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John Scalzi: The New Year and the Bend of the Arc

"It’s a new year. There’s work to be done. I hope you will do it, and that you find joy in the work."

Mon Jan 02 2017 18:16:44 GMT-0600 (CST)

Thanks: "Damn near everything I read from such people last year, from professional pundits to Facebook crybabies, was devoted to dampening enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket. "

"Even after Bernie and Elizabeth Warren tried to round them up and bring ’em back to the Democrat’s just-sorta-Ok corral, they continued their petulance, repeating the right wing talking points incessantly, asserting in advance that it wouldn’t be their fault if Trump won just because they’d withheld their votes or their support."

Mon Jan 02 2017 13:07:22 GMT-0600 (CST)

For Trump, it's in the forties. "At least seven in 10 Americans thought Obama, Bush and Clinton could handle those same duties."

Mon Jan 02 2017 11:58:57 GMT-0600 (CST)

Reminder. Trumps Presidency was the culmination of twenty years of Comey corrupt abuse of government power against Hillary.

"James Comey, the F.B.I. director whose intervention almost surely swung the election, had previously worked for the Whitewater committee, which spent seven years obsessively investigating a failed land deal."

"Germans have internalized that the reason why Adolf Hitler was able to rise to power was that no one stood up for the Jews."

"I loathed having to read my friends’ whiny Facebook posts about how they were dreading Thanksgiving because of the elections. “Boohoo, I have to talk about politics to someone who thinks differently than I do!” "

Sun Jan 01 2017 13:07:59 GMT-0600 (CST)

TQ White II

Software developer interested in pretty much everything. I've always read a lot, written a lot and argued a lot. I am rarely too strongly interested in common things. I am curious and have strong opinions. I am a hard core liberal.

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