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Friday, November 18, 2016
Mr. Scum
Before reading the article below this may interest you. This is an in-depth, comprehensive, six-page investigative report into Harry Reid's backroom deals, scams, etc enforcing his "Al Capone" like grip on Nevada.
Doubt if anyone would go to this length to conjure up this detailed report if it were not true. For a Special Prosecutor, there is clearly some prime red meat to be had here.
In Nevada, the Name to Know is Reid
Reid is an Ebola-like low life from which there is no cure.
Reid is an Ebola-like low life from which there is no cure.
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Reid: Clinton lost because of 'Republican operative' James Comey
Yeah...the swirling whirlpool of lies involving her private server had nothing to do with it.
Reid then said that Comey's determination to revisit the investigation of the Democratic nominee shortly before Nov. 8 goes "against what common sense dictates."
"For example ... he came out against what the attorney general had recommended, against what common sense dictates. He is the reason she lost the election," he said.
"He can be fat and happy in his office there for seven more years after having thrown the election to Donald Trump. If he feels good about that — that's nice," Reid added.
Actually, Comey's 6 foot 8 and physically fit because he can figure out how to use an exercise machine.
During his interview, the lawmaker said the Democratic strategy during Trump's presidency should consist of selectively cooperating with Trump on issues that strengthen the middle class while rejecting his controversial rhetoric.
Reid said that he did not want the Democrats to blindly obstruct Republican legislation, stating that the mission for the party should be to educate the voters about why the policies in question are destructive.
"We as Democrats have to stand for something to show the difference between Trump and us," Reid said. "I think we have to speak out ... the Republicans didn't speak out, they just stopped us procedurally."
"I believe that we have a different obligation. I think we have to be talking over time — if we don't like something, tell everybody why. Don't just block things as they did."
Additionally, Reid criticized Trump's potential Cabinet picks including Rudy Giuliani, Kris Kobach, Sarah Palin and John Bolton.
"Giuliani to be secretary of State, I mean, what, he’s been to Canada? What’s this all about? He’s a lobbyist, he was mayor of New York City," Reid added.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Donald Trump's bizarre winning formula - Washington Times
County by county.
Makes you wonder how he didn't reap the popular vote.
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The Democratic Party handed Donald Trump a rare opportunity to make radical changes to the electoral map that could last for years to come.
First, the Democrats gave Mr. Trump a great gift by completing the ongoing radicalization of their party under President Obama. After 2008, it was no longer a party of the working and middle classes, but a lopsided political pyramid.
On top were the cynical elites who turned up in the WikiLeaks John Podesta email trove: self-important media members, Ivy League grandees, Silicon Valley billionaires, Wall Street plutocrats and coastal corridor snobs. They talk left-wing but live royally. They court minorities to vote in lockstep, then deride them in private. The vast lower tier of the party comprises government employees, the poor, minorities and the millions dependent on state and federal assistance. The Democrats in between were ignored, and so they kept fleeing the party. Look at the red-blue map of the election. Democratic strength retreated to the inner cities and the rich coastal suburbs.
The Democrats also, in suicidal fashion, stoked racial chauvinism, or the notion that one’s tribe should transcend all other affiliations. After pandering to various minority groups, Hillary Clinton apparently believed that they suddenly would forget her emphasis on race and ethnicity to vote for her, a 69-year-old white multimillionaire.
But the Democrats learned a bitter lesson in 2016: Mr. Obama’s left-wing, rich-poor ideological agendas do not appeal to most of the country. Despite a hard progressive agenda, Mr. Obama was able to win two terms by relying on racial and ethnic solidarity, earning record numbers of Latino and black votes.
The logic of such a formula could not be easily transferred to a non-minority Democratic candidate. So Mrs. Clinton lost key blue states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin because minority turnout in cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee fell off from 2008 and 2012.
Worse for Democrats, by pandering to tribal solidarity, they polarized the white working classes. When physical similarity is touted as the best argument to vote for someone, it green-lights everybody to do the same — including huge numbers of less affluent whites who voted for Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump took advantage of these openings. By reformulating the old Republican messages to include so-called fair (rather than free) trade, by leaving Social Security alone and by promising to create more jobs, Mr. Trump plucked millions of lower- and middle-class voters from the Democratic Party.
