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Someone from the Wall Street Journal said just yesterday it's the tweeting that the journalistic class and establishment in both parties fears most about this administration.

If the White House Press Corps can't manipulate public opinion by filtering Trump, he can run the table until the end of his second term. Who's gonna stop him? Twitter is said to be not doing well financially so if they get close to bankruptcy, guess what? One of the Trump kids buys it. Yes, that's legal. It's already being discussed.

This was a bigger loss than most people understand. 1980 was a realignment but I think 2016 was bigger because the Republicans have everything and there are all those openings on the Federal bench. Reagan wouldn't have dared to nominate a Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State or a Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy but Trump's done precisely that and the train just keeps rolling down the track. Sherrod Brown was generally understood to be the second coming of Howie Metzenbaum but the DSCC is broke and there are so many vulnerable seats in the next cycle. If Jane Timken decides she wants to force the issue and get rid of him, she'll commit the resources. It's all about money.

The left has a ton of work to do between now and 2022. That's the earliest they'll be viable with reapportionment not until 2022. If they stick to their identity politics they'll continue to lose big races away from the coasts. We're not the United States of California and Massachusetts.

I'm thinking a very wounded and weak Democratic party will run Sanders or Warren in 2020 only to watch him or her be destroyed ala McGovern in 1972. There's plenty of precedent for this: Stevenson in 1952/1956, Mondale in 1984, Dukakis in 1988, etc. All were during periods when Democrats were in the wilderness. It's about keeping the lights on, i.e., creating excitement among the base such that they keep writing the checks to pay key staff and maintain office space.

Hillary did this to herself. Even Colin Powell said everything she touches turns to shit.

Bill had political gifts and an instinct his wife does not possess. He was also the one who told the DNC in June not to ignore the white working class.

rootvg says

terday it's the tweeting that the journalistic class and establishment in both parties fears most about this administration

Makes sense to me. Journalists can't control narrative like in the past

rootvg says

I'm thinking a very wounded and weak Democratic party will run Sanders or Warren in 2020 only to watch him or her be destroyed ala McGovern in 1972. There's plenty of precedent for this: Stevenson in 1952/1956, Mondale in 1984, Dukakis in 1988, etc. All were during periods when Democrats were in the wilderness. It's about keeping the lights on, i.e., creating excitement among the base such that they keep writing the checks to pay key staff and maintain office space.

Hillary did this to herself. Even Colin Powell said everything she touches turns to shit.

Bill had political gifts and an instinct his wife does not possess. He was also the one who told the DNC in June not to ignore the white working class.

Bill Clinton had charm, was handsome and has a Certain je ne sais quoi; Hillary is female dick Cheney

My wife is all a-twitter (pun intended) about Trump due to her Horatio Alger life story but you can count me as cautiously optimistic.

We need energy to grow. We need a new tax code. Old news there. The mandate from the ACA was killing us. We need some infrastructure.

I live about twenty minutes from the research labs in Livermore and happened to settle into a bar stool one night next to a retired scientist with a Q clearance. He told he what Trump is saying appears to be true. Our nuclear stockpile has been in need of a refresh for years and I suspect he's going to use that as a means of job creation. LLNL (otherwise known as Larry Lab) will see some impact from it but Sandia's work is almost exclusively weapons related and they'll get a big boost. They aren't even a real lab anymore, having been absorbed into Lockheed Martin a few years ago. They work on DoE contracts where the other lab is more of a research entity. Berkeley Lab is still here but no longer does weapons research. It's prohibited by law, still a DoE facility but you don't need a clearance to work there anymore.

We needed a strong hand on the rudder and now we have one. Let's see where this guy takes us.

How do you figure that?

If the Republicans are successful in repatriating the several trillion Dollars that are parked offshore, how can things not get better?

What I think you're hacked off about is Congress being in Republican hands. This could have never happened with a Democrat in the White House and of course it's the Republicans who will get the credit for all that money coming back to our shores.

I'm worried about inflation.

This just in the President is a real person.

We're going to win so much Liberals get sick of Twitter.

I didn't know he said that.

This was hardball politics. It felt serious and it was.

You shouldn't drink soda anyway but if you have to, go with the real deal.

I have probably ten or fifteen sodas per year. BAD.

If I have the smoker running and I want a beer? Same thing. Drink the good stuff.

Here is one you probably saw coming:

Actually, I'm going to ramp down the politics a little. To some extent I already have.

This should be the year that I finally renew my Third Class medical, get a new written for the Private, re-solo out and pass the check ride.

I'll be at KLVK when I'm not at home. I originally soloed at Concord but with four active runways the place is too busy. They have limited airline service now.

Unfortunately, this Yahoo tweet is supposedly real:

I blame spell check.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/yahoo-finance-typo-tweet-trump-n-r-navy-article-1.2936700

Seems like poor judgement. So it's tempting!

How about a mechanism for users to post comments from patrick.net to the patrickdotnet Twitter account without the password?

