Congressional term limits will equal less getting done as you have no one that understands how shit works and more lobbying as you’re speeding up the revolving door. In combination, limits on what lines of work someone can go into after politics (i.e. lobbying) and term limits will also mean that anyone intelligent…

Look at how well private prison stocks did on Nov 9. Look at who gave him money (hint, private prisons).

I think we need to be mindful of the fact that he’s praised how Saddam dealt with “terrorists” that were citizens of Iraq and that he’s also called BLM* terrorists. I’m bothered by what I believe will be unnecessarily bad policy decisions that he and the GOP leadership are almost sure to push through. But elections…

It’s adverse impact discrimination. A policy that might be fine on its face, but when applied disproportionately disenfranchise minorities. Because voting is a fundamental right, this should be subject to strict constitutional scrutiny (which means it wouldn’t be found constitutional). Add in that the voter ID laws…

I’ve been thinking about one thing, a lot. He is taking office as paranoid as Nixon was by the end. He’s starting out at Nixon in a job that cuts you off from the rest of the world. He’s going to go full DDL in There Will Be Blood.

President Pence will be worse.

I was worried about him refusing to leave office until I realized the stress of office, his advanced age and poor health habits will probably kill him and give us a generic, but still very scary, Republican President Pence.

In your self-solving scenario we end up with President Pence. Trump is at least a unpredictable, which might lead to something less than the most hostile administration to women’s and LGBT rights possible — Pence is predictably those things. It’s like Chris Rock’s old joke that the first black president would need a…

I don’t consider Trump racist or sexist because of his supporters. I consider him those things because of his own words. You’re making a fake distinction.

With Trump in the white house, we won’t need to threaten to default on the debt, he’ll do it as a matter of course.

It’s not that you’re racist if you vote for Trump so much as you’re condoning the racism he and some of his supporters were not afraid to articulate during the election. I don’t doubt most of his voters are not racist, but they had no problem throwing their hats in with the Klan and Stormfront in order to get…

That’s true too (and the union vote in Ohio and Michigan went something like 50/50 so you’re definitely not wrong). But in NC the klan is out celebrating in full regalia today, so it’s a little from column a and a little from column b.

Can we cut some of the “this is how much we hate women” approach? White women largely voted for him too. He lost college educated white women by 6%, but non-college educated I believe he won by 30% or so. This is about white people throwing a temper tantrum.

Blame likely voter screens as much as people lying to pollsters. Even internal RNC polling had them losing by 30 electoral votes. White rural turnout was a lot higher than anyone expected. Even then, Clinton looks to have won the popular vote, so the polling wasn’t that far off (the average was something like a 3%…

My kids are pretty good at hockey too, so we might be onto something. I’ll talk to the wife.

Can you marry me and my wife? I’d like to bring her and the kids with.

This is the overreaction to him being too effective. It scared rural, white people that usually didn’t vote into turning out in record numbers. Trump only won the white vote. The only way you can blame Obama for that is to acknowledge why it was so easy for Trump to win the white vote.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the answer was that they get people Pepsi?

I really believe it depends on what his campaign staff does. If he’s kicking and screaming but Kellyanne and others are out insisting nothing was rigged and he’s a big man baby, I think it will die down pretty quickly. Since the rest of those hacks want to work in politics again, there’s a chance that’s what they’ll…

Most candidates seem to plan their arrival at the polls a little better so they don’t just cut the line. They do functionally the same thing, but are professional enough that they typically avoid the bad look of actually cutting the line.