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Not sure how you make the logical leap from burning food to burning books.... I guess they just want to complain that people are burning 'ethnic goods' and compare them to Nazis just because.

More akin to people burning sports jerseys in protest, I wouldn't compare 100% replaceable products with potentially irreplaceable books. Though with todays digital print media, the information in books are somewhat less likely to be lost forever, but still, not every book has been digitized.

Did the vote go the same way both times? The article doesn’t really say. It does give them a reason to say ‘Go back and do it right’ when the obstruction is clearly political.

I'm baffled that Ivanka have a position important enough to need using secured gov. email. But if that's the case. Lock her up! Lock her up! I doubt if he would do that, but Trump should enforce the full scale of the law on Ivanka. This would shut up his opponents and scare the living crap out of Hillary. Win Win. That's nepotism for ya.

Some probably will just to be ironic, but yeah, it just shows the hypocrisy surrounding the emails.

Basically just another 'politician says something really dumb on twitter' or 'politician tries the equivalent of ****posting on twitter and fails'. Also, he has said he's going to run or is planning on it, but hasn't officially declared yet I don't believe.

The links to each tweet are provided—just click on the timestamp. https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1063527635114852352 https://archive.fo/nYrBL Sounds like people taking possible sarcasm WAY out of context and triggerraging like flaming snowflakes (which could actually physically work if the ice was methane. Said flaming snowflakes would be ephemeral anyhow). I wonder what the difference is between the two if they found a similar bill unconstitutional two years ago? Also, Kasich isn't actually out of office until January, so, he could still veto it.

My first thought was 'where's the actual quotation that is being referred to?' since the target of the lashout isn't actually shown. You said yourself that you don't trust dailywire anyway, so....

@sonicmage: Impressive slippery slope strawman. *slow clap*

It's not even a mainstream thing AFAIK, stop trying to make it sound like it's mainstream. Yes, you'll say 'but people are talking about it!', but theres people talking about doing extreme Ayn Rand style economics, doesn't mean it's neccesarily mainstream.

They couldn't figure out how to use their own website? *facepalm* I can't tell whether that is either incompetence in web designing (Gov sites, go figure), incompetence on the part of the people, or perhaps even both. And yeah, one wonders why she (and possibly the whole staff if it's a deeper problem) hasn't been fired already.

@sonicmage: So, do you REALLY think every LGBT person is a pedophile?

You do realize that would mean a near total ban on guns, right? Not neccesarily near total though, just strict laws like the UK has for example and possibly some gun confiscation. The reason why UK police mostly don't carry guns is because they don't need to use them because there aren't all that many guns in the UK. You can't have the police have no guns while regular people have guns, it's a chicken and egg problem.

Kasich might decide to, theres certianly a consistuency who want their conservatism back.

It begins!..... We've got our second person officially running for President in 2020, a guy with a spanish sounding name that isn't actually latino. He may actually be part latino for all I know as I know nothing about the guy. Only time I've ever heard his name is from an article a week or two ago saying that he said 'People will know my name!'. Any West Virginians around here that can shed a bit of light on him? The first one is some Maryland lawmaker named John Delaney or something who entered last year, but candidates are REALLY going to start coming out of the woodwork to announce as soon as they can. **Yes, I know technically the first is actually Trump, but we're talking about challengers.

Haven't see the Florida ballot in a long time. But if folks are too stupid to figure out how to connect a line with e pencil or find the polling place on their voters cards and the numerous mailings that start coming months before the elections we may be better off not actualizing their political preferences. I am kidding of course. But it is healthy to be VERY suspicious of "found" ballots especially in counties that heavily favor one party. And most especially when the election supervisor of that country refuses to show them to anyone. Even as staunch a partisan as you would admit that stinks to high heaven. I read this: https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/11/10/florida-officially-begins-machine-recount-in-three-statewide-races-8907663 and I see what you're talking about. On top of that, there are three reports of apparent boxes of ballots (including or in addition to the one I mentioned, I don't know) left behind in polling stations. The elections commissioner there also has a history (which I've read elsewhere as well, which is why I agree that theres something weird going on with Broward) of violating things and just being incompetent. So, the tl;dr here is 'Broward county is a mess and the election commissioner there is responsible'. It's also notable that Miami-Dade, which is larger and arguably even bluer than Broward, did theirs quickly and without problems. Not sure what is or was up with the Palm Beach county issues, but the main wtf attention is centered on Broward atm.

