very sweet, too, that Scott Walker
got booted out in Wisconsin…
I love it as that race was soooo close
the very epitome of anti-union, anti-progressive and anti-working class… a real scuz

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 7 2018 8:55 utc | 3

Hopefully the Democrats will be intelligent enough to stop the Russian collusion investigation, which is going nowhere and is a perfect example of “fake news”.

Posted by: Daniel Good | Nov 7 2018 9:47 utc | 5

What a shambolic election process. The people have been duped for so long that they have no energy to demand a better system. Every conceivable ploy is applied to sabotage people’s right and means to vote in that facked up country.
What’s the bet that the new Dem majority in the House will never introduce legislation to truly fix it. The USA is off to hell in a handbasket. Burn baby burn.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Nov 7 2018 10:11 utc | 7

It’s not even decent theatre. Drama is much lacking, character development zilch. The outcome that dems take congress,& rethugs improve in senate is exactly as was predicted months ago.
The dems reveal once again exactly how mendacious and uncaring of the population they are. Nothing matters other than screwing more cash outta anyone who wants anything done so that the DC trough stays full with the usual crew of 4th & 5th generation wannabe dem pols guzzling hard at the corporate funded ‘dem aligned’ think tanks which generate much hot air yet never deliver. Hardly suprising given that actually doing something to show they give a sh1t about the citizenry would annoy the donor who would give em all the boot, making all these no-hopers have to take up a gig actually practising law.
These are people whose presence at the best law schools in the country prevented many who wanted to be y’know lawyers from entering Harvard, Cornell etc law school. “one doesn’t go to law school to become a lawyer It too hard to even pull down a mil a year as a brief, nah, I studied the law to learn how to make laws that actually do the opposite of what they seem to. That is where the real dough is.”
Those who think that is being too hard on the dem slugs, should remember that the rethugs they have been indoctrinated to detest act pretty much as printed on the side of the can. They advertise a service of licking rich arseholes and that is exactly what they do. As venal and sociopathic as they are, at least they don’t pretend to be something else; so while there is no way one could vote for anyone spouting republican nonsense at least they don’t hide their greed & corruption under a veneer of pseudo-humanist nonsense. Dems cry for the plight of the poverty stricken then they slash welfare.
Or dems sob about the hard row african americans must hoe, then go off to the house of reps to pass laws to keep impoverished african americans slotted up in an over crowded prison for the rest of his/her life.
Not only deceitful and vicious, 100% pointless since any Joe/Jo that votes on the basis of wanting to see more blackfellas incarcerated is always gonna tick the rethug box anyhow.
Yeah- yeah we know all this so what?
This is what – the dems broke their arses getting tens of millions of young first time voters out to “exercise their democratic prerogative” for the first time. Dems did this knowing full well that there would be no effective opposition to rethug demands for more domestic oppression, that in fact it is practically guaranteed that should the trump and the rethug senate require it, in order to ensure something particularly nasty gets passed, that sufficient dem congress people will ‘cross the floor’ to make certain the bill does get up.
Of course the dems in question will allude to ‘folks back home demanding’ that the dem slug does vote with the nasties, but that is the excuse, the reality is far too many dem pols are as bigoted greedy and elitist as the worst rethugs.
Anyway the upshot of persuading so many kids to get out and vote, so the kids do but the dems are content to just do more of the same, will be another entire generation lost to elections forever.
If the DNC had been less greedy and more strategic they would have kept their powder dry and hung off press-ganging the kids until getting such a turnout could have resulted in genuine change, prez 2020′ or whenever, would be actual success for pols and voters.
But they didn’t and wouldn’t ever, since for a dem pol, hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens living on the street isn’t nearly as problematic for them, as the dem wannabe pol paying off the mortgage on his/her DC townhouse by 2020, something that would have been impossible if they hadn’t taken congress as all the ‘patrons’ would have jerked back their cash figuring there is no gain giving dosh to losers who couldn’t win a bar raffle.
As for that Sharice Davids – a total miss she needed to be either a midget or missing an arm or leg to qualify as the classic ID dem pol. Being a native american lezzo just doesn’t tick enough boxes. I predict a not in the least illustrious career since she cannot even qualify as the punchline in a circa 1980’s joke.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Nov 7 2018 11:19 utc | 9

Trump’s domestic agenda will be hindered by the new House majority.
I’ll believe that when I see it. I predict they’ll do little to no hindering at all.

