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And Bill Kristol continues his run of being wrong about goddamned everything -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 10:05
Documentary idea: follow a dozen ardent drumpf supporters, esp minority ones, to see how they get effected by this election they so wanted -- nm - z Nov 9, 10:01
So a FB acquaintance just posted a long diatribe about Trump et al.. - Marlowe Nov 9, 09:58 3
- the first First Lady who's most iconic image will be nudes of her holding a gun -- nm - z Nov 9, 10:03
- Of all the legitimate things to be pissed about, that's what he lands on? -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 10:00 1
  - No, he complains about everything else that you would expect as well.. - Marlowe Nov 9, 10:10
this just in ... the U.S. capitol to move to New York, Trump to rule from his ivory tower -- nm - call me Ishmael Nov 9, 09:54 1
- The Man in the High Castle ads on CNN went a little "ha ha ha stop" at a point. -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 09:55
At the doctor today to confirm an ulcer and BP is 150/70. Which is just a *little* high for me. - TWuG Nov 9, 09:49 5
- 30 points is more than a little high - are you stressed? - Epiphany Nov 9, 09:57 2
  - I might be a little stressed. Just a smidge. - TWuG Nov 9, 10:00 1
    - okay. we want you around for years and years -- nm - Epiphany Nov 9, 10:01
- "Maybe let's retake that one in a week." - Reagen Nov 9, 09:53 1
  - Yeah. Probably the worst day to be setting that baseline. -- nm - TWuG Nov 9, 09:56
Is Clinton still the leader of the democratic party? if not, why not and who will be? -- nm - z Nov 9, 09:48 2
- Obama. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 9, 09:56
- Howard Dean I thought. -- nm - Remlik Nov 9, 09:53
Dow currently up 180 - go figure:/ -- nm - Meg Nov 9, 09:37 3
- I think they'll remain steady until the first President-elect Trump-tantrum. -- nm - landbeck Nov 9, 09:45
- My bank and drug stocks are doing very well today. -- nm - Baron More Dough Nov 9, 09:42
- buying opportunities in Private Prisons (gotta warehouse them mexicans someplace till we ship them out) -- nm - z Nov 9, 09:41
Obama: "We have to remember that we're all on the same team. This is an intramural scrimmage." -- nm - Max Nov 9, 09:24 26
- I'll believe it when I see it. -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 09:36
- nicely said but it's BS. - Mel Profit Nov 9, 09:34 15
  - to be fair, the GOP hates trump. the media made him. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 09:53 7
    - America made him. thanks, "y'all" -- nm - philip k mud Nov 9, 10:06
    - Right, as some analysts have mentioned the mainstream Republican Party just got slapped down, too. - David Nov 9, 10:03 4
      - He ended two political dynasties last night. - Will Hunting Nov 9, 10:06
      - and Ryan most likely wanted to run in 2020 so this prolly fouls him up. Just desserts. -- nm - Diva Nov 9, 10:06 2
        
        or not, republicans have primoried out senators, maybe they can do the same to a RINO -- nm - z Nov 9, 10:09
        
        Rubio, Cruz...they get to carry on as well. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 9, 10:07
    - The GOP loves power and will follow whoever can keep them in it. -- nm - TWuG Nov 9, 10:01
  - NCLB was a pretty big compromise at the time, in 2001. Passed 384-45 in the House and 91-8 in the Senate. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 9, 09:38
  - Would you have rather he came out and simply said, "Game over!" - Doctor Spawn Nov 9, 09:37 5
    - He did what a responsible president had to do. but it's a lie. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 9, 09:39 4
      - Lost in all of this is that Obama garners more respect than either candidate this cycle. He's the check and the balance moving forward. -- nm - David Nov 9, 09:41 3
        
        ... until January. (?) -- nm - philip k mud Nov 9, 09:48
        
        yay -- nm - Diva Nov 9, 09:47 1
        
        *hands you a kazoo* -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 10:05
- "I have instructed my people to meet the standard that W set 8 years ago and provide a smooth easy transition." -- nm - Strongbad Nov 9, 09:33
- its the coaches I'm worried about -- nm - z Nov 9, 09:31
- I am torn between posting what I honestly believe Trump to think, and what I hope he does. -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 9, 09:29 5
  - I am waiting to hear Logan's Plan that you mentioned on B2. -- nm - philip k mud Nov 9, 09:34 4
    - Not a plan, but a way of dealing. - Doctor Spawn Nov 9, 09:36 3
      - About time he learns some hard lessons about hope. -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 10:01
      - Logan...RUN! - z Nov 9, 09:52
      - wow. Smart kid. I feel better -- nm - philip k mud Nov 9, 09:37
- word. -- nm - groiny Nov 9, 09:28
I'm at the anger stage of grief. I'll accept the results but the one thing Teump turns out to have been right about was that the election was rigged. - pmb Nov 9, 09:22 27
- we can rail all we want at injustice....but america failed to repudiate this spoiled brat, rigging can swing a close election, we needed a landslide - z Nov 9, 09:36
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  - I'm not sure what you think is left for us to govern, federally speaking. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 9, 09:30 1
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- It ultimate comes down to message failure -Clinton couldn't/didn't get her message out there properly - Reagen Nov 9, 09:26 16
  - most of the country gets their news from Faux, the constant whisper campaign built an underlying notion that she's evil, lying, conspiring -- nm - z Nov 9, 09:45
  - I'm not sure that's accurate. Almost everyone I know who voted for Trump did it because they were voting against Hillary. Understanding her message - landbeck Nov 9, 09:41 5
    - There was so much chaff thrown up by a media that didn't think Trump could win and didn't take him seriously until it was too late. - Reagen Nov 9, 09:55 3
      - 33 minutes across all major networks evening news, iinm. By comparison, 100 minutes was spent talking about Clinton's emails. -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 09:57 2
        
