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Probably about nothing, Russian oligarchs would never get involved in illegal activities.

Sorry I don't read Breitbart...never have! I am to presume you only read Huffungton Post or The Guardian?

Presume what you like—wrongly, again.

And you presume which news outlets I read incorrectly and are wrong again 22 Yards... but keep trying!

What was referred to before you replied is distinct, highly educated people have other options including, but not limited to, "National Interest Waiver" green cards for highly skilled individuals.

Legal immigration continues as it did since 2010 with about 1.05mln (avg according to Wiki) legal immigrants annually (see table 3) (you could easily say since 2000 with an annual avg of 1.03mln). The bottom line is that legally immigrating Asians clearly outnumber immigrants from south of the US (legal and estimated illegals combined) yet it's all about the illegal brown people.

Yes, the reaction by a country of immigrants is deeply ironic. But perhaps that's just a symptom rather than the actual cause. Perhaps it's fundamentally about the whites losing their majority status, with the outlook of "soon" being outnumbered by the Latinos, and about the disillusionment on the "American dream", in no small part a consequence of ever more expensive education as a result of tax cuts.

I don't think that's what he's doing. He's just criticising the fact that you're instigating a pointless discussion (as he said "taking a pot shot") by needlessly poking another member...just for fun:

I agree with terrifisch: I find that to be rather disappointing behaviour for a mod, whose role includes moderating discussions and helping ensure a courteous and respectful behaviour in the forum.

I know that's what she's doing. She has a one-track agenda; there's a consistent theme, just have a look at her posting history.

Again, mods have opinions and we're free to express them.

I'm not sure you know what marginalize means. You still have the same amount of power as the rest of us normal users and are still as free as us to express your agenda, I mean opinion and we are all still as free to disagree with it as we like. Nobody's opinion weighs heavier than anyone else's - despite you believing that a Mod's opinion does, for some bizarre reason.

Anyway, I'm sure we're glad that things are returning to normality after America's little wobble and that polls are working again. Here's to two more years of lame-duckery and minimal damage to America's values.

Of course you do. But provoking or making fun of someone hardly qualifies as expressing an opinion. I personally feel it's inmature and reprehensible, especially by a mod. But hey, that is just me. You are 100% free to feel different.

Have I not scrolled back enough and am I wrong that all this outburst stems back to 22 Yards commenting that the midterm results will make Loz "not a happy bunny"?

Or did I miss proper name-calling somewhere?

It turns out when your side lose, you become a snowflake. Who knew.

Not quite, we have a family member (US citizen) who has been trying for two years now to get his wife to join him in America, now he, a senior medical doctor and pillar of the community fears he'll be forced to leave his home country to be able to live with his wife. I only have friends experiences to go on but my understanding was that pre-Spanky days bringing your spouse was easy?

Oh.

Win some, lose some.

Big wins in the senate and governors, lost control of the house.

In short, a toss-up.

Tom

I see that you've had a piece.

Tom

Just to show how broken the US voting System is, at present, in the Senate elections, the Dems have around 41m votes and the Reps around 32m votes...and this has translated to +3 seats for the Reps. Democracy indeed.

Exactly. Republicans hold the Senate, and lose control of the House. Pro Trump candidates largely succeeded. No Blue Wave, barely even a ripple. And only a 50% turnout (although good by US standards).

I don't agree with that. You need to look at it from an opportunistic point of view.



The republicans still have a majority in the senate and 47% of the congress. This is not a big loss. At least, not as big as you would have expected.



Also, if he doesn't accomplish anything in the next 2 years, he can blame it on the democrats. knowing that he doesn't have a majority in the congress, he could even come up with more spectacular and bizarre proposals. And don't forget that his politics is mainly about shouting and twitter. There will be no change to that.


All in all, it wouldn't surprise me if he will be re-elected. Just to be clear: I wouldn't be happy with that.

I think it was exactly what was expected, wasn't it? I think we all had the Dems winning the House and the Reps holding the Senate, everything was pretty predictable this time around.

The advantage to the Dems is that any of his crazier legislation will have to be by executive order now. It's hard to wriggle out of consequences of those!

The main problem the Dems (still) have though, is that a competent candidate would surely beat him (as Bernie probably would have, or Obama definitely would have, term limits notwithstanding), but the Dem field is bland and talentless at present - I think this is the main reason Trump has a pretty good chance at 6 more years. 2 years of not having control of both houses should cheer us for now though.