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QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 08:38 PM) You may not say it outright but that's what you're inferring when you place the blame of the result on "tens of millions" that voted for him. GMAB. In your view if you vote for Trump you're supporting racism/bigotry/sexism, true or false? The people that voted for Trump are responsible for their votes. If you voted for Trump, you were at least okay with the racism and bigotry and sexism. It wasn't disqualifying. Democrats aren't and really shouldn't be pursuing Trump voters. They need to drive their base an expand it to the tens of millions of non voters.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 05:08 PM) Simple question: do you think that calling all non-liberal people racists/bigots/homophobs/etc makes those people more or less likely to vote for a Democrat, even if they themselves are not racist/bigoted/homophobic, etc? At some point if you keep pissing the people off that are Republican for those non-social reasons, you're still not picking up their vote, and if anything they will justify voting for someone like Trump because of that anger. That is the mistake that Democrats apparently aren't learning here. While there is a minority of Republicans who are those terrible things, the vast majority are not. But continue painting with that broad brush and you won't make any of the inroads that you need to win. QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 05:09 PM) On this board alone SS calls any Trump voter a racist. Hillary called them deplorables. You really don't think thatI happened/happens? These are not things that happened, no.

There are lots of things Democrats can look at as to why they've struggled in elections, but I gotta laugh at the continued attempts to make everything horrible about the modern GOP the fault of Democrats. Clinton may not have turned out the right number of people in the right states, but that doesn't absolve the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump or the tens of millions who didn't vote at all from their responsibility.

Trump called a meeting with network executives to yell at them about how they cover him. http://nypost.com/2016/11/21/donald-trumps...g-firing-squad/

They also had more votes for the Senate by a few million. I don't know if it happened in 2016, but in 2012, Democrats also had more votes for the House but walked away with fewer seats. Our federal government's structure strongly favors more rural voters at every step.

Well I think that's actually the critical flaw in that analysis, and it's something he kinda just skirts around in parenthesis. 8 years of full obstruction and increasing radical political positions culiminating in an overtly bigoted and hateful gameshow host becoming their nominee has resulted in them being in their most powerful position in nearly a century and stealing a Supreme Court seat that should have dramatically shifted the overall stance of the court to the left. Why shouldn't we take away the lesson that policies matter little and beltway political theater (obstruction etc.) matters less and that full-blown demagoguery is the best way to go? It worked for Trump, it worked for the "Leave" campaign in Britain.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 04:07 PM) With this upcoming administration? No. The problem is the decades of using this as a standard tool to attack everyone. Again, it is meaningless when said now to a large portion of the population. So much so that a new label had to be made up to try to scare people with, but of course it didn't really work. The Democrats aren't going to win by using the Trump game plan of name calling. They are going to win by offering a smarter alternative. This was basically the argument laid out by an Italian writer re: Berlusconi. His absurdity was similar to Trump's, and he'd always get his opponents to respond to every crazy little thing he does rather than offering their own message. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/opinion/...sist-trump.html Don't know how much I agree with it, but I think it's right up your alley.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 03:52 PM) Again, congratulations for electing our worst nightmare as President. Sorry, that was all of those Republicans standing on principle!

Laughing because that's the only way to deal with this garbage right now. Preemptive impeachment seems reasonable at this point.

President-Elect Donald Trump settles massive fraud case from his scam university

does this not happen with new consoles really any more? I remember growing up and there always being huge Christmas-time shortages on the big games for the season, and of course any new systems. In high school, a couple of my friends worked at KMart and would buy all of the PS2's when they came in and then immediately resell them for a profit on eBay or whatever. Seems appropriate for a vintage console to have shortages, really!

Ford, of course, denies this and says they never had plans to close the Kentucky plant. But we're clearly into a world where facts are irrelevant and the White House is going to be filled to the top with insane conspiracy theorists.

GOP Senate, of course, immediately lets everyone know they've bowed to Trump RIP Civil Rights

Mining in the Grand Canyon, here we come!

Retro gaming stuff can go for insane amounts of money. People paying a few hundred dollars for rare NES cartridges, $100+ for Gamecube composite video cables, etc. Just nuts.

Why is Ivanka Trump sitting in with Donald Trump's meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister? There are going to be so many conflicts of interest in the administration.

I can at least get why he'd pick Sessions for AG and Flynn for national security adviser, even if I think they're very dangerous and hateful people who shouldn't hold those positions. But Pompeo? What's his qualifications for CIA director? Aside from being on one of the many Benghazi committees, he hasn't even held a seat on national security or spying-related committees.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 05:32 AM) https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-flynn-ke...-004512931.html More on the Lt. General Michael Flynn scandal Flynn has also argued that it's rational to fear Muslims. The administration is going full bore with hate and bigotry which should surprise no one.

Senator Jefferson Beauregard sessions III, the man who was racist enough that the Senate rejected him for a federal court appointment in the 1980's, has been offered the position of attorney general. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/po...facebook.com%2F

An in-depth look at what happened in Florida.

He became known when he took over Trump's campaign in late August or early September after Manafort stepped down. It's good that the media is accurately reporting on his views and his history now that he's been given a very powerful position in Trump's administration.

hahah literally through the roof lmao

The largest oil deposit ever found in America was just discovered in Texas RIP Canadian oil fields

I really hate time traveling Obama

They've got Bill Foster listed as a Republican, but he's a Democrat serving the Western and Southwest Suburbs of Chicago. I'm not sure I agree with their characterization of his letter, either, but I'll give a call and a letter.