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Alabama is certain to elect Roy Moore to the Senate. A Steve Bannon handpicked candidate. Politics in the USA is about to get even more extreme and dysfunctional. Bannon will select candidates to run in the seats vacated by Flake and Corker. Are Neo Nazis about to take over the GOP?

Alabama, you got the rest of the Union to help you along - Neil Young 1972.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1gxLxpoY94
 
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Insidious Von said:
Alabama is certain to elect Roy Moore to the Senate. A Steve Bannon handpicked candidate. Politics in the USA is about to get even more extreme and dysfunctional. Bannon will select candidates to run in the seats vacated by Flake and Corker. Are Neo Nazis about to take over the GOP?

Alabama, you got the rest of the Union to help you along - Neil Young 1972.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1gxLxpoY94
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It will split the GOP even further. The GOP will have a Far Right wing, a moderate wing and the only persons who will benefit are Bannon, the Mercers and the Breibart boys and other alt righters who will strut around swinging their dicks and use the win to get payoffs.

Welcome to US politics.

Congress will be even more incapable of passing bills. Even with a GOP monopoly of power, Congress can get nothing done as it is. It's only going to get worse.

Moore is a cretin and psychopath who has been suspended from the Bench 2x for doing crazy, far right shit. He's going to be just as bad in Congress.
 
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Insidious Von said:
Alabama is certain to elect Roy Moore to the Senate. A Steve Bannon handpicked candidate. Politics in the USA is about to get even more extreme and dysfunctional. Bannon will select candidates to run in the seats vacated by Flake and Corker. Are Neo Nazis about to take over the GOP?

Alabama, you got the rest of the Union to help you along - Neil Young 1972.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1gxLxpoY94
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Another one or two Bannon's elected and they won't get anything passed.
They couldn't do healthcare and the budget could go the same way easily.
The tax cuts for the rich are really not playing well to the masses.
 
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onthebottom said:
From Tea Party to Bannon -those pesky grass roots movements just don’t go away.


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Pretty much the same" not so grass roots movement". The Tea Party was astroturfed by the Koch's and big oil with the help of Fox News and Murdoch, Ailes and O Reilly - all old buddies of the Koch's.

Bannon, Breitbart and the Mercers just take the same feelings of White Rage and use it to get their own share of the pie. This isn't about the common guy. It's about which set of billionaires will get the biggest political pay offs and control DC.

If you believe multi billionaire hedge fund owner Mercer and his long time multi millionaire buddy Bannon are personally riding to the assistance of Little Lost Whitey You, you're confused.

This is about hijacking enough of the GOP to get the Koch's and the GOP old guard to throw favours and payoffs their way.
 
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Pretty much the same" not so grass roots movement". The Tea Party was astroturfed by the Koch's and big oil with the help of Fox News and Murdoch, Ailes and O Reilly - all old buddies of the Koch's.

Bannon, Breitbart and the Mercers just take the same feelings of White Rage and use it to get their own share of the pie. This isn't about the common guy. It's about which set of billionaires will get the biggest political pay offs and control DC.

If you believe multi billionaire hedge fund owner Mercer and his long time multi millionaire buddy Bannon are personally riding to the assistance of Little Lost Whitey You, you're confused.

This is about hijacking enough of the GOP to get the Koch's and the GOP old guard to throw favours and payoffs their way.
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That’s just left wing drivel. I could have added Sanders to the mix as well.
 
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onthebottom said:
That’s just left wing drivel. I could have added Sanders to the mix as well.
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The right wing stupidity seems to come up with all sorts of conspiracy theories fuelled by Bannon and his Brietbart fake news.
 
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oagre said:
Pretty much the same" not so grass roots movement". The Tea Party was astroturfed by the Koch's and big oil with the help of Fox News and Murdoch, Ailes and O Reilly - all old buddies of the Koch's.

Bannon, Breitbart and the Mercers just take the same feelings of White Rage and use it to get their own share of the pie. This isn't about the common guy. It's about which set of billionaires will get the biggest political pay offs and control DC.

If you believe multi billionaire hedge fund owner Mercer and his long time multi millionaire buddy Bannon are personally riding to the assistance of Little Lost Whitey You, you're confused.

This is about hijacking enough of the GOP to get the Koch's and the GOP old guard to throw favours and payoffs their way.
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You're wrong on all points. You don't know what you're dealing with and that's why you don't know how to defeat them. You're misreading of bannon is as grotesque as the MSM misreading of Trump. We all know how that turned out.
 
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Smallcock said:
You're wrong on all points. You don't know what you're dealing with and that's why you don't know how to defeat them. You're misreading of bannon is as grotesque as the MSM misreading of Trump. We all know how that turned out.
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Of course he is, and worse, boringly formulaic. The Russians are the new Koch’s that liberals see behind the “vast right wing conspiracy”
 
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Smallcock said:
You're wrong on all points. You don't know what you're dealing with and that's why you don't know how to defeat them. You're misreading of bannon is as grotesque as the MSM misreading of Trump. We all know how that turned out.
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How much more $$$$$ does Bannon make more than you or anyone you know? Multiply that by ten or twenty for Mercer.

Still think they're doing it all for you and the other "real Americans" ??

They'll gum up the GOP so badly that they'll have to be paid off to yank their support for crazed assjacks like Moore, so Congress can actually pass legislation again.
 
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oagre said:
How much more $$$$$ does Bannon make more than you or anyone you know? Multiply that by ten or twenty for Mercer.

Still think they're doing it all for you and the other "real Americans" ??

