Newsweek opinion article

http://www.newsweek.com/why-di...-over-clinton-521965

the more Clinton Inc. talked about the Latino vote, the black vote, the gay vote, the woman vote, the more Americans tired of the same old identity politics pandering.

the more Clinton played the identity politics card, the more she earned fewer returns for herself and more voters for Trump.

Trump’s agenda was conservative in almost every area—immigration, energy, gun rights, taxes and regulation, abortion, health care and military spending.

In areas of doubt—foreign policy and entitlements—voters reasoned that sober and judicious Republican advisers would surround and enlighten Trump.

As a result, Republican voters, along with working class Democrats and Independents, voted into power a Republican president, Republican Congress and, in essence, a Republican judiciary.

Trump’s cunning and energy, and his unique appeal to the disaffected white working class, did not destroy the Republican down ballot, but more likely saved it.

Senators and representatives followed in Trump’s wake, as did state legislatures and executive officers. Any Republican senatorial candidate who voted for him won election; any who did not, lost.

With hindsight, it is hard to fathom how any other Republican candidate might have defeated Clinton Inc.—or how, again with hindsight, the party could be in a stronger, more unified position.

In contrast, the Democratic Party is torn and rent. Barack Obama entered office in 2009 with both houses of Congress, two likely Supreme Court picks and the good will of the nation. By 2010, he had lost the House; by 2012, the Senate. And by 2016, Obama had ensured that his would-be successor could not win by running on his platform.

A failed health care law, non-existent economic growth, serial zero interest rates, near-record labor non-participation rates, $20 trillion in national debt, a Middle East in ruins, failed reset and redlines and the Iran deal were albatrosses around Democratic Party’s neck.

Obama divided the country with the apology tour, the Cairo Speech, the beer summit, the rhetoric of disparagement (“you didn’t build that,” “punish our enemies,” etc.), the encouragement of the Black Lives Matter movement and a series of anti-Constitutional executive orders.

had Hillary Clinton emulated her husband’s pragmatic politics of the 1990s, she would have never won the nomination—even though she would have had a far better chance of winning the general election.

Wikileaks reminded us that the party is run by rich, snobbish and often ethically bankrupt grandees. In John Podesta’s world, it’s normal and acceptable for Democratic apparatchiks to talk about their stock portfolios and name-drop the Hamptons, while making cruel asides about “needy” Latinos, medieval Catholics and African-Americans with silly names—who are nonetheless expected to keep them in power.

Such paradoxes are not sustainable. Nor is the liberal nexus of colluding journalists, compromised lobbyists, narcissistic Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, family dynasties and Clintonian get-rich ethics.

The old blue-collar middle class was bewildered by the left wing social agenda in which gay marriage, women in combat units and transgendered restrooms went from possible to mandatory party positions in an eye blink.

In a party in which “white privilege” was pro forma disparagement, those who were both white and without it grew furious that the elites with such privilege massaged the allegation to provide cover for their own entitlement.

In the aftermath of defeat, where goes the Democratic Party?

It is now a municipal party. It has no real power over the federal government or state houses. Its once feared cudgel of race/class/gender invective has become a false wolf call heard one too many times.

President Obama will likely ride off into the sunset to a lucrative globe-trotting ex-presidency.

His executive orders will systematically be dismantled by Donald Trump, leaving as his legacy a polarizing electoral formula that had a shelf life of just two terms.

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Originally posted by IndyRob:

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:
Just got this from a dear friend in Elk Rapids !

Thank goodness MI went red !

Kid Rock gets it ! ! !

LOL !

This isn't photoshopped, he's advertizing on FB...

Haha, yeah ok. That is a Photoshop and a pretty bad one. I'm sure Kid Rock doesn't disagree with what's on the shirt, but that's a Photoshop nonetheless.

^^^^^^^^

...and this is some kind og huge (Yuuge) revelation? All they had to do was open their eyes. And read SigForum.

Yep, let's booo VP Elect Pence at a Broadway show of all places and then take the time to lecture him directly from the stage. Surly this won't embolden those who voted Trump, or are now part of the new administration.

Please, continue to mock, chide, talk down to, and attempt to embarrass us because our views do not line up exactly with your.

That worked so well last time.

'Vice-president-elect Pence we welcome you and truly thank you for joining us here,' Brandon Dixon - who plays Aaron Burr - said on-stage.
‘We sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights. ‘But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us. All of us.’

Audience boos Pence at Broadway show

The Libs are going to feel more and more uncomfortable as the new Admin comes into play..........people will rally right and a Purge is likely - sign me up!

I woke up and see that Trump is still on the path to be elected President.

I also answered a survey from moveon.org about what else they can do too fight Trump. They wanted to know how I feel. I said I am afraid to go out because I am white, and don't want to be assaulted by rioters.

What else can they do? I said: stop the riots until there is something to riot about. I see the violence is more on the left and not so much on the right. Tell the truth.

Well, they did ask.

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Originally posted by Paragon:
I woke up and see that Trump is still on the path to be elected President.

I also answered a survey from moveon.org about what else they can do too fight Trump. They wanted to know how I feel. I said I am afraid to go out because I am white, and don't want to be assaulted by rioters.

What else can they do? I said: stop the riots until there is something to riot about. I see the violence is more on the left and not so much on the right. Tell the truth.

Well, they did ask.

Tell the truth? Now that's a riot.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by c1steve:
That untapped oil is like money in the bank.