Posted by: Russ | Nov 7 2018 11:26 utc | 11

Daniel Good

Hopefully the Democrats will be intelligent enough to stop the Russian collusion investigation

Adam Schiff: Russia ‘Collusion’ Investigation Top Priority If Democrats Win
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/06/adam-schiff-russia-collusion-investigation-top-priority-if-democrats-win/

Posted by: Zanon | Nov 7 2018 12:06 utc | 13

Another thought on the Democrats’ control of the House and impeachment: preparation for such an act would justify all sorts of revelations as the criminal investigation necessary to bring the impeachemnt/indictment moves into high gear. And Mr Jefferson Beauregard Sessions would be helpless to impede it.
The Great Orange Grifter does, indeed, have something to fear, for exemple the subpoenaing of his tax returns, which would show how much he is in debt, and to whom (Russian-mafia controlled banks in Cyprus, inter alia).

Posted by: RJPJR | Nov 7 2018 12:13 utc | 15

So the Democrat faction of the Corporate One-Party took back control of the House from the Republican faction. (It’s one hard-right party, of course; only liars and those ignorant of history call the Dems “centrist”. By any objective or historical standard they’re a right-wing party.)
It’s no big surprise. Last two years it’s been the normally self-assured Republicans who, because of their ambivalence about Trump, have uncharacteristically taken on the usual Democrat role of existential confusion and doubt. Meanwhile the Democrats, in a berserk batsh$t-insane way, have been more motivated and focused.
So what are these Democrats going to do with this control now that they have it?
I made no prediction on what would happen in this election, but I’ve long predicted that if/when the Democrats win control of either house they’ll do nothing with that control. Jack squat. Status quo all the way, embellished with more retarded Russia-Derangement stuff and similar nonsense.
If there really were a difference between these corporate factions, here’s the chance for the House to obstruct all Senate-passed legislation. And as for things which are technically only in the power of the Senate such as confirming appointments, here’s the chance for the House to put public moral pressure on Democrats in the Senate. And there’s plenty of back-door ways an activist House can influence Senate business. Only morbid pedantry, so typical of liberal Dembots, babbles about what the technical powers of this or that body are. The real world doesn’t work that way. To the extent I pay attention at all to Senate affairs it’ll be to see what the House is doing about it.
They claim there’s a difference between the two parties? And they claim Trump is an incipient fascist dictator? In that case there’s a lot at stake, and extreme action is called for. Let’s see what kind of action we get from their “different” party in control of the House.
But I predict this House won’t lift a finger vs. the Senate, and that it’ll strive to work with the Senate on legislation, and that it’ll fully concur with the Senate on war budgets, police state measures, anything and everything demanded by Wall Street, Big Ag, the fossil fuel extractors, and of course the corporate welfare state in general.
Nor will any of these new-fangled fake “socialist” types take any action to change things one iota. Within the House Democrats, they could take action, form any and every kind of coalition, to obstruct the corporate-Pelosi leadership faction. They will not do so. This “new” progressive bloc will be just as fake as the old one.
Nothing I’ve talked about here is anything but what is possible, what is always implicitly or explicitly promised by Dembots, and what it would seem is the minimum necessary given what Dembots claim is the scope of the crisis and what is at stake.

Posted by: Russ | Nov 7 2018 12:48 utc | 17

Although I still believe there’s no democracy in the U.S. with the Zionist-owned duopoly, I can’t wait for the dirty scumbag Trump to cough up those tax returns. Oh glory day on that!
Trump promised more sanctions on Iran. We’ll see where that goes with the Zionist duopoly. I hope the Dems obstruct just to revenge Trump tearing up the deal. One thing’s for sure: no war powers approval for Trump!

