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Ghost of LL

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  1. You defend locking someone convicted of no crime in solitary confinement for five months. 22 hours a day of isolation in a closet sized room for five months. You defend torture. 

    Donald Trump has repeatedly advocated in favor of using torture against enemies of the United States. Should we not do so to an avowed Russian agent?


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  2. This is correct.  The use of solitary as a way of torturing her into a plea agreement is extremely shameful.
     
     

    “When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the "blame America first crowd" didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first. . . . The American people know better.”

    I miss the good-old-days when the libs were the Blame America First crowd.


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  3. 2 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    By then, the GOP will have hoped to rebranded themselves and distanced themselves from Trump to wrestle control back from extremist progressive Democrats who are more worried about people's feelings than making sound political decisions  It's been posited by a few ex-GOP'ers or current ones that Trump will be thrown overboard when it's convenient and they'll punt 2020 and hope the Democrats fuck up a probable financial recovery enough to start seizing back control in the mid-terms in 4 years.  By 2024 they probably hope to gain control of one house of the legislature and put up a strong fight vs the incumbent.  Deal with the devil.....

    That has to be their plan for now.  But the question is rapidly becoming: "can we get to 2020 with this guy?".

  4. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    None.  Of.  this.  Matters.  Senate will do nothing until Mueller shows actual conspiracy between dotus and Russians.  If then.  Full stop.  Campaign finance?  Lol.

    I have thought that, too.  This week has me rethinking things.

    I don't think it's the corruption that changes any Senate votes.  It's the likelihood that Trump fucks up their reelection prospects.  And for evidence of that, all they need is to watch that Oval Office meeting with Pelosi and Schumer.  The Republicans could deal with an incompetent president fucking up their messaging when they had both houses of Congress.  But now that Democrats control the House, it's going to be really dangerous for their reelection campaigns.

    The Khashoggi vote today just confirms to me the fact that a lot of GOP senators are getting very nervous about the prospect of having Trump at the top of their ticket in 2020.

  5. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Trump's at 40%, per Gallup.

    The limeys are 3% better/smarter than us.

    To be honest, I'd still have bet that it would be higher for them.

    What is Trump's approval within the GOP?  85%?  90%?

    The Conservative Party is in muuuuuuch better shape than the GOP.

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  6. And by the way, the Vietnamese have traditionally been reasonably pro-Republican in their voting preferences, owing to their anti-Communism.  

    This is a good way for the GOP to alienate yet another voting bloc.

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  7. 30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    So...the earlier tweet opined that 130 against would be a disaster, 100 against would be "status quo" -- and they managed to split the difference between disaster and status quo.  Seems that we're right where we were before -- just generally shitty.

    Only 37% of the Conservative Party is the lunatic fringe?  Hell--that's doing pretty well these days.

  8. 3 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Is Castro upset because he's an accomplished twice-elected mayor of a major American city.  And served well as Cabinet member.  And is actually Hispanic.  Or, is he gonna sit back and take bullshit from the Party?  

    Where is the great groundswell for Julian Castro?  Where are the people saying, "you know--what this country really needs is Julian Castro"?

    Nowhere that I can see.

    One of the very good reasons there's no groundswell is that the and his brother were AWOL in 2018.  2018 was an all-hands-on-deck democracy emergency.  We needed candidates to challenge in every race.  And preferably good candidates.  Castro could have run for lt. governor or AG or any number of other offices and run a very credible campaign.  But instead, he sat it out.  Presumably, he didn't want to dirty his knuckles.

    But too bad, fucker--in 2018 stars were made.  Beto, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, AOC.  And yeah--some of them didn't win.  But the attention is on them.  Not on some never-was who couldn't even get out of the lockerroom for the big game.

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  9. Next period?! We haven’t even escaped this nightmare scenario, and you are already saying dems will be worse. Laughable. Did you hold your nose and vote Trump or Cruz too?

    I imagine the notion that I voted for either Trump or Cruz is going to make some people on here laugh. It sure did me.


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  10. In my heart of hearts--no.  

    But I will acknowledge the possibility that demons exist.

    And it is enough of a possibility that I am not going to fuck with them.  I'm not letting a ouija board in my house, and I'm sure as shit not going near that bitch from Long Island who purports to commune with the dead.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Fozzz said:

    Macron won by being an empty suit.  As soon as he began governing and people figured out what he was about his popularity quickly cratered, and now someone else is going to have an even harder time keeping the right at bay in the next election.  If something like that happened here (say Beto beats Trump but becomes extremely unpopular prior to the 2024 election), I doubt many here would be crowing over it as they would realize that something even more dreadful would be over the horizon.  

    For that to happen, he has to win.

    Win, and then we'll talk about how (un)popular Beto will be in 2024.

     

     

    But . . . I really appreciate the role y'all are playing in mainstreaming Beto.  Keep it up.

