I officially have given up poker this summer, now I'm just going to write millions of letters both real and electronic to people begging for money. Also if anyone is doing carryover from November you should respond to my big post

Maybe he should open up a hot dog stand instead.

pvn's fault

Campaign mechanics junkies might find this discussion from Harvard with the campaign managers on both sides interesting. The first part is kind of a rehash of the early campaign dynamics that degenerates into kind of a pissing match, but at about the 1:50 mark there is a very interesting discussion of turnout models, social media, late poling, etc.

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REVITALIZING LIBERALISM IN THE AGE OF BREXIT AND TRUMP:

Related, How Stigma Sows Seeds of Its Own Defeat:

Dude just straight up stole it from Frisch's anyway. Next week i am going to dress up in a Big Boy costume and dance on that mother****ers grave.

First the Big Mac guy, and now General Tso!

Chef Peng Chang-kuei (彭長貴), the founder of the famous Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng's Garden Hunan Restaurant (彭園湘菜館) and inventor of the world famous Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken, died on Nov. 30 at the age of 98 from Pneumonia.

... and yet another reason to hate Nixon, delicious "fake" Chinese food. Nixon, have you not caused enough harm?

CA governor appoints Rep. Xavier Becerra to replace Kamala Harris as Attorney General

He'll be the first Latino AG of CA and was a surprising pick (to everyone, including Becerra). Probably a not-so-subtle "bring it" to the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

I demand royalties

It's not just software that you sign that kind of IP contract. It is usually limited to IP connected to company business and not developed using company equipment or using company time. In reality, if your IP has any large scale monetary rewards, prepare for a lawsuit.

Great article well named.

I think you mean to thank bob

Maybe he means the article is great and well named.

From The Atlantic story.

When I read that article earlier, I marveled at this statement.

So really?

81% of millennials are ok with the notion of the military taking over the US Govt.?

Really, really?!

That's like AA vs. KK.

Imagine some weird poker dream where you wake up one morning and you see on CNN that the military has taken over the government. At first, you are aghast, but then you look down at your hand, and you see KK and you think, "OK, cool, this won't be a problem at all."

Then you look outside your front door and you see a bunch of 20-somethings running around with AA supporting the military junta.

If 81% of millenials are ok with this, what does it say about their education and life experience to date?

And yet, you think the deplorable Trump supporters are the problem?

While you probably think this is self-serving, this is something I've worried about for awhile and I think the statistic you cited is evidence of that worry coming to fruition:

It says that they largely grew up in the post-9/11 world.

A lot of us remember life before then. For younger adults today - maybe hard to pinpoint exactly who that is but probably anyone in elementary school or younger in 2001, and maybe a couple years older too - the Patriot Act world is not the exception, but the norm. Why wouldn't they fully trust our heroes who went to Iraq and Afghanistan to Kill The Terrorists and Protect Our Freedom? They don't know any other world but this one.

So, uh, yeah, kinda seems like maybe all that rah-rah patriotism, shut-the-****-up-liberals-why-do-you-hate-America stuff might have been a little shortsighted.

I should say...

I'm giving The Atlantic the benefit of the doubt that the number is somewhat reliable.

Though it boggles the mind if it is.

It's far more likely the number is unreliable.

it likely is reliable, and millenials aren't the only ones. A shockingly huge number of Americans don't really like democracy and want an authoritarian professional to handle the reins of gov't. (No, this isn't a commentary on Trump's election)

The Boomer attitude towards Millenials is both hilarious and infuriating. They seem like totally puzzled as to why our generation isn't cool footing the bill for their lazy, entitled, narcissistic asses to live beyond their means. I mean, bad enough that these ****ers have run up $20T in debt, at a more granular level they are totally miffed by millenials having very little tolerance for their bull****. Like basically every person I know who works in a white collar job has a boomer boss who is a complete disaster, who doesn't actually understand what their people do, who doesn't ever question their role/contribution/etc., who is inevitably political and devoid of intellectual curiosity, and who makes good money despite adding little to no value. They wonder why they can't keep good people, why millenials constantly leave and have the nerve to ask for more money, time off, etc. And don't even get me started on student loans.

Jesus christ, you are hereby banned from ever making a poker analogy ever again.

Lefties think this orange monster taking over is going to destroy the planet so how would the military be worse?

White people want Democrat policies with Republican views on race. The problem is not Obamacare or entitlements or food stamps, it is lazy blacks and welfare queens getting a free ride. Without race, the Republican policies are completely inarguable... "you see, we gotta give all the money to billionaires so that some of it can trickle down and then you get it, ya see son?"

Gee wiz, pop! Why not just give me the money why does it have to flow down through the billionaires first?

Gosh son, I just don't know!

Why would you say that?

Should I have expected you to yell, "GTFO" or "that sh*tty place where Lapidator lives..."?

Naw, brau... stigma no workie. But you're welcome to use whatever methods you like to effect progress.