President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I'm linking some fake account, or have something mixed up, don't I?

 

Matt Whitaker (@MattWhitaker46) | Twitter

 

Don't worry. There'll be a super-sophisticated single-issue voter along any minute to reassure us that this happens all the time and both sides do it and so forth.

I'm sure it's fine.

 

James Woods

 

Crossfit tends to skew conservative. I'm guessing it's because the boxes are small businesses and many Crossfitters are police or military. That and memberships are quite expensive.

 

WHO VETS THESE PEOPLE?

 

Define "lie"

Have a feeling that's gonna come up.

 

“If Jeff Sessions is fired,
there will be holy hell to pay.”
— Lindsey Graham in 2017

 

Graham's no doubt planning on stiffing holy hell in 2018 though...

 

Is that Marty Nothstein the Olympic cyclist?

There are basically two Wisconsins at this point. Madison and Milwaukee vs. the rest of the state, particularly the Milwaukee exurbs known as the WOW (Waukesha-Ozaukee-Washington) counties. Walker lost Madison and Milwaukee by about 140,000 votes apiece. Walker won the WOW counties by about 125K. Those two zones are responsible for roughly half the votes that were cast in Wisconsin last night. Whoever turns those out is going to win more often than not. In other good news for Wisconsin Dems, the incumbent GOP AG appears to be gone.

As a resident of a Wisconsin-adjacent state (OK, Minnesota), I can say that Walker is just an unrepentant asshole. Ted Cruz who smiles more. Walker's undoing is probably the Foxconn deal, in which he basically sold the farm to the iPhone people to build a plant near Racine that has already shrunk considerably since opening and will probably be providing nearly as many jobs for Chinese engineers and Illinoisans (except for the fact that apparently the Chinese engineers don't want to move to Wisconsin because it's cold). The fact that Tony Evers is almost certainly not an asshole is in itself an improvement (in one of the tweets of the night, Evers' campaign Tweeted a shot of him playing Euchre [which is a card game with a cult following in the Upper Midwest] with some folks while waiting for election results to come in. In fact, Evers (a survivor of esophageal cancer roughly 10 years ago) appears to be downright boring.

One thing that I am interested in is that both he and the Minnesota governor-elect, Tim Walz, have on-the-ground experience as teachers. I hope that will lead to better days in public education. We'll see.

You did get Mel Carnahan, though another one that has some relevance is Nick Begich, who disappeared in a plane crash three weeks before the election for Alaska's lone House seat in 1972, and still won by 12 points. After he was declared legally dead, the guy he beat, Don Young, won the special election and survived a decent challenge to continue to be the dean of the House to this day.

Honestly, I think football (or any high level team sport) puts so much of an emphasis on following orders and hierarchy that for many it's a natural transition.

 

New Democratic House member Alldred was a D lineman at Baylor.