— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 8, 2017
Scripture tells us: Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart. pic.twitter.com/snXfdLgZq8
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 9, 2016
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(Thanks to commentor Schrodingers Cat)
lamh36
lamh36
Like I said in the previous thread…if nothing else, Barack Obama’s legacy is one of inspiration for more candidates of color…more candidates of color…more chances for winner of color!
“Representation matters…Yes We Can!”
Chip Daniels
I don’t care what anybody says I still admire Hilary.
Suffers more abuse than anybody except Obama, and always holds herself up with dignity.
lamh36
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore?
lamh36
eclare
What a wonderful day! This is OUR country.
Villago Delenda Est
This was a referendum on Donald.
He got his fat treasonous ass kicked.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@lamh36: Grace, but that’s also a pretty good burn.
lamh36
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: right…someone said…sure a bit of grace, but also a god bit of sublte SHADE!
Good for her…lol
lamh36
AHAHAHAHA…Jerry Jr…responding to a twitter user calling his family out for keeping Hooters out of Lynchburg…LOL
Yutsano
@lamh36: Subtle shade is best shade.
My friend Brendan is relieved. Tomorrow I think he’ll be elated,
Yarrow
This is kind of amazing:
Wilmot Collins is a Liberian refugee. First black mayor ever in Montana.
lamh36
Let’s not underestimate how even with the shenanigans involving leaving Justin Fairfx off the mailers or whatever…the Fairfax voters were just as likely Northam voters as well. So Widler declining to endorse Northam, but throwing his endorsement behind Fairfax…still did the job of getting those voters to the poles and therefore more likely to push the lever for Northam
lamh36
@Yarrow: Cool..I posted it last thread, but didn’t see any news yet.
HELENA, MONTANA!!!!
Yarrow
@lamh36: I think the news from Montana is a bit slow. LOL. I went to the Helena paper’s website and it didn’t have it. Had to hunt around on Twitter to find copies of the election results. I even went to the MT election result website and didn’t find it. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place. Mr. Collins sounds like an amazing person.
Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.
One of the surprising things I learned in 2016 is that HRC is a pretty religious woman: studies Bible verses daily, confers with her pastor weekly. It was a little surprising this didn’t get talked about much during the campaign, but I think it’s something she prefers to keep private.
lamh36
@Yarrow: If it holds (the tweet said like a lil less than 400 votes apart so far, right)…still pretty cool.
lamh36
Off to bed soon, I’m sure, but before I do, wanted to remember to re-post this from previous thread.
If nothing else….PBO’s legacy of inspiring more people of color, to become candidates for office, even JUST on the local level!
more candidates of color…more political winners of color!!!
Sister Golden Bear
Media: “You can’t just run on anti-Trump”
Virginia and New Jersey: “hold our beers”
Ruckus
@lamh36:
The beast has awoken.
Indignity or abuse, most people can only take so much. They shouldn’t have to take any but then we do live in society of humans and not all of us are good all of the time, or some any of the time.
The lesson is, stand up for yourself in a way that matters, in a way that can cause change, in a way that works together towards a common and useful goal, rather than greed and bigotry.
lamh36
Sister Golden Bear
@Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.: Yes and no.
From a 1996 articles about her faith — sounds more like a case that since it didn’t fit The Narrative(tm), the media generally didn’t ignored it.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/clinton-faith-private/index.html
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Yarrow:
Stagecoach don’t run after dark.
Ruckus
Now we have to repeat this until the blight is cleared from the landscape.
Ruckus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Do stagecoaches run?
Roll I understand, careen I can see, but run?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.:
As Jesus told his followers to do.
Yarrow
@lamh36: I think it’s pretty definite.
Also, from Montana, some long time GOP guy is getting trounced in the Billings mayoral race.
Major Major Major Major
@Sister Golden Bear: I seem to remember she got a bunch of shit when she tried being public about it the first time.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Todd is such a douche.
eclare
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Good response from Tom.
lamh36
Alright…good night BJ.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
So long, Doc.
opiejeanne
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: That stunned me when I heard the news.
jl
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
What you posted seemed so weird I had to see if I could find it.
The idiotic discussion by Todd, and the ‘infamous’ stereotypical racist pickup truck starts at 5:30 in link below. The whole thing is moronic. Some faceless racist dude happens to be driving a pickup truck when he is harassing some kids, in an ad put on by an Hispanic group (not afaik, by the Democratic Party at all). Completely asinine GOP counter ad and Todd is a moron for taking up air time with such nonsense.
The miserable corporate hack Todd studious avoids any substantive issue, and when Perez brings up issues, Todd pivots to whether Democrats will need to do any soul searching if they lose. Yeebus Crust with butter and jam on it.
Tom Perez, DNC Chairman One-on-One with Chuck Todd in Meet the Press {Full Interview} #DNC #Breakin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAF94Odd35c
Amir Khalid
Are the results in yet for those last few House Delegate seats in Virginia?
