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    More and more Americans are starting to predict Trump will win in 2020. But how can you blame them? He’s gonna get a lot of help from the Russians and the Republicans are obviously not timid when it comes to playing dirty or breaking the rules.

    https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5...ce=politics_fb

    With our ridiculous electoral college system the democratic candidate just has to win 2 swing states. But with the current political climate I don’t know if them dems can do it. Can Kamala Harris win over blue collar voters who have proven time and time again that they’re hesitant to vote for a woman?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robotman View Post
    More and more Americans are starting to predict Trump will win in 2020. But how can you blame them? He’s gonna get a lot of help from the Russians and the Republicans are obviously not timid when it comes to playing dirty or breaking the rules.

    https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5...ce=politics_fb

    With our ridiculous electoral college system the democratic candidate just has to win 2 swing states. But with the current political climate I don’t know if them dems can do it. Can Kamala Harris win over blue collar voters who have proved time and time again that they’re hesitant to vote for a woman?
    That is because the media keeps telling them how he keeps his base. What they don't say is his base is maybe 30% of voters. As long as his approval is in the low to mid 30s, he will have a hard time winning. Remember he lost by 3 million votes last time.
    The poll was about who they perceive could win, not who they would vote for.
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    Kelly is a Marine and he is completely in it for Trump.

    If you haven't figured it out, the last Republican with honor died a month ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    Kelly is a Marine and he is completely in it for Trump.

    If you haven't figured it out, the last Republican with honor died a month ago.
    When McCain died, there were Republicans on Facebook going on about how liberals were making McCain a saint when he died but hated him before that. No. Liberals generally respected McCain because he wasn't part of the absolute cartoon the Republican party has become. I remember when a lot of Republican mental cases like Coulter and Hannity wouldn't even acknowledge that he was a Republican and the irony is that he was what Republicans need to become if they are going to survive. They were moving in that direction until Trump figured out how to play on all the resentments and bigotries and fears people have to build his nightmare of taking Conservatism to the ugliest and most extreme slippery slope level that he possibly can. There are those who, of course, say he is making America great again. And, if I were someone who gave in to all my suppressed bigotries and most stupid ideas, I'd think that too.

    While Trump does have his young followers, this whole thing really feels like a lot of people of my generation (age 60) and older having their last hurrah and trying to immortalize the "ideals" (I use the word loosely) of their youth and unleash all their petty hatreds while telling themselves they're the good guys. If they really try, they can definitely screw the environment and human rights and freedoms along with screwing themselves with Republican attitudes about the very social security and medical benefits people of our age really need the most.

    If sanity prevails, we'll get a Democratic Congress and Senate and a Democrat president in two years. The SS and medical stuff along with human rights may be correctable. Maybe even the environmental damage won't be too much to come back from. Ironically, a Republican friend of mine recently posted about the wonders of the Great Lakes and how they are the source of twenty percent of the world's fresh water. Then someone pointed out that this is true- and this guy's hero, Trump, just removed every single law and rule and regulation that protected them.

    Plus, we now have two Supreme Court justices that are most likely guilty of sexual assault and we'll be stuck with one of them for probably 25-30 years.
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    Oh WBE! From the Ohio debates...

    Jim Renacci acknowledges he thinks a federal minimum wage is "ridiculous"
    Says should be up to states
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robotman View Post
    More and more Americans are starting to predict Trump will win in 2020. But how can you blame them? He’s gonna get a lot of help from the Russians and the Republicans are obviously not timid when it comes to playing dirty or breaking the rules.

    https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5...ce=politics_fb

    With our ridiculous electoral college system the democratic candidate just has to win 2 swing states. But with the current political climate I don’t know if them dems can do it. Can Kamala Harris win over blue collar voters who have proven time and time again that they’re hesitant to vote for a woman?
    Considering how much support for the GOP among women is plummeting after the Kavanaugh debacle, they may not have it in the bag in 2020.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Considering how much support for the GOP among women is plummeting after the Kavanaugh debacle, they may not have it in the bag in 2020.
    A lot can happen in 2 years. A lot happened in the last 2 years. A lot happened in the last 2 weeks.
    Aren't we supposed to be talking about the president being involved in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax fraud?
    What happened to that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Considering how much support for the GOP among women is plummeting after the Kavanaugh debacle, they may not have it in the bag in 2020.
    I'm not putting a lot of stock in predictions before the Dems have coalesced around any sort of candidacy, yeah. The real question is how much voter suppression !@#@ery they get to do.

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    So...

