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Campaign 2016 Part, let's say, X: There's a red moon rising On the Cuyahoga River

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Kepler said:
Meanwhile... this sh-t again.
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When I first saw the link to the article, I thought it was going to be about Drumpf advocating for hand-sized tactical nukes. Then it occurred to me that the military's engineers were going to need to shrink the size of those handheld devices if Drumpf were to be our delivery boy.
 
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leswp1 said:
Read the title, saw Barking. Immediately thought Barking mad! (showing childhood English influence)
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It fits. Then again, here's the other guy in that race.

We should patrol and secure rightwing neighborhoods before they're radicalized...
 
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Kepler said:
Makes sense. More cosmopolitan. Able to put the US in a global context. Better educated. Smarter. Probably cuter, too. Hey, you guys, take Dr. Mrs. and me!!!
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I'm sure the guy with no interest or ability in foreign policy would work out great for the "smarter" set abroad.
 
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This is news to me. Also quite interesting.
 
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MaizeRage said:
I'm sure the guy with no interest or ability in foreign policy would work out great for the "smarter" set abroad.
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This is a wrongheaded criticism. Bernie's interests are explicitly global. Economic justice can't just exist in one place, it has to be everywhere, or capital just flees to wherever it can ally with authoritarian government. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Note the absence of the word "American" in this picture.
 
Kepler said:
This is a wrongheaded criticism. Bernie's interests are explicitly global. Economic justice can't just exist in one place, it has to be everywhere, or capital just flees to wherever it can ally with authoritarian government. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Note the absence of the word "American" in this picture.
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Spanish Civil War timeline?
 
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Kepler said:
We should patrol and secure rightwing neighborhoods before they're radicalized...
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Instead of Drumpf's wall along the Mexican border, can we just put a wall around Texas?
 
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aparch said:
Instead of Drumpf's wall along the Mexican border, can we just put a wall around Texas?
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That leaves us unprotected from Oklahoma.

36 30 and all our problems go away.
 
Kepler said:
Makes sense. More cosmopolitan. Able to put the US in a global context. Better educated. Smarter. Probably cuter, too. Hey, you guys, take Dr. Mrs. and me!!!
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tD went to Penn. Wharton school. The best. Very, very good. You know that right?
 
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****ing Wharton. Every time I see someone at Wharton take a position of power, I know it's a sign of the coming storm. That school has done more to damage the US economy than any other single cause.
 
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mookie1995 said:
tD went to Penn. Wharton school. The best. Very, very good. You know that right?
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"A students go to grad school. B students go to law school. C students go to business school." ;)
 
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mookie1995 said:
tD went to Penn. Wharton school. The best. Very, very good. You know that right?
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and Dubya went to Harvard! But I'm sure he got in there totally on his merits... ;)
 
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This is long and in many ways transparently self-serving for a Clintonista, however it does bring up one good point.

In recent elections, Democrats have made at least four states in the South and West lean Democratic or turned them into pure toss-ups in presidential contests: Virginia (13 electoral votes), Florida (29 electoral votes), Nevada (six electoral votes) and Colorado (nine electoral votes). While North Carolina (15 electoral votes), Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Arizona (11 electoral votes) remain Republican-leaning states, their changing demographics mean it is only a matter of time before they become blue states. A Drumpf candidacy has the potential to accelerate this political realignment in these fast-growing states.
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Let's assume Drumpf v Clinton for a moment. First off, VA definitely goes to Clinton, perhaps by an absurd margin. If you are going to run a vitriolic campaign against the DC establishment, you are going to lose VA. Duh.

Likewise, CO and NV are suburban sprawl "hotbeds of social rest." They will fall even more heavily in the direction they are already tending; go blue.

FL I have no idea. FL is bizarre. It's exactly the kind of state I would expect Drumpf to do well in. They're crazy. He's crazy. Still, Hillary did well there too so call it a wash and keep it blue for now.

But the good point is that Drumpf may accelerate the liberation of those red states that have been s l o w l y turning blue. NC already escaped Dixie once before being recaptured under 2012's Fugitive Slave Act. In 2016 they should escape for good. GA is the next big prize. It's gonna happen eventually. ATL is the crown black city in the US, and as it grows and draws in more liberal blacks (and whites) GA gradually emerges from the confederate death march. And AZ -- well, no, there he's smoking crack. AZ never met a Draconian anti-immigration plank it didn't like, so if anything Drumpf pushes them back into the deep red of white supremacy.

But still, progress. Start with 2012, lose IN (which was a fluke), but add GA. For one thing, SC is then the only red state left on the Atlantic seaboard. For another, the GOP dream of roping western states like CO, NV and NM into their prison on a libertarian lie is set back at least a decade.

So even if the guy's article is a barely concealed partisan ad, I think he's right.
 
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St. Clown said:
When I first saw the link to the article, I thought it was going to be about Drumpf advocating for hand-sized tactical nukes. Then it occurred to me that the military's engineers were going to need to shrink the size of those handheld devices if Drumpf were to be our delivery boy.
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Don't forget to tip your waitress and try the veal! :D
 
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Kepler said:
"A students go to grad school. B students go to law school. C students go to business school." ;)
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For engineering, the A students design it, the B students figure out how to make it actually work, and they're all managed by the C students.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
For engineering, the A students design it, the B students figure out how to make it actually work, and they're all managed by the C students.
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Cornell Engineers who were close to flunking (which in Freshman year seemed like about a third of them) would say, "thank God for ORE!" :p
 
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