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You guys are hitting on the problem that I am bothered by. Whistling past the graveyard sums it up. I fear that the electorate is going to vote Biden in ONLY because we are tired of the noise from and around trump, when in reality his policy positions are closer to the pin than anything the Dems are putting out there. GR’s commentary has been consistent about just moving on from Trump, but I fear that’s a frying pan to fire proposition.
No, Trump hasn’t been fiscally responsible. That is bothersome. Trump has, however, put far less faith in government planning than the Dems ever would. And that focus on the private sector is what matters. People forget easily that the 2016 election was expected to precede a recessionary period by most educated people. It took a massively over-played pandemic response to bring the recession on…three and a half years later.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“I strongly oppose anti fascism.”
Genius. I mean a communications artist. She deserves public office.
Portland deserves her.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah. The excuse not to cover it isn’t a good excuse, but it passes these days.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think the Russia story has become so big and complex that the news has an excuse not to cover it. We literally had a regime planning for the downfall of the next regime by poaching land mines all over the place.
I hope the Obama admin gets its historical asterisk, but I doubt it. He was such a symbol of hope it would be tough for people to admit the criminal behaviors that he endorsed down the stretch.
As for HRC getting indicted I don’t see it happening. A more likely scenario is that trump is defeated at the polls and all this goes away quietly as conspiracy theory.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=2927]The NBC Poll that had Trump down 14 had 15% more Dems than R’s in its 800 person sample. [/quote]
If that’s true, then how do they get away with it? Is that simply a result of so-called oversampling and scaling to ensure minority representation? Seems like research malpractice to me.
Just for math’s sake, if the electorate is 40% R/D and 20% independent, then that would have meant that the sample was somewhere around 37/43 in favor of dems. Now, that doesn’t explain a 14 percent difference between Trump and Biden, but it is a huge swing toward dems when you look at it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I see your nuance and raise you short attention spans.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t find the comment all that controversial. It’s narrow—he could easily have inserted white man keeping the power on, for instance—but not the gaffe he’s used to.
Now, if he had said, for instance, that he owes his bunkering at home to a black woman’s pancake syrup, he would be in trouble.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)China already has an undue influence on American politics. The Hong Kong speech code is case in point.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Saw that. It was more fun when he was blowing up LSU.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Will be interesting to see how it plays out. I hate it for the guy and he certainly has a lot of people rooting for his death. I suspect he’s resilient enough not to care about that.
it’s also another confirmation of my “it’s everywhere” hypothesis about the Covid causing virus.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It was as expected, really. Biden only had to stay steady to get over a low bar. Trump was trump and looks like and probably is an asshole.
on policy, for me, it’s not even close. Trump all day. But damn what a jerk.
the only question, really is whether trump can keep the frustrated masses in flyover country enthralled. I’m not sure any more. The left’s constant bias seems to have worn him down to a more frustrated nub than I realized.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Trump is in trouble. He didn’t do anything endearing in this like he did against HRC, and Biden didn’t shit his pants.
Agree that neither is worthy of the office, but here we are, and Trump has a decent track record and experience as president. Go figure.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“more natural environment.”
No, it’s just another unnatural environment that makes some people “feel” better. A true natural environment burns off periodically.
Reminds me of a very tough conversation I had to have with one of my kids after we had to put a very old and beloved dog to sleep.
My son was painfully distraught, as was the rest of our family, at the dog dying. Once the fog cleared he just said “it’s so unnatural.” We had a great conversation on how the dog living to such a ripe old, crippled age was just as unnatural, and that in nature he would have died a long time before because he couldn’t keep up with the pack.
It’s the same with the wildfires. We have full time work forces focused on stopping wildfires before they get out of hand. That creates a totally unnatural situation where dry/dead brush accumulates. Then, the firefighters can no longer control it, and nature REALLY takes over but in a totally massive way that is just as unnatural as keeping smaller fires from burning.
When feelings are involved, unnatural is whatever I want it to be.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That was a good read, BD.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Haha. Narcissism linked to politics, and vice versa, I’d say. A lot of genuine people who want to make a change become swamp creatures of the first order after a few years. They don’t even notice it.
It’s one of the reasons I’m intrigued by what Trey Gowdy will do next. He had all the power a congressman wants and stepped back.
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