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https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pence-booed...-063728742.html Two NY Times writers defended Pence/office of the Vice President https://gma.yahoo.com/autographed-trump-hat...topstories.html "autographed" hats and books sold for crazy prices by Trump campaign were all signed by autopen

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/ste...view/index.html New Republican Party will rule for 50 years according to Bannon...with 40% of black and Hispanic votes. $1 trillion in infrastructure spending planned. Yay! That means we won't have to hear about blowing up the Federal debt, fiscal responsibility or wasteful big government spending (while simultaneously lowering revenues due to across the board tax cuts) again. It might even work. Trump inherits a much stronger economy in terms of stock market, unemployment, inflation and GDP growth than when Obama entered the White House in January, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/11...h-pkg-lead.cnn# $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan (over ten years)...of course no pork barrel projects allowed But lots of tolls/road usage fees on the horizon, as well as tax credits....all predicated on keeping interest rates low/er http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-12/t...e-plan-feasible Moreover, while certain types of infrastructure projects lend themselves to private financing, projects like toll roads, airports or water systems where funds can be segregated and investors can be paid a return on invested capital, other projects like pure maintenance work are more difficult to fund privately. https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-democrat-con...-190950574.html Objections to Pompeo for CIA Director from Wyden

https://gma.yahoo.com/nepotism-law-might-af...opstories.html# How the nepotism law might effect Jared Kushner https://www.yahoo.com/news/ivanka-trump-jap...-180754752.html Ivanka and Kushner at meeting with Abe was out of a "tin pot oligarchy" playbook...pictures of event wouldn't have come out if not for the Japanese releasing them

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-ugly-awfu...-183453337.html

QUOTE (farmteam @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 07:20 PM) I heard something about a couple popular guys from Texas (San Antonio, maybe?) that people were excited about. Can't remember the names though. It'd be a gamechanger if Texas was actually in play during an election. Probably Julian Castro and Tom Perez. Were seen as potential VP picks. Castro has a lot of helium.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 03:05 PM) It certainly gets tough to get to the bottom of things when the topic keeps broadening and I was undoubtedly a contributor to that. I just didn't like that you were using Bannon as a way to get me when I had no reason to talk about Bannon. You're a obviously well read and a worthy debater. I take nothing personal here and appreciate your ending sentiment. All the best SB. If you give me one post where I sourced Breitbart I will move to China and help you grade papers. Not once have I ever used it to support an argument nor have I even read any of their work other than perhaps Shapiro and probably some stuff from Breitbart himself after he died. I know you feel a lot more comfortable coming at me in the filibuster because you have a group of people who align with you politically (even if they can't follow your train of thought) but please stop coming at me with stuff I never did. It's petty and there's no constructive converastion to have. When I saw that I laughed out loud. Unbelievable. That was a great share illinilaw. More than anything, I'm interested to see if Trump brings some of the isolationist rhetoric he's had into action. It's refreshing to see someone from the intelligence community call the spying for what it is. Frankly, that stuff getting supported by regular people is maddening. "I'm not doing anything wrong so they can spy on me, I have nothing to hide." Just give them all the power why don't you, I'm working on it. 10-20 pages of Republican Thread, and we have The American Mirror, Wikileaks and The Washington Free Beacon. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/19/ja...ws-nexus/213927 When you consistently cite O'Keefe, there's no way for you to then run away from his obvious ties to Steve Bannon. They are essentially one and the same. O'Keefe doesn't have the audience he does without the backing and support of Breitbart. You attempted without even bothering to source it to tie Froman to Obama when they didn't even communicate with each other from 1991-2004...by connecting them in some sort of left wing banking conspiracy through Rubin. It's the kind of thing that people don't even bother to read, they just see the headline in the Facebook echo chamber...and assume the worst if they already have a tendency to dislike Obama. You made fun of Huffington Post being cited but didn't even read what it said. You do understand that basically identical copies of the same article being at multiple sites throughout the web, Vanity Fair for an example, doesn't mean they can change the words that Trump and Bannon actually uttered in a recorded radio interview? What in that story about Trump and Bannon is factually untrue or take out of context? How would you write it to more accurately portray Bannon?