    Avenatti follows taking a swipe at Megyn Kelly a while back with taking a swipe at S.E. Cupp today.

    Pair of swipes at women while not taking Tryus up on putting some charity money together for Puerto Rico and RAINN.

    Yeah, this guy's scary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    A lot can happen in 2 years. A lot happened in the last 2 years. A lot happened in the last 2 weeks.
    Aren't we supposed to be talking about the president being involved in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax fraud?
    What happened to that?
    The Kavanaugh circus happened. Meanwhile, Trump continues his successful strategy of flooding the media with fresh scandals on an assembly line basis so reporters can't focus on just one atrocity to nail his orange ass on. Case in point, just a few examples:

    --Mocking a disabled reporter during the campaign should've stopped Trump. It didn't.
    --Hurling childish insults at other candidates like a schoolyard bully should've stopped Trump. It didn't.
    --"Grab 'em by the p***y" should've stopped Trump. It didn't.
    --Insulting a Gold Star family during the RNC should've stopped Trump. It didn't.
    --Trump's pathetic response to the Charlottesville debacle should've plunged his poll numbers into the teens. It didn't.
    --The administration's slipshod response in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico should've plunged Trump's poll numbers into the teens. It didn't.
    --Trump's shameless suckup to Vlad Putin and Russia in Helsinki before the whole world should've plunged Trump's poll numbers into the teens. It didn't.

    Trump is making Teflon look like Velcro in how he's gotten out of jam after jam, committing the sort of unbelievable screw-ups that would've sank any candidate or sitting president. But, the Orange Menace keeps chugging right along, helped by the GOP which is under a mandate to protect him at all costs and his followers who blindly believe him and refuse to abandon him, no matter how awful he's been. It's absolutely maddening.


    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    I'm not putting a lot of stock in predictions before the Dems have coalesced around any sort of candidacy, yeah. The real question is how much voter suppression !@#@ery they get to do.
    Count on a lot. The GOP won't be taking any chances on Dems getting the votes they need to reclaim the House or Senate.
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    On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Florida's 8th Congressional District, Bill Posey, the U.S. House Representative from Florida's 8th District, the author of HB 1503, aka “The Birther Bill” that would force all presidential candidates to submit their birth certificates. When asked if he believed President Obama was an American citizen in the wake of that, he refused to answer, calling the question “irrelevant”. Posey’s also obsessed with overturning the Affordable Care Act, having participated in every attempt to repeal it, and then voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown to attempt to stop it (also voting against re-opening the government when the time came). His one positive quality is that he wants to fund medical research into autism, but it comes with the caveat that he’s only doing so because he believes it's possible that vaccines cause autism (but not in climate change). He's also been a part of GOP efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, and voted to defund the Department of Homeland Security as part of a Republican temper tantrum over President Obama's executive orders on immigration.

    Posey was re-elected with 63% of the vote in the 2016 elections, and shuffled back to Washington to start his fifth term in the House. It has gone much as you would expect:

    • February 16th, 2017: Posey votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping. Because… well, the logic really isn’t there as to why, it’s just awful.
    • March 16th, 2017: Bill Posey votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge's written order. We feel safer already.
    • March 28th, 2017: Rep. Posey votes for SJ Res 34, which allowed internet providers to sell the data information of their customers' internet usage to businesses. Well, so much for privacy.
    • May 4th, 2017: Posey votes for the House GOP's healthcare plan, that would kick roughly 24 million people off their health insurance plans, allow up to 28,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, and would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions which would include such medical conditions as pregnancy (current or past), post-partum depression, or prior sexual assault. Oh, and a provision in the bill would make sure that Posey would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country. He and his Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference, as well.
    • June 8th, 2017: Bill Posey votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd-Frank financial reform, because what the country really needs is to allow the big banks to make the same mistakes that imploded the economy only a decade earlier.
    • October 3rd, 2017: Posey votes for HR 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that would try to create an unconstitutional ban abortion at 20 weeks (even though medical science tells us fetuses do not have the capability to feel pain until 29 weeks).
    • December 19th, 2017: Rep. Posey votes for HR 1, the GOP’s $1.7 trillion tax cut to benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations permanently that coincidentally also removes the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and kicks 13 million people off their health insurance.
    • February 18th, 2018: Posey and his fellow Republicans decide that poor big businesses are suffering too much at the hands of the Americans with Disabilities Act too much, and vote for HR 620, which would strip most of the civil rights protections guaranteed by it.
    • May 22nd, 2018: Posey, a long time proponent of guns and recipient of campaign donations from the NRA, refuses to comment when asked about the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
    • July 18th, 2018: After Donald Trump gives a bizarre joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, where he denied Russians interfered in the 2016 election, effectively siding with the Russian dictator’s denials over his own intelligence community, Bill Posey offers his support to the president, arguing that maybe that interference isn’t so bad, because “America has done it to other countries for the past 50 years.