Posted by: Circe | Nov 7 2018 12:50 utc | 19

Good old divided government, it’s the American Way.
Well with the democrats gaining the HOR, maybe the pressure will be off and they’ll call off the Antifa attack dogs and the other SJW’s and go back to being civil. Note yesterday, the Donald signaling perhaps a new softer approach, at least till the first broadsides land.
In the meantime with absolute control of the Senate, the real important business can go into high gear, filling federal court vacancies etc unimpeded by democrat histrionics. And of course the wars, approved by both parties, can continue.
My prediction is that neither side will go against their true natures with the scorpions stinging with abandon their hosts midstream.
In other words, both sides got enough red meat from this election to continue their antics unabated through the presidential campaign and beyond.

Posted by: morongobill | Nov 7 2018 13:11 utc | 21

I really can’t stand Cruz!!! Six more years – gag! That arrogant shet Nunes gets another two years, but he’ll be under Schiff’s thumb – good, get ready for Nunes’ drama queen hissy fits.
KKK Florida and Georgia. YOU SUCK.

Posted by: Circe | Nov 7 2018 13:13 utc | 23

One of the more dramatic narratives playing out in the midterms…..b is not very good at pontificating US elections.
How about providing some insight into, say, German politics, now that Merkel is stepping down and the neo-nazis are stepping up?
Europe in general is roiled with anti-immigrant fever, which comes shining through in some MoA comments. In fact Europe is trending xenophobic much moreso than the US, which has always had its share of nativist nutjobs but is much more accustomed to housing diverse populations and mostly takes them in stride, our racist baiting racist grifter in chief and his baloneycrat base nowtwthstanding.
What we saw last night was the perversely calming effect of the US political system which has become an every 2-4 year taffy pull between the politcal polar opposites. This is not to say the system is effective because it isn’t, obviously. The center or the compromising space if you will, within which governing (such as it is) in the US used to happen is now essentially gone. The Democrats lost in the Senate, which is slanted demographically towards rural, low population states and won in the House, state legislature and Governors’s races which are closer to the representational aspects of the system than the Senate. Gerrymandering and voter supression will change only when state level political contril changes.
Healthcare was the winning issue. The GOP stubbed its foot on its attempts ridiculous and show offy to kill Obamacare. What had been an unpopular law while Obama was in office became a truly populist lightening rod when the GOP tried to kill it.
Going forward, the Dem House should immediately confront the GOP with infrastructure bills and bills to strengthen and increase Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security.
The GOP will twist in the wind politically once more for the next two years.
The Russia collusion nonsense will continue as a sideshow until Mueller, a Republican, ends his investigation without indicting any Trump family members.
The Trump tax returns do need to be released of course and his financial gain since assuming office needs to be thoroughly investigated and reversed, as this is in direct contravention of the law.

Posted by: donkeytale | Nov 7 2018 13:31 utc | 25

how does a dead guy win an election? well, he won’t do as much harm as whichever dem or republican he was running against. probably mainly name recognition, i would think.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 7 2018 13:54 utc | 27

One little discussed aspect of Social Security is the modest wealth redistribution resulting from disability benefits. The upward trend of disability in previous decades mirrors the decline in working class and lower middle class jobs and income.
SSDI has been a target of the cutters for years and puts Trump in the middle between his conservatives and his more lumpenproletariat base members, an increasing number of whom live off SSDI benefits.
The number of SSDI recipients has tripled since the 1980s.
Democrats should continue to exploit the divergence between GOP policy and the grim reality of a significant share of the Trumpist base.

Posted by: donkeytale | Nov 7 2018 14:09 utc | 29

jo6pac, great point.
2019 presents an opportunity for Democrats to ditch Pelosi and Schumer both. There is a huge need to get younger at those positions.
And even if they are too firmly entrenched in their little geriatric cocoons, a splashy, show offy internal struggle from the left for those spots will provide useful optics.
Republicans have shown over recent years that messy internal struggles are not detrimental but in fact lead to increased interest and turn-out.
Democrats need to stop being deferential to the GOP as well as to each other.

Posted by: donkeytale | Nov 7 2018 14:20 utc | 31

@ Donkeytale
Gee, I thought you claimed you weren’t a Dembot. Yet I’ve never seen such Dembot nonsense.

