Redemption 2.0

North Carolina GOP Votes to Dilute Governor’s Power and Curtail Voting Rights—Again
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate..._all_dt_tw_top

"SOON: CNN's Jake Tapper will interview Carter Page about allegations of his ties to Russia.
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popcorn...

WHY DOES HE KEEP DOING SHOWS?! Carter, my man, you will end up taking a polonium dirt nap if you keep going on these shows. Just say no.

Sorry snowflake, you don't get to defend Trump's campaign speeches inciting violence and then turn around and condemn similar statements made against him.

He will say that he never defended those speeches specifically. Then you will ask him if he now condemns Trump's incitement of violence. He will either ignore your question, if the forum is lucky, or he will respond with a semantic argument saying that Trump never actually told his supporters to hit protesters, he only waxed nostalgic on the good old days when protesters would get hit. This subtle difference, you see, exculpates Trump of any wrong doing. You will argue that this is absurd. The board will complain about Sushy AIDS being quoted, and the Merry-Go-Round will continue to spin.

I hope my posting of this account circumvents the inevitability of its occurence. But I'm not overly optimistic.

Everyone involved with the campaign in any way seems to be a complete egomaniac that can't resist giving press interviews, even if there's literally no way for them to come out of it looking good.

It's almost admirable.

literal lol

https://twitter.com/RachelMorris/sta...71053334249472

At least I got chicken.

rofl nobody knew international diplomacy would be this complicated

It's interesting... the right feels like the left has tried to beat decency into the ground, and since attempting to defend their version of decency (christianity) hasn't worked, the new tack is to take things people perceive as sacred (like respecting the holocaust) and beat them into the ground.

I imagine a 2018 version of Joe McCarthy being asked "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" and saying "Nope. Mitch, kick him out."

Odds that he listened for more than 10 minutes basically zero, right?

oh yeah. he tuned out immediately, and he's only implying he tuned out after 10 minutes because he thinks normal people think 10 minutes is a long time to listen to someone

Well... it was more like one minute of material that Xi had to repeat ten times

In Asia, with thousands of years of history between the two nations. Yup, who'd have thunk it?

We're not mad at the outcome, we're mad that the DNC/DCCC/State Party gave him a total of $3,000 (all from the state party). They had a shot to win that seat, and they didn't even try... Meanwhile, Perez gave some BS about there being thousands of elections every year, as if this isn't one of the 10 most important in 2017.

nyt- The day Paul Manafort quit Donald Trump’s campaign, he formed a shell company that would borrow millions from Trump-connected lenders

Has there ever been a flip flop of a district one party won by 27 points in just a few months? I agree with your general point; but people have completely lost their minds on this narrative they could've won with more effort. The only chance to win was to do the bare minimum and hope to catch R's asleep. If they gave it what they're doing with ossoff, they still lose by 15 or so I'd reckon. Still if the +10 or so gain holds up that's very good for democrats.

Ofc, with perez and dnc, it might simply be lol anyone that's a bernie bro. Bernie isn't a democrat and neither is the $ in the democratic party. That's another issue and matter entirely.

I fail to see what Trump has got to do with the rules of this forum, but fyi I don't approve of anybody inciting violence including Trump.

Hey Cheese, remember when you asked me if I would call Trump a weak pussy if he didn't take any action after Assad crossed the line once again?

Trump has reversed himself on just about everything that made himself anything but a bog standard establishment Republican

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/trump...0b9e98488ea64?

I doubt it, but has there ever been a period of time in politics like the last four to six months?

I'm particularly upset if it's "lol Bernie bros," because his ideas and policies connect with a large percentage of the Democratic party - especially the lower/middle class voters. Further, he (Thompson) won the Democratic primary; he's one of them.

I wouldn't be upset if they ignored this district in '16, '18, etc, but in a special election in '17 when there are only a few seats up for grabs, a couple hundred thousand could have been huge. If they turned out more of their typical voters there, they could have stolen it.

Ossoff has raised/gotten $8M. $200K wouldn't have set off alarm bells. Even a couple of robocalls from Bernie, Obama, or whatever other Democrats would resonate in that district could have helped. Instead, he got $3K from the state party after begging for it. WTF else does the Kansas Democratic Party have to spend on in 2017?

They also didn't lose by 15 or more and gained a lot more than 10 percent.

Trump's finally seeing why things are the way they are.

He also might be recognizing how weak he is in foreign affairs.

Jake Tapper came off looking stupid in the interview imo. Page walked all over him.

and this one from today:

Trump on NATO: ‘I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete.’

During a joint news conference Wednesday afternoon with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump professed that his criticisms prompted the alliance to make changes that satisfied his concerns--though he did not specify what those were.

“I complained about that a long time ago, and they made a change — and now they do fight terrorism,” Trump said. “I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete.”

It's unclear what changes the president was referencing. NATO added a new assistant secretary general position focused on intelligence and security in July, although experts say the change does not mark a major shift for the organization and point out that NATO has long addressed concerns of terrorism. For months after the position was created, Trump continued to call NATO obsolete.