McCrory Throws in the Towel in N.C.

[bobabode]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...118942758.html

Good news.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...118942758.html

Good news.

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?

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

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

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?

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]

Originally Posted by finnbow

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]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

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]

Originally Posted by finnbow

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.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

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

That would be a good step forward.

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]

Originally Posted by finnbow

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]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

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]

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.'