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Come on, man. Diaco was no Hitler. Hitler actually blitzed too often.

What is this...a video for ANTS?!

??? Are you referencing this? And is this really something people are grabbing on to? HahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHaha....etc...

To me, the American value system is what needs to be fixed. Steve King's racism and vitriol (and Trump's for that matter) should be automatic dis qualifiers for any office, regardless of their policy positions. But not only do guys like this get elected in spite of these reprehensible characteristics, they get elected because of them. Lots of voters embrace this stuff. So we need to get to the root of why so much of America thinks in that way and why so many people celebrate and endorse candidates who go out of their way to be hateful, when similar attributes would not be allowed in virtually any other workplace in America. We are in a moral crisis. If Republicans won because their messages on the economy, education, foreign policy, etc resonated with a educated public, that would be fine. But they win because they court the racist/xenophobic vote.

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+1. But to expand a little... Winning the House is HUGE, the single biggest news of the night: Republicans and Trump now can't pass a single bill without House Democrats allowing it. Party leaders will control what gets to the floor in the first place. No more Obamacare repeal, tax cuts for the rich, "entitlement" (SS, Medicare, Medicaid) cuts, etc. Like Clifford Franklin pointed out, Democrats now control all House committees. Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy, et al will no longer be able to run interference for Trump. Adam Schiff now runs Intelligence (Russia). Elijah Cummings now runs Oversight and Government Reform (Trump, family, and Cabinet grifting). They have the subpoena power now. There were a lot of Trump districts that flipped (14), 6 of which were +5 Trump. NY22 (upstate) was +16 Trump. OK05 (OKC area) was +13 Trump. NY11 (Staten Island & SW Brooklyn) was +10 Trump. Senate: Short term, I don't think it is as huge deal for the GOP. Even with a slim minority, they were still able to get their Judges through. If you can plow Kavanaugh through with only 51, 54-55 doesn't make a huge difference. That will continue. I just pray RBG and/or Breyer don't die. Long term, it is a big deal. It makes it a lot harder for Democrats to flip the Senate in 2020. "As of now, 20 Republican-held seats are on the ballot in 2020 — including in states like Colorado, Arizona, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, and Georgia, where Democrats should at least have a plausible chance of winning the seat away from Republicans. However, they will also have to defend 11 seats, including in deep-red Alabama, where Sen. Doug Jones is up for his first reelection after his shocking 2017 win." State Mansions: Florida was a big win for Trump, no doubt about it. His race-baiting and fear-mongering tactics seemed to have push DeSantis over the finish line, which is disheartening for his future campaigns. Locally, Trump & Brownback disciple Kobach got worked over in deep-red Kansas. Democrats flipped 6-7 governorships, including big presidential election states that Trump won (Michigan & Wisconsin).

FWIW....the whole acosta thing is just a diversion from this presidents version of the saturday night massacre

nope..they don't care. they will post rolleyes at you even thinking there is anything wrong with our emperor

I'm guessing you missed the QA session where he was a complete jackass to reporters and even told pbs reporter Yamiche Alcindor (a black woman) she asked a "racist question" when she was asking why he called himself a nationalist and if he thought that was emboldening white nationalists when they had a white nationalist apparently visiting the white house today. I'm not particularly surprised he can go rub it in people's faces in the press when they lost and say its because they didn't want to kiss the ring (his a$$), but he comes unhinged when anyone has the gall to question him about his appeal to the neanderthals on the extreme right. It's how the narcissist mind works; I didn't do that, you do that, but if I did that it wasn't that bad, if it was that bad then you deserved it. What's sad is there's an entire party of people out there where that's viewed and promoted as strength. Strength isn't playing to the baser instincts of old white racism, that's fear mongering. It does real damage to peoples lives to incite that in his supporters. Not just for the minorities and left that become targets for his mentally ill incel followers. It hurts his supporters too, it isolates them, and their augmented reality where everyone is out to get you and you have to be outraged and angry all the time becomes self reinforcing. It's sad to see. I grew up in Nebraska where I basically saw people going out of their way to give someone in need the shirt off their backs or help any neighbor in need. That still may exist out there, but the feeling for me now is more everyone seems colder and just generally (and I've seen this in my own family) people hooked on the right's media become insufferable pricks a large percentage of their time. I had a few old family members get sucked in and being around them when all they wanted to do was rant about Obama with fox news blaring on the TV (that was on 24/7) was frankly so miserable that the younger members of the family avoided them in the last years of their lives because it was all they'd ever discuss. In reality not all that much changed that impacted their lives, beyond being fed a constant stream of made up outrage playing to their lowest instincts. The sun still rose, work still needed to be done, and people in general are pretty good and just trying to live their lives. I wish Rupert Murdoch, Ailes, and Trump, who is both caught in and an active participant of that phenomenon the lowest rungs in hell for turning the last few years of many other peoples lives into a lonely anger fueled hell before they go.

