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I thought we'd settled this

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:29:00 +0000

In reply to I mean, I am more concerned

I thought we'd settled this "planned economy vs market economy" thing. .Don't they teach that at Wharton? the nin-mail order version)

Oy, you hand-selected him:

artappraiser — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 03:45:53 +0000

In reply to Some of them might even have

Oy, you hand-selected him, Wall St. is gonna love this NOT!

Trump says he’s ‘not even a little bit happy’ with Fed chairman, Headline at WaPo right now

In a wide-ranging interview with The Post, President Trump argued that higher rates and other Federal Reserve policies contributed to market declines and GM’s recently announced plant closures. The president insisted, though, that he is not worried about a recession.

By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Damian Paletta

It will never dawn on Mr. ~~Very High Levels of Intelligence~~ Stupid that he is the one who is the apprentice who should be fired, who couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag but must instead be managed and manipulated by others.

He also tweeted this today:

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:54:42 +0000

In reply to from Former State

He also tweeted this today:

Many Rs have stuck with Trump to avoid splitting the Party and losing elections. Well, they just lost the House, 7 Governors, and hundreds of state legislative seats, including 10 here in WA. The GOP is lost. We need a new Centrist Party. @reedgalen @samforus @uniteamerica pic.twitter.com/oPTY4OZTxm
— Chris Vance (@Chrisvance123) November 27, 2018

from Former State

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:52:41 +0000

In reply to 'Never Trump' Republicans went Democrat in 2018. Are they gone for good?

from Former State Representative, County Councilman, and GOP State Chairman, now Co-Chair of WA Independents

Can you imagine any Republican saying this today? I can't. @MaxBoot @reedgalen @matthewjdowd @JRubinBlogger pic.twitter.com/Qk3m8mzBsZ
— Chris Vance (@Chrisvance123) November 27, 2018

I mean, I am more concerned

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:04:11 +0000

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I mean, I am more concerned about an American economy where the president tells GM where to put its plants than all the IP theft and forced tech transfer combined
— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) November 27, 2018

Democrat T.J. Cox officially

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:51:47 +0000

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Democrat T.J. Cox officially takes the lead in CA-21 tonight. If this result holds, it means Democrats will have flipped 40 seats in the House. https://t.co/k330w1qaZQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 27, 2018

and here's the flip side of

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:50:31 +0000

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and here's the flip side of that right after it in my feed!

The holy grail for Dems eyeing the Rustbelt for 2020 is to delegitimize Trump as a champion of the white working class by painting him as a servant of corporate interests. He gives them plenty of ammunition & @SenSherrodBrown here offers a preview of how he might carry that case https://t.co/9DUKTgfGTY
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 26, 2018

more same as above:

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:48:22 +0000

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more same as above:

Hmmmn.. most powerful person in world uses his govt. bully pulpit to threaten a company making a business decision. I’m sure the pro free market enterprisers in the GOP caucuses will come down really hard on him. https://t.co/mTWhzY7Qgw
— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) November 26, 2018

The Suburbs Are Changing. But

artappraiser — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:35:44 +0000

In reply to 'Never Trump' Republicans went Democrat in 2018. Are they gone for good?

The Suburbs Are Changing. But Not in All the Ways Liberals Hope.

Rural areas are now reliably Republican, urban areas overwhelmingly Democratic.
The suburbs are lodged in between, with many economically conservative but socially liberal voters who have a foot in each party — or for whom neither party is a perfect fit.

By Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Josh Katz @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 26, 2018

Orange County, Calif., long a bedrock of the Republican Party, won’t send a single Republican to Congress in January for the first time since 1940.

The party lost four seats there in the midterms, mirroring Republican losses just outside Minneapolis, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, New York and Washington, D.C. The election was a suburban rout, lifting Democratic hopes for a durable realignment in the parts of suburbia that are highly educated and increasingly diverse.

But further down the ballot in Orange County, voters also considered several propositions meant to ease the state’s housing crisis. Orange County voters opposed a bond to fund housing assistance programs, which passed statewide. And they rejected a rent-control measure by a wider margin than the rest of the state (the measure failed).

Newly Democratic Orange County is not exactly on its way to becoming liberal San Francisco.

“There is this idea that if all these suburban areas are blue, that will mean they’re automatically more progressive,” said Lily Geismer, a historian at Claremont McKenna College in California. That’s an indication of something more progressive, she said, but underneath are “still commitments to a lot of kinds of inequality.” [.....]

also see NYTimes' separate local reporting:

A northern suburb of New York City has stood resolute as the last Republican stronghold in downstate New York. 1h ago Putnam County, which includes Cold Spring, N.Y., seems like a curious outlier, a land that Democrats forgot along the Metro-North line. which does interestingly compare some issues

Jennifer Rubin's latest

artappraiser — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:23:24 +0000

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Jennifer Rubin's latest column @ WaPo is #1 read in Opinion section: Trump’s incoherence is too much — and it’s getting worse. Pointing out the bipartisan nature of movement against Saudi Arabia and the contradictory nonsense about deficit spending.