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OK…
The OD has started his war.
Oil prices up 3.7% this morning, with some analysts saying $70/barrel is likely and, depending on retaliation choices, $80/barrel is possible.
I suspect some Coloradans involved in the industry are feeling better about their oil fracking. Natural gas is only up VERY slightly, so there won't be dancing on 17th Street.
Ok so now we know why we escalated so quickly. Distract from the dumpster fire, drive up oil prices. Win win for corporations and GOPers…..everyone else loses lives, homes, safety, money.
…and every high-ranking official on Capitol Hill, the Whitest House, the Pentagon, and just about everywhere else is now on the hit list.
Pence…McConnell…Kushner…
No one is safe.
I wonder if some of those folks will think more than twice about traveling overseas . . .
Trump seems to be fine with that:
This could describe all sorts of US and allied government and military officials.
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party purged all Bernie types over the last 30+ years, so there's no alternative to him
During those last 30+ years without the hard-core lefties, four Democratic candidates won the popular vote a total of six times (our of eight election cycles), and two of those non-Bernie Sanders type candidates won the electoral vote a total of four times.
Prior to that we had the McGovern-Mondale problem.
You need an asterisk next to “won the popular vote”. Or to add in the word “plurality”. It makes it clear that you want a prize for winning by an alternate metric.
It would be a much more compelling argument of the value of the strategy if, when losing the Presidency, you managed to hold onto the House of Representatives. Though of the last 15 Congresses the Democrats have had control of the House five times and the Senate seven. And one of those Senate controls also has an asterisk because it happened due to a party switch. Not exactly screaming “electoral victory” to me.