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Then there are the weasel repubs who are merely calling what Dickhead did today a 'missed opportunity'. -- nm* - Diva Jul 16, 11:11
I think this set of #s shows the Dems just have to put up someone likable, even someone as bland as Tim Kaine - crash davis Jul 16, 11:10 8
- If the GOP wants to make a deal where Dems get permanent supermajority control of Congress, I'd be fine voting for a Kasich or Charlie Dent. -- nm* - Max Jul 16, 11:14
- Tim Kaine: Hard on Putin, But Will Take You and Your Friends to The Halsey Concert. -- nm - Diva Jul 16, 11:13 1
  - Tim Kaine, the only person besides David who likes The Chainsmokers -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 11:14
- is there a chance for the ML/Mel ticket? -- nm - Truman Jul 16, 11:12 2
  - I think a Deevs/Mel ticket could be pretty popular. We need to keep ML in reserve for the federal bench. - ReluctantCynic Jul 16, 11:40
  - depends on how many dead hookers is a bridge too far for the American public -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 11:13
- I respect the heck out of Hillary, but the 3rd party #s to me say it was as much against her as it was for Trump -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 11:12
- sorry, I fell asleep somewhere in PA -- nm - oblique Jul 16, 11:11
Setting aside who you think would be *the best* Democrat, who would Democratic voters on here support today of the likely candidates? - Name Withheld by Request Jul 16, 11:07 5
- Haven't even thought about it. -- nm - ty97 Jul 16, 11:11
- Any. If could anoint someone? Maybe Booker. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 11:11 1
  - I'd be down for Booker, Biden or Harris -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 11:16
- "Not Trump." -- nm - JaxSean Jul 16, 11:10
- Would support -- anyone but Bernie. -- (edited) - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 11:08
And the obligatory “Rand Paul might vote against SCOTUS nom” fantasy article -- (link) - znufrii Jul 16, 11:00 2
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- hehe. I saw that article this morning and was like hard pass. - Jovian Jul 16, 11:01
And then there's this single data point. Tea Party moron Joe Walsh saw today as a turning point. - pmb Jul 16, 10:59 7
- Yesterday, Alissa Milano retweed Walsh. That was a surprise -- nm - Amoxy Jul 16, 11:11
- I give him till Friday before he's slobbering defending something Trump did. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 11:07
- He has kinda been there for a while IIRC. -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 16, 11:07
- Walsh was primetime for Who Is America and Sascha Cohen -- nm - Budice Jul 16, 11:01 1
  - KinderGuardians! -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 11:13
- I just retweeted him and said, "The end has come, I just retweeted Joe Walsh." -- nm - Jovian Jul 16, 11:00 1
  - He’s one of the rare birds I have blocked on Twitter. -- nm - Qale Jul 16, 11:12
Divers open class-action suit vs. USA Diving for ignoring sexual abuse. -- (link) - Diva Jul 16, 10:52
BBC headline: Trump sides with Russia against FBI in Helinski -- (link) - Amoxy Jul 16, 10:51 1
- I mean, if Putin did it, he would be the one to know, right? -- nm - Trump Jul 16, 10:53
Mr. Putin says we will bury you. I don't subscribe to his point of view. - crash davis Jul 16, 10:48
I suppose it isn't the intended shocking part of the article, but 43 children? -- (link) - oblique Jul 16, 10:39 6
- Also since when is "Nicholas" a nickname for John? -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:41 5
  - Lots of people go by their middle name. (Also if I had 43 kids, I'd probably have more than one name too) -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 10:44 3
    - I'm kind of mocking the reporting but also questioning the details: if the reporter got the first name from the police, why not the middle name? - Max Jul 16, 10:47 1
      - I still say middle name is more likely than "big fan of The Wicker Man" -- nm* - crash davis Jul 16, 10:50
    - a good example of that is Jihad Roger More -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:46
  - He might have gone by his middle name. He didn't get the three name treatment since he was a serial lifer not a serial killer. -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:44
Villagers slaughter nearly 300 crocodiles in brutal revenge attack - crash davis Jul 16, 10:35 2
- I'm sure this will learn them a lesson and it will never happen again -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 10:46
- This is how the Lost Colony starts. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:37
Today's news: Trump, Trump, Trum--- Ooh! Prime Day! Cnet has landing pages for all the categories, ready to post bargains. -- (link) - Mop Jul 16, 10:30 1
- I like Wirecutter -- (link) - oblique Jul 16, 10:37
GHW Bush lost reelection despite the Gulf War success. If Trump is a 1-term president, what's his biggest 'despite' claim of success? - Max Jul 16, 10:22 14
- Supreme Court and other judicial vacancies. -- nm - Jovian Jul 16, 10:59
- Tax cuts -- very strong stock market & unemployment. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 10:26
- MAGA -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Jul 16, 10:25
- I am not going to give him a win on the coal industry. He has been good for the mine owners, not the mine workers. -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:24 6
  - I wouldn't either (taxes for the same reason), but if that demographic tipped the election in his favor and he's boosted their economy on paper - Max Jul 16, 10:31 5
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      - this, to me, is the source of Democratic despair - Reagen Jul 16, 11:13
    - From what I've seen (and I certainly can be wrong) the economy in coal country hasn't been helped all that much relative to the rest of the country. -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:36 2
      - Doesn’t matter if they are actually being helped, it only matters that they think they are being helped. -- nm* - znufrii Jul 16, 10:46 1
        
