The "last sentence" being referred to is what Trump said in the third debate.

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Originally posted by oddball:

I can see the heads explode over the last sentence

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Originally posted by sdy:
The "last sentence" being referred to is what Trump said in the third debate.

Yeah, but these ninnies didn't really care because they didn't think he had a snowballs chance of winning, after all, Hil won all of the debates, right?

But now that he is The Boss, it would be overload for their fuzzy little heads They'll have to invent a different riot dance out there on the cold streets.

I wonder if we will ever know what is on Weiner's laptop?

Or if there is an investigation going on about the Clinton Foundation.

Will be sad if we never hear another word.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Well, there are a couple of things. They’ll be pro-life, they’ll be–in terms of the whole gun situation, we know the Second Amendment and everybody’s talking about the Second Amendment and they’re trying to dice it up and change it, they’re going to be very pro-Second Amendment. But having to do with abortion if it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states.

I can see the heads explode over the last sentence

Well, I cannot help but honor someone who fought valiantly her whole life to see the day she just barely missed. Phyllis Schlafly wanted to see Trump succeed as a President who would be able to take on the power elite and entrenched views. For her, he was the kind of conservative she could support - and did.

Wow, so this just happened....

I work graves shift, and am doing my shit/shower/shave routine around 8:30pm as I prepare to head out for the night.

While shaving, I hear an explosion. Not too worried, my power stays on but we have had a pretty windy weekend I figured a transformer near by must have blown. But then I hear another, this one closer followed by a third one in the distance. Then, I shit you not, what sounds like small arms fire starts cracking off and my dogs are heading upstairs and under the bed.

I am thinking "Shit, this is it! The revolution is starting!"

I make a dash for the office where the gunsafe and my immediate response bag is kept. As I am gathering gear I start to hear cheering. I get confused, I reassess and start thinking. Then I remember that the Seahawks had a late game against the Patriots.

Turns out they won a squeaker where the lead changed several times and became just the second team to beat New England when NE had a 4th quarter lead.

Never mind...


Put the gear away, went back to the bathroom, finished up and headed off to work.

Still not really sure if I am happy or disappointed...

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^^^^Hey Boss, thanks for finishing the story. You had me paging back to see if I had missed something.
"Dude, where's the rest of the story? Did you return fire?

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Originally posted by dsiets:
^^^^Hey Boss, thanks for finishing the story. You had me paging back to see if I had missed something.
"Dude, where's the rest of the story? Did you return fire?

Don't know what happened, I had finished it but for some reason it disappeared. Maybe I had an unauthorized emoji...

Over on the Second City Cop Blog, there is a post, Trump put out a huge spread of food for the Chicago Officers working the anti-Trump protests at the Trump Tower in Chicago.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:
Over on the Second City Cop Blog, there is a post, Trump put out a huge spread of food for the Chicago Officers working the anti-Trump protests at the Trump Tower in Chicago.

That's cool. And on the previous page by Bamajeepster.
Charlie Crews/ That there is a Bosc pear. I love a good Bosc pear. Great for cooking. YOu have a favorite pear, Reese? /Charlie Crews.

Always be vigilant the wolves are at the door.

Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, 'take back power'

George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.

The conference, which kicked off Sunday night at Washington’s pricey Mandarin Oriental hotel, is sponsored by the influential Democracy Alliance donor club, and will include appearances by leaders of most leading unions and liberal groups, as well as darlings of the left such as House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairman Keith Ellison, according to an agenda and other documents obtained by POLITICO.

The meeting is the first major gathering of the institutional left since Trump’s shocking victory over Hillary Clinton in last week’s presidential election, and, if the agenda is any indication, liberals plan full-on trench warfare against Trump from Day One. Some sessions deal with gearing up for 2017 and 2018 elections, while others focus on thwarting President-elect Trump’s 100-day plan, which the agenda calls “a terrifying assault on President Obama’s achievements — and our progressive vision for an equitable and just nation.”

