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Old 12-14-2016, 10:26 PM   #3801
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Man what's going on in North Carolina is kinda sad. Republicans called an extraordinary session to introduce a whole bunch of new bills. Extraordinary sessions are usually to respond to natural disasters and emergencies. I guess this emergency is that a Democrat won the governorship, since the bills are all designed to reduce the amount of authority and resources the governor has.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...cooper/510731/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/us...publicans.html
But both parties do it... Right? Right?!

Some serious false equivalency with Republican boosters going on. But I've been saying that for years. It's never been equal. The right just gets more indignant and liberals being the peace makers, cave.

And the media is liberally biased for reporting this! Jeez the media is so liberal. Facts and all.

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Man what's going on in North Carolina is kinda sad. Republicans called an extraordinary session to introduce a whole bunch of new bills. Extraordinary sessions are usually to respond to natural disasters and emergencies. I guess this emergency is that a Democrat won the governorship, since the bills are all designed to reduce the amount of authority and resources the governor has.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...cooper/510731/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/us...publicans.html
This is part of the overall governance issue the Democrats are very weak on. The Republicans have a massive strategy that attacks government and governance at all levels. They are executing a plan to institutionalize the system they want, and doing so at state levels. This is why they always fight for State's rights, as they own the legislatures and can kill all of the federal programs at the state level. The feds provide the money, but the states have to accept it and have to use it as desired. The Republicans are just better at schooling the system. Institutions like ALEC have made it possible for big business and think tanks to drive legislation through multiple states at once, making de facto law across the nation, and making drafting new legislation at the federal level difficult and precedent has already been set.
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You would think this guy would be wise enough to make a ton of noise to get Trump's attention, then Trump can throw him some federal cash and claim he's "Making Law Enforcement Great Again". But this is very much a preview of the Trump administration, Louisiana (along with Kansas) are where the GOP implemented their dream agenda. Of course both states are broke as #### and have horrible quality of living numbers, but that's the GOP way. They cut taxes and regulation, that's all that matters.

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According to documents released with an Attorney General's Office opinion on Wednesday, Soileau asked for legal guidance on whether the Sheriff's Office can forgo law enforcement.

The AG's office opined that the sheriff has a legal duty to keep the peace and make arrests but added that the he is not legally required to assign a certain number deputies to do patrols or handle other law enforcement duties.

"Should a sheriff choose not to appoint deputies to assist in his law enforcement role, we could cite no statute that would forbid such a choice, but a sheriff is afforded no discretion in which of his legal duties to perform," the opinion states. "Accordingly, despite the discretion available to sheriffs regarding how to execute certain official duties, it is our opinion that no public official may choose to shrug a yoke his office bears by constitutional decree."

In a September letter to the AG's office, Sheriff's Office attorney Jonathan Vidrine asked whether the Sheriff's Office could focus solely on its role as parish tax collector — which Vidrine characterized as a priority — and dispense with the law enforcement side of the operation.
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You would think this guy would be wise enough to make a ton of noise to get Trump's attention, then Trump can throw him some federal cash and claim he's "Making Law Enforcement Great Again". But this is very much a preview of the Trump administration, Louisiana (along with Kansas) are where the GOP implemented their dream agenda. Of course both states are broke as #### and have horrible quality of living numbers, but that's the GOP way. They cut taxes and regulation, that's all that matters.



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Might have to buy a subscription to The Atlantic, Trump team reportedly wants to cut off access since that lady with the nasty tweet is joining them in January and other things The Atlantic has written about Trump.

EDIT: Forgot link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...g-changes.html

