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bobabode 12-05-2016 01:58 PM

McCrory Throws in the Towel in N.C.
 
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...118942758.html

Good news.

Tom Joad 12-05-2016 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 341066)

You mean the Democrat beat the Republican in the Governor's Race North Carolina?

But your girl lost NC to Trump by almost 4 points!

Usually it's those down ballot races that slide through on the coat tails of the Presidential Candidate.

What do you think the problem was Bob? :confused:

You don't think it had anything to do with her being a shit candidate do you?

finnbow 12-05-2016 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 341067)
You mean the Democrat beat the Republican in the Governor's Race North Carolina?

But your girl lost NC to Trump by almost 4 points!

What do you think the problem was Bob? :confused:

The governor was a flaming @sshole, for starters, who lost all sorts of contracts and sporting events because of his silly transgender bathroom law.

Tom Joad 12-05-2016 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by finnbow (Post 341068)
The governor was a flaming @sshole, for starters, who lost all sorts of contracts and sporting events because of his silly transgender bathroom law.

I guess it's a good thing for Trump that he wasn't a flaming asshole too, or he might have gone down with the Gov. ;)

finnbow 12-05-2016 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 341069)
I guess it's a good thing for Trump that he wasn't a flaming asshole too, or he might have gone down with the Gov. ;)

McCrory's actions resulted in the NBA All Star Game and the ACC Conference Football championship going elsewhere. Though McCrory and Trump are indeed both assholes, depriving a city of the opportunity to host two marquis sporting events is truly damaging in terms of economics and reputation.

Tom Joad 12-05-2016 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by finnbow (Post 341073)
McCrory's actions resulted in the NBA All Star Game and the ACC Conference Football championship going elsewhere. Though McCrory and Trump are indeed both assholes, depriving a city of the opportunity to host two marquis sporting events is truly damaging in terms of economics and reputation.

So are you ready to agree that there are bigger assholes than Trump out there?

That would be a good step forward. :D

finnbow 12-05-2016 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 341074)
So are you ready to agree that there are bigger assholes than Trump out there?

That would be a good step forward. :D

Trump's a bigger asshole but McCrory hit voters where it hurt - in the pocketbook with all the big boycotts and businesses cancelling relocation deals to Charlotte. If Trump doesn't deliver on the economy and improving Obamacare, he'll be toast too.

Tom Joad 12-05-2016 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by finnbow (Post 341078)
If Trump doesn't deliver on the economy and improving Obamacare, he'll be toast too.

I agree with that.

I'm just more optimistic that he might than you are.

Plus if he doesn't deliver, I am also optimistic that it will spark a revolution.

I was using a little hyperbole when I said a Bolshevik or Fidel Castro type revolution.

I don't ask for much. A Bernie Sanders type revolution will do me just fine.:)

finnbow 12-05-2016 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 341080)
I agree with that.

I'm just more optimistic that he might than you are.

Plus if he doesn't deliver, I am also optimistic that it will spark a revolution.

I was using a little hyperbole when I said a Bolshevik or Fidel Castro type revolution.

I don't ask for much. A Bernie Sanders type revolution will do me just fine.:)

The only problem with any American revolution or civil war is that it would pit the armed, reactionary rubes supporting the plutocrats against everybody else. A teabagger's paradise.

donquixote99 12-05-2016 06:54 PM

Lot of loose talk here. A revolution is politics continued by other means. Which is to say, it's war. In war, God is on the side of the heaviest battalions. It's might-makes-right, in spades. It's nothing like what Bernie Sanders people imagine when they talk about a 'revolution.'

It is pure dumb luck if one good thing comes out of a revolution. A real one, that is. A Bernie Sanders dream of a progressive president and a progressive congress? The name for that isn't 'revolution.' The name for that is 'good acid.'


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