2018-19 #TrumpShutdown Day 26 Open Thread

13 thoughts on “2018-19 #TrumpShutdown Day 26 Open Thread”

1. He does love himself …that is true.

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2. “One thousand hamberders; build a wall.

      One thousand ham-ber-ders.

   Take one down, pass it around, 

      Nine hundred ninety-eleven hamberders; build a wall” . . . 

   (Trumpty Dumpty remix, waiting for FOX and Friends to begin)

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3. Bigger than Colorado and way larger than The Dumpster®'s penis.

   "Though just one-in-three voters have a favorable opinion of freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, if she were old enough to run for president in 2020, she’d give President Trump a run for his money."

   http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2019/ocasio_cortez_vs_trump_and_the_winner_is

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   1. This is silly. She literally cannot run for president in 2020. Polling on how she'd do is utterly pointless.

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      1. What dead bird said. 

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   2. WOTD: "Who's afraid of AOC"

      Adam Serwer of the Atlantic captured Ocasio-Cortez’s appeal to liberals well in a recent article. He wrote, “She is an effective avatar of the rising left: a young, working-class person of color who is fluent in the culture of the internet and, unusually for a Democrat with a national profile, not easily spooked by criticism from the right.”

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4. I had a little time at lunch today to pull the 2014 Colorado statewide race numbers and compare them to 2018. I think I will queue it up for posting tomorrow morning at 8am unless people want to see it sooner.

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   1. I'll look forward to your take … Magellan Strategies had some raw numbers with that 2014/2018 comparison, but didn't push out anything from the final numbers, as far as I can tell.

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5. And in addition to getting Karen on the faculty, they're planning a field trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky…..

   https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/us/politics/karen-pence-school-lgbt-ban.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

    

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6. Hey, what party is this woman in?  I'd vote for them.

   Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor:

   Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because it’s only $10.

   Then we taxed the billionaire in town because he’s making tons of money underpaying the townspeople. https://t.co/Wcnn2sEgek

   — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 15, 2019

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7. Shout out to my teacher peeps in LA, striking for the first time in 30 years. Charter school educators have joined in. At issue: pay, class sizes, working conditions.

   It will probably follow the path of most teacher strikes; the administration will plead poverty, then somehow come up with funds from the planned renovation of the district offices.

    

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   1. Hopefully this strike can become state wide, similar to the recent West Virginia teacher's strike.

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      1. Get ready for a DPS teacher strike soon, if negotiations don't work.

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