Trump's team is also claiming that twitter wasn't invited to the tech summit because the table wasn't big enough instead of retribution over not making an emoji they wanted. It was big enough for Palantair though, a company much smaller than the others invited but just happens to be backed by Peter Thiel. And big enough for his sons who are supposed to be running his company so Trump avoids a conflict of interest.
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I've been to Big Bend to do some geological mapping and the entire border running through the park is along the Rio Grande river. They would have to build the wall in land of the river. It is pretty rugged terrain and a wall would be tough to build.
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I've been to Big Bend to do some geological mapping and the entire border running through the park is along the Rio Grande river. They would have to build the wall in land of the river. It is pretty rugged terrain and a wall would be tough to build.
Oh no doubt. The wall was just some mythical fantasy that was never happening. These will just be some of the pieces that will be used as the excuse as to why it didn't happen. Trump is already coming in with the worst net approval rating in history (by a significant margin), be curious to see how long it takes before his core starts abandoning him. These people though have nowhere else to go, so they might just stay on the ship until it finally sinks, even as they continue to get betrayed.
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Some of the 232 regulations the Freedom Caucus proposes eliminating on day one. Very professionally done as we can see, what with "The Tesla Guy", "Corporations like EnergyStar" (EnergyStar is not a corporation), and "Make Sonic Boom Again"





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Well what would this entire #### show be without one more potential curveball? There seems to be suggestions that Obama will abandon an "orderly transition" of power to Trump, because of Trump/Russia. So if that ends up happening, well then things are about the get extraordinarily interesting.
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Well what would this entire #### show be without one more potential curveball? There seems to be suggestions that Obama will abandon an "orderly transition" of power to Trump, because of Trump/Russia. So if that ends up happening, well then things are about the get extraordinarily interesting.
Man what a horrible time we're in. If that happens there will be blood. if it doesn't happen, it will still be bad. Just another kind of bad, that might lead to worse than civil war.
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Has there ever been a more contentious Presidential election in our lifetimes? I don't think so. Dubya's 2nd term win was certainly on the controversial side, but nothing on the scale of what we're currently witnessing.

Between Trump's Putin ties and Russian meddling in the election, the huge conflict of interest involving his businesses, his absurd and frightening cabinet appointments, his childish/immature behavior, and his complete lack of knowledge and qualifications for the job...this thing has turned into the biggest political sh-t storm the U.S. has ever seen.
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Well what would this entire #### show be without one more potential curveball? There seems to be suggestions that Obama will abandon an "orderly transition" of power to Trump, because of Trump/Russia. So if that ends up happening, well then things are about the get extraordinarily interesting.
Obama is a constitutional lawyer so if this were true he would presumably have sufficient evidence.

Any reference on this possibility?
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Donald Trump's barnstorming tour across the states that won him the White House continues to feature far more taunts of triumph than notes of healing after a bruising election.

Thursday's rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, found the president-elect calling for the mostly white crowd to cheer for African-Americans who were "smart" to heed his message and therefore "didn't come out to vote" for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

"That was the big thing, so thank you to the African-American community," Trump said.
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Yeah I haven't seen this talked about anywhere, it would require something far beyond the CIA or intelligence consensus type stuff, it would require a video of Trump and Putin shaking hands and Putin saying in clear English "Don't worry Donald Russia will distribute the information Russia obtained through hacking US systems in a campaign to spread disinformation and propaganda to make sure you're elected so that you can remove sanctions and help Russia defeat NATO".
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Yeah I haven't seen this talked about anywhere, it would require something far beyond the CIA or intelligence consensus type stuff, it would require a video of Trump and Putin shaking hands and Putin saying in clear English "Don't worry Donald Russia will distribute the information Russia obtained through hacking US systems in a campaign to spread disinformation and propaganda to make sure you're elected so that you can remove sanctions and help Russia defeat NATO".
I suspect, for quite a few Americans, that wouldn't sway them at all...
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Well what would this entire #### show be without one more potential curveball? There seems to be suggestions that Obama will abandon an "orderly transition" of power to Trump, because of Trump/Russia. So if that ends up happening, well then things are about the get extraordinarily interesting.
This doesn't make sense to me. If the Russians were hacking and helping Trump, wasn't it done on Obama's watch?
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Obama is a constitutional lawyer so if this were true he would presumably have sufficient evidence.

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Now I'm not entirely sure what would change if he doesn't do an "orderly transition". Do they not move out on January 20? Do they just not help make things easy for them? Until it happens not really sure.
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Not nearly enough information in that tweet to draw any conclusions, but it looks like this is the source:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/12/15/p...est/index.html

Which just seems more like the amount of acrimony is higher, not that the transition isn't going to happen or that the WH is going to obstruct things.
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