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As Sherrod says in the video he was a Secretary of State. If anybody is qualified to call the election stolen it's him.

Which would be led by me because John Kasich is my governor. Any candidate like Ojeda or Bloomberg will not be allowed to run as a Democrat. Especially after the shitshow of letting Bernie use the party. If they want to run, they will have to run as independents.

The thing about most of these Trump appointed judges is that he didn't really appoint them. Mitch McConnell and the Federalist Society chose them and while they may be right wing zealots they aren't crackpots like the people Trump personally chooses like Betsy DeVos or Scott Pruitt. Most of these judges aren't going to trash their reputations out of loyalty to Trump because they have none.

This really made me smile.

The whole "but her emails" thing was the culmination of 30 years of Clinton hate being mainstreamed into our culture. We now have an entire generation of people including journalists who have never known a world without the Clintons being accused of and blamed for everything from murder to mass incarceration. A whole industry was built around hating the Clintons. People like Mark Halperin and Maureen Dowd owe their careers to Clinton hate. Look at the abuse Chelsea Clinton gets. She's never done anything to deserve it. She's been attacked from time she was a little girl. Grown men like John McCain and Rush Limbaugh attacked her looks when she was little more than a tween.

Look at you. In two years you've gone from nonvoter to savvy political strategist. It's been a lovely transformation to see.

Of the political stuff that stresses me out, the idea of that convention made my blood run cold. I heard about some of what they had planned for the Constitution: heartbeat amendments, a gutting of church/state separation, corporate personhood enshrined, raising the voting age, etc... This country as we know it would cease to exist.

We have the House, we picked up 300 state legislature seats, a bunch of AG seats and seven governorships. The Republicans have abandoned the drive to "repeal and replace," the state seats mean we've shut down progress towards the constitutional convention that the Kochs have been drooling over. Tuesday was very good for us. As for Mueller, the "Junior is about to get arrested" feels like fanfiction. I do believe that we will see some indictments unsealed very soon.

Now Bernie is trying to dig himself out.

Bernie is just trash. He campaigned with Gillum and then he pulls this treacherous [!@#$%^&*]. I hope that the black millennials who fell for his con see what he's really about.

This is another reason I'm looking forward to the midterms being over. The Mueller investigations ramps up.

A great thread about how Trump supporters don't care that he's lying. It's a cult.

One good thing about the midterms soon being over is that we will start hearing more news about the Russia investigation again. I've been missing Indictment Fridays.

This from Rick Wilson, author of Everything Trump Touches Dies.

More likely his manic phase is starting to peter out. A friend of mine who knows a bit about bipolar disorder told me that bipolar episodes last an average of 13 weeks.

No it wouldn't. Steve Scalise got save by a black lesbian police officer and the first thing he did when he come back to work was speak at an event in front of an anti-LGBT group. These people will take their hate and madness to the grave.

Merry Christmas from Black Santa.

Or some poor schmuck working in the mailroom at a media outlet. Those people are on the front line.

I hope you're right and I'll admit to feeling really depressed this morning so my thoughts are in a dark place but again, that comes back to the idea that they didn't care until personally affected. So much of the reason we're here is because too many people in and out of the media have lost the ability to care how their behavior and decisions affect people.

Nope. They will go right back to chasing clicks. Remember Jeff Zucker keeps a framed Trump tweet on his office wall. No matter how many bombs get sent to CNN, he's safe and I doubt he gives half a damn if some of his employees get killed.

Sorry but I'm just going to say it. There's a whole lot of chickens coming home to roost today. The NY Times and CNN worked overtime to put Trump in office. They didn't see him as a threat to themselves and they didn't give a [!@#$%^&*] about the rest of us. Even now they are doing everything they can to hand the midterms to the Republicans. I don't want to see bloodshed because we've already had too much but I refuse to take to the barricades for these people just because their years of malpractice have caught up to them because tomorrow they'll be right back to rehashing Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and chasing after Nazis in diners.

I really hope they catch this lunatic before he kills someone.

The company that provided the data to NBC is pretty much calling shenanigans on that bogus report.

I decided to watch this episode out of spite. (yes. I *am* just that kind of petty) I wanted to watch this show kick Roseanne to the curb and if I'm honest, the idea of a Trump-supporting Roseanne succumbing to opiates sounded really satisfying. But I have to admit that I found this episode oddly...affecting. There was some good work done in this ep.

Because the media is made up overwhelmingly of white people and they use these pieces as a way of justifying the behavior of their friends and family. A lot of them have to sit at the table on Thanksgiving with people just like this so by default they try to humanize them. They have to find a way to excuse the fact that Aunt Becky called the cops on a black kid at the playground.