    Bill Posey dodged hosting a town hall thus far in 2017, and instead, opted to call his constituents to let them know he was having a telephone town hall… WHILE IT WAS ALREADY UNDER WAY. He was apparently still distressed that upon learning this, ten thousand of his voters bombarded him with complaints, not only about his availability, but how the GOP was planning on exercising control of both Congress and the White House, and defended the move because “Gabby Giffords got shot at a town hall”. His constituents then further berated him, because Giffords herself called on all members of Congress to hold town halls, as their duty remains to the people.

    Florida’s 8th Congressional District has a +11 lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, leaving Bill Posey’s Democratic challenger next month, Sanjay Patel, at a disadvantage that currently looks to be right within a stone’s throw of the advantage Democrats are going to have due to the Blue Wave. Patel, a Brevard County Democratic State Committeeman,is making Rep. Posey pretty nervous, what with the fact that he’s currently bringing in more donations in fundraising than the Republican incumbent, and that might be why Posey lost it and took it upon himself to say you can identify Patel’s supporters of “having the dumpiest damn house in the neighborhood.” Which, GOP class warfare and all that, looking down their nose at those with lower real estate worth.

    Whether or not this reflects in the vote in 22 days, we’ll have to see.
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    The Dumbest Moments From Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview

    President Trump was the headliner on 60 Minutes Sunday night, sitting down with Lesley Stahl for a 26-minute interview that was as familiar as it was depressing. Trump lied. He questioned the credibility of climate scientists and heaped praise on Kim Jong-un. He brought up Hillary Clinton, he defended his mockery of Christine Blasey Ford, and he insisted, twice, that he’s “not a baby.”

    Stahl pushed Trump more than most interviewers, which might be why he snapped at her: “I’m president, and you’re not.” Here are the other notable moments from Trump’s 60 Minutes appearance.
    On climate change
    Asked if he still thinks climate change is a hoax, something he’s previously tweeted, Trump said he does not. That doesn’t mean he believes man has anything to do with the planet’s warming though. “I think something’s happening. Something’s changing — and it’ll change back again. I don’t think it’s a hoax; I think there’s probably a difference. But I don’t know that it’s man-made,” he said.

    When Stahl mentioned the frequency and severity of hurricanes hitting the U.S., Trump said, “They say that we had hurricanes that were far worse than what we just had with Michael.” She asked him who the “they” in his statement refered to. “People say that,” Trump said. Then he called out the “very big political agenda” of scientists who believe in man-made climate change.
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    3,121 desperate journeys Exposing a week of chaos under Trump's zero tolerance

    They came to the US seeking a better life. They ended up behind bars. Thousands of documents analyzed by the Guardian provide the most comprehensive picture yet of what happened to immigrants prosecuted under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy
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    Political ads study finds the right favors Google, the left Facebook and Twitter

    Left-leaning organizations are dominating political ads on Facebook and Twitter while rightwing advertisers are outspending liberal groups on Google, according to new research.

    Computer scientists at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering analyzed more than 884,000 recent political ads on the three social media sites. They found that Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again political action committee had the largest number of ads of any candidate while a Republican group called the Senate Leadership Fund spent the most on ads.

    Meanwhile, Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic Senate candidate fighting to unseat Ted Cruz in Texas, was the largest spender on Facebook and Twitter, with a focus on ads seeking small donations from outside of his state, the researchers found. In total, ads with political content generated at least 5.9bn “impressions”, meaning the number of times the ads were seen, and cost the sponsors between $116m and $403m.

    The report released Monday is part of NYU’s ongoing ads transparency project and offered a look at social media strategies and priorities of different political groups. The research followed Facebook, Twitter and Google implementing policies and portals this year designed to provide the public insight into political ads.

    The Silicon Valley companies have faced mounting pressure surrounding election interference and propaganda polluting the platforms.
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    I'm sure the moronic talking heads on Fox & Fiends are crucifying Stahl this morning for daring to push Dear Leader Trump. I can't stand to listen to Dolt45 for more than five SECONDS before I either hit the mute button or change the channel, but I'm sure that interview was a total **** show full of rampaging idiocy from Orange Foolius.
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