Yet the meeting also comes as many liberals are reassessing their approach to politics — and the role of the Democracy Alliance, or DA, as the club is known in Democratic finance circles. The DA, its donors and beneficiary groups over the last decade have had a major hand in shaping the institutions of the left, including by orienting some of its key organizations around Clinton, and by basing their strategy around the idea that minorities and women constituted a so-called “rising American electorate” that could tip elections to Democrats.
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Presidential Transition
Trump names Priebus and Bannon as top aides

By Alex Isenstadt and Marc Caputo

That didn’t happen in the presidential election, where Trump won largely on the strength of his support from working-class whites. Additionally, exit polls suggested that issues like fighting climate change and the role of money in politics — which the DA’s beneficiary groups have used to try to turn out voters — didn’t resonate as much with the voters who carried Trump to victory.

“The DA itself should be called into question,” said one Democratic strategist who has been active in the group and is attending the meeting. “You can make a very good case it’s nothing more than a social club for a handful wealthy white donors and labor union officials to drink wine and read memos, as the Democratic Party burns down around them.”

Another liberal operative who has been active in the DA since its founding rejected the notion that the group — or the left, more generally — needed to completely retool its approach to politics.

“We should not learn the wrong lesson from this election,” said the operative, pointing out that Clinton is on track to win the popular vote and that Trump got fewer votes than the last GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. “We need our people to vote in greater numbers. For that to happen, we need candidates who inspire them to go to the polls on Election Day.”

But Gara LaMarche, the president of the DA, on Sunday evening told donors gathered at the Mandarin for a welcome dinner that some reassessment was in order. According to prepared remarks he provided to POLITICO, he said, “You don’t lose an election you were supposed to win, with so much at stake, without making some big mistakes, in assumptions, strategy and tactics.”

LaMarche added that the reassessment "must take place without recrimination and finger-pointing, whatever frustration and anger some of us feel about our own allies in these efforts," and he said "It is a process we should not rush, even as we gear up to resist the Trump administration."

LaMarche emailed the donors last week that the meeting would begin the process of assessing “what steps we will take together to resist the assaults that are coming and take back power, beginning in the states in 2017 and 2018.”

In addition to sessions focusing on protecting Obamacare and other pillars of Obama’s legacy against dismantling by President-elect Trump, the agenda includes panels on rethinking polling and the left’s approach to winning the working-class vote, as well as sessions stressing the importance of channeling cash to state legislative policy battles and races, where Republicans won big victories last week.

Democrats need to invest more in training officials and developing policies in the states, argued Rep. Ellison (D-Minn.) on a Friday afternoon donor conference call, according to someone on the call. The call was organized by a DA-endorsed group called the State Innovation Exchange (or SiX), which Ellison urged the donors to support.
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Congress
The man hoping to counter President Trump

By John Bresnahan and Daniel Strauss

Ellison, who is scheduled to speak on a Monday afternoon panel at the DA meeting on the challenge Democrats face in winning working-class votes, has been a leading liberal voice for a form of economic populism that Trump at times channeled more than Clinton.

As liberals look to rebuild the post-Clinton Democratic Party on a more aggressively liberal bearing, Ellison has emerged as a top candidate to take over the Democratic National Committee, and he figures to be in high demand at the DA meeting. An Ellison spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday evening. Nor did a Trump spokesman.

Raj Goyle, a New York Democratic activist who previously served in the Kansas state legislature and now sits on SiX’s board, argued that many liberal activists and donors are “disconnected from working class voters' concerns” because they’re cluster in coastal cities. “And that hurt us this election,” said Goyle, who is involved in the DA, and said its donors would do well to steer more cash to groups on the ground in landlocked states. “Progressive donors and organizations need to immediately correct the lack of investment in state and local strategies.”

The Democracy Alliance was launched after the 2004 election by Soros, the late insurance mogul Peter Lewis, and a handful of fellow Democratic mega-donors who had combined to spend tens of millions trying to boost then-Sen. John Kerry’s ultimately unsuccessful challenge to then-President George W. Bush.