Posted by: Russ | Nov 7 2018 14:25 utc | 33

Observation and interpretation of external remote phenomena must pass through what I observe as ‘axiomatic filters’.
These cognitive ‘assembly points’ can and very much are shaped and influenced by external forces such as meme promotion, social engineering and controlled narratives. Since the printing press The Map has increasingly eclipsed The Territory.
“I believe it simply because they said so…” That is the blind assumption that governs the core beliefs of most of the people I have known and am surrounded by. Very pivotal principles and assumptions that shape our entire reality are taken to be true with no investigation into available evidence whatsoever.
What have been called ‘checks and balances’ appear to be nothing more than a theatrical stalemate. The two party system unlike any other seems to be a duopoly designed from the outset to allow the plutocratic sliver of society to shape the course of civilization as they please. There is ample evidence of this within easy reach, and troves of documentation if one digs a bit further.
Yet somehow in the USA people cling to the belief that politicians of any stripes are working in their interest. It is as if they cannot bear the notion that it could be otherwise. When confronted with overwhelming evidence of a false flag of epic proportions an acquaintance responded “Ok, but I dont wanna live in world where that’s possible…” And that sums it up, or to cite Mark Twain, It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he has been fooled (appx).
In the world of controlled narratives and directed history, there emerges a dichotomy which manifests in the individual as well as the culture at large. The more extreme the example the more clear cut this divide is. September 11 2001 is a prime example of this: has the individual questioned the official conspiracy theory (911 commission) or have they waded through the quagmire of mi-dis-info and winnowed out something more plausible. One cannot have it both ways. Apollo missions are somewhat similar, and illuminate the human need to hold onto a narrative no matter what the evidence to the contrary. Often with events such as these the knee-jerk reaction is something to the effect that such trickery would be impossible because SOMEBODY would say something! This response is symbolizes the slamming of the door: “I dont wanna hear it!” “That’s just crazy!”
Thus it is with the USAn political process. A citizen has either looked behind the curtain or they are glued to the tube seeing which horse is gonna win this time. It’s not as though Divide and Rule(tm) isn’t in the manual! It’s not as though policy hasn’t essentially remained the same despite which color controls more turf. Sure, it’s important to throw the masses an emotionally triggered bone. Thus Hope & Change(tm) are embodied in same gender marriage and very little else. Though I am loathe to use the expression ‘studies have shown’ they have revealed that a subject will continue to cling to their original imprint or belief despite evidence presented to them.
From a social engineering perspective this past few decades or so has been rather brilliant. First you have two white collar crime families swapping offices for multiple terms culminating in the latest and by far greatest paradigm shift, GWOT and all the attendant screw turning. Next we drive a wedge further into an already divided population by selecting a half white Harvard attorney with a rather curious background. One of the primary effects was to alienate the southern anglo population and anyone not living in an urban area. Then we swing the pendulum back in the other direction, enraging the other side.
The stroke of genius here is getting the so called lefties to embrace Hate. In addition they fell for the connecting of Russia with the selection of Trump and now all the hybrid warfare policies are cheered on by both sides!
So what will change as a result of this recent round of voting? Very little I would guess. Divisiveness and gridlock combined with additional ratcheting of tensions combined with continued movement toward NeoFeudalism(tm) is more likely than not.

Posted by: Chevrus | Nov 7 2018 14:36 utc | 35

thanks b.. i wasn’t as confident of you as the repub slam dunk.. turns out you got that slightly wrong..
bottom line is nothing is going to change.. it is more gridlock basically when it comes to the usa turning a new page.. ain’t gonna happen…reality has to catch up with the usa and it will at some point..

Posted by: james | Nov 7 2018 14:50 utc | 37

Donkeytale, whose entire internet persona revolved around mocking 3rd parties, stumping for Obama -and then for his policies (and more recently for Sanders oops I mean Clinton or was it Sanders), but hasn’t “…voted since 1974” — Riotous!
Moi otoh, I voted once in my life, for Ross Perot when I was 19. As a joke. See what a state we’re in, World? Send help plz.