  12. 15 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    No confidence vote coming

    Where are you seeing this?  I haven't seen anything official--just speculation.

    There is an easy way out of this for May.  Call a general election, and at the same time put a Brexit referendum on the ballot.  That way, voters can choose "remain," get rid of that particular issue, and then vote for the Tories.  May would end up with more seats and be rid of the biggest problem facing her government.

  13. 4 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Centrists, please listen. The left is the only thing keeping you degenerate people from turning Beto into America's Macron.

    The guy who was elected president by beating a fascist populist?

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  14. 2 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Many of you will be disappointed by the lack of teeth in Mueller's report.  Most of you will are over-inflating every little detail that gets leaked out about the report and its subsequent filings.  Nearly everyone is clinging to Trump's usual hyperbolic reactions as some sort of gospel-like insight into what the near future holds.  

    But the crickets chirping from his usual circles of GOP supportive leadership has been eerie.  It's as if he's calling them up to circle the wagons of support, yelling about witch hunts and how they owe trump big time, and all that.  And the various Republican big-wigs are simply looking at the phone like, "Uncle Leo?" (click)...

    I think I understand what Lobo is saying, even if I don't agree with the first half of it.

    Here's the bottom line--and it's a bottom line you can see from Hatch's remarks: we've got a coalition that will continue to win in the Senate so long as there's a decent economy, and we're not going to fuck with it.

    But here's the postscript: what happens when we don't have a decent economy?  And you only need to look at the bond market and the latest jobs report to see cause for concern.  

    Trump has a 40% approval rating with an outstanding economy.  What is his approval rating with a poor economy?  That question is even more pointed after the 2016 realignment, when the Republican base is now made up of voters who are more sensitive to economic downturns.  It's not to say that in the post-2016 alignment Youngstown is going to go Democratic.  But it is to wonder whether those people who were so enthusiastic about voting for Trump in 2016 will be so eager to vote for him (or any Republican) in 2020 after being unemployed for 24 months.  And if those people aren't enthusiastic about voting, is there any way for the Republicans to offset the suburban middle classes who are eager to vote against the Republicans?

    2 hours ago, horn4life said:

    This period of time will be looked back historically as one of the most dangerous for our democracy.  The deep corruption of the President will be an obvious topic, but the scariest part will be the embrace and protection given by his supporting party.  Even our founding fathers failed to anticipate that wrinkle. As they honestly believed that patriotism would always win out and that is why the system of checks and balances would conceivably work. To be honest nearly everyone, myself included thought that some congressional oversight with a combination of a few adults in the room might temper Trump.  Instead Trump's party decided to justify anything if they could get a Supreme Justice or two.  

    I guess the only thing certain beyond the historical significance of this time is that you can be nearly certain that in about 30 years if the GOP regains control of Texas. That the Texas State School Board will try to remove the section about the collusion of the GOP House and Senate in protecting Trump...

    I think the next period of time is even more dangerous.  The Democrats are going to regain power in 2020.  And when they do, they're going to come with a justified sense of grievance and vengeance.  

    The biggest task facing the next president is going to be the restoration of our norms, traditions, and institutions.  But if he saw his primary task to be ensuring that Republicans never again hold power, I would certainly understand that position.  But that position, as attractive and justified as it may be, would be very bad for our democratic form of government.

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  15. 1 hour ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    What is particularly nasty about this? You mean to say the author is being mean-spirited or ugly in a break of journalism standards?

    Doubling down on being an Indian was politically stupid and it makes her look like a jack ass. People are and will respond in kind, whether or not other people want to acknowledge they will or think they ought not to

    "Nasty" in the sense that it is a very negative article.

  16. 7 hours ago, Whitman said:

    As someone mentioned earlier, most people tend to like the ones that they started/grew up with.  My favorite movie is "The Spy Who Loved Me", and my favorite opening song is Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only".  Hottest Bond Girl for me has to be Ursula Andress.

    The hottest bond girl is Barbara Bach.

    I don't know how that would even be a question.

  17. 56 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    He may not be the best candidate and is up there in years, but if Trump isn’t in jail, seeking assylum at some embassy, or dead from a massive heart attack and is running for president again, then the dem nominee needs to be Biden. 

    Trump can’t win without Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and the dems nominating Biden ensures that Trump can’t win those states, and therefore trump cannot win the presidency again. A nomination of Warren or Kamela puts those states in jeopardy and that simply cannot be allowed to happen. I think Bernie wins those states as well but don’t think he’s gonna be the nominee, and am not sure about Beto yet but its a possibility. 

    If Trump isn’t running then I don’t really give a shit, nominate someone not named Hillary and I’ll be happy. 

    The Republicans can't win if Texas goes for the Democrat, irrespective of what happens in Michigan or Pennsylvania.

    In other news, The New York Times has a real nasty story about Elizabeth Warren and the trouble she's having with progressives over her stupid DNA test.  

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