The donors’ goal was to seed a set of advocacy groups and think tanks outside the Democratic Party that could push the party and its politicians to the left while also defending them against attack from the right.

The group requires its members — a group that now numbers more than 100 and includes finance titans like Soros, Tom Steyer and Donald Sussman, as well as major labor unions and liberal foundations — to contribute a total of at least $200,000 a year to recommended groups. Members also pay annual dues of $30,000 to fund the DA staff and its meetings, which include catered meals and entertainment (on Sunday, interested donors were treated to a VIP tour of the recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture).

Since its inception in 2005, the DA has steered upward of $500 million to a range of groups, including pillars of the political left such as the watchdog group Media Matters, the policy advocacy outfit Center for American Progress and the data firm Catalist — all of which are run by Clinton allies who are expected to send representatives to the DA meeting.

The degree to which those groups will be able to adapt to the post-Clinton Democratic Party is not entirely clear, though some of the key DA donors have given generously to them for years.

That includes Soros, who, after stepping back a bit from campaign-related giving in recent years, had committed or donated $25 million to boosting Clinton and other Democratic candidates and causes in 2016. During the presidential primaries, Soros had argued that Trump and his GOP rival Ted Cruz were “doing the work of ISIS.”

A Soros spokesman declined to comment for this story.

But, given that the billionaire financier only periodically attends DA meetings and is seldom a part of the formal proceedings, his scheduled Tuesday morning appearance as a speaker suggests that he’s committed to investing in opposing President Trump.

The agenda item for a Tuesday morning “conversation with George Soros” invokes Soros’ personal experience living through the Holocaust and Soviet Communism in the context of preparing for a Trump presidency. The agenda notes that the billionaire currency trader, who grew up in Hungary, “has lived through Nazism and Communism, and has devoted his foundations to protecting the kinds of open societies around the world that are now threatened in the United States itself.”

LaMarche, who for years worked for Soros’s Open Society foundations, told POLITICO that the references to Nazism and Communism are “part of his standard bio.”
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'Devastating' election for House Democrats triggers request to Pelosi

By Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan

LaMarche, who is set to moderate the discussion with Soros, said the donor “does not plan to compare whatever we face under Trump to Nazism, I can tell you that.” LaMarche he also said, “I don’t think there is anyone who has looked at Trump, including many respected conservatives, who doesn’t think the experience of authoritarian states would not be important to learn from here. And to the extent that Soros and his foundations have experience with xenophobia in Europe, Brexit, etc., we want to learn from that as well.”

The Soros conversation was added to the agenda after Election Day. It was just one of many changes made on the fly to adjust for last week's jarring result and the stark new reality facing liberals, who went from discussing ways to push an incoming President Clinton leftward, to instead discussing how to play defense.

A pre-election working draft of the DA’s agenda, obtained by POLITICO, featured a session on Clinton’s first 100 days and another on “moving a progressive national policy agenda in 2017.” Those sessions were rebranded so that the first instead will examine “what happened” on the “cataclysm of Election Day,” while the second will focus on “combating the massive threats from Trump and Congress in 2017.”

A session that before the election had been titled “Can Our Elections Be Hacked,” after the election was renamed “Was the 2016 Election Hacked” — a theory that has percolated without evidence on the left to explain the surprising result.

In his post-election emails to donors and operatives, LaMarche acknowledged the group had to “scrap many of the original plans for the conference,” explaining “while we made no explicit assumptions about the outcome, the conference we planned, and the agenda you have seen, made more sense in the event of a Hillary Clinton victory.”

http://www.politico.com/story/...s-soros-trump-231313

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Based on the following post to the above by wcb6092, it seems that every influential Democrat and lackey blames everything except Bill Clinton’s wife for the election outcome.

