Hillary just conceded. I started the day hopeful for my daughter and the next generation. I end it with what my wife called a “punch in the gut”. This is a retrograde Supreme Court for another generation – it’s very unlikely that RBG will make it to 2020. This is the reversal of the small …
Late Night Open Thread
I wouldn't mind if somebody on TV mentioned voter suppression and the gutting of the VRA any time now. — Charles P. Pierce (@ESQPolitics) November 9, 2016 I don’t think I underestimated the level of bigotry & hatred in America. I may have overestimated the concern w defeating it — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 9, …
Open Thread: I’m Not Giving Up
I knew we’d have a constitutional crisis. I just thought it wouldn’t happen until January — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 9, 2016 ‘Course, I have the advantage of being old, childless, and living in blue Massachusetts. Although the Spousal Unit may have to physically dissuade me from going to throw rocks at Jill Stein’s house. …
A hiatus
I am a policy writer. I am not needed for the next four years. I will be radio silent for the week.
How Bout Some Yeats?
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some …
Keep fighting, never give up
Whatever the final tally is tonight, we’ll get through this.
Open Thread: How Gullible Is the “Average American Voter”?
pic.twitter.com/EgS62PDVu8 — Andrea Orzoff (@DrO_aorzoff) November 8, 2016 Not quite gullible enough for “President Trump”, I’m still thinking. But FFS — what is your damage, Florida? BREAKING: DOW FUTURES DOWN 625 POINTS https://t.co/rJN3bQ6eSk — CNBC (@CNBC) November 9, 2016
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