Juliajms

^ Yes!! Just a few months ago the ground shook in Omaha and it was attributed to the fracking in Oklahoma. Totally crazy.

^ I remember that. Speaking about himself in the 2nd and 3rd person is obnoxious, no doubt. I'm much more disturbed by the lack of basic logic in the notion that if someone can't prove a negative, it's true. Jesus take the wheel. I can't believe we have elected another President who is intellectually inferior so soon after W. At this point, I almost feel bad comparing W to Trump. The consequences of W's presidency were horrific for people around the globe. Hundreds of thousands of people died, but I never felt that he was hateful and actively trying to destroy people. He was just inept and surrounded by bad guys and because he was inept he turned into little more than a figure head. Now we have an actively hateful idiot in the white house surrounded by more hateful bad guys.

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 11m11 minutes ago "@FiIibuster: @jeffzeleny Pathetic - you have no sufficient evidence that Donald Trump did not suffer from voter fraud, shame! Bad reporter. So the president elect thinks reporters have to prove negatives, also he's speaking about himself in the 3rd person. This just keeps getting better.

CNN is really ramping up the Islamophobia today. Wolf Blitzer is really one of the worst. I'm convinced he knows he's doing it and it's an attempt to sensationalize these lone wolf incidents.

^ I know I should be incredibly grateful for that, but part of me resents the hell out of it. After all the insults Trump and his ilk have thrown at President Obama he has some nerve.

I'd say Tara has had a few significant scenes mostly with Glen, but not enough to carry an entire episode with a very minor assist from Heath. It would have been fine if they had shared the episode with The Kingdom, but to just focus on Tara finding a new group sort of annoyed me. More because it feels like they are just using these types of episodes to delay the things we really want to see. They've used that device too many times now. Plus I feel like they are using it as a well to keep the budget under control, since actors aren't getting that many episodes.

I agree. Also, The President of the United States cannot simply be ignored. As individuals we can check out, lord knows I've been trying and failing to do that, but he is not just going to go away. If anything we have to be vigilant and do what little is within our power to resist. Trump isn't some little playground bully, he's about to be (arguably) the most powerful man in the world. Ignoring him isn't going to change that, if anything it will enable him and his cadre of psychopaths.

You should check it out Carl. My issue isn't with Tara, I like her too. I'm just frustrated with the bubbles people are in and the show's inability to focus on more than one local at a time. If you don't take issue with that, then I think you would enjoy the episode.

OK, so they give us a 70 min episode and then it's all Tara. I'm losing patience with this show.

Well, I think they had a point with this: 4. The nightmare scenario in 2016 was that Trump would refuse to accept the outcome of the election when he was a mere candidate. Imagine if he were to refuse to accept the outcome of the next election once he is the president, and after he has appointed loyalists to control America’s security apparatus. Although I'm not super worried about it at this point.

I figure they'll try to make it a voucher system and raise the eligibility age starting with people under 40 or 50. Whatever age it is that people still believe being old is a problem for other people. I'm guessing they will try the same with social security. I used to be allowing people to invest a small percentage of their SS money, but at this point it's hard for me to get on board with any plans the Republicans have for these programs.

^ That's what everyone says and I hope they're right, but we'll see.

They are underestimating Paul Ryan. I think he's going to be pretty successful in gutting some of these social safety net programs. Knowing that he received social security benefits as a child after his father died makes me despise him even more. How can you benefit from a system and then plot to take it away from other little children who need it? I just don't understand people who know what it's like to be vulnerable and then try to screw others out of the same help they received.

This is really sad. I'm not sure who I'm more worried about, the elderly or poor children in public schools. Its funny reading how worried conservatives were that taking money from the government for schools would lead to federal standards. I think we would be a lot better off if we had that. At least I thought so until a few weeks ago.