Posted by: sejomoje | Nov 7 2018 15:06 utc | 39

Forgot to say, my last comment was directed at Donkeyshill

Posted by: Russ | Nov 7 2018 15:30 utc | 41

b: darn good summary
dumbass: yup! staged combat for the Kool-Aid drinkers like Kavanaugh hearings and the caravan
russ: clever donkey with a stinky ‘tale’
Chevrus: great writing, hope you comment more often
all: lots of other good comments, just can’t mention them all.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 7 2018 15:38 utc | 43

“…….The Democrats will chair all House committees and will run dozens of investigations against President Trump and his administration. They will subpoena his tax records, launch more ‘Russian collusion’ investigations and will question the ethics of Trump administration members. It will be a lot of political theater with little value. With a solid Republican majority in the Senate there is no chance that Trump will be impeached…….”

The most amazing result of this election was the number of women winning seats in the House, principly Democrats. This will have a bearing on the potential nominee for President by the Democrats in 2020 (who I believe will be a woman). Biden might be the most unifying potential candidate to bring together the split Democratic Party, but his age and gender may be a burden in 2020.
I agree that there will likely be endless investigations into the President in the House. However, on Russia-gate the Democrats have a point. Less than 100,000 votes separated Trump and HRC in three key Midwest states which led to the electoral victory for Trump. The release of the DNC emails by the (anti-West and Putin protoge) Julian Assange could have been the deciding factor. This was a calculated gamble by Putin which I believe paid dividends. The Democrats are still smarting from the loss in 2016 – and that wound will fester in the Democraticaly controlled House.

Posted by: craigsummers | Nov 7 2018 15:41 utc | 45

And no one speaks of the fraud, which I’m sure happened beyond the shadow of a doubt. I know that because I worked as an election inspector in my area for 6 years. I had seen things happened which made me change my mind about elections in this country. It is all a racket. I also ran for office too. I’m sure both sides committed fraud in this cycle. And those crimes will never see the light of day. I’m sure Trump wanted this election to turn out as it did. He’s the kind of guy who likes a good fight. All to our detriment. Expect far worse events to happen in these next two years. I pray for our country.

Posted by: Jose Garcia | Nov 7 2018 15:52 utc | 47

P.S. And watch Trump come out as a Democrat in these next 2 years.

Posted by: Jose Garcia | Nov 7 2018 15:55 utc | 49

Posted by: craigsummers | Nov 7, 2018 10:41:27 AM | 47
However, on Russia-gate the Democrats have a point. Less than 100,000 votes separated Trump and HRC in three key Midwest states which led to the electoral victory for Trump.
Would those be the same three Midwest states that Hillary considered herself too good to visit?
You Dembots really ought to look in the mirror and stop looking for non-existent Russian bogeymen under the bed.

Posted by: Russ | Nov 7 2018 16:00 utc | 51

How is release of emails (actual things said by actual democrats revealing their actual thoughts) “interfering” in the elections, but payoffs to politicians by AIPAC and ChiComs is not? Do you have difficulty distinguishing between revealing truths and bribery? Finding out what democrat politicians really think about certain portions of the citizenry is “interfering”? More interference please.

Posted by: c matt | Nov 7 2018 16:07 utc | 53

@55 c matt.. exactly… cs is probably hiding under his orb international desk in fear of the ruskies coming.. oh and that bad julian assange for setting up wikileaks where some truth actually gets out!!! it’s all his and the ruskies fault! what is really sad is these folks can’t see how bent they really are..

Posted by: james | Nov 7 2018 16:16 utc | 55

A dead Republican brothel owner beating a live Democrat tells you all you need to know about American politics. It’s a sick joke.
Ditto the election process. Voting and tally machine that can be easily hacked, no credible chain of custody, floating smart cards, corrupt SOS’s that strip voters rolls, partisan MSM announces the winner but no one can prove it and as you mentioned, the corrosive effects of big money.
Noam Chomsky published a study that demonstrated that the top 2% in the US get everything they want, the top 10% get some of what they want and the other 90% get nothing of a what they want.

Posted by: CD Waller | Nov 7 2018 17:01 utc | 57

The fight for House Speaker will prove instructive. Battles within several states over the electoral process will also be instructive. But the big domestic issue ought to be the federal budget and the need to lop several hundred billion from Empire maintenance and redirect those funds to aiding the commons and commoners, which is opposite of all the recent documents touting the need to increase spending on military so it can be improved.
I don’t see the election’s outcome having any affect on current Imperial policy. I’m curious to see how Trump behaves on the 100th anniversary of The Armistice; May, too. And there’re a host of other events just concluded, ongoing and upcoming that are all aimed at reducing the weight of the Outlaw US Empire upon the world.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 7 2018 17:03 utc | 59

Trump’s domestic policy. Take from the bottom ninety percent and give to the top one percent? That domestic policy?