        This is what I'm getting at. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:48
- Supreme Court and it won't be close right now. Maybe tax cuts depending on how the next few years play out. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 16, 10:24 1
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- Being the best President in the history of all Presidents -- nm - ty97 Jul 16, 10:24
- whatever he says it is. -- nm - Truman Jul 16, 10:22
So I did a search, and I can't believe we didn't get a Yellowstone review from crash. - IrishStephen Jul 16, 10:19 4
- There are so many moving pieces, I'm not issuing a definitive statement yet. But so far, I give it a "do watch" -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:30 3
  - not all of it works, but the parts that do make it worthwhile -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:39
  - Yeah, I watched the first episode, and got sucked in pretty quickly. -- nm - IrishStephen Jul 16, 10:36 1
    - With as many plotlines as there were introduced, it could be a mess. But I'm counting on Taylor Sheridan to bring it home. -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:38
Well, on nice thing about not taking lunch on MWF is I can do P:GO Lunches. Drove around, dropped pokemon in one gym, took another, hit a few stops -- nm - oblique Jul 16, 10:18
Nathan Fillion strikes me as the kind of guy who has a lot of time on his hands and is willing to use that time to please others. -- nm - Mop Jul 16, 10:14 2
- I tweeted to him that he should be Lara Croft, next -- nm - Flavorize Jul 16, 10:20
- You are talking about someone who actually exists. This is good. -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:17
So, just because of the way that things fell on the calendar, in the span of 8 days in October, my wife is running - prayformojo Jul 16, 10:08 4
- whew.....Good luck to her - JD Jul 16, 10:39
- Better then than today. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:34
- dayang -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:17
- be ready with the pasta! -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:09
Haven't seen the news yet this morning. I wonder if anything's going on. Oh, look, a text from my ex-wife. Oh... oh... oh no... - Mop Jul 16, 10:00 5
- Did Mop just run away and re-marry his ex? -- nm - David Jul 16, 10:03 4
  - I think the oh no indicates not this. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 10:05 3
    - Good news: No, she's not getting married again. Bad news: She texts me about Trump. -- nm - Mop Jul 16, 10:12 2
      - is she a trump fan ? -- nm - decline Jul 16, 10:21 1
        
