1 hour ago, dragonflies said:

Aaahhh I've visited there once years ago lol

 

Hahaha. My sister-in-law is from Grove City, outside C-Bus. 😎

1 hour ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

Hahaha. My sister-in-law is from Grove City, outside C-Bus. 😎

My grandma lived in GC for awhile years ago(till she died)

 

Anywho here's some entertainment for today

 

 

Oh, boy. Let the memes begin!! 😨

6 hours ago, JaneAusten said:

 

6 hours ago, JaneAusten said:

Archibald Cox and the Saturday nigh massacre didn’t save us from Nixon it was people. My friend Peter from Indiana who is a Trump and Pence hating republican has said it so many times to me when I complain about the dirty tactics. VOTE. Because even he acknowledges there are more liberal sided people in the US . He’s said for years if liberals show up in the same numbers republicans do, the GOP would  never win an election again. That’s why 2008 had the GOP so nervous was turnout but like the lazy butts we are, we fooled ourselves and let our country and Obama down by not showing up after that. Even 2008 which was high numbers still had 63% turnout,  that’s not really impressive but that it is for us should say more about American voters than anything. 

 

Virginia for example had had good turnout for an offterm election but it was still 49%.

 

 

Some say that's because they hold elections on a workday rather than give people that day off or hold elections during the weekends.  Others (who are more cynical) say it's because everyone in politics is dirty and that no matter WHO wins the election, they'll never truly represent the people who put them into office.

 

Me?  I'll admit that I stayed away from voting was because I didn't want to be called into jury duty.

 

Okay, what's going on with Sean Hannity?  None of his Twitter feeds make any sense without some context.

Edited November 19, 20178 yr by Khan

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Me?  I'll admit that I stayed away from voting was because I didn't want to be called into jury duty.

 

Seriously? You are exactly the person we need more of on juries. Promise me right now that if you ever get a summons, you will serve. Look into my ancient eyes and promise me.

 

Someday I'll tell my Brooklyn jury duty story which, amazingly, involved an actual video reenactment of the creation of the codes of Hammurabi playing in the middle of City Hall.

 

tl;dr: Go do it. You'll most likely be cut at the first selection process, just as I was by a defendant's lawyer who openly mistook me for a hippie looking to 'stick it to the Man'.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

tl;dr: Go do it. You'll most likely be cut at the first selection process, just as I was by a defendant's lawyer who openly mistook me for a hippie looking to 'stick it to the Man'.

That just makes it more frustrating to me. I hate going down there knowing there isn't a chance in hell I'll be picked.

Edited November 20, 20178 yr by Juliajms

It is true that when voter participation is low, it tends to benefit the Republican candidates. Voter suppression and apathy are two big reasons for low turnout.

 

This Politico article suggests that ideas on Soviet cultivation of Trump went back all the way to the 1980s before his first visit to Moscow (1987).

 

The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow

46 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

It is true that when voter participation is low, it tends to benefit the Republican candidates. Voter suppression and apathy are two big reasons for low turnout.

 

This Politico article suggests that ideas on Soviet cultivation of Trump went back all the way to the 1980s before his first visit to Moscow (1987).

 

The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow

I would agree with your points on voting. I do think we need to focus more on turnout. If we could get turnout regularly around 60 to 65 percent suppression would not matter. Once we were in power we could then get voting rights legislation back in place.virginia having that higher turnout in an off year election is one reason Dems are closer to having an ever split in the house of delegates even with the intense gerrymandering in VA. Now that Dems have the Governors mansion there, there should be a fair redistricting that happens in 2020.

 

 

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@Khan this is quite something from your home state.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/361073-former-oklahoma-state-senator-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex

Edited November 20, 20178 yr by JaneAusten

4 hours ago, JaneAusten said:

 

@Khan this is quite something from your home state.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/361073-former-oklahoma-state-senator-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex

 

That poor kid.  (The teenager, not Ralph Shortey.)

 

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Shortey, as an OK state senator, was staunchly conservative and anti-LGBT.

BREAKING: National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster compared Trump's intelligence to a "kindergartner" in a private dinner, according to sources https://t.co/Ym75oqfF5z

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) November 20, 2017

Welp, Janet Yellen has resigned.

 

Janet Yellen submits resignation from the Fed

Something to make us smile, gawd I adore these two guys!!

 

 

 

Mika B. on MJ actually said that Bill Clinton is the reason why we have Donald Trump. 

And someone needs to tell her to stop wearing her pajamas on the air. 

27 minutes ago, Roman said:

Mika B. on MJ actually said that Bill Clinton is the reason why we have Donald Trump. 

And someone needs to tell her to stop wearing her pajamas on the air. 

 

The fixation on the Clintons is pretty much a national sickness. I was talking to some millennials who started reciting all the debunked Clinton stuff and I realized there's an entire generation of Americans who have never known a society that wasn't awash in Clinton hate. Just like Chris Hayes' stupid ass saying that given all these stories about sexual harassment it's time for the left to "reckon with" Bill Clinton. I'm sorry but I lived through MonicaGate. It was nonstop reckoning. Day after day in the news, night after night on the talk shows, for years. Linda Tripp, the Starr report, the blue dress, the cigar, etc...there was nowhere to get away from it.

 

The truth is a whole media industry grew up around hating on the Clintons.