Posted by: Bob In Portland | Nov 7 2018 17:12 utc | 61

Possibly the most important benefit from the Dems taking control of the House is that they will now be able to keep the Republicans from making cuts to Medicare and Social Security, which they most certainly were planning to do. Those two social benefit programs are extremely popular, even amongst Republicans. Cutting them would, of course, be desirable if you happen to be a private health insurance company or a Wall Street investment bank. It’s a source of constant amazement that Republican voters do not see how they are being exploited to enrich their corporate overlords.

Posted by: Rob | Nov 7 2018 17:23 utc | 63

> Noam Chomsky published a study that demonstrated that the top 2% in the US get everything they want, the top 10% get some of what they want
> and the other 90% get nothing of a what they want.
> Posted by: CD Waller | Nov 7, 2018 12:01:10 PM | 60
I don’t know of any such study by Chomsky, but that is essentially what Gilens and Page 2014 demonstrates:
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Posted by: Ash | Nov 7 2018 17:37 utc | 65

donkeytale says:
How about providing some insight into, say, German politics, now that Merkel is stepping down and the neo-nazis are stepping up
if you want some insight, you’ll have to check your assumptions at the door.

Posted by: john | Nov 7 2018 18:17 utc | 67

Rob
Isnt it cheaper though?
Trump’s Short-Term Health Plan Options Are Cheaper But Cover Less
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/02/trumps_short-term_health_plan_options_are_cheaper_but_cover_less_137700.html
Isnt that discussion solely on the freedom to chose your health care plan?

Posted by: Zanon | Nov 7 2018 18:21 utc | 69

Trump’s sanctions policy is getting major pushback. “France Will Lead EU Drive to Defy Iran Sanctions, Bolster Euro – Minister” and “US Declares War on ‘Troika of Tyranny’ Pushing Them Closer to Russia”. Plus in the past several days I’ve seen reports of another dozen nations to conduct their bilateral trade in their own currencies, the biggest being between Japan and China. Very much under the Beltway radar is the relationship between China and Pakistan, and between Pakistan and its regional neighbors beyond India. Remember the admonishment Trump gave NATO members to increase their war budgets? Well, they were just reminded again, which is to say he was ignored the first time.
IMO, the greatest clash between Congress and Trump will be over the conduct of Imperial Policy, not domestic issues as the latter will remain gridlocked. The Outlaw US Empire can’t escalate its confrontation with the world much higher than it has short of a hot war–and a hot war is one the Empire will lose as it can’t win one against any of several peer militaries, including Iran. (If it uses nukes, then we all lose.) Oh and guess what Saudi did yet again–tortured another journalist to death.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 7 2018 18:58 utc | 71

In an historic First, Ranked Choice Voting will decide a Congressional election. Elsewhere, there’s some elaborate speculation on how a meeting between Ocasio-Cortez and her allies with D party establishment will go down. Lots of newly elected, courageous minority women have enough numbers to form their own caucus that will surely push back against the BS spouted by Pelosi and Schumer. Together with Tulsi Gabbard and her allies, this new group will bear watching as they’re too many in number to all be frozen out of choice committee positions–AND–they might even be enough to keep Pelosi from becoming Speaker again.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 7 2018 19:27 utc | 73

@76 Not sure where Nancy Pelosi stands on gender issues but she will need to get along with any new group of minority women.
Perhaps she could start an Anti-White Male caucus.

Posted by: dh | Nov 7 2018 19:45 utc | 75

@JohnnyHeald
Hey Johnny! We’ve already been through this, you knucklehead:

LOL Johnny. When your opponents use your propaganda, they GAIN credibility. Using your own propaganda with a knowledgeable audience REDUCES your credibility. No one would do that unless they want to show off their work – like YOU, Johnny.

