While Obama uses Putin as campaign punching bag: Nato puts 300,000 ground troops on ‘high alert’ as tensions with Russia mount.
US POTUS Election Prediction Thread
There are 538 Electoral College Votes up for grabs: post your prediction in the comments. The person who comes closest to the final results will win a book from the SDA Free Book Library.
Please post your predicted results in alphabetical order. PREDICTIONS ONLY. NO CHATTER, PLEASE.
Clinton —
Trump —
Other —
Sick? Or Drunk?
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— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) November 8, 2016
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Since it’s Geezer Rock Night…
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Watch a vegetarian eat meat for the first time in 22 years
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
The billionaire chairman of China’s LeEco has admitted his technology empire is running out of cash to sustain a headlong rush into businesses from electric cars to smartphones. […]
LeEco’s envisioned car plant in Nevada needs government support for power lines, water mains and roads. That in turn requires investment by the state, but Nevada treasurer Dan Schwartz balked at issuing the necessary bonds. Jia’s reliance on loans backed by Leshi equity could leave taxpayers vulnerable to the whims of China’s volatile stock market, and he expressed doubts Jia could raise the billions of dollars needed to bankroll the project.
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noun
plural noun: the arts
1. the application of tax dollars to enable rich people to put on plays for their friends.
“A World Without White People”
“We all know that white people, especially the males, are to blame for everything bad that has ever happened to anyone and are to be blamed for all bad things that will happen in the future. This is a fact because it’s taught in the public schools, both K-12 and college, and our politicians say so.
But just for a little fun I decided to “economics” a little bit and see precisely what the US would look like if we were to remove white people from the picture. More specifically, what would the economy, our standards of living, government, and taxation look like if we just got rid of those nasty, nasty white people.
And the results are…heh…”interesting” to say the least.”
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
#DNCLeak2
Et tu, Jake Tapper?

And Politico.
"Vogel gave me his story ahead of time…" @Politico #DNCLeaks2 #DNCLeak2 pic.twitter.com/ZgRwnK62Jk
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 7, 2016
And WaPo: WikiLeaks Show Washington Post Writer Asked DNC For Anti-Trump Research
Update — The Daily Mail gathers them all in one place.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
When A Clinton Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
“…with respect to Secretary Clinton” — Should have guessed as much, with the resurfacing on Friday of Huma Abedin at a fundraiser.
“I Did Not Have Classified Relations With That Woman, Mrs Clinton”
Austyn Crites, the “Republican” at the centre of the Trump rally disruption in Reno yesterday, has made previous appearances.
In Wikileaks.
(h/t Dan)
Shut Up, Tinfoil People
When a Democrat does it, that means that it’s not illegal.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
A reminder that John Harwood was allowed to moderate a GOP primary debate. https://t.co/iKHEgVYuGy – pic.twitter.com/o14LqlQAnL
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) November 6, 2016
Today’s Word Is ‘Sucker’
Robert Stacy McCain pokes through the feminist memoir of Jessica Valenti:
The question raised by Sex Object, if read with a critical eye, is whether Jessica Valenti has ever been a victim of anything except her own bad judgment… What kind of fool would major in Women’s Studies? The kind of fool who loses her virginity at 14, goes off to Tulane, sleeps with her ex-boyfriend’s roommate, flunks out and then transfers to SUNY-Albany, that’s who. The only career possible for a Women’s Studies major is as a professional feminist, and there are only so many full-time gigs at non-profit “pro-choice” organisations to go around. However, the Feminist-Industrial Complex — the departments of Women’s Studies on some 700 college and university campuses across the United States – has a rent-seeking interest in promoting the metastatic growth of feminism, so the fact that many of their alumnae are quite nearly unemployable isn’t mentioned in the course catalogue.
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From a Cornucupia of Ham-Fisted Failures
The One Great Big Lesson From This Week’s Economic Update. We’re all familiar with the expression – Fool me once, shame on you… fool me twice, shame on me. But what about – fool me every single election campaign, and we’re idiots
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