Yeah, and...
You want to talk about political things? This is how I talk about political things. Elisabeth, who spells her own name wrongly, looks stupid and says stupid things.
What created Trump? How is Trump even possible? Elisabeth doesn't bother tracking back. She looks back only so far.
What political conditions existed within Republican party could create the possibility of outsider Trump, not a Republican, not a conservative, to take over? Since Elisabeth, Executive Director of Democrat Governors Association can see political conditions being created, what conditions were created that led to Trump? Her analysis begins with Trump, but something came before Trump, and something came before the dissatisfaction that caused Trump.
Dissatisfaction with Republican representation created Trump. And that dissatisfaction is with elected Republicans not getting the message, as Elisabeth cannot get this same message, of Republican representation not being brake to Obama's ambitions. That is, restating, when you trace back over election cycles, Obama created the political conditions that Republican representation failed to brake over cycles eventually allowing Republican Matt Bevin to take Kentucky governorship, actually creating Matt Bevin as opposition, considered an important Democrat loss. Obama forced Republican response that failed. The original Democrat careening failed, the expected Republican brakes failed, this double fail frustration building over cycles ultimately led to Democrat loss. Not simply "Trump." And the same thing with Virginia keeping Republican senate.
The best thing about the whole episode is observing their heads exploding all over, struggling to understand and getting it all wrong. Shall we count the wrongness of the ways? It would be a wearisome Fisking of every single sentence.
1. Believe in middle class values HA!
2. Believe working people have a right to the American dream. HA!
3. Believe healthcare ought not to be just for the privileged... *click*
He had ten or so good seconds wailing from the pit of non comprehension.
You watch. It's for you, not for me. I've turned sufficiently misanthropic already and there's only so much horses shit a guy's willing to take. Pleasure enough to have the video on mute and enjoy the three onstage wound up cringing through agonized faces. Pleasure enough just knowing it exists, evidence of their grave unhappiness and their absolute non comprehension. Their lives are destroyed and my heart fills up with glee that, yes, there really is God and he really does love us. We see them agitated, their mouths moving, but nothing gets heard, just as they do, say whatever you like, they're not listening either, and so far as reading Republican actions, Republican actions of taking over, they get all of that wrong too.
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I listened a bit more. Fuck me. Just fuck me for that. He's talking about Christianity and Jesus and getting THAT all wrong too. I deserve it. I know better than listening to a goddamn Democrat talking about Christianity and their goddamn Party.
Ohio said no to pot?
I think I heard that on the radio this morning but I was half sleep.
I also think they're a healthy measure of GTF out of our state's business push-back at the federal government.
Republicans have won and now hold an overwhelming majority of offices at every level of Government: local, state, and national. The Democrats have let things just fall apart for their party by being consumed with Presidential politics. It's a really big squirrel, but he's going down too. Identity politics has run it's evil divisive course for now.
Ohio is harshin' my mellow, dude.
Every once in a while there is a bit of sanity.
"The momentum for marijuana legalization got its mellow harshed in Ohio last night, but don’t stub out the doobie just yet. A majority of Ohioans support legalization, but not a crony-capitalist quasi-monopoly on production. Issue 3’s detractors successfully argued that defeat now was necessary for a true victory down the road, and combined with the sizable anti-legalization constituency, crushed the referendum by a nearly 2:1 margin:"
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/04/video-ohio-rejects-marijuana-legalization-with-an-anti-monopoly-twist/
I think the Ohio thing was bolloxed. The approach to legalization was rejected, setting up a monopoly was rejected, specific places to grow it rejected. And I think this issue is not going away either. Eventually something will be worked out.
Colorado changes its rules each month. Shops adjust to each new edict as the butt-rapingly obsessive state control freaks continue to contrive them but it's wearing. On Colorado ballot is an item about setting aside specific places for public smoking. A lot of out of state buyers are coming here and finding no legal place to smoke it since they don't live here. [I voted no. Make every place legal, just get out of the way. I think others may fell similarly even in Ohio.]
Every time I see Kasich speak he makes me a bit ill in a born-again acid reflux sort of way. His vocalized religion is superficial and trite and although instructive it is not a template for governing federally. He is the cartoon Republican.
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