        (Not sure what the time frame for the study was where I saw those numbers) -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 09:58 1
        
        there was the Foriegn Policy debate/townhall where Hill only got 30 seconds to actually talk about policy because all the questions were about emails -- nm - z Nov 9, 10:07
    - I saw a lot of this as well. -- nm - oblique Nov 9, 09:42
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    - This is, and I really don't want to sound hyperbolic here, how empires fall. -- nm - Reagen Nov 9, 09:31 1
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    - They only hope, to fundamentally change that, is that Trump is so disastrous that it causes people to pause and reassess. I don't think that will - Mel Profit Nov 9, 09:30 1
      - Yeah, I was fine hating people from Indiana. But now I struggle with not hating Americans. -- nm - Doctor Spawn Nov 9, 09:31
    - what incentive does any politician have to know the issues and to be honest? -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 09:29 1
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  - Clickbait as an election campaign. -- nm - David Nov 9, 09:27 1
    - very accurate. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 09:28
- I'm amazed that this long after the Founders set up the rules of this nation, rural versus metropolitan remains such a central issue. - David Nov 9, 09:25 5
  - A landmass this big, that may be unavoidable now matter how you structure it. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 09:38 2
    - As I get older, I appreciate the cyclical nature of history more and more. -- nm - David Nov 9, 09:39 1
      - I really, sincerely thought the pendulum had swung as far to the right as it was going to swing, and would head back to the middle. - landbeck Nov 9, 09:44
  - Why? We haven't changed as a people. - iSpam Nov 9, 09:29 1
    - I don't understand how your reply differs from what I said. -- nm - David Nov 9, 09:33
Oh God ... I just thought of ... Alex Jones .. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 9, 09:18 3
- Secretary of Defense? Secretary of State? -- nm - z Nov 9, 09:38
- -20 SB Points -- nm - Strongbad Nov 9, 09:34
- WHY?! -- nm - IrishStephen Nov 9, 09:25
Anytime Hillary wants to be Gov or Senator in California. Its a lock. -- nm - budice Nov 9, 09:16 4
- No thank you. - IrishStephen Nov 9, 09:39
- As any kind of political force, she is spent - Brian Nov 9, 09:28
- Clintons need to bow out -- nm - oblique Nov 9, 09:20 1
  - Agreed. Any good gets immediately overshadowed by the negativity that follows. -- nm - volnelk Nov 9, 09:23
There was something on my fb about making Medicare not till 67? -- nm - zeit spiced geist Nov 9, 09:15
Re the porn/condom proposition in California, it's pretty telling that even the California Republican Party said to vote against it. -- (edited) - IrishStephen Nov 9, 09:15
John King is *still* working. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 09:15
I'll expect to see shirts with trump embroidered like those old Abercrombie and Fitch ones -- nm - zeit spiced geist Nov 9, 09:10
This feels like acceptance. I hope I've hit acceptance. There isn't anything I can do -- nm - crash davis Nov 9, 09:08
"We really shook the pillars of Heaven, didn't we Wang?" -- nm - Jack Burton Nov 9, 09:04
Well, that was a lot classier concession speech than Trump wpuld have given. A lot of good messages that apply to us all. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 9, 08:59
So this is it for her, right? She'll gradually fade into private life? -- nm - ML Nov 9, 08:54 11
- i would like to see her take up a very prominent role with a women's issue organization, something like Carter has done with Habitat for Humanity. -- nm - Andie Nov 9, 08:58 2
  - Clinton Foundation work seems likely. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 09:13
  - Women need a voice in this country more than ever now -- nm - decline Nov 9, 09:01
- I can't imagine where else she might go from here. -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 08:56 6
  - There's always Ambassador... -- nm - Max Nov 9, 09:13 4
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      - You have certainly earned the right to be bitter. But I really hope you find a way through it. You are one of the best examples of the right kind of - landbeck Nov 9, 09:47
    - i don't see it. -- nm - Andie Nov 9, 09:14 1
      - I don't either, but that would be an option. -- nm - Max Nov 9, 09:18
  - She has her foundation, she can go save the world, the parts that want to be saved -- nm - zeit spiced geist Nov 9, 09:12
- I expect so. -- nm - decline Nov 9, 08:54
Got a bit of a chuckle at work someone mentioned maybe it was Back to the Future 2 that got it right - eag Nov 9, 08:52 2
- "Idiocracy: The Prequelle" -- nm - Guigue Nov 9, 09:14
- I said that this morning. I really feel like it's true. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 08:54
Stalker gift sent. How ya like me now! -- nm - Crashquick Nov 9, 08:43
Vikings Purple, so apropos -- nm - budice Nov 9, 08:41
finally -- nm - ML Nov 9, 08:35
"Well, shit!" -- nm - Tim Kaine Nov 9, 08:35 2
- He looks like he could be Jed Rees' Dad (The smiley guy from from Galaxy Quest) -- (link) - Inigo Nov 9, 08:37 1
  - heh, yeah -- nm - Max Nov 9, 08:37
Wall Street reactions: Bank stocks, private prisons, healthcare and energy all up -- nm - decline Nov 9, 08:32 2
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- sounds legit - Epiphany Nov 9, 08:35
In retrospect, the whisky may not have been the best choice last night. -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 08:32 15
- Should have drank vodka, comrade -- nm - zeit spiced geist Nov 9, 09:11
- Yep, I'm hurting this morning :( -- nm - Meg Nov 9, 08:45
- 1/2 a happy pill last night and I can't wait up this am -- nm - Epiphany Nov 9, 08:40
- The cheap Pinot Noir was not the best choice. The hangover is starting to kick in... -- nm* - Mel Profit Nov 9, 08:34 11
  - true. But drinking a whole bottle of expensive hooch by yourself might have hurt today too. :) - Diva Nov 9, 09:05 1
    - \m/ - Mel Profit Nov 9, 09:06
  - head drank nine beers while we watched. I had four and feel like shit. I can't imagine how he feels. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 08:39 7
    - when I read 'head drank' I thought it meant you imagined yourself drinking 9 beers but only really had 4. -- nm - Diva Nov 9, 09:04 4
      - Head drinking -- that's where I'm a Viking! -- nm - mara Nov 9, 09:05
      - ha ha. head is the strange man living in my attic for seven more f*cking days. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 09:04 2
        
