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6 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Our local elevator would have usually shipped a number of train loads of beans to the north west to be shipped to China.

 

Right now there are huge piles of beans on the ground because there is no place for them to go.  I have never seen that before here.  On top of that, beans do not do well being stored that way.  They are going to have huge amounts of waste.

Pretty amazing what bad policy can do -  time for all domestic soy processors to buy at big discounts.

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26 minutes ago, commando said:

$174,000 in hotel expenses and she didn't stay the night...all on the taxpayer dime.   how does she do that?   also...looks like she is happier in that photo than any photo i've seen of her with donald.  

 

 

$174,000 in hotel charges without spending the night.  Maybe that's why he has a smile on his face too.

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On 11/14/2018 at 8:29 PM, commando said:

not sure which thread to put this in...but since it's the republican party i guess this is the best thread.  could also go in the racism thread.   

 

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article221605150.html

 

There’s a clear division in the Tarrant County Republican Party.

At a time when many want to focus on the 2020 election, in the wake of this reliably red county turning blue in this year’s U.S. Senate race, Tarrant Republicans instead are focused on a call to remove a Muslim from party leadership.

One side, described as a small group with a loud voice, wants to remove Shahid Shafi, a Muslim, from the post of vice chairman. They say it’s not about religion but whether Shafi is loyal to Islam or connected “to Islamic terror groups.”

The other side supports Shafi, a surgeon and Southlake City Council member. At least one member is ready to step down if the effort to remove him from office is successful.

 

22 hours ago, TGHusker said:

 When we look for shadows behind every person, we have to do some amazing twisting in our words and actions.  For a party that needs a bigger tent, they are in the process of blowing up the tent themselves - I guess this would make them terrorist towards themselves.  :blink:

 

This is embarrassing. The conservative movement is trying to eat its own as it tries to decide whether being an inclusive, big tent group or a smaller group of zealots focus on nativism and rabid anti-immigrant sentiments.

 

I will proudly stand with the former group if they fight for the soul of the party, even as someone who is opposed to most of their policies. In our two party system, a healthy, positive GOP is vital for the health of the system overall. 

 

But if the latter wins out, the party deserves the slow, smoldering downward slide into irrelevancy that awaits it.

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This right here is why the two-party system sucks. 

 

After Bright Blue Wave, Wisconsin’s Gerrymandered Legislature Already Up to Dirty Tricks

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Wisconsin Republicans, led by Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, are considering enacting voter suppression rules, seizing control over key state boards, and changing the date of the next Supreme Court election to thwart the will of the voters.

 

“And there is no reason to think they will stop there,” said Jay Heck director of Common Cause Wisconsin.

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The day after the election, Vos told reporters, “If there are areas where we could look and say, ‘Geez — have we made mistakes where we granted too much power to the executive,’ I’d be open to taking a look to say what can we do to change that to try to re-balance it.” The comments created an uproar and Vos abandoned the “gee willikers” tone. “We are not going to roll over and play dead like they assume we probably should,” Vos said.

 

Ideas floated by Vos and Company?

  • Reduce the number of political appointments.
  • Eliminate the governor’s ability to name his own Department of Natural Resources secretary.
  • Change the composition of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
  • Change the power of the governor to make judicial appointments.

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On Thursday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Republicans are considering moving the date of a key Supreme Court race because it will be held alongside Wisconsin’s presidential primary, “when Democratic turnout is expected to far outpace Republican turnout because Democrats will be deciding who in their party will challenge President Donald Trump.” Big turnout could be a big problem for Justice Daniel Kelly, an unknown attorney with no previous judicial experience, whom Walker appointed to the high court in 2016.

 

On Thursday, Walker emerged from hiding to make clear that he is supportive of the schemes being discussed. “We are not going to retreat, the State of Wisconsin is not going to go backwards,” said the lame-duck governor, who is no stranger to electoral dirty tricks.

 

In the spring of 2018, Walker failed to schedule special elections when he thought Democratic outrage over Donald Trump would bring voters to the polls. It took three rulings by three state judges to force the governor to schedule the elections as required by law.

 

There agenda was so popular it just got them crushed at the ballot box, so they're going to just continue to ram it down everyone's throat anyway. Great work, guys. That bit about the Supreme Court justice election change is particularly galling.

 

There's being a necessary check or an independent branch of government, and then there is being a corrupt bunch of sore losers who think they can strip powers away from a member of the opposite party they don't like and continue to run things however they want. The North Carolina GOP pulled this same crap after a Dem became governor in 2016. Only this year was their supermajority broken making the governor's veto there mean something. The NC & WI GOP are by far two of the most corrupt, power abusing state parties in the nation.

 

Thank goodness Evers has veto power over the maps these clowns are likely to draw up in 2020. Remember, Wisconsin is the state whose maps are so horribly gerrymandered a case made it to the Supreme Court ↓↓↓↓

 

 

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4 minutes ago, commando said:

how many generations will the GOP keep pulling out the "but Hillary" card?  

 

It won't ever stop.

 

I'm still amazed and baffled at how the GOP maintains any kind of support after they attack war widows, Gold Star families, POWs, and now the man who ran the operation to kill Bin Laden.

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9 minutes ago, commando said:

how many generations will the GOP keep pulling out the "but Hillary" card?  

 

 

Shouldn’t his support of her aay something good about her, not bad about him? And how in the hell is being critical of Trump considered a stain? I truly don’t get the people who are willing to go to bat for him. 

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