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In fact, if Priebus is named Chief of Staff, Paul Ryan and the GOP have already taken steps to successfully take over his presidency...so you'll have 75-80% of the country upset, the 25-30% he betrayed while pretending to be an outsider and change agent and everyone else who never wanted him in the first place.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 12:27 PM) So you are telling me if Trump who will already be under a lot scrutiny royally f***s up with bad policies that people will sit idly by? come on balta, that's rubbish and you know it. The "liberal" media, burned terribly by this election...are definitely going to hold his feet to the fire now that he's governing. I read an article that less than 1 hour of primetime news this election went to substantive policy discussion over a 20 month period. Shocking stuff when you look back on it. It seems impossible for Ryan to hold the center and Trump to hold back the wrath of his deplorables and Tea Partyers because their interests just don't coincide or intersect. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-transitio...-072703965.html Transition team filled with GOP establishment http://finance.yahoo.com/news/president-tr...-215552004.html Child care plan leaves out neediest https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-advisers-b...ics.html?ref=gs Social Security privatization back on the table? No reaction to day after day of stuff like this, the party deserves to be blown up and thrown out with the bath water.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 12:04 PM) No it isn't. The Democrats don't turn out for Midterms. Maybe when Medicare is put on the chopping block, that will do it. That's Ryan's #2 priority, after getting rid of health care for all the blah people and his tax cuts. 2002 isn't a great example due to 9/11, but I'm sure if we looked at 2006, 1990, 1986....we'd see a shift back against the tides there, too. There's been a changeover of something like 36% of governorships, and 15-25% across the board for Senate, House and state legislatures since 2008, not to mention things like school boards and city councils in flyover territory. Decimated would probably be the appropriate term, except for Obama retaining power. The GOP Congress was already terribly unpopular in the first place, so a Gregoning is due. Not to mention gerrymandering and the incumbency effect certainly didn't protect the Dems in 1994, 2010 and 2014. The GOP is already overreaching with their cabinet names...and then you'll see even more anger about the Supreme Court. Republicans will feel they have a mandate, and hubris will bring them back down. Basically the same thing that happened to the Dems forcing Hillary on the party without giving other candidates a fair opportunity.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 09:08 AM) Remember the Gore/Tipper kiss? Looked like Al's first kiss and he watched Dumb & Dumber for pointers. I was going to say Cuban is a good idea since he's central and smart enough to realize big govt is rarely good. So he'd have a better chance of winning the white vote and the educated vote. But then I look at Obama, Hillary, Kerry, Gore, Clinton. The only two that won are the guys whose platforms were "I'm a cool guy and I play the sax/shoot hoops." MAYBE the key to a democrat victory is never going to be policy again (because it's usually pretty stupid in general), but energizing all the minorities and young people. So the real tenets moving forward for the DNC will be coolness in some way and make sure to spout out the phrases "climate change", "free tuition" & "diversity". Landslide. There will undoubtedly be a push back if Trump is a disaster...away from such inexperienced billionaire candidates. But yea, people start throwing out names like Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Will Smith, George Clooney, Matt Damon or Ben Affleck, it seems almost anything's possible the next presidential election cycle in 2019-2020. Trump was a huge hit for advertising/ratings, the Dems were the opposite. They basically hid Clinton while Trump had months and months of free attention with a seemingly endless series of debates. They need someone with charisma and firepower and that populist message which turns the Rust Belt back in their favor rather than losing it like the South and most of the West except the coast.

They're gouging those dedicated companies and individuals that make up 80% of their attendance. That they're not charging more (or increasing rates) for lesser packages should cause many diehard fans to seriously reconsider how important loyalty to a team really is...and feeling the atmosphere there compared to Wrigley now...feels like Clinton HQ around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Making the Southside/Chicago G-Rate Again, apparently?

Let's hope Detroit apparently tearing down doesn't cause KW to reconsider the organization's approach this offseason....Verlander to LA makes sense as well because of career opportunities for Kate Upton out there.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 12, 2016 -> 05:20 AM) Relative to Al Gore, oh yeah "You could have a beer with him" He was folksy, relatable, like to hang out on his ranch and hunt, average student...drug and alcohol problems. Gore was pretty much the polar opposite, stiff and didactic, invented the internet/environmental movement (in his eyes), totally different type of Ivy League blue blood who was groomed by his father since birth to run for president. Not only that, but the relationship with Tipper turned out to be something of a facade.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20161112..._lynching_.html OU and Ok State students target freshman African American students at PENN... Probably unaware that Trump studied there, as well as Ivanka.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...omepage%2Fstory whoever the Democratic candidate is, they should promise lower taxes, free university tuition, expansion of Social Security and Medicare, no bank/atm/credit card fees...because Trump has already backtracked or lied about almost every single major initiative of his campaign basically, parents will have a harder time explaining to their children why not lie, be a bully or fat shame (Ann Coulter this week) everyone who disagrees with you

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-sees-japan...-071656434.html now planning to build "dozens of new warships" for the U.S. Navy while simultaneously claiming to be pulling back on policing the world? brilliant.... does he believe America also can declare bankruptcy as a country with no consequences?

