Elections 2020, Hey Jack, I Was Right. Trump And The Republicans Lost Big Time

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, February 18, 2019 10:14 PM

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The different colors represent the Senate seats were the senators are up for reelection next November. I don't know, I see a lot of red. Are you excited? I am, I'm excited.

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Lots of red in Red States. And Blue in States which voted Trump in 2016, after Voting for these clowns in 2014.

Who really believes Alabama will stay Blue in 2020? Dems don't have much money, and won't be able to decide where to spend it.

Looks like GOP picks up another Senate Seat, plus maybe NM, MI, VA, NJ.

THG

Monday, February 18, 2019 10:40 PM

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld last week became the first Republican to announce plans to challenge President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/who-bell-weld-former-massachusetts-g
overnor-launches-bid-for-2020-gop-presidential-nomination/trxu6yqMFUTSWar7ozfE0J/

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THG

Monday, February 18, 2019 11:59 PM

Trump Is Driving Out Precious Republican Voters. The young in particular are slipping away

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/trump-youth-vote.htm
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:11 AM

Good luck!

Do what you want to do, but I'm not letting the media drive me crazy a whole year and a half before the election.

Filing this under don't give a shit until at least summer of 2020.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

THG

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 11:14 PM

O’Rourke and Biden, signaling presidential bids, would infuse centrism into a left-leaning Democratic field.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/orourke-and-biden-signaling-pr
esidential-bids-would-infuse-centrism-into-a-left-leaning-democratic-field/ar-BBUHkcY?ocid=spartandhp

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REAVERFAN

Friday, March 15, 2019 3:24 AM

O'Rourke declared today. Another empty suit.

Still, if he gets the nom, I'll vote for him.

I'd vote for a dead cat over Trump.

THG

Friday, March 15, 2019 5:44 AM

I'd vote for duns rock over Trump...

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 15, 2019 6:02 AM

LOL... Beto.

Even Marcos finds that one humorous.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

RUE

Friday, March 15, 2019 6:19 AM

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-
themselves/580447/

These ideas aren't terribly recent. But the author, in haste perhaps to be too 'gee whiz!' - didn't include the appropriate caveats. Genetics, and even evolutionary environment, aren't destiny. Sometimes a quirk of fate or some unknown factor intervenes.

For example, everyone knows that baboons are brutish and violent creatures. It's just the way they are. Until they're not. In Kenya in 1986, a self-selected group of violent dominant males cornered the beef meat in a dump, excluded the others, and pigged out. They then contracted bovine tuberculosis from that meat, and those males all died.

The violent culture did a 180, and peaceability persisted to at least 2006 (the last reference I found), despite the fact that adult males in a troop are always immigrants from other, normal, violent troops.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2004/04/kinder-gentler-baboon

There's also the bottlenose dolphins, whose global mating rituals are essentially gang rape - except for the genetically identical bottlenose dolphins of western Australia, whose courtship is one-on-one, tender, and gentle.

As long as enough offspring survive to themselves procreate, evolution doesn't seem to have a whole lot of interest in how that happens.

That said, there are a few things I think are ingrained in human response (not that we can't see past them, just that on the whole they determine the vast majority of human action)-
1) We are tribal, and that leads us to see solutions primarily through conflict with the others. I gave a hypothetical example many years ago of two identical villages near a river. Over time, the villages grow and grow, till easily accessed resources become scare. The answer, which will allow both villages to thrive indefinitely and peacefully into the future, is to each limit population growth. But under stress, it's been observed that human fertility increases and populations grow (and the opposite is true, which is called the demographic transition). I think of this population spurt as preparation for war. (Human fertility is unlike other animals, whose fertility and populations track with resources).
2) Concentrated resources easily dominated by a few lead to hierarchical behavior. Goodall observed this when she tried to temp common chimps into her clearing with piles of fruit. After taking copious notes of extreme dominant behavior for a number of months, it occurred to her that she never saw any of the mutual, sociable behavior that had been observed in the past. And she realized that tasty fruit piled up in one place never, ever occurs in nature. Tropical trees fruit at all times of year scattered through the forest, since they're not on a summer/ winter schedule. When she distributed the fruit more naturally, that behavior stopped.
That tracks pretty well with hunter-gatherer societies that have to move around to find food, and don't accumulate a lot of possessions (too hard to lug around!). They're egalitarian.

That said, there are flukes like the peaceable baboons and courtly dolphins that shouldn't exist given their genetic and evolutionary lineage. I don't think anyone has the answer to human nature, and what we're capable of.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 15, 2019 6:42 AM

There is something to say about tribalism. Those "alliances" can also prove to be fleeting.

I didn't give two shits about race or sex back in the early to late 2000's, and nobody else did either. I was much more liberal back then, although I was never a Democrat, just like I'm not a Republican today.

The loud vocal minority that runs the colleges and the MSM have let it be known loud and clear that I'm not welcome. I'm not about to cuck up and become an ally to people who voice their disapproval of my very existence.

Because we only have two parties in this shit show we call American Politics, that really only leaves me with one other option. But anybody here who bothers reading my posts on different topics could see that I'm still very much at odds with a lot of typical Republican ways of thinking.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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