Oh, for the halycon days of Barry Goldwater.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-takei-on-...-161030408.html George Takei on Muslim registry: Have We Learned Nothing from WW2 camps in the Western US?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 09:24 AM) I thought about taking Dayton Moore and selling. All those Boras clients with expiring deals. They need to figure out what to do with Hosmer, Moustakas, and Cain. Wade Davis is still the likeliest to go...but went through injury in second half. You've got Moustakas vs. Cuthbert at 3rd. Duffy has a lot of trade value as a one year rental coming off last season. Dyson is also probably going to end up superfluous.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 09:16 AM) Criticize people for using Breitbart. Use a Huffington Post article in the same post. The difference is that those were the exact words of Trump and especially Bannon...not a political opinion. It wouldn't matter where they came from. http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-govern...e115414633.html Koch Industries Names New CIA Director That's what Breitbart would title an article as...if they were liberal. You can go to Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/ste...lley-inaccurate http://sfist.com/2016/11/16/bannon_asian_ceos.php https://mobile.twitter.com/i/moments/798915723917721601?m=1 Washington Post/twitter http://www.aol.com/article/finance/2016/11...-they/21608468/ AOL was owned by Steve Case, an ardent Republican They are radio interviews with direct quotes, not opinion columns that were just conjured out of thin air.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/tru...-say/index.html Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas as CIA Director. Yikes. Let the Tea Party begin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo Each nominee is worse than the preceding one. Not exactly "Team of Rivals" storybook stuff here.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/s...ncart_big-photo Let's try his home state newspaper's take on the nomination of Sessions.

http://wonkette.com/416347/vile-racist-scu...is-day-to-shine The Cabinet is heading for an unapologetically racist/white supremacy All-Star team. Thurgood Marshall must be turning over in his grave with this announcement. Bannon, Trading on Classified Information Lobbyist Lt. Major Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner (nepotism, but at least seems like a the most normal so far) and now Sessions. Off to a roaring start.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-flynn-ke...-004512931.html More on the Lt. General Michael Flynn scandal

QUOTE (hi8is @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 12:01 AM) Here's the idea folks. You claim one of the below GM personas and we then continue on fictional negotiations. The role playing continues until the discussed trade asset is liquidated in reality. "Trade Talks" begin immediately once you have selected your GM role. You conclude your communication by signing off with your chosen GM name. The only rule is, no personal attacks between GM's. You can attack the idea itself. Claim your GM by posting a welcome message in that name or by engaging in a trade negotiation under that name. The list below will be updated as other posters begin to participate. Rick Hahn ( taken - hi8is ) Dan Duquette Dave Dombrowski ( taken - South Sider ) Mike Chernoff Al Avila Jeff Luhnow ( taken - SouthSideSale ) Dayton Moore Billy Eppler Terry Ryan Brian Cashman Billy Beane Jerry Dipoto Matthew Silverman Jon Daniels Mark Shapiro Dave Stewart John Coppolella Jed Hoyer Dick Williams Jeff Bridich Andrew Friedman Michael Hill David Stearns Sandy Alderson Matt Klentak Neal Huntington John Mozeliak A.J. Preller Bobby Evans Mike Rizzo Stewart was already fired. I can try Dayton Moore, but he's unlikely to be targeting any White Sox players...maybe Frazier for DH or Jones.

If you constantly use Breitbart sources/links to attack someone, let's say Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation... "I never supported Bannon or anything" becomes I can consistently use a certain media source to zing/gotcha a political opponent but can still remain blissfully flying above the resulting trainwreck with no damage done to myself. Well, that's not the way it works. If you consistently quote Breitbart, O'Keefe, etc., then the way politics works today is that you're eventually going to tar yourself with the same brush. So either someone is deliberately being obtuse about all of racism/anti-immigrant rhetoric and fake headline news over there (which is bad enough) or one's going to be 100% aware of it but still justify using that to make attacks instead of looking for more centrist/moderate/closer to what we used to think of as more objective news sites. Perhaps another point in all of this is that reasonableness and compromise and finding common ground simply don't exist anymore in terms of being a winning media platform strategy. Without having an edgy take or defending a certain position/viewpoint, we risk losing ratings/profitability. Controversy sells. It's the same reason there wasn't a single debate question about the environment during this 18 month campaign season. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-...4b0e39c1fa71e48 This is Bannon directly admitting (to Trump, over a year ago) to being a "vulgarian" and deliberately staking out a position way to the right of Trump himself on immigration.