They'll gum up the GOP so badly that they'll have to be paid off to yank their support for crazed assjacks like Moore, so Congress can actually pass legislation again.
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The GOP is paid by rich donors to lower taxes on the rich.
That's their job.

As stated today:
Cristina Marcos ✔@cimarcos
.@RepChrisCollins (R-NY) on tax reform: "My donors are basically saying, 'Get it done or don’t ever call me again.'"
10:16 AM - Nov 7, 2017
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...use-republicans-tax-bill-donors-chris-collins
 
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WINNERS


Democrats’ morale
It’s become clear that Democrats have the momentum across the country. That’s apparent most notably in special elections, where they’ve very often beaten their 2016 presidential election performance, and also on the generic congressional ballot, where they lead in a few recent polls by double digits.

But they’ve thus far been unable to win the big ones, and that has led to plenty of grumbling about their ability to win when it counts. Their loss in a special congressional election in Georgia was particularly painful, given that they invested tens of millions of dollars in a conservative-leaning suburban Atlanta district but still did no better than Hillary Clinton did there in 2016. Northam's victory in Virginia should give Democrats confidence that they aren't totally feckless with the spotlight of the political world upon them.
\And as the night progresses, it's looking like it will be even better than they might have hoped.
The transgender community
It's one state legislative race, but transgender candidate Danica Roem's win for a House of Delegates seat in Virginia is huge symbolically. The Democrat defeated a social conservative icon in Del. Bob Marshall (R), a 26-year incumbent who once called himself Virginia's “chief homophobe.” And she did it by about 10 points. Oh, and in doing so, she becomes the first openly transgender candidate elected to a state legislature in American history.
Overcoming tragedy
One of the winners for the Virginia House of Delegates is Chris Hurst (D). For those who may vaguely remember that name, he is a former local TV news anchor whose girlfriend, Alison Parker, a reporter at the same station, was killed on live TV, along with a cameraman, by a disturbed former colleague in 2015. Hurst quit his job this year to run for office in her memory, and he won Tuesday in one of several surprises for Democrats.
Democrats' redistricting hopes
After the 2016 elections, The Fix's Amber Phillips and I spotlighted seven governors' races in the coming years that would be huge for Democrats' ability to prevent another drubbing in redistricting after the 2020 Census. Topping that list was Virginia.
Basically, Democrats in many swing states are in such rough shape in their legislatures that they need to capture the governor's mansion to prevent the GOP from drawing their next legislative and congressional maps. That places a premium on these races if Democrats want to have a good shot at winning back the House majority anytime soon. One down, six to go.
Oh, and Democrats also put a huge dent in the GOP's big advantage in the Virginia House of Delegates. It even looked like they might take the majority — something that had seemed unthinkable.

LOSERS

Trump-style nationalism

Both Republican gubernatorial nominees — former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie in Virginia and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno in New Jersey — ran with a version of Trump's nationalistic, often dark anti-illegal-immigration message. And neither saw it pay off. Gillespie's use of the strategy was particularly jarring, given that he is basically the very definition of the kind of establishment Republican who has eschewed that kind of approach.
For a time, it seemed that the strategy might be helping Gillespie close the gap, but in the end it doesn't seem to have helped much at all. And the idea that this is a way forward for the GOP in winning elections in swing states such as Virginia was certainly dealt a setback.
In some ways, of course, that might be reassuring to the GOP establishment, which worries about the short-term gains and long-term problems this strategy might create.
Gillespie and GOP candidates who don't bear-hug Trump
Trump sent this tweet shortly after Gillespie's loss was called by the AP: "Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!"

Trump is taking some liberties here. As mentioned above, Gillespie did embrace some of Trump's agenda, even if he didn't exactly say he loved Trump. The president also cut a robo-call for Gillespie that went out on Election Day. And the idea that he just needed to bear-hug Trump a little more doesn't really hold up, given that he lost by a large margin.

But think about what this says to other Republicans who may be on the fence about how to handle Trump in their races. Trump just threw Gillespie under the bus, and within minutes of his loss. The president — with some help from former top aide Stephen K. Bannon — seems quite willing to attack Republicans who don't toe the line, and that could force some Republicans into an uneasy choice.

Steve Bannon

The Breitbart head who is now targeting incumbent GOP senators in primaries seemed to see a good talking point coming down the pike — even if Gillespie just kept it close. He looks foolish now.
“He’s closed an enthusiasm gap by rallying around the Trump agenda,” Bannon said of Gillespie in a weekend piece in the New York Times. “And I think the big lesson for Tuesday is that, in Gillespie’s case, Trumpism without Trump can show the way forward. If that’s the case, Democrats better be very, very worried.”
Except, not so much. Bannon's comments not only fly in the face of Trump's tweet, but they make it look like he totally misplayed the expectations game here — dealing a blow to his supposed political acumen.

Chris Christie
It may not be terribly surprising, given the overwhelming polling evidence that already showed that New Jersey hates its two-term, outgoing governor, but the numbers Tuesday in the Garden State were damning. About half of voters said their view of Christie predisposed them against Guadagno in her steep uphill battle to succeed him.
For comparison’s sake, only about one-third of Virginians said Trump made them less likely to support Gillespie. The number who said Christie made them more likely to back Guadagno was in the single digits. We’re a long way from Christie’s 22-point reelection win just four short years ago.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

My prediction. Bannon will join Sarah Palin in the next year or so, scraping and grovelling for whatever bottom-feeded convention "guest speaker appearances" will give him another sad 15 minutes in the public eye. The guy is done - big time.
 
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