Yeah, sort of, but the legal kind. Someone tricked me into going to one of their meetings 20 years ago. It was truly bizarre. The person who tricked me into going was late, so these women outside the meeting room befriended me. They were very proud of the fact that they take extra napkins and sugar from places like McDonald's so that they could "put the money saved into their business". When the doors of the meeting opened they grabbed my arms and we ran to he front so we could get the best seats. To see a guy lecturing us about Amway. Basically the whole point is to buy all your own household items from Amway and to get people signed up under you so you get a percent of their sales. It's just short of a cult. No thanks. Ben Carson is really a strange case to me. On the one hand, no amount of education or training could have ever turned me into a brain surgeon. I recognize that he has to be super smart, but he thinks the Earth was created a few thousands years ago? I just don't get it.

^ I feel like I'm one of the AI bots in Westworld. "Dolores, do you ever question the nature of your reality"? I sure as hell have the last couple of weeks. When this first happen I honestly wondered if maybe I'd been knocked in the head before the election and all of this is some terrible coma induced nightmare.

Carson for HUD Secretary? Strange. http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/ben-carson-cabinet-hud-trump-231772

^ I agree it's kind of sweet, but at the same time it's disturbing that we have very little idea what this man is really up to.

^ Not just that, but how their party was in disarray. Now here we are in it's our party that isn't really sure where to go from here. This election was truly a reversal of fortunes, which is part of the reason people are so shell shocked I think.

OMG. Don Lemon playing parts of Richard Spencer's speech and yelling "Heil Trump". Why, God would you give that man a platform however brief? I'll admit I kept hoping they would come around to the idea that the rich are soaking them while turning the lower classes against each other, but I've finally realized it's not happening. The working class resents the poor on food stamps more than the ultra wealthy. I've finally accepted it.

I don't really love the way the main cast is isolated in their own little bubbles, but I don't see that changing any time soon. I think we're spending time on their politics because all of these groups are going to have to come together to fight Negan. That's not looking like an easy thing to achieve with Gregory in charge. Jesus or even Maggie is going to have to take over. I'm not really looking forward to Jesus and Carl headed towards Negan. If I were Rick and Carl survives this, I think I might kill him myself.

This is really the scariest part of it all to me. This is about the worst time for climate change deniers to be in charge. It's entirely possible that they are going to push us past he point of no return. It also sounds like he is pushing for Elizabeth Warren maybe?

Yeah, I saw the infrastructure bill will likely be a scam to pay private companies to do what they were always going to do. I can't even pretend to be surprised. Bernie is willing to work with Trump for a $10 minimum wage because that's what losing is. It's harsh, but when you lose this badly you take the scraps and are glad to get them. Honestly, we'll be lucky if they don't try to do away with the minimum wage all together, which some Republicans are itching to do. I don't believe that could really happen, but $12 is pie in the sky now. Hell, $10 probably is too. How sad is that?

Maybe there will be so many financial conflicts of interest that he'll choose to resign over selling his interests. That's probably our only hope. People (including Ezra Klien) floated the idea that he would quit before he election. That was clearly wrong. He had plenty of opportunities to do just that. He could have used the pressure Melania and Baron were facing at any point. Now, he has a ton of staffers to do the heavy lifting for him, so I don't see it happening. He wants the power and prestige. The campaign shows us that he's actually pretty resilient in the way that narcissist tend to be. When he was outright confronted as a liar, he'd just say he never said what we all saw him say and stick to that. No matter how many times he's shown to be wrong or incompetent, he comes back the next day insisting that he's right and "the only one that can fix it". I've known a few guys in management who are like this. It's amazing how many people interpret this lack of self awareness as strength. Of course I've never encountered anyone who is as completely shameless as Trump. I see Ted Cruz is willing to accept a Supreme Court nomination.

CNN gives Van Jones and Ana Navarro quite a bit of airtime. They have a few other commentators who talk about it a lot. One is named Angela, but I can't think of her last name. Then you have Jeffery Lord and that Mcanany (sp) woman saying it's not true, but I don't think even they believe it. I also feel like I've read a ton of articles on Politico, The Atlantic, Salon and the other usual suspects talking about the issue of racism in this election. Anyone who doesn't know we are about to be ruled by racists has their head in the sand or they just don't want to admit it, imo.