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I think Beto has a chance. I don't think he will win. Six years ago Cruz won 56.6-40.5 (Two other candidates shared had the other percent). Cruz won by 1.2 million votes. Texas' population has grew more than 2 million from 2012 to 2017. I don't know how close people think it's going to be, but it's going to be closer than a lot of people think.

 

The problem, though, is Trump and Co. claimed there weren't any conversations with Russians, and then got caught. When they were caught, they claimed they were nothingburgers, where they talked about adoption, or the state of the Nats, or something innocuous. Turns out, they lied about that as well. Then, when caught, they claim it is a witch hunt, and it's all the media's fault that they were caught lying.

They're bringing a lot of their problems on themselves.

 

It’s a US Constitution thing.

Revisionist History Podcast

 

I think Beto will lose by about 10 points. But Harris County is turning blue. Clinton beat Trump by 162,000 votes while Obama beat Romney by 1,000. At what point do the Democrats pick up some congressional seats. I also what point congressional seats start to flip.

 

I was out yesterday. Anything interesting happen here?

Kind of wish we had a daily SJ summary - way too many pages to go wading back through.

 

Someone actually said that we need to find the nuance in Trump's speeches. Give me a fucking break.

I'm not all in on the left's total hysteria, but that man isn't smart or eloquent enough to speak in any sort of nuanced tone.

 

Nuanced language of the Rosenstein impeachment articles:

 

This is a stunt. Pure political theater and posturing.

 

I'll take a trade truce. A lot of people will be happy and relieved to get one. That said, how long will it be before Trump gets back to a microphone while he's pissed off about something or needing to throw out a red meat distraction? He has a history of doing things like this and then turning over the apple cart two days later.

Why Trump unexpectedly blinked on trade, Putin - CNNPolitics


"It would be huge news if the US and Europe ever agreed to get to the zero tariffs, zero subsidies and zero barriers standard that both leaders proposed on Wednesday.
But it was also clear that the deal unveiled on Wednesday was a truce -- rather than a peace treaty. It averted the trade war Trump had effectively started -- and included a vague commitment for talks toward a real but distant goal. Juncker, though, said both sides agreed to hold off on future tariffs while the talks were taking place -- in an apparent victory for Europe.

In that sense, the deal appeared more of a fix for a problem Trump had created rather than a genuine breakthrough on thorny underlying issues. Given the unpredictable nature of the President's diplomacy it's uncertain how long the trade amnesty will last -- once the script is no longer in front of him and when he is fixating at European nations he referred to this month as foes."

 

Agreed. All along, from the campaign until now, Trump has always been his own worst enemy.
My point, and maybe I didn't make it clear or it got lost along the way, was that the media has been on a witch hunt -- perhaps justified, since there does seem to be some odd discrepancies in the various threads of the investigation -- and will collectively orgasm if anything ever sticks to Trump. In its zealousness to get there, it's blowing up some really trivial stuff along the way and creating a Chicken Little syndrome in a lot of people.

 

This is a witch hunt. People lost in a fog of delusions.

 

After flip-flopping more than a fish out of water in the wake of Helsinki, that's the new political daily double: When will Trump walk back his walk back to his original position?