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Iceland Election Results 2016: Pirate Party Wins Big, Prime Minister Resigns As Internet Activists Lead Nation
Now THIS is an interesting turn of events  The Icelandic Pirate Party won big in Saturday's legislative elections in Iceland, prompting Prime Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson to announce he would resign after his center-right Progressive Party saw its hold over the 63-seat Parliament sink from from 19 seats to just eight.
The Pirate Party received 10 seats, up from three in the last election. The Left-Green Party also won 10 seats, while the Independence Party came in first with 21 seats, up from 19, the New York Times reported. It's unclear who will rule. A party needs 34 seats to command a majority in Iceland’s Parliament, the world’s oldest. The Progressive Party and Independence Party have teamed up in the past, but don't have enough seats to rule after Saturday's election.
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White nationalists plot Election Day show of force. Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll-watchers across all 50 states. His partners at the alt-right website “the Right Stuff” are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand out liquor and marijuana in the city’s “ghetto” on Election Day to induce residents to stay home. The National Socialist Movement, various factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the white nationalist American Freedom Party all are deploying members to watch polls, either “informally” or, they say, through the Trump campaign. Oh, THIS is going to go well...
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Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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FiveThirtyEight's presidential and senatorial forecast have both dropped to the 2:1 range for Democrats, giving me a knot in my stomach. Still, that's better than the other way around and there are many reasons to be optimistic. I can't help feeling, though, that we are collectively playing Russian roulette with TWO chambers loaded.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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was there any one alive or dead who thought Dir Comey's letter would have no impact on the election? [indubitably obvious rhetorical ?]
there are either a bunch of Egyptians in the Democrat party or they are lying to keep the ship afloat
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Director Comey... ? No, not really...
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I choose to be optimistic today: that in a week, the election will be over; that Hillary Clinton will have secured over 300 Electoral College votes and the popular vote by a 4%+ margin; that the Senate will return to democratic control, allowing administrative and judicial nominees to be considered and confirmed; and that Donald Trump will grudgingly accept defeat, ending the nightmare. My hope is that the Senate will quickly confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, and that a chastened GOP will look to reform their party's image by finding compromise, starting with immigration. (Okay, that last may be seriously wishful thinking, but I did say "hope.")
I expect that in short order lawsuits against Trump will come to trial widely exposing his avarice and dirty dealing, and that nothing will come of the Clinton email probe, shocking absolutely no one. There will be further revelations about hacking, and Syria will continue to be a humanitarian disaster and military quagmire (we can't have everything) amid further Russian and Chinese adventurism and mischief.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I choose to be optimistic today: that in a week, the election will be over; that Hillary Clinton will have secured over 300 Electoral College votes and the popular vote by a 4%+ margin; that the Senate will return to democratic control, allowing administrative and judicial nominees to be considered and confirmed; and that Donald Trump will grudgingly accept defeat, ending the nightmare. My hope is that the Senate will quickly confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, and that a chastened GOP will look to reform their party's image by finding compromise, starting with immigration. (Okay, that last may be seriously wishful thinking, but I did say "hope.")
I expect that in short order lawsuits against Trump will come to trial widely exposing his avarice and dirty dealing, and that nothing will come of the Clinton email probe, shocking absolutely no one. There will be further revelations about hacking, and Syria will continue to be a humanitarian disaster and military quagmire (we can't have everything) amid further Russian and Chinese adventurism and mischief. My thoughts as well. Kindred-spirits? 
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Meanwhile... Black Church in Mississippi burned down and "vote Trump" spay painted on building. How deplorable. WCET TV ![[Linked Image from ]]( https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ef00b9d45b671709b62854449a98df82febb681e30875a54574f1f697a017214.png)
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I choose to be optimistic today LOL ... when Mss Porter wrote a children's book in 1913, she had you in mind I am a bettor not a gambler ... it appears to be a coin toss ... they have a saying in Texas about filling up one hand with hope and the other with xxx and see which one fills up faster while your hopes and aspirations are admirable, the results of the election are out of my control one thing is for sure .... if Sec Clinton is elected she will be in hearings forever [quote][/quote]
ignorance is the enemy
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I've played this game many times: CNN Electoral Map. As long as Clinton doesn't lose Virginia, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, she wins, even if she doesn't win Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, or Iowa. If she wins Florida, she can lose Pennsylvania; if she wins North Carolina, she can lose Wisconsin AND Nevada; if she wins Ohio, she can lose Michigan. Personally, I think she wins them all, except, maybe, Ohio/Iowa.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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