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Yep, all the Bernie supporters stayed home. That's why the Democrats lost both the House and the Senate.

Translation: Don't run anyone that the right wing media has been demonizing for decades, even if the demonizing is 95% horseshit.

And if you're going to run a woman, it might not be quite time yet, unless its a republican. A republican woman could pull it off, you know, becasue the other side (democrats) are a bunch of pansy humanists that will probably go along with it, in fact, possibly just becasue it's a woman.

jazz music says

marcus says

It's funny if you think about it.

Ok I gave in and made a couple stupid patnet comments even with your motion to boycott I couldn't resist either

I gave up on that. Didn't think anyone was going along with it.

jazz music says
marcus says
It's funny if you think about it.
Ok I gave in and made a couple stupid patnet comments even with your motion to boycott I couldn't resist either
I gave up on that. Didn't think anyone was going along with it.

Drunks having another drink.

I don't think he will drain the swamp. I said this before the election. He is surrounding himself with swamp people. Breitbart guy has been relegated to cleaning the bathrooms.

He just said on 60 minutes that they'll build a wall, and after that deport criminals, and make decisions on other illegals.

FortWayne says

He just said on 60 minutes that they'll build a wall, and after that deport criminals, and make decisions on other illegals.

Illegals need to arm themselves. Just kidding.

Ironman says

Gary.. You need SERIOUS mental health treatment. Really Seriously!!! Like STAT....

Sorreeeee. It wasn't you. I don't know who Ironworker is.

Ironman says

Really??? Fathers can't say that their daughters are attractive and a good catch for a guy?

Yeah, I see nothing wrong with a father saying his daughter will be a good catch for a potential boyfriend and husband. But that wasn't what he said. He said she would be a good piece of ass and that he would date her if she were not his daughter. There is a certain lack of respect in that statement and it goes over the line. You have to admit that Ironman. It crossed the line.

Dennis Baughn says

Ironman says

Fathers can't say that their daughters are attractive and a good catch for a guy?

Most fathers don't refer to their daughters as a "piece of ass."

Ok. so let's throw him away as president..
And have...Hillary?
U sure about that?

Hey Dennis.. fuck off. You are not part of this community.
Na na na na... na na na na. Hey hey hey goodby!

Hey, Trump understands Cognitive Dissonance as a weapon. More power to him.

They just wanted taxes on the wealthy go go even lower, and for the SCOTUS to become more right wing.

What I want to know is what is the right wing media that TPB listens to and reads going to bitch and whine about now ? My guess ? Eventually, it's going to have to be Trump !!

So many "dislikes" on above posts. I sense enemy action.

Daddy says telling alcoholics they are drunks will generate a plethora of denials.
Strategist says

So many "dislikes" on above posts. I sense enemy action.

marcus says

What I want to know is what is the right wing media that TPB listens to and reads going to bitch and whine about now ? My guess ? Eventually, it's going to have to be Trump !!

I don't think so. Even though the Repubs control all three branches of government and 34 states, when it all goes to hell it will be spun on FOX and Breitbart as the fault of "liberals".

And of course their dimwitted followers will swallow it, hook, line, and sinker.

MrWonderful says

Daddy says telling alcoholics they are drunks will generate a plethora of denials.

Strategist says

So many "dislikes" on above posts. I sense enemy action.

ha ha ha. Staying drunk is better than rioting.

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

Laci has great tits. I love it when she puts the camera at a 45 degree angle for maximum effect and talks about misogyny with her ample chest heaving.

She's just another attention whore.

This women is so clueless it defies the imagination. The wealthy don't pay estate taxes. Upper middle class people who own a great house and a successful business pay estate taxes. The wealthy put their money into private charitable foundations, tax free, and the children get the foundation tax free. All income the foundation generates is tax free. The creator of the foundation can continue to put unlimited amounts of tax deductible (and free of estate tax) money into the foundation. The only requirement is to spend 5% a year of the assets on charity, which is almost always less then the income of the foundation so the foundations grow tax free. Even better foundations can deduct the expenses of running the charity, aka the children's "salary", as part of the 5% distribution. Neat trick. There are no limits on how much directors, aka the children, can be paid or how money is distributed. It gets better still. Private foundations can fund any tax exempt organization. Which, starting in the 70's (the koch brothers figured this out), is where the funding for all these institutes, astro turfs, think tanks, organizations, societies etc, etc. that exploded from nowhere comes from. The ultra wealthy can give unlimited tax deductible money to foundations they control to be charitable donations to fund political activities by organizations they created and control all totally in secret (organizations like clinton and soros foundations are public foundations which means funding sources must be reported). Really, really neat trick. The proverbial having you cake and eating it too. These private foundations and their incestuous tax exempt organizations dancing partners are almost all libertarian. They are also very well coordinated to support their goals. The koch annual get together of the ultra rich makes sure of that. The amount of money involved is staggering.

