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Black Country Communion (Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham): "Collide"

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Jay C3/04/2018 3:42:00 pm PST

re: #97 Amory Blaine

3 years to go. That new car smell will be overpowered by the limburger on the muffler, the cylinder head, the ventilation ducts and jammed under the seats.

re: #84 Targetpractice

But where does that leave us in 2 years when we’ve done nothing to address the wrong-headed thinking that gave us Trump? We gave these folks a pass after 2000, thinking that Gore was just a poor candidate and “buyers remorse” would win us 2004. But instead Dubya did just well enough that all those folks mumbling about how voting for him in 2000 was a bad idea were “willing to give him another chance” because they feared what would happen if went with the “surrender party.” In 2 years, Trump may be doing well enough in the polls that these folks right now expressing regret might just shrug their shoulders and vote for him again.

True, but in 2004, the voting public (even if lukewarm on Dubya) had the (relatively) recent trauma of 9/11/01 and the illusory “victories” in Afghanistan and Iraq as a background theme, and an economy still in the “boom” phase (and an uninspiring, if qualified, Dem candidate).
And note that that “another chance” vote pretty much vanished by 2008. But do you really think Donald Trump, The Talking Yam is going to be able to “do well enough” - after two more years of scandals, turnovers, (probably) indictments/trials, counterproductive policies and general all-around incompetence to sway any but the hardcore “base” (all 27% of it) to support him for yet another craptastic term??