thephan wrote:Here my catch up -

Steve King was talking about the potential of nepotism in Trump’s administration. He rebutted that this is not new, and that he saw this with JFK. So that would mean that a 12 year old Steve King watching JFK’s appointment of Bobby Kennedy very closely…

JFLNYC wrote:We're going to build a wall around the Earth and make the aliens pay for it.

JFLNYC wrote:We're going to build a wall around the Earth and make the aliens pay for it.

td11 wrote:meanwhile Breitbart -- and therefore the future White House-- is running this headline: "DONALD TRUMP WON 7.5 MILLION POPULAR VOTE LANDSLIDE IN HEARTLAND"

JFLNYC wrote:

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in his first remarks since the American election, has called President-elect Donald J. Trump “a natural ally, together with the Russians, Iranians and many other countries” in the struggle against terrorism.

Brantt wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in his first remarks since the American election, has called President-elect Donald J. Trump “a natural ally, together with the Russians, Iranians and many other countries” in the struggle against terrorism.

Hey look..........someone kissing Trump's ass more than Paul Ryan!

CalvinBall wrote:this american life this past week is decent. basically a bunch of short stories on reactions from people they have talked to over the past year regarding the election along with some new ones.

cops excited because they have been attacked under obama.

trumpers from the south because the economy is going to go up. coal is coming back.

teacher with mostly latino/a students crying all day with parents through parent/teacher conferences.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio- ... n-comes-up

pacino wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:this american life this past week is decent. basically a bunch of short stories on reactions from people they have talked to over the past year regarding the election along with some new ones.

cops excited because they have been attacked under obama.

trumpers from the south because the economy is going to go up. coal is coming back.

teacher with mostly latino/a students crying all day with parents through parent/teacher conferences.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio- ... n-comes-up

McConnell already stated it's not. It's simply market forces at work. It's not a good thing that he fed people this line. Sigh.

drsmooth wrote:ok, so to help all of you who are convinced I have said incessantly that drumpf could not and would not win, I did a quick search.

625 instances of "drumpf", 407 in posts of mine. Hmm, only 625, kind of surprised it wasn't more....

There can be no question that from the get-go I have described the POTUS-elect in disparaging terms - and in nothing OTHER than disparaging terms. I feel that some of those descriptions are still pretty funny.

I also expressed my revulsion at this "candidate" in ways that certainly made clear I was unequivocally opposed to his candidacy and his election.

But on a quick scan I have found only one instance which I opined that I 'hoped that when he was defeated.'...

You might find something more, but my feeling is there's not a lot for you to lean on in there.

No he doesn't. No one serious observer believes he can win a general election, or even possibly that he is genuinely committed to doing so. Not one. Pundits pretend that they believe it in public because hey, they need some kind of horserace to report on. Turnip is a failure who will fail at this as he's failed at so many other things he's confidently predicted he would 'win' at.

JFLNYC wrote:Is it possible Trump is the Anti-Christ? Just trying to put the best face possible on all this.

swishnicholson wrote:

drsmooth wrote:ok, so to help all of you who are convinced I have said incessantly that drumpf could not and would not win, I did a quick search.

625 instances of "drumpf", 407 in posts of mine. Hmm, only 625, kind of surprised it wasn't more....

There can be no question that from the get-go I have described the POTUS-elect in disparaging terms - and in nothing OTHER than disparaging terms. I feel that some of those descriptions are still pretty funny.

I also expressed my revulsion at this "candidate" in ways that certainly made clear I was unequivocally opposed to his candidacy and his election.

But on a quick scan I have found only one instance which I opined that I 'hoped that when he was defeated.'...

You might find something more, but my feeling is there's not a lot for you to lean on in there.

I wasn't going to post until yoiu went all Gary Hart on us.

No he doesn't. No one serious observer believes he can win a general election, or even possibly that he is genuinely committed to doing so. Not one. Pundits pretend that they believe it in public because hey, they need some kind of horserace to report on. Turnip is a failure who will fail at this as he's failed at so many other things he's confidently predicted he would 'win' at.

pacino wrote:I normally put these in the Reading Eagle thread but this is explicitly political and thought it had an interesting tidbit (the rest is garbage, imo):

We need to stop putting everyone into small groups that separate us from each other, as the progressive, leftist presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have done for the last 24 years.

George W Bush is now a leftist progressive. They've taken their deeply unpopular two-term conservative Republican president and written him off as a leftist.