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Is it true that Delgado is also pregnant with their love child? Or is that just someone trying to "suds up" the story?

Man. Such a heartbreaking story. He took a risk that he'll spend the rest of his life paying for. But, to be perfect and frank, I question whether he thought it through beforehand. Thanks for sharing, Carl.

Can't argue with you there. As I wrote on FB: "her heart will go on, and now, so will her career."

If and when the moment comes and Trump is finally taken down politically, I hope these men are dragged alongside him.

Forget about wasting taxpayers' money. That's the least of our problems. This man, who has Twitter tantrums every time a late-night sketch comedy series makes fun of him, is pushing us one step closer toward total annihilation by threatening a worldwide nuclear arms race. I only pray the rest of the world's leaders will learn not to feed this Internet troll who is about to preside over us. If they could learn just to put the U.S. on Ignore and negotiate around him (and us) until we can get rid of him, that would be great.

ICAM, marceline. Granted, I am new to comprehending much of this stuff, so forgive me for coming across as ignorant or naive. However, it seems to me that while the Democratic party SHOULD be doing some stock-taking in the wake of all their defeats, they shouldn't necessarily throw out the metaphorical baby with the bathwater. What I mean is, Hillary DID win the popular vote (which the Republicans think is meaningless, but of course, I disagree) and she won it by a very surprising amount, too. (In fact, isn't her victory margin the largest in election history? I might have that wrong, so feel free to correct me.) Ergo, all this talk of Hillary or the Democrats failing to get their message across -- or even that she was a "fatally flawed candidate" -- I can't say anymore whether that argument holds weight with me. I think the message was getting across just fine, regardless of how the US maps looked on election night. True, we are where we are, because she lost the electoral vote. But here's my question: wouldn't things like redistricting (which Obama says he plans to focus on post-WH) do more to remedy the issue than a full-scale tear-down and rebuild of the Democratic party; so that, come future elections, we DON'T have situations where less populated (rural) areas that seemingly hold more electoral weight end up determining the outcome for over three hundred million people? Again, I realize I'm probably just being naive. Yet the more I think about the numbers, the more I question whether the "white working class," or whatever the heck Trump's voting base in these places was, actually merits so much concern from the country at large.

And I believe him. I really do.

On the one hand, I love the fact that Trump Nation continues to browbeat even the GOP. As we have said countless times, Trump only exploited (and continues to exploit) what was always true about the Republican party; and if they now found it impossible to control him OR his minions and followers, then they have only themselves to blame. On the OTHER hand, if Trump Nation can intimidate into submission and/or silence people who are supposed to be their allies, then how will the rest of us ever stand a chance against them? And I STILL find it ironic AND disturbing that Trump Nation, in fact, constitutes a relatively small minority of citizens in this country. It really will take an act of God (or another national tragedy) to stop their growth and influence. Here's what I think: At some point, the Republicans who aren't part of Trump Nation will have to sit down with the moderates, the liberal progressives, the independents and so forth, and call some sort of truce. It might not be anything as formal as officially leaving the Republican party and either joining the Democratic party or forming a new, third party. But all sides will have to swallow their respective prides, concede this-or-that platform principle and then ban together in the name of silencing the Trumpkins, the alt-right and others of their ilk -- online, in the media, on the Senate and House floors, and in the overall court of public opinion. Separately, no other group can stand up to Trump Nation and win -- and groups like that, IMO, thrive on the divisiveness of their opponents. But if the establishment wing of the GOP and their affiliates can somehow coalesce (sp?) with those on the other side of the metaphorical aisle, then there might be some hope yet the rest of this country.

Yep. marceline was right: these people voted for "change," yet have no idea what that really means.

Agree.

I've read several articles online about Flynn. According to people who have known him and had contact with him in the past, his behavior (e.g., tweeting fake news and way-out-there conspiracy theories as truth) and statements regarding Muslims is surprising and an almost complete 180 from the Flynn they used to know. I don't know whether to believe their claims -- he's probably been Islamaphobic all along, he only stopped hiding it -- but if they are accurate, it does raise some questions, I think, about Flynn, his history of relations w/ Muslims, and why his attitudes toward them have changed (if, in fact, they have changed at all).

Exactly. Our government has Barack's n****r cooties all over it, so we got burn it down and clear it away like the Black Plague and the Great Fire of London. It's the only way. [/sarcasm] I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it just might take another 9/11-like atrocity for many of these people to see just what they have done to this country that they claim to love so much and want to "make great again." That is the trouble with terror: it makes people think and behave illogically. Slasher film franchises are built upon this concept. Please be safe, Huntress. My thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been affected by the Berlin attack. Agree. Agree, agree, and agree.

Wow. Violence erupts in Ankara, Berlin and Zurich; the judge who gave a college student a six-month sentence for rape is cleared of misconduct; and the nation's electors put party affiliations and hide-saving over protecting us from a con-artist who will sell us to Russia first chance he gets. Worst Monday ever for my new, least-favorite soap opera, AS THE WORLD TURNS TO CRAP. At this point, I wouldn't bother finding out where they stand on anything. Just learn what Putin thinks about any situation and then know the GOP and Trump will fall in line.

It's going to be a long, long, L-O-N-G four years.

Yep. IIRC -- and granted, I wasn't alive back then; and what I know, I learned at one of those race-mixing, God-hating, icky-poo public schools certain people hate nowadays -- but the U.S. government actually wanted to stay out of WWII at first. We became involved only after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. As usual, I agree with y'all: images and sounds coming out of Aleppo are saddening and terrifying. However, short of allowing more refugees into our borders (which we are clearly not going to do at this point), I don't know what more we could do or should have done to help them. Some wars, you just can't win; and some people, you just can't help.

That's our boy Trump, making America grate again.

"The biggest event in American history"? Oh, dear. People really don't need to get their hopes up.

Thank God. So, out of this crack-tacular year, two good things happened: the Cubs won the World Series, and Dylann Roof was found guilty. As far as I am concerned, this is our Christmas miracle. True. A perfect example: the murder-for-hire trial that was declared a mistrial for the SECOND time.

Once again, DJT distracts America from whatever is the Dumpster Fire of the Week (I'm guessing Russian hacking).

Agree. Agree with this as well.

I only wish this would change things. But it won't. Dammit.

You know what they say: "the good ones are always married, straight (or gay), or affiliated with the KKK." Whatever gets you through the nights.

Something tells me you aren't his type.

Help us, Obi Wan Kenobi, you're our only hope.

IA, Carl. When it comes to our president-elect, it seems, there are only so many trainwrecks and potential trainwrecks that the media can cover. Trump is going to keep a lot of folks on their toes for the next four years, that's for sure. Exactly. At the very least, Trump is liable to get us into a war with the most unlikely countries that would have been easily avoided had he just stayed his ass off Twitter. Let me put it this way: with Pence as president, our being alive past 2017 would be a lock. Granted, many people will feel like second-class citizens again. In time, however, that could be corrected. OTOH, with Trump as president.... Can we REALLY say for sure that we'll survive (as a planet, let alone as a nation) as long as that man is in charge? Because, I, for one, am keeping my fingers (and everything else) crossed at least 'til January 2021.