This Is neither funny nor appropriate

This is why you don't let the criminal pick his judge (or prosecutor). Mueller has already planned for this. This move also reeks of desperation. I think indictments are coming down for Trump and/or his family, and he's throwing a hail mary.

Scandal fatigue, that is their plan.

I'm amazed that people apparently don't care that the president of the United States may be in financial debt to hostile foreign governments.

I don't for one second believe this was a win for the GOP because they reinforced their Senate majority. Chances are they were going to do that anyways - they could have done nothing (which they literally did) and gained more seats than Democrats simply because there were more Democratic seats up for grabs than GOP seats. That Cruz won was disappointing, but not surprising. This was a good night for Democrats as they now control the House and can provide oversight. But its up to House Dems to legislate, not just investigate. They can't afford to overplay their hand here. I will be interested to see the voter turnout, but I believe it was high, which is another good sign. People rarely turn out for the midterms so just wait until 2020.

Bring out the knives. Even if this doesn't move a single vote, it's worth using this power to make public what every president since Nixon has made public. If there's concrete evidence he's in hock to our enemies and it's affecting his decisions or he's cutting deals specifically because they benefit him financially, we should know. Also, nobody's taxes are under audit for four effin' years, for crying out loud. That continues to be such idiotic cover.

Hiring the best - as always. But seriously, this has now reached the Nixon level of firing the AG and AAG. Will the Republicans care at all?

And complain about P&R being a liberal bubble group think echo chamber.

A whopping 1700 people in the entire state of Nebraska are receiving disability payments from the government and Redux thinks it's so easy to qualify half his town is going to do it

i believe they want to see how much money they got from russia...and from which russians

The press is emboldened by the Democrats winning the house, and they're not going to take crap from Trumpster anymore. Heartening to see. If they'd have treated this lying buffoon like this from the beginning of his campaign instead of as a useful sideshow, we wouldn't be in this mess today.

It doesn't matter. We live in a post truth society. People will write articles, and type tweets, and get upset, but it won't actually matter one iota towards anything changing.

This is actually the way ANY voter ID needs to be handled. If the US Government wants to require an ID for a RIGHT to vote, then the US Government should issue those ID's to everyone free of charge.

this, imo, is the problem with the entire political stage right now... "you did/didn't do such and such (which was bad) so now we won't/aren't going to do such and such either (which is also bad)"... nobody gives a sh*t anymore about what is good for the people, just which side wins

House - yes. They will be able to provide oversight on Trump because they will assume control of all House congressional committees. The majority has a majority on committees as well, so they can subpoena and investigate things they are concerned about re: Trump, his cabinet, Congress itself or anything else in the public interest. They may not be able to pass a lot of dynamite legislation out of the House because their majority may not be as large as it would be without gerrymandering, meaning they run into the same problem the GOP had in the Senate. Senate - Yes, but less so, IMO, since they already had the majority. They can pass more conservative, Trumpy stuff if they want but it won't get through the House if there is no bipartisan support. Honestly the rural red areas leaning more strongly into Trump and the GOP itself becoming more Trumpy are the biggest stories of the night here. A lot of the new GOP senators won by explicitly hugging Trump as much as they could. Most of the Dem moderates lost. Also, in the House, the House Freedom Caucus is going to get bigger. Things are going to get more partisan. Our rural/urban divide is getting larger.

No kidding. One of our friends here already posted that bit of propaganda. Of course, that same person also voted for Trump after hearing him boast about grabbing women by the pu&&y, so the hypocrisy was extra savory.

