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TYT are just all about the number of women, or women of colour, or openly gay candidates..such a sick way to look at the world, skin colour determines who you are. They're also bragging about how many people they have watching laughing at all the people downvoting and trolling the heck outta their channel.
Here is the perspective.
Well financed TYT with a full studio and 4.2 million subscribers. 70K viewers
Long-haired dorky looking bloke Styx in his own office, 300K subscribers, 25K viewers.
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ABC have called that Democrats will take the house
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@rembrandt said in US Politics:
TYT are just all about the number of women, or women of colour, or openly gay candidates..such a sick way to look at the world, skin colour determines who you are. They're also bragging about how many people they have watching laughing at all the people downvoting and trolling the heck outta their channel.
Here is the perspective.
Well financed TYT with a full studio and 4.2 million subscribers. 70K viewers
Long-haired dorky looking bloke Styx in his own office, 300K subscribers, 25K viewers.
Yeah you're really a success there TYT.Watched a bit of both. Christ that Chunk Ogor is repulsive. And of course the only reason you vote for the Republicans is racism and fear.
Stix was strangely quite absorbing. Despite looking like Nesferatu and having nothing but a web cam in his cave, his analysis was more entertaining and insightful than any of the major networks and certainty TyT. Shows you can't always judge a book by it's cover.
As for the result. It was pretty much as expected. No impeachment this time round.
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Well the polls were off but overall not by a huge amount. Republicans likely to end up +3/4 in the senate which coupled with the lack of a much vaunted 'blue wave' will leave them optimistic. Democrats take the house as expected by almost all polling, there is an argument that this will actually favour Trump by 2020 with Pelosi getting a good amount of airtime to display some of her more unhingedness. Also gives something of an excuse if certain campaign promises aren't met in time.
And on the topic of campaign promises, this is a very big one:
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The first thing the Dem House will do is shut down any investigation into FISA or surveillance abuse that Nunes and co. were investigating. There is, however, a lame duck period in which the Republicans on the Intel committee and Oversight committee might leak things.
Of course, once Trumps farts, they will vote to impeach (though it will not get past the Senate) The Dems will be looking to further their probes into Trump. (tax returns perhaps)
However firmer control of the Senate gives Trump more power over appointments. I think Sessions and Rosenstein will be fired and Trump will look for the new AG to order an investigation into "Spygate". This will be his best shot of trying to discredit Democrats.
He'll now govern by executive order, like Obama.
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The Dems wake up in a worse position IMO. It's easy to snipe from opposition but will be pretty brutal to have just enough power to be obstructive but not enough to control the agenda.
Will be interesting to see if Trump does a better job of prosecuting an obstructionist house to the public then what Obama was able to do.
Mixed bag in terms of how things project. Dems must be dejected they weren't able to tip over Florida and surrendered Indiana but then the inroads in Virginia and Texas must be beyond their wildest dreams. Speaking of Texas, I'm ambivelant to Beto but it does seem like he has the potential to develop broad enough support to carry the state at some point. If a Democrat presidential candidate were able to carry Texas (in addition to California, NY, Ill and NJ which are virtual slam dunks) then they would be impossible to bowl.
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@rotated said in US Politics:
The Dems wake up in a worse position IMO. It's easy to snipe from opposition but will be pretty brutal to have just enough power to be obstructive but not enough to control the agenda.
Will be interesting to see if Trump does a better job of prosecuting an obstructionist house to the public then what Obama was able to do.
Depends on how smart they are. If the house of reps passes legislation that has widespread support (ie reaches into opposition territory) and the Senate blocks it, they can claim a moral high ground and undermine Trump.
It would be seen as an obstructionist Senate instead of house.Trick is to pick the right battles.
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Some “blue wave.”
Senate grows for Trump. Congressional Dems may want to pursue, but looks like impeachment is off the table.
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A couple more interesting points. For the most part in battle ground races Dem's who opposed Kavanaugh's appointment have been ousted. In addition every competitive race that project Veritas targeted with its undercover journalism resulted in success for the Republicans..could be a sign of what we might see a whole lot more of in 2020.
They also released videos throughout the day with some concerning footage. What I don't understand however is that they are arguing that illegals are being encouraged to vote as long as they are registered..but how do you get registered if you are an illegal? Am I missing a part of the puzzle here somewhere or is this really an actual issue?
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@crucial said in US Politics:
Depends on how smart they are. If the house of reps passes legislation that has widespread support (ie reaches into opposition territory) and the Senate blocks it, they can claim a moral high ground and undermine Trump.
It would be seen as an obstructionist Senate instead of house.Trick is to pick the right battles.
They could also work with him
There was not much distance between Trump and the Democrats for most of his life. It's 2013/2014 when he changed his mind on a few key issues that made him culturally right wing. For example, back in 2012 he was criticising Romneys immigration stance as heartless
The obvious thing they could work on is the infrastructure spend. He wanted to spend $1trillion on infrastructure.. it's similar to Obama's $800billion 'Reinvestment Act' from 2009.
Trump wants to build stuff.. and the Dems would be delighted to target the spending to political allies (like 2009)I can see that happening if Pelosi can keep her party in line (she is good at that, she got career politicians to vote against their personal survival in the Obamacare vote)
Dems + Trump, it would be hard to see that bill not progressingAnother left field one would be healthcare.
Trump seems disinterested in the subject and made a mess of leading the Obamacare repeal. His few comments on healthcare have been well to the left of most Dems. I think he would support any Democrat bill as long as it was spun as removing Obamacare. The Senate would be a shit fight -
@catogrande said in US Politics:
@jegga That's brilliant isn't it. "Who did you lose to"? "Oh some dead guy"
Do you think it’ll affect Ms Dare business? She’s got a bit of a reputation now , could go one way or the other .
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I wonder whether now is the time for Pelosi to go? If they plan to rebrand themselves, I wonder whether they want to put new faces up front I agree that she has plenty of skills, but I also wonder whether they could use the new situation to get a face out there. Many ran trying to distance themselves from her too.
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I think that getting them back to the house should be the point where she steps aside and becomes the back room player. That puts her in a great position for a future cabinet spot (were they get back to the presidency) and she could be the person who drives the choice of all new people. Seems short-sighted to me.
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@jegga said in US Politics:
@catogrande said in US Politics:
@jegga That's brilliant isn't it. "Who did you lose to"? "Oh some dead guy"
Do you think it’ll affect Ms Dare business? She’s got a bit of a reputation now , could go one way or the other .
She's now at the same position I was in a few years ago in a golf competition. Standing on the first tee and my opponent had only one arm. I knew immediately that whatever happened I was the loser.
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