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  1. When Republicans talk about Nationalism, they are talking about all the tribal factions that make up the US and point to them as Americans. Those who say such things are dog whistles for whites, simply say so because thats how they want to view everything. Some people simply like to look at everything as tribal or identity politics. I am not going to subscribe to that notion. I do not and am not going to treat people differently because their not like me. For many foreigners and 1st gen immigrants I've worked with I've respected whatever traditions or customs they might have. No reason not to that I've seen. The reason the US has become one of the richest and greatest countries is still the melting pot concept. That does not mean people can't keep whatever traditions and customs they want, but they also learn to adapt to American society. Anyone ever go to Italian festivals, or Greek or Russian or Mexican or whatever. Their usually great and people don't say oh, you can't do that anymore because its not American enough. Instead such things are celebrated. So in this case we can have our cakes and eat them too!
  2. Simply blaming guns is like blaming cars for drunk drivers. There are things that can be done but the primary thing imo, is trying to identify people who might do this type of thing. There are some warning signs for some of these people at least.
  3. She's lucky she didn't break her hip. Much worse. But ribs are painful. It really sucks getting old.
  4. ok, so there was no "assault" here period. They shouldn't even said that. But it was Acosta not giving the mic to the white house aid, and instead thinking he could stand there and make a speech and control the press briefing. Acosta was entirely out of line. There is NO defending Acosta on that period. Some of you on here act like you do which really shows how biased you are.
  5. Yeah a disappointing game. Pokes play Oregon St. on Sat aftn. See how they do there.
  6. I've talked to lots of people that don't necessary like Trump at all, but the do like many of his policies. Trumps economic policies have helped to uplift the entire economy from taxes to jobs to trade deals. The other big things are immigration and then judges. Its pretty easy to see why people support Trump. There's no rocket brain surgery involved here!
  7. oh no, taking illegals and hiding them in your basement and defying the law would be much more patriotic right?
  8. partly because of politics. Healthcare in general. NO WAY would I drop my healthcare for a state govt healthcare program which is what Polis wants to do. Colorado basically voted NO on every tax or spending increase from what I saw. So their hamstrung by what they can do.
  9. I have a great performing 1 year old HP Elitebook with an i7 and 16GB RAM, 256 SSD. (care of my work) But my Windows 10 crashes on me at least every couple weeks and sometimes it won't come back up after being sleep mode. Windows still has its problems. So I think Mac is a better laptop. My home PC is a Win10 with new Ryzen 7 and a AMD RX580 graphics card - for home PC and games - PC is best.
  10. Colorado redistricting is going to now be done by a completely independent counsel, not by the state legislature. Colorado flipped 1 state Senate seat for a 18-17 adv. And really, despite a lot more money by Dem Polis and a poor campaign by the Republican, Polis didn't win by as much as I thought he would. Regardless, Polis will likely push his state healthcare agenda next year and his non-fossil fuel agenda. I'm already looking to move out of Colorado.
  11. Oh, so can someone explain how did Vermont, NH, Mass and Maryland end up electing Republican governors? On the Senate side Republicans didn't even come close in those states. Republicans lost Kansas and Wisconsin, for different reasons. They did hold onto Iowa, Ohio and Florida and likely Georgia.
  12. Regardless of who is speaker, are the Dems going to realize that the US Senate is likely to stay Republican for the next 4 years and Trump isn't going anywhere for at least 2 years. They can obstruct till their blue but its not going to buy them much if anything. They will have to compromise with Republicans on all the things they want. Healthcare, immigration, budgets and spending etc.
  13. Well many people think once a fetus gets to a certain point, with a beating heart it is a person and deserves to live just as a 3 month old baby does. Hey, I used to be completely pro choice and I thought it was completely ok for a woman to do that. Then I realized that I was wrong!
  14. Maxine Waters is about as anti Banking as it gets. Cummings is untrustworthy and completely overlooks anything if a Dem is doing it. Schiff is nothing but a political hack. None of these 3 are going to do anything to benefit their voters.
  15. If Democrats had their way they would combine most the western states as one and give them 1 token senator and 1 rep.
  16. If "Beto" wasn't a hardcore liberal he would have beat Cruz easily. And on several policies he was hardcore liberal.
  17. Dems already showing some of their true colors by putting Maxine Waters as finance chair of all places , and putting Elijah Cummings as Oversight chair and Adam Schiff the leaker as intelligence chair.
  18. Not the ones with jobs and who pay taxes! "I'm going to vote democrat because I don't like these tax cuts and trade deals" ...
  19. The Dems who hated and many blamed for Hillary's loss, now act like they love him! LOL
  20. you understand that many blue collar dems are on the Trump bandwagon these days right?
  21. ah - ha! Proof this whole voting thing is a scam! They've already decided everything. We're all in the matrix!
  22. Politico did a good story on O’Rourke - if he hadn't been so liberal in his voting record and things he's said he probably could have beaten Cruz easily. Cruz is just that guy that you could completely agree with everything he says and yet still not like him much. While O’Rourke is pretty much the opposite of that.
  23. I'm just really curious if these races mirror the polls at all. I really don't know how they can poll people anymore effectively.
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