Republican elites may have been appalled that Mr. Trump blasted global trade agreements and promised to punish corporations that outsourced jobs overseas. But those who have been left out of the globalized economy flocked to that message after not warming up to John McCain and Mitt Romney in earlier presidential elections.
Mr. Trump’s populism also appealed to a surprising number of blacks and Latinos. Although Mr. Trump was even richer than some multimillionaire Republican nominees of the recent past, he posed as a man of the people, eating fast food and speaking in a Queens accent.
For many non-whites, Mr. Trump’s message was more about class than race. Inner-city dwellers share many of the same worries as the poor whites of the Ohio Valley and southern Michigan. Some blacks have more in common with poor whites than with Colin Kaepernick or Van Jones. And many whites have more in common with less affluent blacks and Latinos than with Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush.
These populist economic interests had been ignored by Democrats and Republicans, as coastal-corridor economies made multimillionaires of 30-somethings in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street — with only crumbs left for those who work with their hands.
In other words, Mr. Trump miraculously won the Electoral College despite adversarial media and hostile Democratic and Republican establishments. He ran with relatively little campaign spending, virtually no ground game, few political handlers, little celebrity backing and few establishment endorsements. And he won because he rewrote the traditional rules of red-blue presidential politics.
Democratic Party chiefs slammed Mr. Trump as a bigot. “Never Trump” Republicans trashed him as a protectionist and populist rather than label him a true conservative. Some elite Democrats rightly feared that he might revolutionize politics by stealing minority and working-class voters from Democrats on shared class concerns that transcend race. Some elite Republicans worried that he could win new converts who weren’t concerned with whether The Wall Street Journal found him to be an apostate and so often a vulgarian.
The strangest irony of all?
Establishment Republicans who hated Mr. Trump sounded a lot like establishment Democrats.
In sum, the billionaire Donald Trump thinks he can forge a new kind of “Republican” majority, to the chagrin of elite Democrats and elite Republicans alike.
And he could be right.
Senate Dems to Trump: Fire Bannon
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A growing number of Senate Democrats are demanding that President-Elect Donald Trump fire Stephen Bannon, arguing he should not be given a White House position.
"We call on President-Elect Trump to exclude the proponents of discrimination and hatred from the ranks of his administration and that includes immediately firing Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist," said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). "It is time for Donald Trump to act boldly... to put the nation on a path of healing."
Merkley, as well as Democrat Sens. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Ed Markey (Mass.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Senator-elect Chris Van Hollen (Md.), spoke to reporters during a press conference next to a sign that read "fire Bannon."
Stabenow added picking Bannon as a chief strategist and senior counselor is the "wrong message" after a contentious presidential election.
"This is a someone who has expressed racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBT sentiments," Stabenow, a member of Senate Democrat leadership, added to reporters. "This is someone whose views do not belong in the White House."
Democrats have widely panned Trump for giving Bannon a White House job. Tuesday's press conference comes after Dem Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Al Franken (Minn.) separately said on Tuesday that Trump must take back his job offer to Bannon.
Merkley also launched a MoveOn.org petition urging supporters to "tell Trump: Fire Steve Bannon."
Democrats argue Bannon's appointment goes against Trump's pledge during his victory speech that he would work with Democrats and reach out to voters who did not support him.
Markey said Tuesday that appointments like Bannon "will forever poison the well with Congress and the American people" after Democrats offered a tentative olive branch to Trump.
Republicans in Congress have generally avoided discussing Bannon, while other Trump advisers have defended him. Bannon served as the campaign chairman for Trump.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said people should look at Bannon's entire career, which besides his work at Breitbart includes stints on Wall Street, in the Navy and in Hollywood.
"He has got a Harvard business degree. He's a naval officer. He has success in entertainment," Ms. Conway told reporters Monday in Trump Tower, according to The New York Times. She also called him a "brilliant tactician."
Bannon has repeatedly attacked House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). But Ryan shrugged off questions about Bannon at a press conference earlier on Tuesday, saying it was time to "look forward."
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