CaseyL
@Amir Khalid: Last I saw, the Dems won a 2-seat majority, but I think some of the margins were narrow enough there will be recounts.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@jl: What makes it worse is when Todd gets called out for letting republicans lie on his show he says it’s not his job to make corrections.
yet if a Dem leaning group does something edgy or questionable, he jumps at the opportunity to beats his phony sanctimonious drums.
eclare
@Amir Khalid: NYTimes still has it 48 for Democrats and 47 for Republicans. Link here.
Joyce H
You know what would be the whipped cream and cherry on top of this sundae of deliciousness? A nice dollop of indictments…
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
That’s right ??
rikyrah
@Yarrow:
Montana???
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Bravo, Mr. Fairfax ?
rikyrah
@Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.:
REAL Christians usually do.
SectionH
It’s West Coast Late, but this is what I said earlier, on Fb
YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Virginia voters, Thank you NJ voters, Good on you voters in Maine for helping yourselves, and
Welcome to the club, Washington.
I know there’s a long long road ahead, but dammit, tonight feels good.
Keith G
Scripture also teaches us to be sure to pack brass knuckles. As we saw in Virginia last night, you only win a political fight by ………actually fighting.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: Classy as hell!!
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: Definitely. He ran as a racist. Let him live with that. That was a deliberate choice of his that failed. Spectacularly.
eclare
@rikyrah: A refugee from Liberia was elected mayor of Helena. Sorry I see that was in the post you referenced!
Van Buren
Very happy for my native Virginia. On a blue wave night, I’m in a tiny sea of red, as my town on Long Island turned control over to the Rs.
sharl
As already noted, there was that sweet victory in a Virginia House of Delegates race where openly transgender Danica Roem beat incumbent Bob Marshall, a long time and very vocal homophobe. Soon-to-be former Delegate Marshall’s sister has weighed in.
“Karma, brother”…
Ol’ Bob will always have the evangelical Christian radio talk shows. It will be good to not hear his name so often on local politics news programs.
Amir Khalid
Some sad political news from New Zealand: the Prime Minister’s cat Paddles has died.
raven
UPDATE: Democrats Score Stunning Wins in Athens State House Elections; Athens Approves T-SPLOST
I think this an important message. The local dems quit playing nice-nice and threw her ass out!
gene108
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
He was only 40. A life cut short.
Cermet
As one news site said, not a wave for the democrats but a Tsunami! Really, the best news to wake up to; I loved the orange tears from the small handed orange fart cloud! Victory – one can smell that the rest of the lying repug-a-thug body politic is rotting. Dead men walking, all – we take the Senate back in 2018 and both the white house and house in 2020.
eclare
@Amir Khalid: Oh no!
sharl
@Amir Khalid: That’s sad news. Occasional commenter sm*t cl*de brought @FirstCatofNZ to our attention a few weeks ago.
The article you linked shows New Zealand’s First Couple to be a very down-to-earth pair. I think that’s the best kind of folks to be in charge.
RIP Paddles.
eclare
@raven: Nice! I think yesterday shows people want the pols to stop bringing knives to gun fights.
gene108
@raven:
Why is it against the rules for a Democratic mayor to campaign for a Democratic state leg candidate?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Nice.
@Cermet: Taking the Senate back in 2018 is a really tall order.
eclare
@gene108: The way I read it the D mayor supported the R.
raven
@gene108:
raven
@eclare: Right, my post may not have been clear. And THIS is cool.
Cermet
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, but I really never expected a trans-gender woman to win in Virginia nor that the house there would swing dem. An amazing tsunami. One can hope – maybe the special election in Alabama does go dem … ok, that is highly unlikely. But hell, I am going to enjoy the victories – and there were a number of them.
Also, enjoyed that Indian victory (?) dance/song! Nice.
MomSense
Just a reminder that Virginia just switched to paper ballots. Coincidence?
Aleta
@MomSense:
I think not.
raven
eclare
@raven: His sister tweeted, karma brother. Link is in prior thread, not sure how to link on my phone.
Link may be earlier in this thread!
rikyrah
@MomSense:
Nope.
Wish that more people would point this out
eclare
@raven: And a refugee from Liberia was elected mayor of Helena MT!
raven
@eclare: Ding!
eclare
@raven: The link for the asshole’s sister’s tweet may be earlier in this thread.
Manyakitty
@Joyce H: Yes! I like how you think!
ThresherK
@sharl: Wow. Karma is best served cold. Gonna make for an awfully cold Xgiving dinner for the Marshall family.
Also of note: In a race this big (only 100 delegates for entire state) when’s the last time a Republican “lost with dignity” except to a wingnut in a primary?
kindness
This Hillary input is going to frost some ‘progressives’ asses to a bite. I’ve really not understood how so many ‘liberals’ go out of their way to adopt republican talking points about fellow Democrats. I haven’t commented over at Crooks & Liars in 6 months because I didn’t want to be the fly in their soup. Let us hope the troll BernieBro faction (and all those who were/are swayed by them) shut the fuck up and start paying attention to winning more elections.