Yep, you don't here those who had 401k's who managed them well working for large private companies complaining about the public pension programs. You don't hear those same workers complaining about enjoying generous employee match programs of 3-4% in additional savings accumulating "for free." It's mostly those workers who spent above and beyond their means, bought expensive houses that overextended their financial situations...who chose not to save or even take advantage of employer match programs because they believed they could somehow solve those problems later on in life. Just that public/union workers are lazy or entitled. Of course, attacking people for attempting to "keep up with Joneses" isn't as popular. It's like attacking the American Dream of unbounded capitalism and consumerism.

Yep, you don't here those who had 401k's who managed them well working for large private companies complaining about the public pension programs. You don't hear those same workers complaining about enjoying generous employee match programs of 3-4% in additional savings accumulating "for free." It's mostly those workers who spent above and beyond their means, bought expensive houses that overextended their financial situations...who chose not to save or even take advantage of employer match programs because they believed they could somehow solve those problems later on in life. Just that public/union workers are lazy or entitled. Of course, attacking people for attempting to "keep up with Joneses" isn't as popular. It's like attacking the American Dream of unbounded capitalism and consumerism.

LOL. So Congress is now going to fund health care "gaps" for middle/upper middle class people between 26-45. We might start seeing medical savings accounts in the near future, and attempts to privatize or wipe out Medicare as well, but it's going to be at the political cost of an entire generation of Congress if they dare to do that. It's the "third rail" of politics. At any rate, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell...pristine condition, great neighbors, scenic views. Bargain price if you act in the next 10 minutes.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 09:03 PM) You know, even though I despise Hillary and didn't want her to win, I conceded on here and was looking ahead to impeachment hearings ASAP. Now that Trump is president (I didn't vote for either) I'm not against the same scrutiny and impeachment ASAP. I mean Drain the Swamp means Drain the Swamp. If Trump deserves impeachment for any reason, I'm not against a new era of impeaching every one of these people that become President. That would be terrible, though. Nixon and the 1960's decreased people's trust in government by a factor of 50%. The last thing the country needs is for Trump to be impeached and to make the United States look like a complete joke and banana republic. At any rate, any president in that position in the coming years would likely resign from office before formal impeachment hearings could begin, especially Trump, because he's got to be equally concerned with the fallout in terms of his business empire and what he's leaving behind for his children and grandchildren. https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/take-a-look...-201953466.html Someone who has a $100 million penthouse is not interested in fighting the government if there's no financial benefit to be gained from it. It took the Clinton Foundation a good number of years just to get up to the $100 million market in TOTAL endowment. THIS just one of his 3-4 houses in the US, it's like pocket change to him. http://www.app.com/story/money/business/ma...ounty/82551016/ Of course, America also elected Jared Kushner to be one of the top advisors to the president. I thought we outlawed nepotism after the JFK administration (of course, RFK is probably the main reason the JCS weren't able to start a nuclear war). Racketeering/RICO/corruption charges against the father? Insider ties to Wall Street and media control/influence? Check and Check. I wonder how many Americans who voted for Trump would still check that box less than two weeks later? I really thought America was running away from the direction of family dynasties (Bush/Clinton), but it's going to be worse actually with the 3 Trump kids and Kushner IMO. Kind of funny, it's such a puff piece that after reading that article, you'd much prefer Kushner to be president. That said, real estate developers and the Rust Belt blue collar working class aren't usually aligned together in terms of financial interests.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/11/trumps-t...ish-government/ Here's a typical "present" example, Trump's top military advisor General Flynn, soon to be named to a cabinet post, who APPEARS already has a clear conflict of interest over the Turkey issue. Is that crony capitalism? I'm sure you could find strong examples that tie higher-ups in the Bush Administration with the decisions of which banks to save or not, starting very obviously with Henry Paulson. Last time I checked, nobody had been successfully prosecuted as a result of 2008-09, not even Mozilo from Countrywide. So everyone who received bonuses/golden parachutes, on the Republican (and typically, 60-65% of the Wall Street money used to flow to GOP coffers) and Democratic side...we can surely tie them into one administration or another. It's one thing to give historical backgrounds and "coincidences/conspiracy theories," but proving collusion/bribery/insider trading is an extremely different bar or standard to get over. Why would someone with all the power in the world (at the time Obama was elected, he definitely had a mandate) jeopardize his new government (and moral bully pulpit) over amounts in the single digits of millions of dollars? It doesn't make any sense.