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Doubt Bolton get nominated. Neither Bolten nor Flynn fit with Tillerson or Mattis. Flynn doesn't require confirmation, but would not be shocked if he gets pulled or gets a quick hook. Trump dumped both Lewandowski and Manafort during the campaign, so loyalty only goes so far (Rudy, Christie...

Rudy, Christie, and Newt all shut out of cabinet positions. All severely damaged goods, good move by Trump to Soup Nazi their asses. OTOH Trump clowned everyone with Carson and still hasn't ruled Palin out. Should cut Flynn loose. Ideologues have to be pissed Kris Kobach didn't get AG or...

Richard Spencer, the guy who coined the term alt right, spoke at Texas A&M amid heavy protests. A&M is far from a liberal bastion and College Station is not a metropolitan area. Unlike earlier White Supremacists, Spencer is highly educated. Suppressing free speech is not an option, but the SC...

The Almena guy is completely unhinged. He's like a cult leader and shouldn't be doing any interviews. Oakland's a mess, but it's smaller than San Jose or SF. No telling how many similar set ups are out there in the Bay Area, NYC, LA, Chicago, etc... Almena's already on probation for...

Ross and Greg Holland are two value plays for teams with risk tolerance.

Trump only needs to worry about the three most liberal GOP Senators and the three most conservative GOP Senators. They're the only people who can torpedo one of his cabinet picks. Bannon and/or Flynn may have been dicey for confirmation, but not applicable for their positions. Pompeo and...

Hopefully horse trading/throwing wingnuts a bone. Nominate Sleepy, but pass on Palin. Nominate Gates, Corker, Huntsman over Rudy or Mitt.

Trump has solid names for SOS: Huntsman, Corker, Petraeus, Mitt. Sadly Rudy still in the mix. Bob Gates would be a home run. Carson formally nominated for HUD. Buckle up for a bumpy four or eight year roller coaster.

Being a cop is an extremely difficult job and jury trials are imperfect, but this case is pretty clear. There's video of the guy fleeing and being shot in the back. If the guy were armed and turned toward the cop, that's a much different situation. This case, the guy with the switchblade in...

1 in 500 is a tiny %, but if any guy uses the men's bathroom at any major sporting event or concert there are generally 30 to 40 people in there each time. Adds up quickly and almost no guy would ever notice a scrawny transgender using a stall.

Understood and acknowledged in post 220.

Starting pitchers' contracts can be nightmares. Giants have Bum and Moore on very club friendly terms, but if Cueto doesn't opt out after 2017 that becomes a shitty contract. Samardzija's deal is crappy too for a guy expected to be a solid number 3, but they made up for it by trading for...

No fan of either major party because of partisan hacks, ideologies, and special interests that own them. Garland was also emminently qualified and it was painful for McConnell to claim he was a scary liberal. Same thing with Obama, HRC, and Feinstein refusing to confirm Roberts. Sadly I...

For all the socialism handwringing, kinda odd that international soccer is wide open free market competition and US pro sports are much more regulated. Big market (Yankees, Dodgers, Mets), well run (Cardinals), or both (Cubs, Giants, Red Sox) have the highest probability of winning...

Not applicable since Dems already nuked the filibuster for cabinet appointments. That being said, would still be ridiculous. Mattis in eminently qualified. Also has a great back story: enlisted man, later graduted from Central Washington, became a General, and an extremely bright guy. Don't...

Flag burning is despicable, but why waste political capital on a low priority issue? People get worked up more about the Second Amendment, but the First Amendment is sacred, so why marginalize that? Do think people have buried the lede a little bit here-revoking citizenship?!? Sadly people...

Agreed, why does he care? Won a solid EC victory which is how the game is played. Why bother marginalizing his own victory? Jill Stein is a clown, no need for Trump to follow her lead with zero evidence. Trump spent last night retweeting stupid shit. Bagging on SNL and Hamilton is petty and...

SNL's been around for 40 years and presidents from Ford to Trump have been taking shit ever since. Trump's the first one to actively go after SNL aggressively. God forbid he's truly that thin skinned. He's got much bigger fish to fry as POTUS. While still not great, misdirection is a more...

That's the game within the game with Trump. Tweets out something nutty of Conway deliberately leaks something or appears to go rogue to distract from something else (family ties, shady business deals). Russians didn't hack voting machines, but there also weren't millions of illegal HRC voters...

If Trump wanted the cosmetic appearance of Dem in his cabinet, Rhee was probably his best bet. Not terribly different policy positions from DeVos. Tulsi Gabbard's name has been floated, but her policy positions are much further from the GOP base than Rhee's.