with the Democratic coalition in mind as well.
Ive always sort of viewed it a blessing we are where we are, considering i started this election season thinking Supreme Court nominations were all we could accomplish. We win back Senate, we already further than i expected. But i do genuinely believe polls will all be understating Hillary's final tally. We have never had such a large gap between campaigns in terms of data/gotv.
Looks like Aleppo lost his cool
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ers-marijuana-interview-video?CMP=embed_video
I've been pretty confident we have the house now for a few weeks, and see no reason to change that prediction.
Back in the summer there were a fair amount of "what would it take for dems to win the house" articles, and consensus had that figure at +6 to +8 nationally. That's exactly where Wang was, in fact. The most pessimistic was Kyle kondik at +10 and Wang was sour on that estimate.
We're now in a situation where Hillary is comfortably POLLING at +10 among LV. not factoring in ground game from unlikely voters which gave Obama another 3 points to the final tally in 2012.
Still, there's been no change in the narrative that "dems can't win the house" despite credible polls rolling in well over +10 and early voting smashing records. It goes directly against where everyone whose job it is to predict these things put the bar back when +6 or +7 was a pipe dream, not a low level outlier.
Why? I think no one wants to be the first guy to stick his neck out on something impossible, then have to eat crow on November 9th.
It's far easier to hedge bets and play it conservative and act surprised when a flip happens, then have to walk back a narrative like Gallup did in 08 or Nate bronze did in the primaries.
Um. What's this about
Right wing spin is she was drunk st 4:30 in the afternoon
YOWZA.....this guy....
Watching the official stream, they're putting a lot of effort in these broadcasts
/cue HillaryTV joke
When Trump says we will shun every Syrian REFUGEE, and the crowd goes fucking nuts, I want to smack every single one of them. Deplorable little shits. (first time I've listened to any of his speeches in quite a few months)
Damn, Gary Johnson is fucking unhinged. He was ready to bite that Guardian reporter's face.Looks like Aleppo lost his cool
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ers-marijuana-interview-video?CMP=embed_video
Indiana has shown it is willing to vote split over the past few elections more than one might think. So, it doesn't necessarily make sense, but it kind of does.I have zero problem with this. Yeah, it kind of makes no sense, but at least the person is willing to vote for sonebody outside of one party.
Looks like Aleppo lost his cool
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ers-marijuana-interview-video?CMP=embed_video
When Trump says we will shun every Syrian REFUGEE, and the crowd goes fucking nuts, I want to smack every single one of them. Deplorable little shits. (first time I've listened to any of his speeches in quite a few months)
Pretty sure any type of immigrant triggers them.
lol I just got whiplash watching that cut from spooky-scary horror-warning Trump to positive Present and Future Queens on CNN
I mean, they wouldn't be able to single out Syrians given the opportunity as it is. At least not a good amount of them.Not if they're white enough!
God I hate the GOP, fucking terrible.
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@Blader above:
That's assuming Dems get and keep Senate. With all the gerrymandering, good luck.
If we're lucky enough to get it this year, I fear nothing will happen due to GOP obstruction until they win it back in 2018. We're proper fucked until some real 3rd party redistricting happens. I guess we'll have the presidency for a while, but nothing else.
Well, Vox did try to look into the possibility of making it a more 'sellable' policy to the public.
Climate legislation is going to be a pain in the ass
Pew:
Clinton 46
Trump 40
The boundaries drawn for the districts Dems need to take would like to have a word with you. I really don't think looking at national trends helps when so many were walled off to concentrate what are now Trump die hards.I've been pretty confident we have the house now for a few weeks, and see no reason to change that prediction.
Pew:
Clinton 46
Trump 40
FLOTUS chair-dancing behind Hillary:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/791711747614904321/photo/1
People truly don't give a shit. It's almost never part of political discussion, just a talking point like "oh, the rare animals dying, it's so, so bad".
The only way to get things done is to scare the bejeezus out of people. It's not a nice strategy, but it's the only one that would get something done.
Hillary's plans for Syria are really vague, it's kind of odd.
Not sure what she plans to do.
Your voters elevated Trump nearly to the White House, and he may yet make it there, in spite of everything. They did so because you have primed them for Trump for more than half a century. Half a century of barely concealed appeals to racism, of fomenting fear and hatred and coaxing the worst instincts out of enough voters to gain power. Years of nurturing ― on AM radio and cable TV and the internet ― a propaganda machine that encourages ignorance, mistrust and anger.
You have lost control of the golem you created.
You made promises you knew you couldnt keep, and your voters finally lost faith in you. Now, theyre turning on you.
They follow a man who doesnt even share your beliefs. Youre learning just how little those voters cared about conservatism and how very much they cared about stomping their boots on the throats of people who dont look like them or love like them or think like them. You made this possible by making villains out of African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ people, the poor.
When this is all over, you may win your own re-elections. You may retain control of Congress and of governors mansions, state legislatures, county councils and school boards all across the nation. You may sigh in relief that you survived. You may even ― and not terribly long from now ― regain the presidency and resume carrying out your agenda. Your own careers may be successful.
But history will condemn you. History wont forget your cravenness. Because you knew.