Edit: typing on phones sucks. Sorry for the typos below.
(11-07-2018, 08:05 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Some thoughts:
1. History is history for the reason. No reasonable person expected the GOP to retain control of the house.
2. Looks like we can always count on the panhandle to keep Florida sane.
3. Not sure what is happening to Duval. I will just chalk it up to DeSantis not being the greatest candidate.
4. Real voters don't care what celebrities think. Abrams got smoked like ham and she still refuses to concede.
5. Gridlock in DC for the next two years
6. Will the democrats choose to legislate or investigate? I just don't think they can help themselves. Their choice is crucial for their changes in 2020.
7. Beto raised 70M and still lost. Democrats will still chalk it up as a "win".
8. GOP managed to pick up seats in the senate while getting rid of some never-Trumpers. This is officially Trump's GOP now.
9. I have a sneaky suspicion Trump will nominate his third SCOTUS in this next election cycle.
10. Will Pelosi be speaker or will they let a more sane person do it?
11. Does Mad Maxine being in charge of Wall Street frighten anyone? Imagine the kickbacks her corrupt soul will be getting to just "be invisible"
10. Will the dems bend to what their base wants and impeach Trump? Will they impeach Kavanaugh? Can they be this dumb? Even I don't think they can.
(11-06-2018, 08:41 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: So is the “bigger than a hurricane” threat winning?
A Nor'easter pushed this one off shore, so Florida managed to avoid any damage at all. The fear is that global warming will be sending a lot more of these our way, so getting hit by one is essentially inevitable.
I actually agree with a lot of this. Point by point below because I can:
1. Agreed
2. The Democrats ran a terrible candidate. I think a better candidate would have won given how weak DeSantis is. Wouldn't be shocked if he was another one-term governor given how much of his platform was tied directly to Trump.
3. I agree. DeSantis was a very weak candidate. TBQH, had Adam Putnam cleared the primary, I think he would have put a wig on Gillum and mopped the for with him.
4. Regarding Abrams, I continue to question the legitimacy of that election. Having a candidate in the election running the show is an indefensible conflict of interest, as demonstrated by the baseless allegations days before the election that the Democratic party was attempting to hack the voting system. Many on this board will look at that and say, "Will of course they did, Dems always cheat," but I'm looking at it asking again, why was a participant in the election allowed to control it and make those statements days before the final votes were cast?
5. Democrats can play this one of two ways. They can work with Trump on some things, but mostly pass progressive legislation that Trump won't sign, then use that unwillingness to work with them against Trump in 2020. Or they can immediately go into all kinds of hearings and investigations, then start making noise about impeachment long before Mueller releases his final report. Option one is the best part to victory in 2020. Democrats in Congress are stupid, so they'll default to option 2.
6. See above
7. In many ways, it is, especially when combined with the house races. Democrats have turned large chunks of Texas (including Houston) blue and mounted a very serious challenge to Ted Cruz. The battle is lost, but the war for Texas has just begun.
8. It's been Trump's GOP since 2016. He's just getting the last major opposition out of the way.
9. I don't know. I think Ginsburg will hold on until 2020 before retiring our walking away. Trump may will survive into a second term, but the Senate map is tougher for the GOP than this year's was. Susan Collins is already all but a goner.
10. I would hope Pelosi is out, and she's kind of acknowledged that her time is limited, but "sane" is another story. The Democratic party needs a face and a message in 2020, and despite my hopes for Tulsi Gabbard to be that centrist face, it's probably going to be a far leftist that gets the job.
11. The thought of Maxine Waters being allowed anywhere near the treasury should scare anyone.
10 (the second). I doubt they go after Kavanaugh at this point, unless something new comes up from someone not named Michael Avenatti. Trump is a different story. If they go after him and fail, kiss 2020 goodbye. If there's enough evidence there that Chuck Grassley becomes a 21st century Howard Baker, then that's a different story.
And after 3 hurricanes in 3 years in the Panhandle, global warming is real and it sucks.
