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I'm quite sure the Bolton or the Shaggy DA (showing my age range) as I like to call him will be okay. He will probably be make money as an overseer of Trump's various migrant and soon to be homeless for profit concentration camps or show up as a contributor on CNN or MSNBC. As an neighboring NC-12 resident, I'm not surprised that Bishop won due to heavily gerrymandered district. The moral of this story, is cheat until it finally goes in your favor. How it got to this point in NC: When Obama was elected, he used his own organizing operation (OFA) instead of the party's, which left the party machine underfunded, understaffed and with unclear future/purpose. Partly as a result, the NC Dems Party was in total shambles for much of the last decade (prior to 2018). - The Monied Right understood better than the Dems how big 2010 would be, both nationally and in NC. The off-election census years are huge for the GOP (and vice versa is true for Dems...one reason why it's so important that they get 2020 right). Take over states in 2010, wait for census results, then cement in those majorities for at least a decade. The Koch/Pope machine spent unprecedented amounts of cash in 2010 to get Republicans elected to state House and Senate seats in NC. It's certainly paid off for them. - This guy Hoffelder and his amazing (unconstitutional/illegal) computer drawing lines. Not just in NC but other states like Pennsylvania as well. What's even more amazing is that his daughter is basically single-handedly undoing all of his immoral and illegal work in the year after his death. - The complete lack of respect for the law and the voter by the NC GOP in them choosing their electorate. I stopped counting a couple years back, but back then their voter suppression efforts had been struck down by courts something like 10 times. And I know it's happened more since (like the recent NC COA ruling). Voter ID (where military ID is allowed but state student ID isn't?). Curbing early voting. Removing polling places from college campuses. And, yeah, majorly the gerrymandering. You may recall that on the day after the 2016 election, the NC GOP put out a press release bragging that black turnout was down. That was maybe of one of the most blatantly unamerican thing I've ever seen , celebrating that fewer people voted. The rise of populism and the GOP's willingness to embrace it. Hopefully the Dems find their message and their messenger in 2020. Not know-nothing populism that has infected the right, but an actual platform around helping working Americans and candidates that can sell it. All that said, NC has a Dem governor, Attorney General, and Supreme Court. Take away Tillis' senate seat and that's a good number of Dems elected statewide. New maps will be drawn in 2021...

Didn't those draconian abortion bans and restrictions start in Mississippi? Now it's spread to over half of the US and counting. All it takes is Republicans gaining control of the state legislatures or the governorship and that's when they wreck havoc.There's a saying that liberal laws start in California and spread throughout, I guess Mississippi is the conservative version of that.

It might not fully happen under Trump's regime, but America will be back under Jim Crow laws within next 10-15 years. A Pence/Kushner/Ivanka Trump regime will make sure of that.

The Republicans have a found perfect propaganda machine in Twitter no matter who succeeds Trump when or if he dies while in office. Here's a tweet from Pence's twitter account.

Trump's MO for if a recession really hits until conservatives finally make the choice to blame Democrats for it.

A Republican lawmaker from Ohio.

Is Fox News considered to be a legitimate source of news information? This is not a trick question?

He not from Parkland, that's a parent of Sandy Hook shooting victim. That's very sad. I remember one of Sandy Hook victim parents saying the reason why she didn't kill herself after the death of her child, was because of her religion and her other child.

They are the "hip liberal" couple though. I haven't never bough into what they tried to sell themselves as.

I have noticed the 'liberal' media is saying why other presidents have declared national emergencies and why all of a sudden it's a problem that Trump declaring one instead of focusing on the substance of Trump's national emergency.

Which media? The conservative media like Fox or the mainstream media like ABC?

For those that believe that conservatism is going to die out when the boomers are gone.

The conservative media is loving this.

I agree with you. When Lieberman dies, the beltway will praise and deify him a figure who crossed the political aisle .

Trump's response.

You know (maybe you do now) I don't care what Newt says but at least 40% of the country cares and they get their talking points from him and the rest of the conservative media like Fox News and talk radio. I go back and forth with conservatives on another board and that's the talking points that they are using. The GOP would see it as a victory if it was a 50/50 split in the Senate with Pence being the tie breaking vote. The more Democrats in the Senate will give Senators like Susan Collins less of a cover when it comes to voting anti GOP legislation. I know the Democrats being in control of House makes a big difference , and the GOP does too despite whatever the media says. It's the reason why he fired Sessions (and to change the narrative of the GOP losing the House), removing Rosenstein from overseeing the Mueller investigation and is making these moves to derail the Mueller investigation during this lame duck session of Congress before the the Democrats take over the House. Rosenstein, with the confidence of a Dem house behind him, could have felt comfortable releasing very damning Mueller related info that would have spilled over into congressional investigations. If the GOP won the House, none of this happens and the GOP Congress can continue to erode the investigation from the inside out.

The other side is claiming victory because they increased their numbers the Senate (Newt Gingrich gave Trump an A+ when he compared to the GOP midterm House losses compared to what Clinton and Obama lost in the midterms) so they can pack the courts with conservative judges, won some governorships in the Northeast, and beat they Beto, Gillom, and Abrams. The Senate can vote down and Trump can just veto anything the House passes. Trump can just blame the House if the economy starts to slow down.

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1060544264973750275

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/voters-turned-away-because-voting-machines-were-locked-in-a-closet-in-detroit-precinct/ GOP is pulling out of the stops to endure that they keep control of the House.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/30/trump-plans-to-terminate-birthright-citizenship.html Trump is changing the narrative again.

Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin all rose to power in the same era. Economic turmoil always leads to authoritarianism. It will only get worse.

This is from Never Trumper David Frum that MSNBC loves to trot out posted this. "If Trump’s opponents stand opposed to policing America’s boundaries, they will not help immigrants—they will only lose votes." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/caravan-challenges-integrity-us-borders/573691/

I don't care for the NYT but I just had to post this. And then they came for the transgenders. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html If this guidelines are implemented, I guess transgenders are back to square one as civil rights are concerned.

I found out via previews while watching football, Trump is going to be on 60 Minutes tonight with Lesley Stahl interviewing him. I believe it take at least three or four generations to recover from the damage that Trump going to do this country. Trump has control of all three branches of government the support of the American oligarchs (the Koch Brothers the Mercers, the majority of the intelligence agencies, and the 3/4 of the media and press is on his side openly (Fox News, conservative talk radio, WSJ, etc) or on the sly (CNN, NYT, CBS, etc).