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Originally posted by flashguy:
I've never understood why the Jews seem to prefer the Liberals

I could never understand it either. I remember back in high school, my grandmother who had known life in the USSR before escaping, was a staunch Stevenson supporter and expressed disgust at my "I Like Ike" pin.

A thread in a political blog was discussing the entertainers who are refusing to do the inauguration.

Saw a good comment:

"Apparently refusing to perform services for clients whose policies and ideas you don't agree with has suddenly become okay.

Anybody check to see if someone has refused to bake a cake for a Trump voter yet?"

Biden: I Watched Trump Rally, Realized ‘We May Lose This Election’


Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., told the Los Angeles Times that he anticipated the victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump after watched a Trump rally at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and witnessed the lack of enthusiasm for Hillary R. Clinton.
“Son of a gun. We may lose this election,” Biden said, recalling his thoughts for the paper during an interview.

The vice president said that Trump’s connection with the audience, forced him to remember one of his father’s adages: “I don’t expect the government to solve my problems. But I expect them to understand it.”

It is an familiar theme for Biden, who instructs his speechwriters to mention his audiences’ concerns in his speeches, whether he agrees with them or not. “I was trying to be as tactful as I could in making it clear that I thought we constantly made a mistake of not speaking to the fears, aspirations, concerns of middle class people.”

It was that tact the vice president was expected to take during his own aborted presidential campaign, where he intended to maintain the policy trajectory of President Barack Obama, tempered by a spirit of comity and respect for the people on the other side of the aisle — “a campaign of the heart.”

In fact, he told the Times, unlike the former first lady, who called Trump’s supporters “irredeemable” and “deplorables,” Biden defended Trump’s voters as regular Americans, like the ones he knew growing up.

“They’re all the people I grew up with. They’re their kids. And they’re not racist. They’re not sexist. But we didn’t talk to them,” he said. “I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people — high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color — know that we understood their problems.”

There is a current of elitism running through the Democratic Party that offends regular people, who might not buy into the progressive agenda for their own reasons, he said. “In the meantime, you can’t eat equality, you know?”

The vice president, who made 83 campaign appearances for Clinton, said his misgivings were confirmed at a rally on the eve of Election Day with Clinton’s running mate Sen. Timothy Kaine (D-VA), when he said to his aides that he detected no excitement for the former secretary of state.

“You didn’t see any Hillary signs,” Biden recalled. “Every time I talked about Hillary they listened. But …”

Biden’s speech that night mirrors his message to Democrats now.

“God willing we’re going to win this, but there’s a lot of people who are going to vote for Donald Trump,” Biden told the crowd. “We’ve got to figure out why. What is eating at them? Some of it will be unacceptable. But some of it will be about hard truths about our country and about our economy. A lot of people do feel left out.”

After Jan. 20, Biden becomes a private citizen for the first time since he entered the Senate Jan. 3, 1973 — an institution he never left, because the vice president is the head of the upper chamber — but he told the paper he does not intend to leave the stage completely. His wife, Dr. Jill Biden, expects to continue teaching at Northern Virginia Community College, and the Bidens are looking for a home in the Virginia suburbs of the District of Columbia.

Hey Joe, what's eating at them is politicians like Obama and Hillary (insert long list of useless politicians). Here's another one that wants to stick around DC.

Amazing how many people knew she was going to lose after she lost, isn't it?

There was a clue for me when someone on facebook said go to Hillary, Trump and Gary Johnson's pages and see who your friends liked. There were very few who "liked" Hillary but I just assumed my friends were deplorable.

I was surprised to see how many "Deplorable" bumper stickers there are for sale. I like this one:

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Originally posted by Tonyny:
Biden: I Watched Trump Rally, Realized ‘We May Lose This Election’

“I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people — high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color — know that we understood their problems.”

Hey Joe, you condescending bitch. Piss off. You don't begin to understand.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I've never understood why the Jews seem to prefer the Liberals

I could never understand it either. I remember back in high school, my grandmother who had known life in the USSR before escaping, was a staunch Stevenson supporter and expressed disgust at my "I Like Ike" pin.

I suspect most of it goes back to Truman.

a bit OT, but

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s...=2016-12-23-20-19-33

Imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is seeking a presidential commutation of his 14-year sentence on a corruption conviction.

U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman Dena Iverson said Friday the department has received a petition for commutation from Blagojevich.

Blagojevich is being held at a low-security federal prison in Colorado.

This is a very good article by some more fake news reporters.

CNN’s Stelter: Trump Win a ‘National Emergency’


This is my favorite part but the whole article is good.

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Either Stelter believes that the Electoral College's working in the precise manner in which it was designed is a national emergency, or he believes that the fact Trump was able to win despite the nonstop barrage of mainstream media propaganda is a national emergency.
I think the writer hit the nail one the head here. The MSM has lost control of the people and they are freaking out.

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The latter certainly appeared to be Ioffe's position. "I feel like we've been reporting on this all along but … people don't read us," Ioffe noted before attacking "fake news" — progressives' hot new term for anything that challenges their approved ideological narrative. "We're writing about it but, A) people aren't listening and, B) they don't believe us."
This election sure has been very entertaining.

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Originally posted by Tonyny:
"We're writing about it but, A) people aren't listening and, B) they don't believe us."

I got more news for them, I have never heard of them. That's how much I am not listening.

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Originally posted by Tonyny:

“I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people — high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color — know that we understood their problems.”

Some of them have begun to realize the problem has been you, Joe.

Like the Friday night poker game, if you don't know who the patsy is, it's you.

It's you, Joe,

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
I was surprised to see how many "Deplorable" bumper stickers there are for sale. I like this one:

I like it. Where can I buy?

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
I was surprised to see how many "Deplorable" bumper stickers there are for sale. I like this one:

I bet the King thought so.

So, what exactly does the WH Communications Director do? Because Sean Spicer will now do both this job and Press Secretary.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...hite-house-post.html

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Originally posted by parabellum:
So, what exactly does the WH Communications Director do? Because Sean Spicer will now do both this job and Press Secretary.

I don't know I'm just bumping this back to page 1 in response to lbj's post

Seriously, I think the communications director is a speech writer/message coordinator. Not sure how much work that person will have in the Trump administration, he seems to do a lot of that himself.

I wonder if the Director of Social Media is a new position?? I don't believe I've ever heard of it before.

Lots of companies now have people to manage social media, although the rest of the employees probably cannot access such at work...

Independent of all current discussion, I just felt compelled to come in here and say that I couldn't be happier this Christmas. I won't proclaim that "the republic is saved," but I can now begin to imagine what Churchill meant when he spoke of sleeping the sleep of the saved. It was starting to look like we were well and truly.... And, not a whisper, but a great, bellowing gasp of hope arrived! And so I would like to wish, with words that often seem so hollow but seem to spring to tongue with a newfound gusto just now, a very merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years not only to all, but most especially to my fellow Deplorables!

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
I wonder if the Director of Social Media is a new position?? I don't believe I've ever heard of it before.

Nah, Obama has been huge into that since 08. Doubt that W had such a position, but Obama's campaign and WH has been all about the digital and social media from the git go.