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To: PBRCat
The Republicans control everything. There are no checks and balances.

Nope. Republicans do not have a Super Majority but, we do have a majority. For many issues, the Democrats can filibuster. Still, for others, Republicans only need a simple majority.

Trump will fill Scalia's vacancy and all the judicial vacancies.

Yes he will and at least two other seats by simple majority which, Republicans control.

What does this mean for the press? He despises the press. His supporters joke about lynching reporters.

Trump is the most savvy person when it comes to the press and he actually likes them and he can play them. No one is going to be lynched.

I get a text from my Bernie bro telling me that Trumpsters are jubilant.

We should be excited and Jubilant. If you won, you would be as well.

I'd like to crack a joke. I haven't felt this much political gloom and doom since the Reagan landslide of 1980.

Really? Seems to me the United States flourished through Reagan, the world was finally freed of the USSR and many concentration camps, operating as Soviet Satellite States, were finally freed.

But this may be worse. Reagan at least offered hope.

I feel hopeful.

Trump is dark and mean and foreboding. Always talking about locking people up. Or beating them up. Or investigating his opponents and punishing his enemies.

You fear someone who will take no guff from anyone. You wanted some pushover. That's gotta be tough.

20 posted on 11/09/2016 4:00:24 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

“the world was finally freed of the USSR and many concentration camps, operating as Soviet Satellite States, were finally freed.”

For those of the author’s worldview, that was a horrendous catastrophe!!!! /s;)


25 posted on 11/09/2016 4:08:43 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Vendome
The Republicans control everything.

But consider that. They are Republicans. How have Republicans used their majorities in Congress or their occupation of the White House in the last 16 years? Being all Republicans offers faint hope and should not concern the lefties terribly except that the Left is about Us vs THEM even more than Ideology.

38 posted on 11/09/2016 4:30:28 PM PST by arthurus (Hillary's campaiIt would be nice if four leftie judges and Kennedy would all resgn is getting shaky)
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To: Vendome

“I’d like to crack a joke. I haven’t felt this much political gloom and doom since the Reagan landslide of 1980.”

Yeah, who would want to go back to the 80’s, we were all working.


48 posted on 11/09/2016 6:33:41 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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