What's Trump Done Now?
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DNC Lawsuit Recap: Democracy Averted
Sued for cheating Bernie Sanders out of the nomination, DNC attorneys argue neutrality is a ‘political promise"
DNC Averts Democracy in Bernie Sanders
ah, you Trump haters...look what you could have had.
Sued for cheating Bernie Sanders out of the nomination, DNC attorneys argue neutrality is a ‘political promise"
DNC Averts Democracy in Bernie Sanders
ah, you Trump haters...look what you could have had.
Hey there, Einstein, you figure out which questions you want answered and I'll figure out the ones I want f**king answered! I don't need advice from any twits!
Another f**king exercise in futility that will go absolutely nowhere.
Should the investigation be shut down?
Imagine this today....
Seems normal..
Excellent article.Charlie Sykes on Where the Right Went Wrong
By CHARLES J. SYKES DEC. 15, 2016
New York Times Sunday Review
MILWAUKEE — After nearly 25 years, I’m stepping down from my daily conservative talk radio show at the end of this month. I’m not leaving because of the rise of Donald J. Trump (my reasons are personal), but I have to admit that the campaign has made my decision easier. The conservative media is broken and the conservative movement deeply compromised.
In April, after Mr. Trump decisively lost the Wisconsin Republican primary, I had hoped that we here in the Midwest would turn out to be a firewall of rationality. Our political culture was distinctly inhospitable to Mr. Trump’s divisive, pugilistic style; the conservatives who had been successful here had tended to be serious, reform-oriented and able to express their ideas in more than 140 characters. But in November, Wisconsin lined up with the rest of the Rust Belt to give the presidency to Mr. Trump.
How on earth did that happen?
Before this year, I thought I had a relatively solid grasp on what conservatism stood for and where it was going. Over the previous decade, I helped advance the careers of conservatives like House Speaker Paul D. Ryan; Gov. Scott Walker; Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Senator Ron Johnson. In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice.
In short, I was under the impression that conservatives actually believed things about free trade, balanced budgets, character and respect for constitutional rights. Then along came this campaign.
On the surface, the explanations for Mr. Trump’s improbable win in Wisconsin are simple enough: He won big margins in rural, blue-collar counties and won the pivotal Green Bay area by double digits. But he underperformed Mitt Romney in the vote-rich Milwaukee suburbs and ended up getting fewer votes in victory than Mr. Romney received in his 2012 defeat. Hillary Clinton, however, got about 39,000 fewer votes in heavily Democratic Milwaukee County than President Obama did four years earlier. Democrats simply stayed home, though that is obviously not the whole story.
That is what I saw, and this is what it might mean for the future of conservatism. When I wrote in August 2015 that Mr. Trump was a cartoon version of every left-wing media stereotype of the reactionary, nativist, misogynist right, I thought that I was well within the mainstream of conservative thought — only to find conservative Trump critics denounced for apostasy by a right that decided that it was comfortable with embracing Trumpism. But in Wisconsin, conservative voters seemed to reject what Mr. Trump was selling, at least until after the convention.
To be sure, some of my callers embraced Mr. Trump’s suggestion for a ban on Muslims entering the country and voiced support for a proposal to deport all Muslims — even citizens. One caller compared American Muslims to rabid dogs. But right to the end, relatively few of my listeners bought into the crude nativism Mr. Trump was selling at his rallies.
What they did buy into was the argument that this was a “binary choice.” No matter how bad Mr. Trump was, my listeners argued, he could not possibly be as bad as Mrs. Clinton. You simply cannot overstate this as a factor in the final outcome. As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas, to parties, to tribes, to individuals. Nothing else ultimately matters.
In this binary tribal world, where everything is at stake, everything is in play, there is no room for quibbles about character, or truth, or principles. If everything — the Supreme Court, the fate of Western civilization, the survival of the planet — depends on tribal victory, then neither individuals nor ideas can be determinative. I watched this play out in real time, as conservatives who fully understood the threat that Mr. Trump posed succumbed to the argument about the Supreme Court. As even Mr. Ryan discovered, neutrality was not acceptable; if you were not for Mr. Trump, then you were for Mrs. Clinton.
Here's some of what Trump's been doing.
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Dershowitz: We're Closer To A Peace Deal In Israel Than Ever Before | Video | RealClearPolitics
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Even if he is to be thought guilty of something which I highly doubt because he has financial advisers that are well versed in a 1000 loopholes, he won't see a courtroom during this term in office!
I rather like Eaglesmack, even if I think he's whacked out on Trump.
Beyond that, he's intelligent, funny and served in the Air Force as a cook.
I rather like Eaglesmack, even if I think he's whacked out on Trump.
Beyond that, he's intelligent, funny and served in the Air Force as a cook.