I know how proud you are of your survey propaganda, Johnny. You write about it in your bio: “[Johnny] … counts his work in Iraq, Somalia and Syria as some of his greatest achievements….” But you just look foolish when pushing that crap when we known that it’s biased.
Seriously, Johnny you’d have better social media success by telling us about your life and quit the propaganda blather. No one’s buyin’ it.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 7 2018 19:50 utc | 77

dh @78–
Pelosi’s akin to Hillary Clinton except when she’s up for election, although a bit more circumspect. She’s a traitor to the constitution she swore to uphold by refusing to allow impeachment of Bush and Obama while helping to bail out the Banksters. Politically, she should have died in 2006.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 7 2018 20:01 utc | 79

@82 Well she does oppose the embargo on Cuba and she’s on record as being against changing the Iran nuclear deal. On the other hand I think she called Putin a thug.
But I’m sure the success of minority women candidates will not be wasted on her. She’s a shrewd politician and tough as nails. It will be interesting to see how she handles it.

Posted by: dh | Nov 7 2018 20:17 utc | 81

This is a must watch Jimmy Dore show, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University lays out how Obama and Trump have made a mess of Syria and caused the deaths of half a million people, the panel on MSMBC are stunned into silence by this truth telling..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2TRzA2ezk

Posted by: Harry Law | Nov 7 2018 20:27 utc | 83

How does a dead guy win an election?
Posted by: Johny Conspiranoid | Nov 7, 2018 7:50:08 AM | 18
If regulations allow for that, any entity can be registered as a valid option for voters, and in this case, the regulation required being a life citizen of some minimal age at the time of registering and subsequent death was not a cause to de-register. The damage is limited in such cases because members of legislatures have to give some appearances of being humans to vote, so one would need at least a realistically looking robot, e.g. Marco Rubio. If too many legislators are dead, there may be problems with quorum requirements.
craigsummers vs Jackrabbit
Personally, I have no idea who are the two. In favor of Jackrabbit, I have seen jackrabbits so I can imagine how does he look, but in my parts I could see deer, grouse, but to craigsummerses, so to me it is an arbitrary combination of alphanumerics (only lower case English letters for some reason). It is irrelevant if cs is an actual Craig Summers or a passingly well informed specimen of marine life (say, an octopus). One think I like about him that he formulates his argument differently in different posts, IMHO he is closer to a human than to a troll. Addressing his arguments may be a valid pursuit.
cs seems to be fond of ORB, and he has a bit of justification, other polls are harder to access — I need to renew my library privileges or pay 42 USDs per article. The numbers he cites are selected with a larger bias than exhibited by ORB, and once he likes the numbers he makes no allowances of their limited reliability. I did not notice any disclosure of demographic proportions among the persons interviewed by ORB, and such proportions are the first thing to check if you want to evaluate the reliability of a poll.
Interestingly, in 2018 ORB stopped providing numbers about FSA, so whoever the clients are, they gave up on the usefulness of that acronym. Another interesting tidbit is that of the foreign countries and alliances, only Turkey and Russia are not completely reviled, and the differences between the opinions about those two are within statistical error (3% for a sample of 1000).

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Nov 7 2018 20:32 utc | 85

Happy to see Sessions gone. How will Newsome govern California is an excellent question, IMO, as he could become the #1 D challenger in 2020, and he sounds like that’s what he wants: “In California, ‘we don’t demean, we don’t discriminate and we don’t demoralize. We don’t separate families and we don’t lock kids in cages … There’s a reason why California’s dream is America’s leading brand. Because California’s dream has always been and always will be too big to fail and too powerful to bully.'” Although he has tempered such bullish promotion with accurate observations that lead to tough questions: “We are living in the richest and the poorest state in America. How can that possibly be in an economy as robust as ours?” Perhaps his biggest challenge will be healthcare:
“In September 2017, Newsom told the California Nurses Association convention in San Francisco, ‘You have my firm and absolute commitment as your next governor that I will lead the effort to get it done. We will get universal health care.'”
I’ll admit to liking Oregon’s political scene better than that of my home state, although there are times I miss it. Newsome seems to be unmentioned by BigLie Media; guess the Deep State doesn’t want him to become a nationally known name.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 7 2018 20:47 utc | 87

