2016 Postmortem

gulliver

(13,181 posts) Sun Nov 20, 2016, 12:19 PM Nov 2016

That point where you realize you are being mugged.

I've been mugged. One minute you are talking to someone conventionally, trustingly. Then you get this feeling like maybe something's wrong. You look a little closer at the person's face and suddenly you realize that yes, indeed, they are the real deal. You are about to be the victim of a crime.

After that you understand (as you always do "after" something) that mugging really happens. It becomes a lot less likely that you are going to be mugged again.

We Dems got mugged this time. It wasn't like in 2000 where it just looked like we got cheated by the SCOTUS putting its thumb on the scale. This time, the mask came off completely.

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That point where you realize you are being mugged. (Original Post) gulliver Nov 2016 OP

1 Botany Nov 2016 #1

I've been held up at close range gunpoint.You're right. It's the point of death to the body politic ancianita Nov 2016 #2

Botany

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Sun Nov 20, 2016, 02:26 PM

Nov 2016

In Ohio because of the court's Citizen's United ruling we got unending and totally false
ads aimed at Ted Strickland blaming him for the bad economy in the state that was made
by Republicans and blaiming him for jobs leaving the state but forgetting to mention that
Portman saw 100s of thousands of jobs leave America when he worked in the dept. of trade (?)
under w bush.

This was a coup.

ancianita

(36,060 posts)

2. I've been held up at close range gunpoint.You're right. It's the point of death to the body politic