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I went to a Weather Channel page yesterday. The copy I was looking for, but there were four radar scopes along the bottom. I scrolled down. One was Florence, one was another hurricane forming in the gulf, one was another hurricane rolling toward Hawaii, and the last was another forming off Africa. Two to Hawaii in a year? I don't remember that *ever* happening.

 

More record growth:

 

Eric Trump: Bob Woodward Made ‘Three Extra Shekels’ With CNN Appearance

woodward is very shifty and shrewd in his marketing of the book

 

Like father, like son.

 

Remember when that Trump Cultist (who posed as a baseball fan) ran around here telling us that the Democratic party was already handing the next elections over to the GOP because it was nominating a bunch of "leftist socialists?"

The Democratic establishment roars back

What are the lessons of the 2018 early-state primaries? Democrats are sick of losing. In statewide contests, they didn’t back hard-line Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton-aligned candidates so much as candidates who had a message they care about and a solid campaign operation.

Even typically left-leaning Iowa Democrats ushered in a more centrist candidate who seemed best positioned to win in a general election. And in each of the gubernatorial contests in these states, old-school campaign tactics still seemed to work — the Democrat who spent the most on TV messaging was the victor.

Across the early states, there were only scattered signs that insurgent forces within the Democratic Party were in the driver’s seat. Old-fashioned clout mattered. Harry Reid-backed candidates won in Nevada, and the New Hampshire party establishment dominated Tuesday’s primary there.

 

This is not strictly accurate. Gillum, the Florida gubernatorial nominee, was more "left" than his main rival (not really that much) and was vastly outspent on TV by her.

 

So all of the deficits we've been running for close to 200 years now were just a political tool to screw over the next guy in line?
That's a hell of a long game.

 

The thing is, soaking the rich is a very popular policy and has been in poll after poll for decades, but as long as most members of Congress are rich, it ain't happening. This leaves only unpopular means of reducing the deficit. The average American has Trump's view "just print more money." People say they care about the deficit, but that care ends the very second reducing the deficit requires either higher taxes or reduced benefits and services on and to them personally.

 

<Beeping sound of a large truck in reverse>

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(Not sure why the link changed to that. Anyway, Dimon is backtracking on his taunts of beating Trump.)