I just saw this about Acosta. What a f#&%ing joke! Our President (yes @Dewiz, @Ric Flair @HuskerNation1 and others, he is "our" President) is a weak little man. It amazes me how "small" so many people must be that they "look up" to this man child. For the love of God, I hope he gets primaried.

yep....the wh has suspended acostas press pass for him laying hands on the intern. so holding his mike and saying parden me mam is lefty violence to this administration and their minions...and the white nationalist are very fine people.

He sure did, in 2012. I wouldn't say that diminishes the value of the award, however. I mean, Adolf Hitler was TIME magazine's Person of the Year in 1938. My point is, sometimes they make poor decisions because of all the strain associated with the decision!

Why did Redux just delete all his posts? This has been a rather stimulating discussion about health care, government services, and socio-economic behaviors. What kind of nonsense is this? Plus most of your posts have been quoted by others, they didn't disappear. Is this what happens when a discussion doesn't go your way?

We do not know. We suspect, and there are paper trails, but as yet we have no proof. The tax records would go a long way to helping us find that out.

I"m amazed too. People need to ask themselves.....why is he revolting against showing them so much?

I think people are reading too much into the bolded. Let's be honest here, Bosa is a top 5 pick in the draft. His stock wasn't going any higher if he stayed. If you're not going to pay college athletes, then you shouldn't be surprised when they leave early considering the money that is at stake.

How the media doesn’t lose their s#!t on Trump and Sanders is beyond me. How Republicans sit by and do nothing as he attacks our democracy by calling the free press the enemy of the people is beyond me. That is disqualifying all by itself.

Womp Womp

It'd be interesting to know what kind of crossover happened between parties. I've been a registered R in Nebraska my whole adult life but I mostly voted Democrat in the major ballot categories yesterday.

2016 had a pretty weak schedule. Here are the offensive rankings for those teams that year. It has a LOT of bad offenses that year. Fresno State - 120 Wyoming - 48 Oregon - 16 Northwestern - 73 Illinois - 123 Indiana - 56 Purdue - 80 Wisconsin - 89 Ohio State - 31 Minnesota - 108 Maryland - 94 Iowa - 121 Tennessee - 40

I can not believe this piece of s#!t won. Very disappointed in Iowa.

So Democrats are hoping for a recession to win in 2020? Wow.

Before the game. Sandy's for Elk Creek...it will be super packed. Barry's...the rooftop will be packed and it is the closest bar to the stadium. The Railyard for after the game is a blast. You can drink outside and they have a huge screen outside that will be showing games.

If we’re finding elegibility for former players to come back under Frost...Ameer Abdullah just got cut by the Lions. Pretty sure he’s got a year of eligibility...right?

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just a far right wing nut job who was so far to the right that he was mad at trump for not being as far right as he was. lol.

Which is weird since most people thought he was offensive.

Is he? I don't know. I suppose I could just google it...or maybe he is connected to me on LinkedIn...let me check.

That was quick. The silent Saturday Night Massacre us under way. He is just daring the Dems to investigate him. And investigate they will. Hold on to your hats this is going to be a bumpy 2 years. The Dems owe it to their voters to investigate and find out all of the facts as they have promised that they would do if they took control. The Dems owe it up to the rest of us who may not be a part of their party to get to the bottom of it. They may impeach but the Senate won't. I doubt the Senate repubs will want to chase off Trump's base. So 2 years of will be in our future. Trump 'tried' to sound conciliatory towards San Fran Nan today but if the Dems do their constitutional duty, there will be no conciliatory action. He said so himself. I think he knows the noose is getting tighter.

Well at least we got some semblance of checks and balances back and donnie's shenanigans can go under the microscope now.

I think the expectations of the improved defense were unrealistic. I expected some improvement, and we have seen some of that, but for the most part it's the same players this year compared to last year. The D is where NU needs the most amount of improvement in talent and depth.

There is an entire thread about Healthcare Reform. If you really wanted cheaper and better healthcare (like I really want) you would be supporting something that you probably would never support. But, it's proven all over the world to be better and cheaper. I haven't been a supporter of the ACA and I'm definitely not a supporter of what came before the ACA. It's very disappointing that people actually think the best path is to go back to anything we have had. Millions of people didn't have healthcare, people taking bankruptcy simply because they got sick or in an accident. And....these are able bodied people WITH JOBS. Oh...and our life expectancy is worse than other countries.

That was a Blue Wave, no doubt about it.