A couple good books have come out in the last 10 years or so that are starting to expose how this all works. This being how a very small group, literally no more than a few hundred ultra rich, are driving politics far to the right for the entire country for the last 40 years. A new one called Dark Money is the best researched and most extensively documented I've read. It's a really, really heavy read. It's also totally depressing, but very enlightening.

All of the estate tax elimination proposals over the years are strictly for pandering to the anti tax base not serious policy proposals. It's political theatre, except people who aren't insiders don't get a copy of the program.

curious2 says

Considering how that appointment worked out for him and his legacy, I wonder if he might have done better to name her or Bill Ambassador to the UK. For the current transition and the next Chief of Staff, former Mayor Giuliani or someone from within the Trump family might have been more encouraging.

It was necessary for Obama to give her that, so she would drop out of the nomination race prior to the Convention. And she would build a "Foreign Policy Experience" portfolio to run in 2016 and leverage the position for $$$, the former of which didn't work.

We also learned in this election that GIGO.

It was also on a private server, and there's nothing sillier than a soulless candidate being guided by a computer later being blamed for lack of Warmth by her boosters.

That already is happening. Inequality has boomed under Blairite-Clintonista neoliberalism.

This is what new leaders always do: they get a hold of the guys who know where the money is. In a democratic government, the public money is already accounted for, but the money available for campaigning and securing your power infrastructure belongs to the party and must be wheedled or seized from it if the new President is to have either true political power or a second term.
Picks like this are reassuring to me, because they show me that Trump knows how to secure the power to accomplish his stated goals.
Mind you, once he has the money, Trump will quietly "retire" Priebus for someone much more loyal as his chief of staff. I doubt Priebus will last the year.

I will not be surprised if Bannon ends up being chief of staff at a later time.

Trump's immediate problem is Paul Ryan, who is insisting that there will be 'no deportations'. Reminder: Ryan does not have 218 votes to remain speaker.

Thunderlips is Tovbot2 says

That already is happening. Inequality has boomed under Blairite-Clintonista neoliberalism.

Been hitting tenpoundass's dope? Inequality booming is squarely in the neocon/libertarian corner starting with reagan. Nice job with doublespeak.

bob2356 says

Nice job with doublespeak.

Rep/Con/Teas using only two words is guaranteed to be double speak.

Paul Ryan reminds me of Zach Woods (The Office, Silicon Valley).

The establishment is congress. You can't remove it.
So he has to make deals with it.
He also took Steve Bannon as "chief strategist" and Priebus counter weight.
It's a bit too early to claim Trump will suddenly align with all republican "Koch approved" positions.

There was this Russian in an other forum. He kept arguing that "The cure to Washington ills is measured in megatons, Comrades".

Oh Forbes is rewriting common knowledge is they?

You think Reince can tell Bannon and Gingrich "Not now Trump is the middle of a Taco bowl."?

Trump appoints Outsiders: "See jackasses, nothing will get done because Trump is too stupid to appoint people who can talk to DC People to get things done. They don't have PEOPLE SKILLS!!!"
Trump appoints Insiders: "Haw haw, Trump's a Traitor!"
Appoints a Mix: "Confused Cabinet picks, doesn't know what he's doing"

The big laugh is Time and others saying Trump is going to wage war on Legalized Marijuana, Gay Marriage, and Abortion. If MSM and DC Insiders were 80s rappers, their name would be Tone Def.

Trump: Same-sex marriage is 'settled,' but Roe v Wade can be changed

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/trump-gay-marriage-abortion-supreme-court/index.html

The GOPe hates Newt Gingrich, never liked Rudy, and hates the horse Breitbart and any of his editors and contributors rode in on. Lindsey Graham coordinated a 'coup' attempt against Speaker Gingrich in 1997.

Hillary would have appointed somebody like criminal friend Robert Rubin or even Larry Summers. Obama was thinking of criminal Jon Corzine for the Treasury spot. As it was, we have had a criminal Goldman Sachs exec who presided over so much fraud that the firm had to make a $5 billion settlement with the USG.

It would have been interesting to see who Bernie would have chosen.

The swamp cannot be drained. Florida will still be Florida.

"Drain the Swamp" is a clever linguistic weapon. It might have a hand in delivering Florida.

Almost everyone in this election voted themselves into serfdom.

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What was my correct course of action?

What is TBN's annual revenue? I'd base the sale price on that.

Tenpoundbass says

He represented every Republican not just Donald Trump. He did not allow a few man committee unilaterally railroad Donald Trump in spite of the Primary voters.

Seems like Donald is rewarding Priebus' fairness in resisting proposed RNC rule changes specifically to block one candidate: Trump.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/politics/republican-rules-delegates-trump/

Now if we can only get Ford to ditch their crappy dual clutch "automatic" transmission and put in something good like a regular automatic transmission with a torque converter.