        No. She's quite distressed. I've taken a more "la la la, I can't hear you" approach to most of the Trump noise. -- nm - Mop Jul 16, 10:24
I stepped outside this morning at 9 AM and two words came to mind: FLORIDA. HOT. - Mop Jul 16, 09:58
Thank you for interviewing for the Financial Officer position at the College of Information Sciences and Technology. We would like to bring you back - amanda Jul 16, 09:58 15
- Awesome! Best of luck! -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 11:08
- Awesome! -- nm - Inigo Jul 16, 10:54
- Good luck you got this! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 10:51
- knock em dead! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 16, 10:42
- Nice! -- nm - David Jul 16, 10:35
- awesome! -- nm - decline Jul 16, 10:10
- Yeah!!! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 16, 10:09
- Great! -- nm - pmb Jul 16, 10:07
- Approved. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:06
- NICE! -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:06
- Wooo! -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 10:04
- Congrats. Would this be an actual step up? - Budice Jul 16, 10:04 1
  - FO of a college. step up, but not a huge one. honestly after the events of the last six months more than anything - amanda Jul 16, 10:07
- Conga-rats! -- nm - mara Jul 16, 10:03
- Excellent news! WTG! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 16, 10:03
MAGA hats made in China to increase in price because of Trump tariffs. -- (link) - mara Jul 16, 09:55 1
- fake news. I'll believe it when Putin says it is so. -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 09:56
KinderGuardians -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 09:51 2
- No comment! -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Jul 16, 10:27
- I deposited this in the local community FB group cause Dana R is the local Rep. Responses vary widely. Some people delved into the same sex issue too -- nm* - Budice Jul 16, 09:54
Granting that his support is far far higher than it should be and that we can't relax for a second, I don't quite get why people say he'll be - Reagen Jul 16, 09:50 50
- Because 2016 killed hope, Reagen. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:37
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- Because he'll be deemed Esteemed Ruler, or we'll be under Russian rule, by then. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 16, 10:24 1
  - This. He will count the votes himself. - Marlowe Jul 16, 10:37
- I agree here. That said, I'm not at all convinced he goes for the second term yet. Many moving pieces yet to slip into place. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 16, 10:22 4
  - So far he's raised $88 million for his re-election campaign. -- nm - Diva Jul 16, 10:40 2
    - I think he would be doing that no matter what, but I could see his decision coming yay or nay, deep into 2019. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 16, 10:56
    - But paid out $90mil to his own shell companies making signs and ads. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 10:43
  - He has to avoid absolute disaster in the midterms for starters. -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:27
- As for people sticking with the party, he is doing a decent job of whittling down self-identified Republicans. -- nm - crash davis Jul 16, 10:20
- I would add in one important factor: We are among the 10 to 15% of the population that actively pays attention to politics on a daily basis. - ReluctantCynic Jul 16, 10:19 5
  - This is the fatalism that I was talking about below. - Reagen Jul 16, 10:32 2
    - "The power of accurate perception is commonly referred to as cynicism by those who have not got it." (George Bernard Shaw) - ReluctantCynic Jul 16, 10:41 1
      - I'm not accusing anyone here of cynicism, fwiw, just the opposite. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 11:10
  - heh, your Economist article quotes Springsteen but doesn't give credit to him. FAKE NEWS! - crash davis Jul 16, 10:23 1
    - Bruce Springsteen, noted communications expert, has always been at the forefront of American politics. - ReluctantCynic Jul 16, 10:25
- because people vote for candidates, not against others. the democrats have nobody they can run who'll get enough support to overvote the trump - amanda Jul 16, 10:19 1
  - I'm trying to argue against this but I've got cases for each. - Mop Jul 16, 10:23
- Anti-Bacon -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God Jul 16, 10:18
- Unless Putin is stepping down before then. - znufrii Jul 16, 10:07
- As of right now...it will be Bernie (ugh)... -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:07 1
  - I don't think current polls measure much besides name recognition. -- nm - mara Jul 16, 10:09
- Because the Democrats are going to implode arguing about candidates not being progressive enough. -- nm - jnine Jul 16, 09:58 13
  - maybe. I certainly see that in the primary. Midterms will be interesting -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:12 2
    - Where are you seeing that in anything but isolated cases? -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 10:17 1
      - my online feed of dem friends who are younger and their friends -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:40
  - "I agree with 99% of this person's agenda, but that 1% man, I just can't get by it; I think I'll just stay home" -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 10:00 9
    - I don't think hardcore progressives staying home is nearly as likely to get Trump reelected as... -- (edited) - Ender Jul 16, 10:21 1
      - You’ll get to kick the football this time, for sure, Charlie Brown! - znufrii Jul 16, 10:29
    - “...just not her.” -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 10:19
    - This isn't being born out by special elections or midterm polling, fwiw. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:06 4
      - No Trump bump in CA elections getting people out to vote D. -- (link) - jnine Jul 16, 10:23 1
        
        That's an apples to handgrenades comparison to say that there isn't a bump. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:29
      - polling got it wrong last election so don't totally base anything on it 100% right now. -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:10 1
        
        It very much didn't. Final polls predicted the popular vote bang on, including the final shifts. - Reagen Jul 16, 10:15
    - Exactly. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 16, 10:03
- 1) The economy is doing great and historically people vote based on that. 2) Who will be his opponent? -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 09:57 13
  - A nice little summary of 15 possible Dem candidates from yesterday. (Anybody want to start a pool?) -- (link*) - mara Jul 16, 10:05 1
    - If it's Bernie, the Democrat voters are actually dumber than I thought. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 10:07
  - 1) The economy is doing great now and his support is mired at 40. 2) In several early polls, All notable Dem names have sizable leads on him. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:00 10
    - The fact that we're even considering someone other than the candidate who won the popular vote by 3M shows a tremendous amount of -- (edited) - con_carne Jul 16, 10:04 5
      - I think she might possibly win a rematch, but it would be close. There are better shots. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:07 3
        
        she wouldn't get the nomination. The Dem party is to split to back her...She's a party elder for sure and has a ton of power, but she wouldn't get the - Remlik Jul 16, 10:09 2
        
        No, I agree. I'm talking in the hypothetical that she did. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:10 1
        
        gotcha. -- nm - Remlik Jul 16, 10:11
      - She did lose the election vs the most unqualified person to run on a major party in well over 100 years. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 16, 10:06
    - on #2, wait for it... -- nm - Putin Jul 16, 10:01 3
      - I don't subscribe to fatalism. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:02 2
        
        Oh, that doesn't require a subscription, it just shows up every week like Valpak coupons. -- nm - Ender Jul 16, 10:07
        
        *poisons you* -- nm - Putin Jul 16, 10:02
There is a Freaks and Geeks documentary on A&E tonight at 9, FYI. - Volnelk Jul 16, 09:47 1
- Sweet! -- nm - Mop Jul 16, 09:59
Jimbo Fisher introd as the new Texas A&M HC -- (link) - Budice Jul 16, 09:45
No comment. -- (link) - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 16, 09:44
From B2: This is Dan Coats (Trump appointee) claiming the warning lights for upcoming cyberattacks from Russia are similar to 9/11 warnings. -- (link) - Inigo Jul 16, 09:37 1
- Sorry, we are too busy MAGA, Dan! -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 16, 09:38
You must *think* Russian. -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 16, 09:34

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