Oh, I'm sure 100% of professors and teachers out there are 100% liberal But Texas will never turn blue, people like their guns too much here True, it'd be more purple than blue. A Democrat running on a moderate platform could plausibly win there, however, I've also read that if Beto O'Rourke had a better ground organization (and possibly shifted to center a bit), he could have won.

I really doubt that teacher in Broward had some sort of political agenda, but if they really are leaving boxes behind, then they have a problem. Whether it's because they lost track of them or because they intentionally left some boxes behind to be uncounted and 'found' later. That kind of voter fraud is something that ID cards won't ever fix. Haven't heard anything myself about the Broward county election supervisor refusing to show ballots to anybody, but there's definetly something going on with it when you look at undervotes for Broward compared to other counties. 538 has a sample of the ballot from Broward https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/something-looks-weird-in-broward-county-heres-what-we-know-about-a-possible-florida-recount/ and the maps can be found on https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-election-broward-unusual-total-20181108-story.html and elsewhere. Look at Georgia, lots of shady **** happening with the Republican party. Don't know whether there actually are similar happening with the Democrats, but both sides are definetly accusing each other.

The one where a teacher found a box of provisional ballots at a school used as a polling location in Broward or the one at the Miami (or maybe it was Miami-Dade county, forget offhand) postal proccessing center? In both cases, there are some serious organizational errors that need to be resolved. And yeah, theres a bunch of problems related to ballot design in Broward.

Florida recounts have begun for three races, Senate, Governor, and Agriculture Commissioner.

You'd think assassins would get paid for a successful job rather than paid before. Though I suppose they might ask for some cash up front. I'd suppose you'd also include everything funded with kickstarters, gofundmes, and stuff like that.

McSally is the Republican I'm referring to.... I said they'd be replacing a Republican with a Republican otherwise.

It wouldn't actually have added to the gains anyway because they'd be replacing a Republican with a Republican (although completely different flavors of Republican) otherwise. It does however, subtract from the gain that they've already gotten. However, it can't be called yet because they're still counting and as said on politico https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/09/sinema-mcsally-arizona-senate-race-982562 , it could still go either way. Also, this is rich (from the previously linked article): "Republicans filed a lawsuit to halt a practice in two counties where officials were checking signatures on early mail ballots that did not match voter files. Arizona GOP chairman Jonathan Lines and Sen. Jon Kyl both accused Democrats of potentially disenfranchising rural voters because officials only in Maricopa County and Pima County — home to Tucson — were checking the signatures." If they're going to complain about others using the same tactics they use, maybe they should stop doing it on their side? Yes, I know hypocrisy abounds, but hey, do onto others as you would have others do onto you....

Also, anybody remember those 'butterfly ballots' and the ballot desigh problems in Florida in 2000? Some screwup with ballot design is causing issues in the same county (or counties) that had problems back in 2000.... https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/politics/broward-county-ballot-difference/index.html

I'm one of those who said it didn't look like a wave (probably because of expectations), yes, but I'm registered as independent, and I have Democrat leanings as you've probably observed before. You do have a point though in that while it didn't look as impressive as people expected for the House (getting 35 or so in one fell swoop is still impressive on it's own) and the Senate was painful (this years map was ALWAYS going to be painful no matter what), but there are bright spots, the primary wave kind of went somewhat overlooked in the state level where it was big since all the focus was on Federal level and Governor races. Arizona looks like it might go to Sinema, but the votes over there are still being counted.