One potential worry in both the extensive Democratic and Republican political criminal cesspool would be that another wealthy populist-esque candidate for the Presidency will emerge in the wake Trump’s faux populism to come closer to the real thing. ….
Posted by: Robert Snefjella | Nov 7, 2018 3:32:12 PM | 87
Apart from trying to divine inner mental processes of the political leadership of the two major parties, what is this “real thing” that you mention?
Now let me quote our “in-house populist, Anton Worter”
“only The Board could determine what the ultimate cap on that tax was, up to $400 a ton, or an
astounding $8.67 carbon surcharge on your $12 a gallon gas at the pump, as demanded by the IPCC,
an unelected, unanswerable, unaudited supra-governmental Third Temple of Scientocracy.”
The actual initiative on the ballot was about $15/ton of Carbon to be incremented $2 per year, so it would take more than 192 years to reach $400 per ton, and the proposal seemed to make no provisions for inflation. At the start the revenue collected would be about 1% of the state budget, hardly onerous. Gasoline would be still cheaper than in British Columbia, the initial surcharge would be under 5 cents per gallon, 10 cents after 8 years, 15 cents after 16 years etc.
It is also possible that I read a misprint, and the levy is $15/ton of CO2, i.e. 3 times larger. Then it would initially increase state revenue by 3%, initial surcharge on gasoline would be about 13c/gallon etc. Gasoline would be still cheaper than in British Columbia, and the law could have some instantaneous positive potential. For example, people would be spared buying gasoline diluted/mixed with ethanol if they paid a minute extra amount — slightly complicated because ethanol has some “fossil content” and lower energy value, so ethanol-free gasoline would give more mileage.
In the same time, Washingtonians would consider buying vehicles that properly represent their daily needs, and hybrid vehicles if they live in urban areas (hybrids are particularly efficient in stop-go traffic) and a plethora of energy saving options, and non-carbon energy sources like my favorite, nuclear.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Nov 7 2018 21:15 utc | 89

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Posted by: Typepad Support | Nov 7 2018 22:44 utc | 91

@ 92 again: You’ve picked a very dynamic electricity producing method as your favorite: For a vivid illustration of the wonders of nuclear energy do an internet search for the vistas of tens of millions of large black plastic bags filled with radioactive material neatly arranged as far as the eye can sea along the shores of Japan.
Or if I may be so bold, https://www.countercurrents.org/snefjella280516.htm

Posted by: Robert Snefjella | Nov 7 2018 23:15 utc | 93

Democrats betrayed the working man by taking bribes from Capital to get on board with screwing worker unions like the Republicans. As such, their blue collar worker base moved to the redneck Republicans and Fox News which blames all their ills on “Mexican” labor. Which they believe.
Made a thin base of (some, mostly “out”) LGBT gays, intellectuals, (some) college students, (some) public school teachers clinging to the last surviving worker unions, males and females concerned about reproductive and other liberal rights.
In foreign policy, both parties are the same warmongering, Israel ass kissers. Also favor police state, anti-constitutional data-mining seizure of citizens’ personal papers and effects.
So there’s no daylight there between them in many ways.

Posted by: fast freddy | Nov 7 2018 23:44 utc | 95

Piotr@92
“The actual initiative on the ballot was about $15/ton of Carbon to be incremented $2 per year, so it would take more than 192 years to reach $400 per ton”
Thats how they sucker you in. In 1913 when they established the income tax it was a maximum 5% that kicked in on 5000 dollars a year (about 150,000 a year income today). At the same time they approved tax free foundations for the rich to protect themselves and get their support. Most people didnt care thinking it was a tax on the rich.
By the end of the War after some incremental revisions which slip through under the radar most everyone was taxed , with a maximum rate of 90% for the top income earners (who pursued capital gains instead of wage income) that stayed high until JFK lowered it to 55% (about that, my memory fails me)

Posted by: Pft | Nov 7 2018 23:55 utc | 97

@ Jackrabbit – What proof do you have that the craigsummers troll is this Johnny Heald person from ORB? Just the fact that he cited a poll? CS is a known commodity over at The Intercept and he’s been known to cite any poll or think tank publication that backs his continual parroting of Nikki Haley and State Department propaganda. I’m not convinced. Heald is British, Summers seems to be coming from an American angle.

Posted by: Tom_Collins | Nov 7 2018 23:59 utc | 99