Fox News to air Donald Trump special hosted by TMZ's Harvey Levin

The Blue/Red states divide, or as it should be called: Adapatable vs. Rigid

So, as usual, whenever the Dems lose big on election night, the inevitable gets blamed. Liberals are out of touch with working class Americans (or more precisely White working class Americans). Liberals live in elite bubble blue states like NY, CA, Washington, Mass., etc. The rust belt states and Southern states feel left behind economically, politically, and socially. Liberals care more about social issues like marriage equality, trans-gender bathrooms, feminism, and Black Lives Matter than they do about the factory worker that lost his job.

What this kind of analysis leaves out is the current state of the world, not just America. We live in a globally, competitive capitalistic world, and we cannot turn back the clock. We no longer live in world where high school level, or less, skills can get you a middle class living. Heck, the concept of a middle class is foreign to capitalism. No where in the definition of capitalism does it mention creation of a middle class. The middle class is largely a government concept. Created by the government forcing owners of capital to negotiate with labor unions for better wages and benefits.

To be competitive in this global system, you have to adapt. You have to be willing to learn new complex concepts every 2 or 3 years. In addition, you need to live among or near the better talent in order to learn and master your skills. Because Liberal blue states don't impose a rigid social structure and welcome diversity, people in those states get to learn and live among the best talent.

For example, if the county clerk in your state is cheered when she defies the law and won't grant a marriage license to a Gay couple, you send the message that the LGBTQ community is not welcomed in your state. So, those members re-locate to NY, SF, LA, etc. where they can live and love openly. In addition, they take their skills and talents with them. There's a reason why NYC has Broadway, but Alabama does not.

Hell, even conservatives know this. That's why Fox News is headquartered in New York city (literally right around the corner from Broadway) not in Brownback's Kansas. And, speaking of Brownback, what highly educated couple are going to want to raise children in a state where the governor slashes education spending at all levels? That couple is going to move to Northern Virginia where there's a vast collection of some of the best state colleges in America.

So, instead of shaming Liberals, the folks in the red, rural counties should learn from them. NYC once had factories as well. The Oreo cookie was invented in a bakery in Chelsea which later closed down. The Liberals here developed that building for other uses. We didn't sit around and wait for the factory to re-open.

Why don't White American women want to protect their reproductive rights?

Why are they so freely willing to hurt women of color? Someone please explain this to me.

The best case scenario is that he will be as bad as George W. Bush

If we make through this Trump administration with a huge terrorist attack, another war in the Middle East, inept handling of a natural disaster, and an economic collapse on the same scale as the Great Depression, then we should consider ourselves damn lucky.

Bush II was horrific, but Trump is far, far worse. I'm not optimistic in the slightest regard. I have no hope that he will moderate. In fact, I know that he will not moderate. I know that he will be awful, and we as a nation may never recover.

My advice is prepare for the worst. The very worst. Protect yourself and your family to the best of your ability. Support those in need and be active every single day.

Things are going to get bad, really, really, really bad.

I'm donating to DU.

Who's with me?

--On Edit--
My next donation will be to Planned Parenthood.

Some Corgis will do anything to make YouTube.

Then again, Chris Farley did the same thing and became a major movie star:

What you need to know about email de-duplication

I work in a field called Electronic Discovery, and we deal with processing, reviewing, and producing emails all of the time. De-duplication of emails has been around for years. There are several existing applications that can quickly de-duplicate an email set. The process is described below:

Anyone remember the site, Hillaryis44.com from 2008?

Well, their true colors have been revealed. They endorsed Trump. I shit you not.

Looks like it Game 7

Only appropriate.

Unearthed photo of Trump's real campaign management team