gr wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

gr wrote:Rachel Maddow: "We've never had a popular two-term president campaign with all his heart for his successor, only to see that successor lose!"

C'mon, at least try to know a little about recent history. It even involves the same family for chrissakes.

someone needs to know a little more than a little

listen, let me tell you something straight: you're a dick. that's a fact. get over yourself if you think you can talk down to me, you self-important fake-intellectual burnout.

glad we finally got this cleared up.

Doll Is Mine wrote:If I'm the Democrats in Congress, I try to work with Trump on stuff like infrastructure, trade deals, etc. Trump is not a Republican so he might be open to working with the Dems, who I imagine he has less animosity towards then he does the Republicans in Congress.

TomatoPie wrote:The temptation is to find who or what to blame:

1) racist rednecks
2) Jill Stein, Gary Aleppo
3) Comey
4) Entitled Clinton machine, wooden Hillary, etc
5) Whitelash
6) PC pushback*

May have been a perfect storm of all these things. Smart people understand that Trump solves nothing, but underestimated the frustration of the unskilled workforce.

* http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/trump ... tical-corr

A lot of people think there are only two genders—boy and girl. Maybe they're wrong. Maybe they should change that view. Maybe it's insensitive to the trans community. Maybe it even flies in the face of modern social psychology. But people think it. Political correctness is the social force that holds them in contempt for that, or punishes them outright.

If you're a leftist reading this, you probably think that's stupid. You probably can't understand why someone would get so bent out of shape about being told their words are hurtful. You probably think it's not a big deal and these people need to get over themselves. Who's the delicate snowflake now, huh? you're probably thinking. I'm telling you: your failure to acknowledge this miscalculation and adjust your approach has delivered the country to Trump.

There's a related problem: the boy-who-cried-wolf situation. I was happy to see a few liberals, like Bill Maher, owning up to it. Maher admitted during a recent show that he was wrong to treat George Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain like they were apocalyptic threats to the nation: it robbed him of the ability to treat Trump more seriously. The left said McCain was a racist supported by racists, it said Romney was a racist supported by racists, but when an actually racist Republican came along—and racists cheered him—it had lost its ability to credibly make that accusation.

pacino wrote:George Bush blew up a region, John McCain wanted to build the dang fence before Trump did and Romney also wondered where the birth certificate was. They catered to racist elements within their party. This isn't on liberals crying wolf about previous nominees. It's on the GOP.

pacino wrote:

Soren wrote:

Slowhand wrote:I hope we're all just being a bunch of overreacting chicken littles and we'll look back at this in a few years and laugh at ourselves for being such crybaby pussies. There's a chance of that happening, right?

lol no. Top to bottom the country is going to be run by the extreme far right.

the west coast and NY should be OK

pacino wrote:

Soren wrote:

Slowhand wrote:I hope we're all just being a bunch of overreacting chicken littles and we'll look back at this in a few years and laugh at ourselves for being such crybaby pussies. There's a chance of that happening, right?

lol no. Top to bottom the country is going to be run by the extreme far right.

the west coast and NY should be OK

Slowhand wrote:I hope we're all just being a bunch of overreacting chicken littles and we'll look back at this in a few years and laugh at ourselves for being such crybaby pussies. There's a chance of that happening, right?

Soren wrote:right or not doc has made it a point to be a huge festering cunt to gr for a long time now.

pacino wrote:

. I am not saying this is Pelosi's fault, but the top three in the Democratic Party House leadership are now a combined 230 years old and have lost four straight elections without any shakeup. I

This almost goes without saying, but they won't learn that from this, though they should (i'm completely with Gimpy on this). Elected Democrats usually stay in line...and there's not much new blood at all. We're screwed. It's up to your party.

heyeaglefn wrote:I'm not sure I'd feel any better if this was Cruz and Pence instead of Trump and Pence.

pacino wrote:Lou Barletta is from that area

interesting read

this was long coming. The GOP created the ability for a Trump to rise within their party.

TenuredVulture wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:I'm not sure I'd feel any better if this was Cruz and Pence instead of Trump and Pence.

I might feel worse.