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Sinema led in the polls but I'm still surprised she won. These things often revert to a harder reality on Election Day. Trump did a lot to cause this, but Sinema also seemed to run an extremely disciplined campaign. Kudos to her. 

 

McSally has been very calm - I think she will be getting McCain's seat. 

 

In other news, the Secretary of State race in AZ is much closer, but the Democrat is currently leading. If she wins that could be a big deal, as 3 different SoS have become governor in Arizona since the '80s. 

 

Anyway, I thought this was an interesting 60 Minutes that was recently uploaded. They talk to men in an Indiana town (a big Nixon town) about Watergate. Some things never change. 

 

 

And in other news, Lorne Michaels' new Republican hero, pushed heavily by the media as a star and the new face of the GOP, is yet another bigot. The media won't care - they love bigots.

 

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/snl-gives-another-right-wing-politician-a-spotligh.html

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It's the same old story: let someone from the right make a joke about someone's disabilities, the left cries foul and the right just rolls its' eyes.  ("Loosen up, it was just a joke, quit being so p.c.!")  But, let someone from the left make that joke, the right goes on the attack and the left just caves.

 

All that "going high" gets us is another bigot getting undeserved airtime on late-night TV.  Is that really winning the fight, ladies and gentlemen?

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The GOP tax cuts, which will likely come as a surprise to no one, have so far, failed to live up to most of their promises.  Proponents of these tax cuts claim that it will take awhile to see measurable success for real people but in the meantime, the deficit (which the GOP used to claim to care about) continues to explode, soaring to levels not seen since the U.S. was trying to pull itself out of the Great Recession.

 

Trump’s Tax Cut Was Supposed to Change Corporate Behavior. Here’s What Happened.

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That was an interesting read. 

 

A lot of pundits harp on how bad it was for Republicans to lose as much as they did in the midterms since we are in a good economy, prosperous, etc. To many Americans, it is not a good economy. The bubble just doesn't understand that, because they don't want to.

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As much as people criticize Netanyahu, he never really goes for the jugular in Gaza the way he could.  I'm glad for that, but as an American it's not a mindset I really understand.  It's also impossible for me to imagine our military "warning" people before they hit a physical target so civilians can evacuate.

 

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Thank God this kid survived! 

 

One thing that so many of my relatives abroad are just beginning to understand is how perilous it is to simply be Black and living in the U.S. where your life can be in jeopardy or ended simply for being Black and living!  It's insane!

 

It's not that black women were in love with HRC, we recognized her weaknesses as a candidate but we also knew that it would get so much worse with a man like Trump in the White House.  A lot of people asserted that only certain groups of people would be in jeopardy and they wouldn't be affected-- well, they were wrong.  The flames of hatred are being fanned in many directions and many groups of people who believed that it wouldn't touch them are now discovering quite the opposite.

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she was escorted off WH grounds after being fired about an hour ago. what a shitshow. I mean really. over an argument ABOUT PLANE SEATS. and now Kelly is strongly rumored to also being shown the door because he has had clashes with Melania the Immigrant Porn Star.

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