And it’s fine with me if they keep nominating unelectable candidates (even though it was a near-run thing despite her manifest flaws). I believe it was Napoleon who said, “Never interfere when your enemy is making a mistake.”

It doesn't matter now. She's done. She'll be 73 at next election and she'll be lucky to even live that long.

You're done, Hillary, and everyone- including you- knows it. Piss and moan and assign blame all you like. Won't change a thing. Done. D-O-N-E.

I kind of hope shillary stays in the public view. I think it would be satisfying to watch her gradual (if not sudden) descent to decrepitude.

Free entertainment...

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
I kind of hope shillary stays in the public view. I think it would be satisfying to watch her gradual (if not sudden) descent to decrepitude.

Free entertainment...

Hill & Bill have very little to offer now, so I don't see anybody ever paying them anything more than peanuts for speaking engagements, even if there's anyone left who cares what they have to say.

Their "charitable" foundation has no more influence to sell to high rollers or foreign governments, so it'll probably go tits up soon.

I think I'd be satisfied just seeing them broke, miserable & insignificant for the rest of their lives. On the other hand, seeing them being arrested for shoplifting at Wal Mart or Dollar General from time to time would be entertaining.

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Hill & Bill have very little to offer now, so I don't see anybody ever paying them anything more than peanuts for speaking engagements, even if there's anyone left who cares what they have to say.

Their "charitable" foundation has no more influence to sell to high rollers or foreign governments, so it'll probably go tits up soon.

I think I'd be satisfied just seeing them broke, miserable & insignificant for the rest of their lives. On the other hand, seeing them being arrested for shoplifting at Wal Mart or Dollar General from time to time would be entertaining.

If the new DOJ does its duty, they could burn through their pile pretty quickly. The lawyers they have been using aren't cheap. Answering subpoenas, briefing witnesses, preparing for and attending hearings is real expensive, the issues are complex, the documents numerous. Just the Judicial Watch litigation itself has been expensive.

Keeping a staff to deal with lawyers and accountants and investigators isn't cheap either, not to mention travel. The fleet of "war wagons" alone is costly, maintenance, drivers, license plates, insurance. Neither has a job or source of significant income.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It doesn't matter now. She's done. She'll be 73 at next election and she'll be lucky to even live that long.

You're done, Hillary, and everyone- including you- knows it. Piss and moan and assign blame all you like. Won't change a thing. Done. D-O-N-E.

I think the same goes for Bernie. He's 75 right now and I doubt he'd run again in 2020. It does leave me wondering who will most likely run in 2020. Wondering if the wookie or chelsea would try give it another stab at "making history" for history's sake. Chelsea would be a stretch as she's got that pesky last name which is now permanently tarnished (to my delight). Hopefully the whole family goes down with the foundation investigation.

As for our side, thinking toward 2024, I think we have a great VP who's only 57 now and we still have Teflon Don's kids who are all sharp. The dark side has their eyes on long-term goals but I think we have a better long-term outlook. They are scrambling and I'd hope we keep them in a state of disarray.

Hopefully they fracture into two parties.

Tony.

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If the new DOJ does its duty, they could burn through their pile pretty quickly. The lawyers they have been using aren't cheap. Answering subpoenas, briefing witnesses, preparing for and attending hearings is real expensive, the issues are complex, the documents numerous. Just the Judicial Watch litigation itself has been expensive.

Keeping a staff to deal with lawyers and accountants and investigators isn't cheap either, not to mention travel. The fleet of "war wagons" alone is costly, maintenance, drivers, license plates, insurance. Neither has a job or source of significant income.

That is my hope. They still command hundreds of millions of dollars through the corrupt clinton foundation, but I think their main sources of income are drying up now (they traded influence for money, and now most of that influence is gone). They will have to live off their reserves/savings. And, the hag's legal problems are FAR from over. She has, hopefully, years of (expensive) legal hurdles to overcome.

It will be interesting to see how her health issues unfold. I expect her to quietly withdraw from public view to decay in peace/private.