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Clinton 322-216
Popular vote 49-44

Senate 50-48-2 Democrat

House 231-204 Republican

I'm the exact opposite of Informant.  Clinton is very bad, but Trump is even worse.

You keep the mystery by limiting their appearances.  One or two episodes per season, max.  We had seven Kromagg episodes in Season Four, eight if you count Asylum.

Create a writers bible for them, so that everyone knows who they are, what they do, and why.  All we know about them from Seasons 2 & 3 are what they told the Sliders in Invasion, which may not be true, and what alt-Quinn said in The Other Side of Darkness, which may not be accurate since he's lost his mind.

Maggie actually appeared in more episodes than Wade or the Professor.  Well, Wade is tied with her if you count Requiem.

Some people's lives will be better in four years.  Some will be worse.  Hardly any of that will be determined by the occupant of the White House.

Trump will concede.  He's playing the media just like he did with the Birther thing.  That's what the "I'll keep you in suspense" nonsense is about.  He'll have a big press conference, they'll spend an hour or so listening to hype for whatever new project he has going on (Trump TV, probably), then he'll do a quick one sentence concession at the end.

As for 2000, the worst thing that happened in response to Bush being declared the winner was his motorcade getting pelted with garbage on inauguration day.  I doubt we even get that this time around.

OTOH, we've had Republican governors and legislatures purging eligible Democratic voters off of the rolls.

None of this is anything new, nor should it be shocking to anyone who has been paying attention.

Being white, they don't have people demanding to see their birth certificates.  We take them at their word that they are natural born US citizens.

She would have beaten Ben Carson.  Any of the GOP contenders would have taken her, IMO.

Even if they did find other world with Kromaggs, that doesn't mean they would automatically join the Dynasty.  Think about what the reaction would be on our Earth if humans claiming to be from another dimension suddenly appeared in highly advanced ships.  How many people would support becoming part of their empire?

Perhaps the breeding camps are where they use humans as surrogates, since Kromagg women die when they give birth.  Kromagg egg, fertilized by Kromagg male, but gestating in a human female.

The polarization is largely a result of the primaries becoming preeminent in selecting nominees.  We got better candidates when they were picked in smoke filled back rooms.  Today a candidate has to appeal to the lowest common denominator of half the electorate in order to get on the ballot.  Any display of centrism or cross over appeal or less than 100% orthodoxy is damaging if not disqualifying.  The candidates are more extreme because they are chosen by the extremists.

It's not too late for them to confirm him, and they should seriously consider it.  If they lose the senate in addition to the presidency, they'll get someone far to the left of Ginsburg.

The primary polls were pretty well spot on.  They said Trump and Clinton were winning, and they both won.  The pundits thought the polls showing Trump winning must be wrong somehow, but they weren't.

We have two military-industrial parties, one pro-choice and one pro-life.

Quinn and especially the Professor would never for a second believe these creatures to be supernatural.  They're living things that abide by the laws of nature.  Find out what's causing them to be the way they are and you'll find out how to defeat them.  If the monsters are intelligent, negotiation may be possible.

I don't object to MacGyver.  It's just that we already have a MacGyver, we don't need another one.

The Sliders shouldn't be "charging into battle" at all.  They're not soldiers.  They need to find ways to defeat their enemies indirectly.  Use their scientific knowledge to undermine the monsters' power or protect people from them.  That's what Quinn and company did in the first two seasons.  They didn't confront the California Health Commission in "Fever", they found a way to diminish its power.  In "The Good, the Bad, and the Wealthy" Quinn did everything he could to avoid direct confrontation.  That's the Sliders ethos for the first two seasons.

Colin Powell's emails pretty well sum up what the whole country thinks of the two larger party candidates.  Clinton screws up everything she touches, Trump is a national disgrace.

It's like Obama's birth certificate, the people who don't trust Clinton won't start no matter how much documentation she puts out there.

It's such a ripoff of "Species", right down to emulating specific shots from the film, that it's hard to take seriously.

1. Rules of the Game   B
2. Double Cross           A     
3. Electric Twister Acid   B
4. The Guardian           A+
5. the Dream Masters     C
6. Desert Storm            C
7. Dragon Slide             B
8   The Fire Within         C-
9   Prince of Slides        B+
10 Dead Man Sliding      B+
11. State of the Art        C
12. Seasons Greedings   A
13. Murder Most Foul      B
14. Slide like an Egyptian  D
15. Paradise Lost             F
16. Exodus pt 1              A
17. Exodus pt 2              F
18.Sole Survivors            B
19. The Breeder              D
20.  The Last of Eden      C+
21.  Other slide of Darkness    D
22. Slither                      F
23.Stoker                       C
24. Dinoslide                  B
25. This slide of Paradise   C

I answered 'Earth Prime' and it seemed to accept that

Whoever wins will be a one term president.  The US has never had four consecutive two term presidents.  This is only the second time we've had three in a row.  The first was Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe in the Era of Good Feelings.

Trump has been talking about "touchback" amnesty for a long while.

From July of 2015

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/30/t … al-status/

From November 2015

http://time.com/4107636/transcript-read … milwaukee/

From April 2016

http://www.today.com/video/trump-on-tod … 0689347771

The media has grossly distorted his position.

When adapting universes that were created long ago, when all the writers were white and mostly didn't concern themselves with diversity, you either end up with unrealistically white casts or you have to make some adjustments.  Either course will draw criticism.

Vader was a fully trained Jedi before he turned.  Ren was a Padawan who had barely begun learning the ways of the force.  If Ren is Vader's equal then training doesn't mean that much and Rey's (and Luke's) ability to use the force is not at all surprising or out of character.  If Ren is less powerful than Vader, then Rey (and Finn) being able to compete in a fight with him is not surprising or out of character.

The idea of Ren being a villain who has a lot of power he doesn't fully understand or know how to use is an interesting one.  Snoke says at the end that Ren's training is incomplete.  You have to wonder whether he is deliberately keeping Ren from reaching his full potential to avoid meeting the same fate Palpatine did at the hands of his right hand man.

I don't know what can be done for the people who have lost low skill, decent paying factory jobs.  As a society, the answer is to invest more heavily in education so that the next generation can get the higher skill jobs that are out there.  For the people already 20 years into their careers it's a more difficult problem.  It's what economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction.  In order to create new jobs, some of the old ones have to be eliminated.  That's good and necessary for the country as a whole, but some people wind up getting hurt by it.

Of course Schumpeter thought the cycle of creative destruction would eventually be the doom of capitalism.  He may be right, but that's a much longer term issue.

Those low skill factory jobs aren't coming back because they don't exist anymore.  The US does 21% of the world's manufacturing, a number that hasn't moved since the 1960's.  It's less labor intensive than it was, and the labor it does use isn't the kind that those old factory workers do.  It's electronics and chemicals and other highly skilled manufacturing we do now, while most of the grunt work type jobs have been automated.

Hillary Clinton may have alienated some people when she talked about killing the coal industry, but the truth is it's pretty much dead already.  The Dow Jones coal index is down 93% since 2011 and has only one company listed that's not in bankruptcy (Consol).  In a few more years producing coal will be akin to making buggy whips or phonograph needles.