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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (2889)	12/21/2016 10:34:58 AM
From: Alex MG	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Respond to of 356795

Hillary lost because she lied to the American people If you believe that then you must think Don the Con won because he doesn't lie... Trump the birther who lies so many time per day it's hard to keep up... But Hillary has a private email server... a monumental false equivalence

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (2889)	12/21/2016 10:48:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356795

I do not want to be a loser... Re "loser," one of the most interesting things about the campaign was Trump's use of the word. I mostly watched him early on when he used it a lot. It seemed to be his all purpose epithet there for a while. He even applied it to John McCain for his failure to avoid capture. Clearly from his usage he meant the word to be anyone unsuccessful. Now, pre-campaign Trump would clearly have considered anyone who didn't have a good income, at a minimum, a loser. Likewise, anyone who was stuck in a failing community, who hadn't managed to get an education, whose adult kids lived at home, who shopped at Walmart, who drank cheap beer. Then, at some point, when he was gaining steam, you didn't hear the word anymore. Like he read his audience and it registered with him so he cooled it. That's different from your use of the word and I'm not equating the two. Your post just conjured up the notion that registered with me when Trump eased up on usage of the word.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (2889)	12/21/2016 10:52:04 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356795

Hillary lost because Comey quite possibly violated the Hatch Act and Hillary didn't call Trump on all his bullshit and criminality. I'm glad you admire Michele- but she wasn't running for anything. Going after immigrants, and being white power, and lying, won this election (barely)- and the dems will need something better than then the "high" road to counter that. Time will tell. I'm hoping Obama takes names and kicks ass and helps reformulate the party base- and grooms new talent.