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/who-will...-162006596.html list of possible Cabinet choices https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...omepage%2Fstory stopped at Ben Carson as Secretary of Education, might as well have Ivanka as Secretary of Branding/Merchandising

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...omepage%2Fstory All of Trump's health care reform ideas being changed to GOP boilerplate or Paul Ryan plan/s.

Many in Clinton's campaign viewed these voters as Trump's base, people so committed to the Republican nominee that no amount of visits or messaging could sway them. Clinton made no visits to Wisconsin as the Democratic nominee, and only pushed a late charge in Michigan once internal polling showed the race tightening. Bill Clinton, advisers said, pushed the campaign early on to focus on these voters, many of whom helped elected him twice to the White House. The former president, a Clinton aide said, would regularly call Robby Mook to talk about strategy and offer advice. But aides said the Clinton campaign's top strategists largely ignored the former president, instead focusing on consolidating the base of voters that helped elect President Barack Obama to the White House. CNN.com always with the best political instincts in that family...it's hard to see how diminished he seemed in recent years, and now there will be more lifetime bitterness over the FBI letter and the Clintons feeling Obama could have reigned in Comey had he chosen to do so

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention that concocted the Electoral College rejected picking a president by popular vote for reasons that now seem historically remote, even quaint. Centuries before TV and social media, the bewigged delegates feared that each state’s voters (mostly white men who owned property) would know so little about the presidential candidates that they’d all back their state’s “favorite son” candidate and none of the contenders would get a majority. Plus, the delegates wanted to make sure small, less populous states didn’t feel left out. Now about 38 states feel left out every four years as the presidential candidates spend all their time and money wooing about 12 battleground states, including North Carolina. No other democracy uses this arcane system to pick its national leader. The United States shouldn’t either. Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/poli...l#storylink=cpy fwiw, the spread now is around 430,000 votes for Clinton

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics...x.html?adkey=bn more signs of the swamp being refilled with the same alligators

good use of the Walsh talking points memo when he attempted to walk that one back, though... what boogeymen will the nra use with Obama and Clinton gone now? Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer want to take your guns away? they can't exactly hang that issue on Bernie Sanders, either

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 10:21 AM) Also, a lot of people who wouldn't vote for Kerry because he was elitist and a Northeast Snob, just voted for a rich elitist New York snob. Difference being, one if incredibly smart and the other, well, lets just say the jury's still out on that one. must destroy all Americans who speak a second or third language, know anything about yachting and are effete/elitist/read the NY Times/are conversant about global issues. women grabbing that's what not blooded genuine and authentic good 'ol boys from Brooklyn or Queens do....not those pesky MANHATTANITES with their blueblood Ivy League educations

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-donald-t...-154449450.html planned lowering of corporate tax rates will bring yuuge investment/financial gains to those millions of middle and lower middle class Trump voters from Indiana OH PA WI MI. didn't southsider2k5 pull most of his money out?

QUOTE (brett05 @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 09:58 AM) We're broken because of people like you you wish hatred. anyone who's not a white male in america feels hatred from their leader https://www.yahoo.com/news/racial-tension-f...-061030608.html take this story about racial tensions in Mt. Greenwood as an example but Charles Barkley, Oprah and Obama say give Trump a chance...so that will magically fix everything said over the last 20 months of the campaign

well, it's certainly possible....but weren't a lot of those shovel ready infrastructure projects taken off the table because they were considered financially inefficient and would add to the deficit? still don't see how that will address the long-term undeniable endemic structural unemployment issues especially as the rumor is they want to lower or at least freeze the minimum wage...so how do you balance out the price rises caused by tariffs on imported goods with equivalent wage growth?

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/megyn-kelly-memoir...-041228528.html who tried to poison megyn kelly? and this is for Greg, who tipped him off to one of his "pointed" debate questions? lewandowski? the election was unfair...he had questions in advance throw him out! calexit! America has never had it worse since Obama was president....

he is very inclusive and loving with Eastern European models...well, no errr...make that any models and half the Miss Teen USA pageant contestants to boot

THE TRiUMPh OF DEMOCRACY v Nov 9, 2016, 8:04 PM From Michael Green Details Democracy and freewill have triumphed over the evils of ‘political correctness’, the tyranny of an elitist minority and their trend-sucking dilettantes in the media. This song is therefore dedicated to the brave voters in America - and their kindred conservative allies abroad - who defied/rejected the smears, lies and intimidation of REGRESSIVE liberalism to take back their country. Trump's presidency spells an end to the racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic schemes of the ruling libtard left. America now embarks on a path of common sense policies that END: the sacrifice of Judaeo-Christian values on the alter of multiCULTist immigration, the fight against islamo-fascism, the elitist agenda of globalization, the divisive narrative of political correctness, and US economic/military decline. To those who supported HiLIARy, I openly encourage them to emigrate to any dictatorial country in the world, where I am sure your short-sighted, social re-engineering idealism will be warmly welcomed and embraced. Just make sure the door doesn't hit you on the way out of Western Civilization, and don't go away mad - just go away！ God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood www.youtube.com PLEASE be respectful of each other, even if you're not from this great Country!! Thanks, and enjoy the video!

probably came out of the idea about Muslims in NYC area celebrating after the Twin Towers came down...there was no consequence for making up that story or roughly 70% of his statements during the campaign

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/10/politics...wamp/index.html Trump doing the exact opposite of "draining the swamp" already....