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Yeah, it's kinda like telling

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 20:23:42 +0000

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Yeah, it's kinda like telling Beavis & Butthead fans the show is stupid. Like duh. Still, I added a link to his golf prowess - seems like he's more than a little adept at pissing people off and being a "nasty guy" (tm).

Thanks! I think you're

CVille Dem — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 19:17:53 +0000

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Thanks! I think you're probably right. I also think that they have handled the Comey bombshell in a very professional and productive way. It could have really sunk a lesser warrior than HIlary!

I wondered the same thing for

R Farmer — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 14:23:27 +0000

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I wondered the same thing for a while. But after talking to several Trumpistas in various parts of the country I've come to the conclusion that focusing on Trump's non-existant business skills is not as effective as what her campaign was doing. Trumpistas don't give a damn about his actual business record and they sure don't believe anything not coming out of Fox on his wealth and his business acumen. Further, they could care less about the lies, misogyny and affairs. Their only wish was that they could do the same thing.

The NYTimes article of 3/1/2016 titled "Inside the Clinton Team's Plan" says it more effectively than I. I've also read a few other articles that essentially say the same thing about specific states such as PA and OH.

A bit of pixie dust here, a

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:19:06 +0000

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A bit of pixie dust here, a bit of moon rock there...

Seeing the effectiveness of

CVille Dem — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:04:21 +0000

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Seeing the effectiveness of the Trump lies about Hillary, I can't help but imagine what would happen if Hillary and others spoke to their listeners in this way:

"The IRS has confirmed that Donald Trump has paid no taxes in the past 20 years, and that it is because his terrible business management caused his corporations to ACTUALLY LOSE ALMOST ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN ONE YEAR! First of all, is this someone you consider a good businessman? Secondly, it is obvious that THIS is the reason, rather than the fake "I am under audit" excuse is true, and so is completely bogus. And thirdly, doesn't it make you feel like a chump that Donald gets to avoid taxes for 20 years because of his stupidity, but you don't get to? Let's say you put a bunch of money into a house and the mortgage went under water. You lost the house -- and YOU STILL HAVE TO PAT TAXES?!?!?!"

"it has been reported that Donald Trump -- yes, the same person who makes a big deal out of Hillary Clinton's husband's affairs -- had a long-term affair with a Playboy Bunny during his marriage to Melania. Of course this was kept secret by The National Inquirer, which paid Ms McDougal $150,000 to insure than her story was owned by them. Then, in order to protect Trump, they didn't publish it. Remember, Donald Trump cheated on every wife he ever had (so far three), but Hillary and Bill worked through their issues and are committed to each other and their extended family. Isn't that what true family values is about?"

"The number of Russian lobbyists on Trump's payroll has been diminished only because of the disinfectant aspect of daylight, so that Manafort and others are now back on the Russian payroll. There is no doubt that the Russians want Trump in office. They own him, and even if he loses, their interference will foment the doubt in our democracy which is their secondary goal."

I could go on, but I want to know why a version of any of this isn't the Democratic'ss Party way. I honestly think what I said is all true; at least as true as what Trump is saying at every damn rally, and he gets away with it totally!!!!

Okay, it works now.

Richard Day — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:29:54 +0000

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Okay, it works now.

Thanks Peracles.

hahahaha

Peracles, I cannot blog here?

Richard Day — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 17:23:46 +0000

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Peracles, I cannot blog here? DO YOU KNOW WHY?

Jonathan Chait warns the GOP

NCD — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 16:30:43 +0000

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Jonathan Chait warns the GOP's Age of Authoritarianism is just beginning:

...Approaching the 2016 election from this historical perspective, in which Trump’s every boast, tweet, and threat disappears into the ether, may at first blush sound like a relief. It is the opposite. Trump is an extreme event, but Trumpism is no fluke. Its weaknesses are fleeting, and its strengths likely to endure. Far from an organization that is “probably headed toward a civil war” — as the Washington Post recently put it, summing up a rapidly congealing consensus — the Republican Party is instead more unified than one might imagine, as well as more dangerous.......Trump has revealed the convergence of two movements more extreme than anything in the free world that may yet threaten the democratic character most Americans take as their birthright....

The vast majority of the Republican base finds Trump’s fascistic language normal because it has been conditioned over a generation to think about politics in similar terms. Trump’s hysterical warnings that fraudulent voting by black people will steal the election have likewise gone beyond the Republican norm. But only a bit beyond.....All the nice-sounding legislative programs Clinton offered up to soothe her restless base on the left — affordable child care and college, improvements to Obamacare, infrastructure — will be dead on arrival, making Clinton appear ineffectual. Or worse than ineffectual: Republicans will crank up the investigative machinery and produce endless media coverage of scandals.....Trumpism is the long historical denouement of a party that has come to see American democracy as rigged.

And what one does to a rigged system is destroy it.