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 10:40 AM) This thought is dangerous. It is what Hillary Clinton leveraged and it didn't work. If people believe that is why they got elected, then they are missing the reality of the situation. The election happened because of a combination of things, the bulk of which people wanted serious change. They wanted a change candidate and Trump was who represented the people most in want of change (and even then he got less votes than McCain and Romney). Trump also talked to more people in the rest belt area who have had things get worse over the last 8 years and who wanted a change. Now did those people ignore certain things Donald said / did, absolutely, but to lump in and just assume that everyone who cast there vote for Trump feels the way that you seem to think is just ridiculous and does not solve anything. You saw what good those type of statements did Hillary (calling half of the voting population deplorables doesn't help things). The fact of the matter is everyone lost in this election, but we really lost if the actual politicians don't recognize that the people are fed up and do want change. They want people in the government to work together to come up with things that in general the people want, that will make there lives better. Case closed that a lot of people didn't feel that happened. Bill Clinton himself has been highlighted talking about a lot of these very same things. Just as dangerous as now turning around and retroactively overlooking all the racism, sexism, anti-immigrant, anti-gay fervor and sentiment because the GOP won somehow. Opening up that hornet's nest, Trump is now finding out how hard it actually is to put the genie back in the bottle. Serious change is what they wanted? Do you think all those Rust Belt voters really wanted to privatize Medicare, Social Security, have the age of eligibility pushed further and further back...and essentially falling further behind in government "tax cut handouts"? Were they all climate change deniers? Did environmental policy even come up once in the debates? And the likelihood "medical savings accounts" work for those same lower middle class voters is about the same probability as giving them $10,000 school vouchers to apply towards private schools costing $35-45,000 and them coming up with the money to bridge the gap. The numbers won't add up.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 11:46 AM) Here's an interesting thought. Part of what influenced the election is that wave of fake news that some people fell into. Especially through Facebook and social media. Now go back to 2008 and 2012 - part of the reason Obama won so effectively was the data they had. The revolutionized analyzing election landscapes. So, in a sense, Trump beat the democrats at their own game - technology. And did so by taking the complex, and making it dumb. https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-democrats-20...&soc_trk=tw 50% correct. She thought she could just keep the Obama coalition together. Completely ignoring her husband's much better political instincts, listening to too many inside the Beltway advisors, completely giving up on policy discussions and hiding from the media (ditching the traveling media pool on 9/11 really blew that up), Completely ignoring the "it's the economy stupid" voters and surrendering all those Rust Belt votes and not trying to secure Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio until it was too late. Ignoring WI. Almost losing Virginia. Trying to take places like North Carolina, Georgia, Utah and Arizona away instead...they were way off on their data and didn't respond until too late, and then you had the Comey letter helping to push final undecideds 2/1 in Trump's favor. All those things said, the Democrats will still end up 1+ million ahead in the popular vote, if not 1.5ish million.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) More relevant to today - SB making a comment about the Republican Party's control in 1928 and the ensuing stock market crash in 1929, or the fact that the Republicans have spent the last 8 years blaming the recession of 2008 on Obama... Seems that might have happened BEFORE the election. Seems Romney was incredibly prescient about that Detroit bailout. Let 'em fail. Free markets and laissez faire will save the day. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-trump-sc...-150455889.html Government intervention and regulation never works. If government does intervene, whatever goes wrong a decade later can always retroactively be blamed on the Clintons, Greenspan, Rubin, Dodd and Frank (Jews, gays, central bankers, corrupt politicians, philanderers).

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 10:50 AM) Yeah I just watched a group of pacifist liberals 10 minutes from my place beat the s*** out of a man and steal his belongings while stating their political motivations. Don't worry though, Caulfield is on the ground getting to the bottom of it! Because 437 hate incidents against minorities in less than a week cancels out the Because a 67% spike in anti-Muslim incidents in the last two years is (BIGLY OBVIOUSLY) Obama's fault, since the alt-right is always claiming he's a Muslim, isn't proud of American exceptionalism, apologizes for the US too much, wants to reinstitute Sharia Law, studied at a madrassa/terrorist training school in Indonesia for 3 1/2 years, has an Islamic middle name and wasn't even born in America. Great that Rabbit, er, Breitbart...kept everyone so well informed the last month or so and hope that continues. Except he didn't actually have time to read/research any of the reality behind all those tweets and subtweets. So the Maria Bartiromo excuse. And don't forget y'all, Save the Confederate Flag...States' Rights...Honor Our Ancestors and Heritage. Make sure to turn out for that parade December 3rd in North Carolina.