I have never understood why some people are so eager to use up our natural resources when we can get other people to sell them to us. Most parents, for example, claim that their children (and presumably their children’s futures) are the most important things in the universe, so why don’t more of them act like it?

Would our oil make current gasoline and other prices go down a bit? Perhaps, but part of being a grownup is delaying certain gratifications, and as far as I’ve been able to determine few Americans couldn’t reduce their oil-consumption expenditures if they truly wanted to.

There will come a time when oil won't be necessary for anything and will be about as valuable as whale oil or wood for home heating. Technology changes and so do the natural resources we need to live.

It's about the fact of looking at how much US $$$ we export to pay foreign nations for oil. If we mined for all of our needs here, that money would stay here and be spent here.

Perhaps not as a fuel, but we will still need oil for plastics, starting molecules for pharmaceuticals, etc. I don't see those needs ever ending.

Yep. Never ask if you are afraid of an honest answer!

The far left always riots.

The rest of us work.

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Originally posted by c1steve:
Regarding oil, no one knows what the future holds. It is an easy product to use, and gasoline burns clean in modern vehicles. I doubt that there will be a substitute as convenient as oil in the next 100 years. Hydrogen can be made, but is not as safe as diesel and gasoline.

Japan has very few natural resources and that country has done very well. Developing and selling technological products, effectively trading for oil, is such a win-win situation. The more we do it, the better we become at it, and the more we have to barter for oil. There is no end to this, but eventually there will be an end for oil. If we new that there was enough oil for 2,000 years, it might not matter. However no one really knows, and demand increases dramatically every year.

A friend of mine has a water powered portable generator for his hunting camp. It uses NO FUEL, only water to run. 5000 KW. It uses NO fuel and it works and works really well. I wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't see it running. Here's a link to it.

http://www.gdstechnologies.ca/images/GDS_Brochure.pdf

I bet in less than 50 years, cars will be running on something other than gasoline.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

A friend of mine has a water powered portable generator for his hunting camp. It uses NO FUEL, only water to run. 5000 KW.

Uhh, 5000 kW? Say what? No way.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

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Originally posted by c1steve:
Regarding oil, no one knows what the future holds. It is an easy product to use, and gasoline burns clean in modern vehicles. I doubt that there will be a substitute as convenient as oil in the next 100 years. Hydrogen can be made, but is not as safe as diesel and gasoline.

Japan has very few natural resources and that country has done very well. Developing and selling technological products, effectively trading for oil, is such a win-win situation. The more we do it, the better we become at it, and the more we have to barter for oil. There is no end to this, but eventually there will be an end for oil. If we new that there was enough oil for 2,000 years, it might not matter. However no one really knows, and demand increases dramatically every year.

A friend of mine has a water powered portable generator for his hunting camp. It uses NO FUEL, only water to run. 5000 KW. It uses NO fuel and it works and works really well. I wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't see it running. Here's a link to it.

http://www.gdstechnologies.ca/images/GDS_Brochure.pdf

I bet in less than 50 years, cars will be running on something other than gasoline.

Interesting that the website does not mention how it works. Cold fusion? Magic?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

A friend of mine has a water powered portable generator for his hunting camp. It uses NO FUEL, only water to run. 5000 KW.

Uhh, 5000 kW? Say what? No way.

Woops. 5000 watts/5kw......typo They do have in development a 500kw unit.

Guys

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Originally posted by Tubetone:
Do you remember when the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled Ben Carson an extremist like the KKK?

And don't forget surf fishermen, the SPLC hates us and for decades has been spending the big legal bucks to keep fishermen off national seashores.

The lunatic fringe assaulted by the lunatic fringe.

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Candice really needed a switch to decaf after six.

Obama halts amnesty push in court, bows to incoming Trump administration

http://www.washingtontimes.com...bows-incoming-trump/

The administration has already taken the first step to accommodate President-elect Trump’s positions, agreeing Friday to take a timeout on President Obama’s push to kick-start his 2014 deportation amnesty.

In documents filed with a federal judge in Texas the Justice Department said that in light of the new management that will take over next year, the case should be suspended.

“Accordingly, the parties respectfully submit that further proceedings on the merits of this case, including the submission of a schedule for resolving the merits, should be stayed until February 20, 2017,” the Justice Department and lawyers for Texas said in a joint request of Judge Andrew S. Hanen.

Judge Hanen had halted Mr. Obama’s expanded amnesty in February 2015, just two days before it was to go into effect, ruling that the administration broke administrative law. An appeals court twice upheld his injunction, as did the Supreme Court, in a 4-4 deadlock decision this summer.

The injunction remains in place while Judge Hanen was to hear full arguments — but both sides now say President-elect Trump should have the chance to weigh in .

“Given the change in Administration, the parties jointly submit that a brief stay of any further litigation in this Court before beginning any further proceedings would serve judicial efficiency and economy so that the parties have a better understanding of how they might choose to move forward,” both sides said.

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The times they are a-changin,
don't stand in the doorway,
don't block up the hall,
the present now, will later be past

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Originally posted by sdy:
Newsweek opinion article

http://www.newsweek.com/why-di...-over-clinton-521965

In a party in which “white privilege” was pro forma disparagement, those who were both white and without it grew furious that the elites with such privilege massaged the allegation to provide cover for their own entitlement.

^^That article nailed it. Thanks for posting.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
The lunatic fringe assaulted by the lunatic fringe.

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Candice really needed a switch to decaf after six.

Is there ANY doubt that this woman would turn the gun on her own fellow citizens? Not in my mind. Folks like this have a violent pathology that borders on the insane.