Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

You're very welcome, friend. I loved that class! Did you have Mr. Ewing too?

 

He did, but it was not facilitated by Band.

They were in competition to hit up foundation donors for their own businesses.

 

You guys suck.

 

OK. I was thinking Band was involved somehow.

 

And mentally ill.

 

I am not that big into politics, but I have been fascinated in the last 2 days by Hillary's failure. This is from the Politico story, linked before:

So much of the campaign’s energy was spent explaining inherited issues, they said, like the paid speeches Clinton delivered to Wall Street banks, pay-to-play accusations about the Clinton Foundation, and fallout of Clinton’s decision to set up a private email server at the State Department. “They spent their time protecting her, explaining her, defending her, with all these issues, the speeches, the Foundation, the emails — that became the energy of the campaign,” sighed one longtime Clinton confidante.

 

So Chelsea and hubby aren't worth a billion. But that item says that the Clintons are America's most ambitious political family. Should that be past tense?

 

That's a pretty good sign you chose the wrong candidate.

 

I think it's an old item.

 

Hope those futures traders from Tuesday night are surviving!

Dow ends at record high; indexes post sharp gains for week

 

Maryland sidesteps electoral college

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland officially became the first state on Tuesday to approve a plan to give its electoral votes for president to the winner of the national popular vote instead of the candidate chosen by state voters.

Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, signed the measure into law, one day after the state's General Assembly adjourned.

The measure would award Maryland's 10 electoral votes to the national popular vote winner. The plan would only take effect if states representing a majority of the nation's 538 electoral votes decided to make the same change.

 

The Obama line and the Hillary line are linked together in regards to this election. One or the other can be written off as a momentary lapse, or a rant, or even just a bad line in a speech. Taken together -- and especially once the notion that Hillary's election would serve to preserve Obama's legacy -- they form a pattern that shows a line of thinking within the Democrat party.

I wrote this on the election poll thread, but it's worth repeating: Democrats and liberals, from the top down, spent a lot of time not only belittling the beliefs, way of life and hopes and dreams of a good chunk of America, but actively trying to make them ashamed for having those beliefs and dreams. And then they're stunned when those people they treated with such arrogant disdain turn out in droves to vote against their preferred candidate.
The Democrats, the party of tolerance and inclusion, tried to bully half of America into four more years of that crap. It didn't work. This election was just as much about people finally standing up and punching back after a decade of being told they're assholes. Trump hit a lot of right notes, but the most important thing he did was keep punching back when the usual campaign crap got flung his way. The Deplorables finally had their hero. No one else -- and the primaries showed us this -- on the Republican side could have beaten Hillary. No one. They all broke down when the first bit of mud came their direction. Trump stood there and took it all and kept fighting. Republican voters have been waiting eight years to see that. When they got it, they jumped at the chance to vote for someone who would stand up for himself and, hopefully, for them.