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Our IC and allies got us. Russia will face a full embargo once traitor Don is out. Soon .
Blue Wave, Meet Red Wall
The Democrats won by a landslide in Virginia. The Republicans’ gerrymandered map still stood strong.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/gerrymandering_saved_republicans_in_virginia.html
Our IC and allies got us. Russia will face a full embargo once traitor Don is out. Soon .
Your initial Intel tells you 20 months...then you refresh...and it's 35. Just wait...
Yeah, and precisely none of that matters. Guys like Castro and both the father and son in NK have shown sanctions and embargos only strengthen the power of dictators if anything. Plus he can just blame the US for all of Russias problems. Basically he's got nukes and he's not afraid to with anybody as 2016 proved.
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So? We embargoed Cuba for decades and Castro would still be in power if he wasn't dead.
Exactly. It was a stupid statement. He isn't good with time estimation either.
Mueller's gonna take out Russia when he's done with Trump. After that he's gonna work with NASA and we'll finally be able to travel to other galaxies tbh
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Which seldom happens in off year elections.
Democratic surge in suburbs forecasts a potentially rough 2018 for Republicans
In the northern Virginia suburbs near Washington, Democrat Ralph Northam captured 69% of the vote in winning Tuesday’s race for governor, five points better than Hillary Clinton did against Trump in the same area last November.
In Hampton Roads, the southern end of an urban crescent that has helped reshape Virginia into a reliably Democratic state in presidential elections, Northam finished seven points stronger than Clinton.
The trend extended beyond Virginia: In suburbs outside New York City and Philadelphia, for example, Democrats won local races that in some cases have belonged to Republicans for decades, even generations.
Although the offices were local, the Democratic candidates in several of those races campaigned explicitly as opponents of Trump.
The view from the suburbs is key because it points to the central problem for Republicans in 2018:
Control of the House will be decided in large part in districts similar to those that retaliated against Trump on Tuesday.
In California, for example, Democrats hope to win several Republican House seats in the suburbs of Los Angeles and Orange County.
http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-election-analysis-20171108-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
Russia is done, unless something really drastic happens, like a sudden wave of immigration that saves its faltering, failing economy.
It is barely growing, and the corruption isn't going to get better. it is as bad as boutons thinks the US is, and demographics are going to kill them, just as it is taking its toll on Japan, and China.
Germany, oddly enough, is going gang-busters in part because of a lax immigration policy paying massive dividends. The government has been running in the black. No borrowing at all.
Not really good in some ways, but that forces investment money into the private sector for returns. I really wonder how that shapes their economy.
I think the US has become too large, and too conservative to be able to adapt to change in global markets. Conservatives will fight all the changes that need to happen, i.e. higher taxes, and more infrastructure and spending on human capital, especially for scary brown people.
The cult of individualism, and worshipping of free-markets as if they are some sort of inerrant diety will erode US competiveness.
Progressives will slowly creep into power and mitigate this, but the damage of chronic underinvestment is beginning to be felt, e.g. Kansas.
You might be interested to know that Texas has gotten five times more new Democratic voters than Republican ones in the last decade or so.
Texas + California + New York = RIP GOP presidential ambitions
My wife teaches in a heavily Hispanic school district. All of her students are citizens, and they are PISSED.
There’s No Reason To Think Republicans Will Be In Better Shape A Year From Now
The generic congressional ballot, even more than a year before a midterm, has historically been quite predictive of what will eventually occur in the following year. It was predictive in April, and it’s even more predictive now. You can see this phenomenon in the chart below. The chart shows the margin by which the presidential party leads on the generic ballot in an average of polls in October1 a year before the midterm compared with the national House margin in the midterm election. Every midterm cycle since 1938 is included, with the exception of 1942 and 1990, for which we don’t have polling at this point in the cycle.
The generic ballot polls a year from the election and the eventual House results are strongly correlated (+0.90). Importantly, past elections suggest that any big movement on the generic ballot from this point to the midterm tends to go against the president’s party.2
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...year-from-now/
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...ance-wave-2018Well, anybody who says that Ed Gillespie failed to turn out the base can’t read. Ed Gillespie turned out more votes than Terry McAuliffe did, who’s the sitting governor. What we saw last night was the engagement of a massive bloc of new voters by the Democrats. If you look at the turnout numbers — raw totals — of the last governor’s race versus this one, you’ll see there was something like 300,000 new voters, and they all went one way. The big story in Virginia, which I think is underreported, isn’t the governor’s race. It’s the House of Delegates [where Democrats flipped at least 15 seats].
Tara Golshan
Right, that’s what was shocking to me —
Tom Garrett
Right, every Republican that lost, and there might be an exception but I haven’t found it yet, got more votes than they did in 2013 in the last governor’s race. So they turned out more voters, [but] they didn’t turn out as many new voters as the Democrats did. I think it’s an energy thing, and you can impute that to whatever you want.
Republicans got the kicked out of them.
Fake news.
Given how badly Republicans do when allowed to set wish-based policy solutions, and look the other way at the stink of corruption in the executive branch as long as it is one of their guys, I can't argue.
I have begun to seriously look into immigrating, but have a hard time convincing my wife to move closer to the arctic circle, i.e. Canada or Denmark.
Northram ran on expanding Medicaid for 400K people, wins, says Medicaid too expensive
It is shaping up to be a wave election. GOP will lose seats next year across the board, and 2020 will be worse.
The party of rich white guys, by rich white guys, and for rich white guys will be an easy thing to run against for Democrats.
The oligarchy doesn't, and won't care, if their Repug s get blitzed in the next couple elections ...
(they won't get blitzed, because of partisan gerrymandering (5-4 approved by SCOTUS as "settled law" in next year), voter suppression of Ms, oligarchy's C-U $Bs, and voter apathy, esp among the "Disposables" (the poor) ),
... because rigging of the economy and govt has ratcheted dramatically in favor of the oligarchy.
It's really GAMEOVER, declining America of the lower 4 quintiles and the environment is ed and un able.
The oligarchy's s have signalled that Social Security will renamed (Federal Benefit Payment) and cut, Medicaid will be converted to block grants and privatized with silly little vouchers to buy for-profit insurance, and Medicare will be further privatized.
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