19 minutes ago, Khan said:

From the article:

 

No one cared about us until Trump.

 

That's just it; they DID care and they still do care.  (Certainly, they care(d) more than Trump ever will.)  But the problem was that the solutions they were offering, you didn't want to hear.  You wanted to hear exactly what Trump told you: "the world is just fine, nothing is changing, just keep making your popcorn and we'll take care of the rest."  It's the equivalent of daddy coming into your bedroom after you've had a nightmare and telling you there are no monsters hiding under your bed or in your closet.  However, in this case, the monsters are very much real, and they are no longer hiding.

 

Thanks, DD, for the article!  

 

Yeah, there were a few lines that I read from a few of the people that cause me to roll my eyes.   Also, the guy that said that he was conflicted because although he disagreed with Trump's stance on immigration, he believes Trump is a man of God .  I couldn't help but think that this guy really needed to get out of his bubble.  Trump may be a lot of things but a devout Christian is NOT one of them.  I was raised in church, have relatives who have done missionary work and I don't recognize Trump's brand of Christianity.

 

22 hours ago, Vee said:

Mueller's next target?

 

 

 

 

 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.

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Yeah, there were a few lines that I read from a few of the people that cause me to roll my eyes.   Also, the guy that said that he was conflicted because although he disagreed with Trump's stance on immigration, he believes Trump is a man of God .  I couldn't help but think that this guy really needed to get out of his bubble.  Trump may be a lot of things but a devout Christian is NOT one of them.  I was raised in church, have relatives who have done missionary work and I don't recognize Trump's brand of Christianity.

 

I do.  It's the televangelist kind.  Where the guy on TV is getting grannies and rubes to send him their social security checks, while he buys private planes and hookers.

1 hour ago, Juliajms said:

I do.  It's the televangelist kind.  Where the guy on TV is getting grannies and rubes to send him their social security checks, while he buys private planes and hookers.

 

I've forgotten that this type of style has now permeated the pulpit.  I never expected a twenty-something year old man would be taken in by the kind of philosophy that Jimmy Swaggart promoted.

 

 

Why so expensive? Did the side-piece go on the trip too?

 

Melania Trump spent one day in Cairo and the hotel bill was $95,050, according to federal spending records reported on by Quartz.

A spokeswoman says Trump was in Cairo for six hours and didn't actually spend the night at the hotel. https://t.co/XJuwIM5zcJ

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 2, 2018

This sounds like some much needed good news.

 

Breaking news: A federal judge ordered Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to guarantee people flagged as non-citizens through Georgia's "exact match" system can vote in the 2018 election. https://t.co/9Lmw1rR4gH

Here is how they can vote: pic.twitter.com/eHircRO07x

— Sam Levine (@srl) November 2, 2018

BREAKING: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/11/02/trump-request-to-stay-emoluments-suit-denied-potentially-allowing-plaintiffs-to-seek-details-on-his-d-c-hotels-foreign-customers/?utm_term=.73282203e98b

I'm glad you posted this @Khan so I didn't have to.  

 

The actual document, which is stored in 'the cloud' is available with a quick online search.  With each L that Trump Inc. takes, it draws even sharper focus on his haste to try to reshape the courts.

NEW: With the midterms days away, and President Trump ratcheting up his rhetoric, Michael Cohen detailed instances to me in which he said his former boss privately used chilling, racist language https://t.co/3PnhnoHKfA

— Emily Jane Fox (@emilyjanefox) November 2, 2018

4 racist things Trump has said, per Michael Cohen:

-"Black people are too stupid to vote for me."

-"Name 1 country run by a black person that’s not a shithole."

-"Only the blacks could live like this."

-"There’s no way I can let this black f-ing win."https://t.co/hABkB09eSO

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 2, 2018

^ He really is a monster.  I can't believe we have a minimum of 2 more years of this.  Yeah, he could die, but I've never been the optimistic sort.

 

I'm headed to Temple Israel for Shabbat service tonight.  I dread it to be honest.  The people there have always welcomed me even though I'm an outsider. I hate to see them in so much pain thanks to blind hatred.

I already voted and like early voting and will never go back voting the old way.

😎

I early voted today. I was in line for two hours, by far the longest it's ever taken. We'll see if that means something good on Tuesday. 

Michael Cohen has dropped a November bomb. Thrilled to see it, although none of these revelations surprise anyone about Trump. 

4 hours ago, DAMfan said:

I already voted and like early voting and will never go back voting the old way.

😎

I'm tempted to do it myself. 

On 11/1/2018 at 4:49 PM, Juliajms said:

Partially I think it's that unstable, isolated people are being radicalized online.  There was a time when guys like this would have just lived out there lives as drugged out losers. The internet has made it easier for them to find a cause online and to carry out some mission to support the cause (in their minds at least)  One way you can tell they are kind of delusional is that their mission never makes the slightest difference in reality. If anything it drives more people to support whatever or whomever they were against.

 

Just to be clear, I don't absolve any of these people of personal responsibility and they can all hang as far as I'm concerned. If we are going to have a death penalty might is well use it on these mass shooters.

That is a very good observation. They basically are finding things to feed their crazy. I know social media has totally changed my opinion of the American public. About half are complete imbeciles. 

4 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I early voted today. I was in line for two hours, by far the longest it's ever taken. We'll see if that means something good on Tuesday. 

Hopefully it means good things. I probably should have voted by mail, but for some reason I want to show up at the polls on election day. I don't even know why, I just feel the need to do it in person this year.

1 hour ago, Juliajms said:

Hopefully it means good things. I probably should have voted by mail, but for some reason I want to show up at the polls on election day. I don't even know why, I just feel the need to do it in person this year.

 

I can understand why. Someone else who was there was saying that this is a day she'd remember forever. 

Zachery Ty Bryan from Home Improvement was on Fox News earlier this year talking about conservatives in Hollywood along with Hollywood's echo chamber and celeb elitists alienating middle America.

 

He also shouted out Trump on TMZ.

None of the people who run the major Hollywood studios can be called liberal by any stretch of the imagination. 

Having some vocal actors and a few directors and some writers, who also happen to be liberal doesn't constitute an entire industry being that way. The people with actual power to greenlight a movie or a series are almost always conservative and it has been this way going back to the days of MGM and Louis B. Mayer.

 

Many people look at actors and think that they run the industry.  They don't.

 

We've actually discussed this topic in the Movies and Music Thread and lately, also in the Hollywood Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment thread in the Off-Topic Section.

 

 

 

Despite, the ruling in Georgia, I see the voter suppression handbook is still at work in some states.

 

Breaking: judge just ruled against @aclukansas suit to add another polling place in Dodge City, KS. So there will be 1 polling place for 13,000 voters, outside of town, 1 mile from bus stop, in a town that is 61% Hispanic. Happening at same time Kris Kobach in dead heat for gov

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 2, 2018

Edited November 3, 20187 yr by DramatistDreamer