        thx for making me chuckle. :) -- nm - Diva Nov 9, 09:07
        
        *deeeeeeeep breaths* -- nm - Andie Nov 9, 09:07
    - 9 beers is only theoretically possible for me at this point. 4 is at my extreme edge at this point. - Mel Profit Nov 9, 08:51 1
      - we started watching at 7 and were up until 3:30. it was a long long time. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 09:00
  - I am saving my drinking for Friday. -- nm - groiny Nov 9, 08:35
So absolutely nothing happens in lame duck at this point, right? -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 08:32 4
- Lol. -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 08:34
- well now would be the time to finally put some teeth into limiting executive power, but the window on that may have passed now -- nm - ML Nov 9, 08:33 2
  - Ya think? And i can't wait to ask my boss .. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 9, 08:43 1
    - And i can't wait to ask my bos ... - ReluctantCynic Nov 9, 08:44
The Good Wife -- nm - Max Nov 9, 08:31 2
- ? -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 08:34 1
  - it feels like a parallel.Great achievements but still hitting the glass ceiling, undone by a bastard of a man. -- (edited) - Max Nov 9, 08:36
Hillary is about to speak if ya'll want to watch it -- (link) - ML Nov 9, 08:24 3
- I just can't. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 9, 08:31 1
  - sack up, princess. -- nm - groiny Nov 9, 08:32
- (MIN has finally been called for her, btw) -- nm - ML Nov 9, 08:25
Looks like Clinton is coming out now -- (link*) - spamlet Nov 9, 08:24 [youtube] 6
- And ABC just cut the feed. -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 08:36
- Kaine out -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 08:35
- Paul Ryan was/is speaking. I wonder if they're waiting for that to finish. -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 08:33
- (or not) -- nm - spamlet Nov 9, 08:26 2
  - i can only assume they've given her valium or something to get through it. -- nm - Andie Nov 9, 08:29 1
    - I don't know how you do this. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 9, 08:30
Maybe we can goad Trump into a balanced budget. "Clinton did it, why can't you?" -- nm - oblique Nov 9, 08:19 3
- "I bet you cant make America great again at welcoming immigrants" -- nm - Loyola Nov 9, 08:28
- Just what the economy needs, more fiscal austerity! -- nm - znufrii Nov 9, 08:22 1
  - No, it's ok - deregulation will put china and Russia in a bidding war for everything. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 9, 08:25
I ordered calzone for lunch. because f*ckit. -- nm - spy cookie amanda jones Nov 9, 08:18

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