You know who hasn’t gotten enough blame for the GOP’s loss? Steve Stivers. Seriously, he shoveled 20 million into the black hole of VA10 and CO6 when like half of the seats lost where 1-2 point races. They didn’t even put any money at all into CA. What the fuck?

The Rs lost the election in AZ and elsewhere because they did really shitty among older college educated whites.

Keep whistling past the graveyard guys.

If the GOP doesn’t try to win back the suburbs by reining in Trump’s disgraceful language and tweeting then they’re dead as a party.

The Sailer Strategy isn’t sustainable if your bleeding suburban college whites.

I’m starting hate the term “cuck”. It’s basically transmogrified into “anything Internet spergs don’t like”.

Jeff Sessions was a great Attorney General and it sucks the way Trump treated him. Sessions was a far better man than Trump could ever dream of being.

The GOP has no plan. No ideas or agenda become enriching the already super-rich. Trump tried to put them on the right path but they just won’t learn.

Watching all these assholes like Kevin Yoder, Mia Love and Tom MacArthur lose has been schadenfreude in a number of ways.

It’ll be Whitaker.

Kobach should run for the Senate.

Trump has nobody to blame for these past two years of failure but himself. He alienated potential voters by constantly acting like a prole and a lunatic on Twitter, while he ignored the legislative process and got rolled time and again.

Trump fucked the party over by pushing DeSantis. Putnam wasn’t perfect but he’d be winning easily right now.

King endorsed Faith Goldy for mayor of Toronto and had the gall to ask for the Polish perspective on the Holocaust on the Jews’ dime. This prompted Steve Stivers to throw a bitchfit and cut him off.

Stivers by the way occupies an extremely gerrymandered seat in which his 70% Clinton town is joined with swaths of farmland giving him a safe seat.

Hawley is a terrible candidate who doesn’t want to bother showing up at GOP functions and meeting voters. He’ll probably win anyway but this shouldn’t have been close.

For that matter IN shouldn’t have been close either. My goodness the GOP nominated some stinkers this year.

I’ll just add that the one thing I really want to see is Joe Manchin lose. I seriously despise him more than untraliberals like Tammy Baldwin.

It’s almost like Paul Ryan is a fucking idiot who’s policies are horrendously unpopular and Trump should have forced him out on Day 1 and not gone along with repealing Obamacare which hardly any of his Rust Belt voters cared about. Whoda thunk?

If the GOP keeps the Senate they’ll be lucky.

I haven’t heard the name Jonah Goldberg in ages. Is he the one who used to be known as “The Doughy Pantload”?

All over urban America blacks are sneaking up on whites walking by themselves and beating them. Yglesias is smart enough to know this, and also smart enough to know if Yglesias mentions it he will be fired from his job. Yglesias has a family to support so I can’t blame him for being a coward. But in his own heart he has to know he is a worm. In St Paul a man similar to Yglesias was beaten in to a coma. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389755/St-Paul-man-Ray-Widstran-beaten-coma-walking-gang-fight.html

The medians are wide out near Dulles, rt 66 west, because they keep having to widen the roadway. Of course a wider highway attracts more traffic and so on…

I love all those Robert McNamara style metrics: “We’ve spent nine times the amount of time that the IC [intelligence community] spent putting the ICA together.…”

It sure isn’t rational staying in Afghanistan for 15 years “repeating history” and expecting a different result.

Sorry, Scott, it will take many more of this kind of foolishness to make me stop reading Dilbert.

Has a realistic opinion been formed why Trump went hard on the birther issue?

What possessed this man to charge hard against the magic negro? I am hazard a guess….

Trump was watching some Jeremiah Wright videos…….”American chickens coming home to roost”.

He saw what a creep Obama was. Not blinded by media hype?

The unpopular stance of birtherism?

What did Trump dislike about Obama enough to question his birthright? No way skin color has a damn thing to do with this.

He saw a flawed American. Trumps mind is hard to figure.

Trump became a hater of Obama early on. His keen eye for phonies were born out.

“I voted white guilt 08″……………#never again

When someone in that chain created by the Second Seaman went to the media, the tale would be branded as just part of the original conspiracy nuttiness; old news.

It’s stuff like that, that illustrates the reality of the Flynn effect to me.

Also if you read local newspapers/advertisements from back then, they read like the sort of literature that targets today’s double digit IQ population.

Incredible restraint shown by the officers…I would have tazed and cuffed every last one of them.

So were these liberal Whites in Boston concerned with "racial solidarity" with other Whites when they gave away these scholarships to Muslims?

Cuz Steve said those liberal Whites up North resent the South for not being supportive of gun control, because gun control is a sign of White racial solidarity …. right? Isn't that the argument you put forward?

But if they like racial solidarity so much, how come they give scholarships to non-Whites? And how come they lead the way for opening the borders to non-Whites?

There is no desire for "racial solidarity" by liberal Whites, get serious.

Pincher Martin:

In case you hadn’t noticed, I was agreeing with you that X’s fear is irrational. But, you’re not getting my point, which is that “capital” itself is a very elastic concept. At the most fundamental level, the only truly finite resource is the people who do the mental and physical labor. But, that resource can be leveraged with gains in productivity.

This “peak oil” crap is a bunch of hooey. I’ve been hearing we were going to run out in a decade or so my whole life, because some yokel, Texas sharpshooter-style (there are lots of yokels to choose from) happened to predict X years ago a production curve which looks vaguely like recent levels, independently of a host of ancillary influences, and his curve says its going down. It’s like those supermarket tabloids hailing the latest confirmation of Nostradamus’ “predictions”, and the same people get their knickers in a bind over it. If those people weren’t causing actual harm with their antics, it would be outrageously hilarious.

Pincher Martin:

“Yes, the investment capital going into energy has to come from somewhere, but that somewhere could be everything from less investment in fast food restaurants to fewer people taking out mortgages to cuts in government spending.”

There’s a lot of this going around on this board so I’m not picking on you, but all the talk about “money” is senseless blather. We’ve got an infinite supply of money – we can print more up any time we please, or even create it as abstract numerical representation in the Fed’s computer banks. What we don’t have an infinite supply of is people to do the jobs. But, we do have more or less infinite means of increasing their productivity so that each may produce more.

So, we start getting crimps in the labor supply as people are diverted into producing more energy. So what? We’re not exactly experiencing a shortage of available labor right now, if nobody noticed. And, times of labor shortage are generally boom times with rapid gains in wages and productivity. This will all be taken care of by the people in the energy business who are best qualified to work it out, if lay people will just stop trying to assuage their irrational fears by egging on their politicians to enact misguided attempts by those least qualified to do so to control the marketplace.

I’m gonna cut it short. I was circumcised at the age of 7, and i think that in any secular country, it should be banned for anybody, under the age of consent unless it is for medical emergency purposes.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/circumcision-banned-12227635