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

Here's my candidate for the first TRUMPLIGULA!-directed tweet:

I wouldn't fuck Ivanka Trump with Michelle Obama's dick!

I think you may as well just mail AF the hundred bucks now.

Ironman says

No, BayArea was correct.

I'm not saying she's that great, but the only way that even a republican could find Trump preferable is if they are extremely vulnerable to media bullshit (i.e. right wing noise, fake news, etc) . Some people don't know how to think for themselves. The email story is the perfect example. It was a server used for her non classified email (they have an entirely different system for the secure stuff). How many Americans idiots do you think didn't even take the time to look at all of this and not let what they wanted to believe get in the way of the truth ? Not to even mention peoples sense of perspective, and ability to perceive the qualities that are important in a President.

I never imagined that Americans would ever get it THIS wrong.

What a dick.

american media shames RT. They knew "IRAQ HAS WMD!"

Finally, a policy position where Trumpligula admits that IHLlary could teach Ivanka a lesson or two.

Obama thinks he can shoot an old man in the head dump him in the ocean then say I have proof.

just as i suspected the "evidence" is just a pile of dog shit

Ironman says

So tell me Marcus, how did those Classified emails end up on her server, if she was only using her server for "non-classified" emails, like you said?

Actually you are the perfect example of the kind of idiot American that believes only what they want to believe.

I wasn't even trying to say that there was absolutely zero classified info ever mentioned in an email on that server. I was referring to the fact that a diplomat especially the chief diplomat has a special system in a special room (she even had one of these rooms in her home), for highly secure messages, that even uses a different protocol. And then they have other ways of doing their personal email, which can include email of a less secure nature that is done for work purposes.

I believe that most Americans aren't aware of this. I also believe that the email story was so blown out of proportion that it affected the race a lot. Even otherwise smart people are vulnerable to propaganda if it goes along with what they want to believe (in this case "HIllary is BAD"). If the media promotes that it's an epic failure on her part, everyone starts to believe it. This is in spite of the fact that email existed when Collin Powell, and C. Rice had equally insecure practices for their non secure system emails. OF course nobody was insisting on going over their emails with a fine tooth comb.

Why is it the Cheney missing emails story never got any traction ?

ok @APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE and @Ceffer now there is a "tweet" link by each comment.

It has worked, but I'm not sure it isn't buggy.

Check out https://twitter.com/patrickdotnet to see your the tweeted comments.

One caveat:
It will tweet only the first 100 characters or so of the comment, because:

140 - 24 (for url link back) - 7 (for "says:" and a space) - len of your username

So a shorter username gets you longer tweets.

Let me get this straight.

The Shit the FBI used for it's report wasn't even based on their own examination.

It came from Crowdstrike, which was contracted by the DNC. Wow, the contractor found what the employer wanted it to find. Imagine that shit.

Holy Fuck. Ain't Got Nuthin'

Tim Aurora says

American elections are rigged and that the United States is a “surveillance state.”

I heard the same shit 2000-2007 on MSNBC and other Cable News Networks.

"Bush hacked the Diebold machines. Bush has the NSA spying on us all." This kind of talk all but disappeared after the second week of November, 2008.

Here's one from CNN, just before the November 2008 election.
www.youtube.com/embed/5AMZSFKoxKY

In order to get attention on Twitter, being a mere mortal, one needs volume. That is exactly why I like the idea of a crowd-sourced patrick.net twitter account. Nobody gives a damn if I tweet something, but maybe if AF heaps on the abuse, something can come of it.

This might get entertaining. Or it may go down in flames of glory. It is hard to tell ;-).

Ah, does not do images yet, sorry about that @APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE

Oh, and the NYT sat on the AT&T-NSA story during the entire 2004 election cycle, and kept it back until Risen was going to publish a book on it.

Was that influencing an election by not publishing a story that would hurt Dubya?

Ironman says

Comment from article:

Damn, they are good. Able to reach determinations that may effect the country for years to come and they don't even have to look at the evidence. I am impressed. NOT

Iraq has Weapons of Mass destruction!
Stupid Republicans!

Tim Aurora says

ver and over, you miss the big picture and try to nitpick small points. Russians helped Trump so that he can be their bitch

That is the big picture-did they teach it at liberal indoctrination school. Why would the Russians be against the person who gave them 20% of our uranium???? You lefties are far worse than the people who believe people rode dinosaurs.

Ironman says

There's this thing called direct EVIDENCE.... Got any??

Didn't think so.

Leftie thought process-this is what I think and so it must be true.

Islamists vow to kill us and rape our women. The Left responds by importing them indiscriminately and valiantly defending their Bronze Age religion.

Russians offer to be friends, and support their countrymen against a violent neonazi coup in the Ukraine. The Left responds with hate propaganda, military support for the coup, and sanctions intended to cripple Russia.

Clearly the Left is our enemy, not Russia. The worst enemy is the one stabbing you in the back...repeatedly, with a poisoned dagger.

We don't need no
More Obama bad luck.
Take your bad luck and fuck off!